Felix Schlenker

Felix Schlenker , also Felix Schlenker-Mauch (born July 12, 1920 in Schwenningen ; † July 1, 2010 ibid) was a German painter , graphic artist and object artist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1939, Schlenker was drafted into military service until 1945. From 1945 to 1978 he worked as a teacher at elementary and secondary schools in the subject of pictorial design . He also founded the “Kleine Galerie Schwenningen” in the early 1960s. In his artistic work he devoted himself to graphics and images with clear optical didactics and the most economical use of color. In 1966 he exhibited his “nail pictures” in a solo exhibition at the Wirth gallery in Berlin, pictorial objects in which he mounted horseshoe nails arranged in rows on hardboard or chipboard. Naturally, due to the material used, they were less detailed and fine than his screen prints. In May / June 1967, Schlenker took part in the legendary exhibition “Serial Formations” in the studio gallery of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University , which was curated by Paul Maenz and Peter Roehr .

From 1964 to 1991 Felix Schlenker took part regularly in the exhibitions of the German Association of Artists . As a collector, he brought together an extensive bundle of works by artist colleague friends, which he exhibited in the city library and donated to the city of Villingen-Schwenningen as the Felix Schlenker Collection in 1992 . He had solo exhibitions in 1984 in the Museum of Non-Objective Art , Otterndorf and in 2008 in the Museum of Art and History , Hüfingen. In 1990 he became professor of the state of Baden-Württemberg . He died eleven days before his 90th birthday. Two of the artist's works are in the collection of the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2010: Homage to Felix Schlenker , Museum Art.Plus , Donaueschingen
• 2011: abstract, concrete and against the grain Felix Schlenker and his collection , Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen

Group exhibitions

• 2006: Gang of Four - The beginning of modernity in the Rottweil art space - Franz Bucher , Erich Hauser , Romuald Hengstler , Felix Schlenker , Dominican Museum Rottweil , Rottweil

literature

• Hans Hellmut Hofstätter, Sybille Bock: Art and Artists in Baden , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-421-03072-3 , p. 189
• Felix Schlenker 1957–1988 , Ludwig Probst Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen, 1988
• Material pictures, relief pictures, picture objects , Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen, 1978
• Peter Roehr, Paul Maenz (eds.), Siegfried Bartels (text): Serial Formations , Goethe University student body, Studentenhaus Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, 1967
• Jürgen Knubben (Ed.): Gang of four. The beginning of modernity in the Rottweil art space. Franz Bucher, Erich Hauser, Romuald Hengstler, Felix Schlenker. Dominican Museum Rottweil, Rottweil 2006, ISBN 3-920064-07-0 .

Web links

• Felix Schlenker at Artfacts
• Remembering Felix Schlenker Black Forest Messenger on January 25, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Felix Schlenker at Artfacts. Retrieved November 8, 2012 . 
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 12, 2016)  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Südkurier on July 22, 2010: Homage to Felix Schlenker. Retrieved November 8, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Mondriaanhuis website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Internet page  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 519 kB) Südkurier, Constance  
6. ^ Website of the city of Villingen-Schwenningen