Frank Dornseif

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Frank Dornseif (born July 27, 1948 in Radevormwald ) is a German sculptor who mainly works with reinforcing iron .

Life

Dornseif studied sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1970 to 1977 . At the same time he studied philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1974 he traveled through Tuscany for several months . In 1976 he became a master student with Joachim Schmettau . After completing his studies, he received a one-year scholarship from the DAAD for Florence in 1977/78 . Together with Ter Hell , Elke Lixfeld, Rainer Mang , Reinhard Pods and Gerd Rohling , he founded the artist group and the self-help gallery 1/61 Berlin. In 1981 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize . From 1982 to 1984 he benefited from a Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship . During this time he also received a work grant from the Kunstfonds eV , Bonn, and a work grant from the Kulturkreis im BDI , Cologne. The grants were continued in 1985 by one of Rome applicable Villa Massimo scholarship . And in 1989/90 he stayed in London , thanks to an annual scholarship from the Senator for Cultural Affairs , Berlin, with the Whitechapel Art Gallery , London. In 1995, Dornseif won 1st place in the sculpture competition organized by the Hellersdorf housing association (WoGeHe), which was intended to improve the value of the Berlin-Hellersdorf development area. The heavy traffic did not allow the work of art to come into its own, so that one and a half years later Dornseif was allowed to contrast his draftsman with the pipe sculpture The Viewer .

After a few years in Berlin , Dornseif has been living and working in the Vichel district of the Temnitztal community near Berlin for some time .

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Material and method

Before Dornseif turned to the processing of reinforcing iron (short: reinforcing iron) and occasionally construction wire, he occupied himself with plastering work. He mainly constructs large -scale sculptures out of reinforcing steel (synonymous with reinforcing bars), sometimes including plexiglass , plastic foils , zinc wire, paper and cord, but also making large-format drawings is a focus of his work. The reinforcing bars were initially clamped in a vice and bent by hand; from around 1983 a bending machine was used for this . Only contours, metallic outlines emerge from the welding and bending work with the iron bars. The skeletal nature with its inherent abolition of the "front / back determination" causes effective distortions depending on the location of the observer. Dornseif: “[Achieving a spatial effect] is sometimes very complicated, and the process of imagining this plasticity is actually the much more complex part of my work than bending and welding, it goes relatively quickly. But the main focus in the workflow is on drawings that at some point lead to this spatial conception, and that is actually the longer process in the work - you could almost say that the ratio is 10: 1. "

style

Dornseif's sculptures are reduced to the utmost and abstracted . They appear original and bizarre at the same time, because you change by changing your perspective. They are commonly perceived and described as "drawings in space". By reducing matter, the artist breaks with the traditional conception of plastic. His works are - as the art historian Martin Stather wrote - “a three-dimensional drawing system. The starting point is formed by outlines that, depending on the perspective of the beholder, fan out in a variety of forms, suggesting three-dimensionality without making them illusionistically tangible. In the case of Frank Dornseif's work, the concrete place that sculpture traditionally occupies in space dissolves, as it were, as you approach it, becomes indefinite. "

The shadow plays an important role for him; it is drawn on the floor with a felt-tip pen, covered with plastic film or painted on the wall as a silhouette . The artist, art historian and Kunstverein director Karl-Egon Vester wrote about the illusion of volume created in this way : “Dornseif's works derive their tension from the interplay of spatial and pictorial effects. The wire mesh casts its own spatial shadow, which makes the figures appear fully plastic to the viewer, only to collapse in the next moment when the point of view is slightly changed in the perspective intersection of the lines. Dornseif's works are about how the greatest possible three-dimensional effect can be achieved with the minimum use of material substrate. ”Even with his large-scale sculpture in the Hellersdorf street space, the shadow is displayed by a steel plate in the form of a shadow. The draftsman (height 8 m, length 16 m, depth 8 m) is placed on a lawn and anchored on the shadow steel plate embedded in the ground. This towering sculpture also shows the other typical Dornseif effects: “In structural abstraction, it depicts a monumental figure crouching on the floor and drawing. The links are reduced to individual metal tubes. As a result, the visual effect of the sculpture changes: Depending on the point of view, it can be recognized as a figure or an abstract composition. "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1979: Forum for Current Art, Berlin
  • 1980: Gallery 1/61, Berlin
  • 1981: Realism Studio, New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin
  • 1981: Galleria Schema, Florence
  • 1981: Galleria Unimedia, Genoa
  • 1982, 1985, 1987, 1995, 1999: Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne
  • 1983, 1986: Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
  • 1984: A room for Pontormo , Salone Villa Romana , Florence
  • 1984, 1987: XPO Galerie Ida Kaufmann, Hamburg
  • 1985: Villa Stuck gallery construction , Munich
  • 1987: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , studio exhibition on the sculpture boulevard , Berlin
  • 1988: Galerie im Körnerpark , Berlin
  • 1988, 1990: Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
  • 1989, 1991: Galerie Hermeyer, Munich
  • 1990: Galleria Ponte Pietra, Verona
  • 1990: Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum
  • 1991: Mannheimer Kunstverein , Mannheim (traveling exhibition)
  • 1991, 2000, 2009, 2013: Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich
  • 1992: Empty bag , Regensburg
  • 1995: Marie Louise Wirth Gallery, Zurich
  • 1995: Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • 1996, 1999: Galerie Hirschmann, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1996: Province Gallery, Słubice
  • 1998: Pro Arte Gallery, Freiburg
  • 2004: Dornseif meets Muthesius , Landhaus de Burlet , Berlin
  • 2007, 2009: Galerie Heike Curtze, Berlin
  • 2013: Galerie am Bollwerk, Neuruppin

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Competition participation

  • 1983: Starfish Sculpture Park (with large shadow )
  • 1986/87: Sculpture Boulevard Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (with large shadow with plinth )
  • 1988: Olympiade des Arts, Seoul (August 17th - October 5th)
  • 1995: Large sculpture Berlin-Hellersdorf, Competition I (1st place with The Draftsman )
  • 1996: Extension to the sculpture ensemble, Competition II ( The Viewer )
  • 1997/98: Steinhof an der Panke , Berlin ( Chausseestraße ) (numerous art installations)
  • 1997/98: Facade and courtyard design at the Mainz State Theater (2nd place)
  • 1999: German Embassy Beijing (1st place; outdoor sculpture)
  • 2006: Artistic design of the outside space of the townhouse Prenzlauer Gardens, Berlin (fountain sculpture and wall design)
  • 2006: Frauenkirche , Dresden, portrait sculpture of the regional bishop Hugo Hahn (execution of the design in iron)

Awards

  • 1981: Villa Romana Prize, Florence
  • 1985/86: Villa Massimo Prize, Rome

Working in public space

Berlin
German cities
Federal Republic of Germany
foreign cities
  • Coll-Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen (Netherlands)
  • Deweer Art Foundation, Zwevegem (Belgium)
  • Olympic Park Seoul (South Korea)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Frank Dornseif . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg November 1985, ART-Lexicon of Contemporary Artists, p. 132 .
  2. ↑ a b c Rader Artist: Frank Dornseif. In: stadtnetz-radevormwald.de. April 30, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Heinz Ohff: Frank Dornseif . In: Thomas Kempas, Katrin Sello (eds.): Between sculpture and painting. Sculptures by Johannes Brus, Frank Dornseif, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Ulla Lauer, Rainer Mang, Gerd Rohling, Henk Visch . Kunstverein Hannover, February 4 to March 18, 1984. Haus am Waldsee Berlin, March 30 to May 13, 1984. Hanover 1984, p. 21-22 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Katrin Sello: Frank Dornseif . In: Katrin Sello (ed.): Shadows of love. Frank Dornseif, Thomas Lange . Kunstverein Hannover, May 8 to June 26, 1988. Prvinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, September 10 to October 23, 1988. Hannover 1988, p. 95-96 .
  5. ↑ a b Frank Dornseif - Vita. Prizes and awards. In: frankdornseif.de. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Frank Dornseif. Biography. In: artcarol.de. Galerie Carol Johnssen, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  7. ↑ kg: Second sculpture by Frank Dornseif installed. In: berliner-zeitung.de. November 16, 1996. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Katrin Sello: Art and Passion . In: Katrin Sello (ed.): Shadows of love. Frank Dornseif, Thomas Lange . Kunstverein Hannover, May 8 to June 26, 1988. Prvinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, September 10 to October 23, 1988. Hannover 1988, p. 7-8 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Karl-Egon Vester: Frank Dornseif . In: Kunstverein in Hamburg (ed.): Figural. Thomas Böhmer, Frank Dornseif, Heinz Kleine-Klopries, Adem Yilmaz . Kunstverein in Hamburg, September 5 - October 11, 1987. Hamburg 1987, p. 26-35 (interview).
  10. ↑ a b c Annelie Pohlen: The bone man or the age of sculpture as a drawing . In: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Förderstiftung Berlin in cooperation with the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Ed.): Frank Dornseif . Exhibition halls Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, March 21 to April 21, 1985. March 1985, p. 7–12 (pages numbered by hand, as unpaginated).
  11. ↑ Martin Stather: From the disappearance of matter . In: Jürgen Hermeyer (Hrsg.): Galerie Hermeyer Munich (=  gallery book ). tape 3 . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-925881-29-8 , pp. 25 .
  12. ^ A b Katrin Sello: About this exhibition . In: Thomas Kempas, Katrin Sello (eds.): Between sculpture and painting. Sculptures by Johannes Brus, Frank Dornseif, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Ulla Lauer, Rainer Mang, Gerd Rohling, Henk Visch . Kunstverein Hannover, February 4 to March 18, 1984. Haus am Waldsee Berlin, March 30 to May 13, 1984. Hanover 1984, p. 5-8 .
  13. ^ Karl-Egon Vester: Introduction . In: Kunstverein in Hamburg (ed.): Figural. Thomas Böhmer, Frank Dornseif, Heinz Kleine-Klopries, Adem Yilmaz . Kunstverein in Hamburg, September 5 - October 11, 1987. Hamburg 1987, p. 3-6 .
  14. ^ Thorsten Goldberg, Ellena Olsen, Martin Schönfeld, Andreas Sommerer: Art in the large settlement. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf. A documentation. (PDF; 2.16 MB) In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. Commission for Art in Public Space […] on behalf of the Mahrzahn-Hellersdorf District Office, p. 50 , accessed on March 5, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dornseif, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Radevormwald