Franz Rudolf Knubel

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Franz Rudolf Knubel (also known as Rudolf Knubel , born April 24, 1938 in Münster , Westphalia; † May 16, 2020 in Essen ) was a German visual artist .

Career

After high school in Münster and military service in Handorf (Münster) , Franz Rudolf Knubel studied art history, German literature and philosophy as well as art and craft education at the University of Tübingen and the University of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1960 to 1966 with Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber , Fred Thieler and Walter Hess .

He was co-founder of the artist group Großgörschen 35 together with Karl Horst Hödicke , Reinhard Lange , Markus Lüpertz , Peter Sorge and Lambert Maria Wintersberger u. a.

Knubel has been active in artistic teaching since 1968. In 1970, together with Bernd Damke and Eckart Heimendahl, he founded the SYSTEM DESIGN planning group for visual guidance systems in Recklinghausen and Essen. From 1971 to 2004 he was a professor at the Folkwang School for Design in Essen and later at the University of Essen , department of design and art education. In 1974 he was part of the AVL working group for visual guidance systems with Stefan Lengyel , which designed the guidance system for the new building at the University of Essen.

Since 1975, several joint works in the form of exhibitions and catalogs have been created with the photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg . 1976–1977 he was a scholarship holder at Villa Massimo , the German Academy in Rome. Between 1986 and 1987 he taught as part of an exchange program for professors at California State University, Long Beach . In 2000 Knubel was a fellow of the Fulbright Foundation in the USA. In 2011 he founded the Rudolf Arnheim Academy , Marl, with Frauke Arnold, Gudrun König and Stefan Bienk .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016-2017: Think with your eyes. Retrospective works 1962-2012 - Kunstmuseum Ahlen , Ahlen, Flottmann-Hallen , Herne, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 2012: 56 pastel drawings, Rheinhausen Gallery (district library), Duisburg
  • “… To the smallest group /… with a chosen few”. In memoriam Mildred Harnack-Fish , traveling exhibition in:
  • 2004: California State University, Long Beach , Design Gallery; University of Washington , Tacoma, UWT-Art-Gallery
  • 1999: State Museum Schwerin , art collections
  • 1998: Goethe Institute Rabat-Casablanca, Musée de Marrakech, Morocco; Josef Albers Museum , Bottrop
  • 1997: Monastery of Bentlage Castle , Rheine
  • 1993: Geymüller Gallery, Essen
  • 1991: Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo , California *); Goethe Institut Los Angeles, California, Bakersfield College Art Gallery, Bakersfield, California, USA *)
  • 1990: Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl
  • 1986: Gallery of the School of Fine Arts, California State University Long Beach, California, USA
  • 1984: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne **); Museum Quadrat Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop **)
  • 1983: University of Essen **)
  • 1982: Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna **)
  • 1981: Kestner Society, Hanover **)
  • 1979: German Unesco Commission, Bonn **); City Museum Düsseldorf **)
  • 1978: Heaven and Earth, performance, Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1977: University of Essen
  • 1970: Galerie m, Bochum; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf *), Museum Ulm *); Boston School of Architecture, Boston, Mass., USA *)
  • 1968: Galerie Wildbrand, Cologne; Rewolle Gallery, Bremen; Brusberg Gallery, Hanover
  • 1967: Wildbrand Gallery, Münster
  • 1965: Galerie Großgörschen 35, Berlin

*) together with Bernd Damke

**) together with Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

Participation in exhibitions since 1963 (selection)

  • 2019: B1 - Constructors of artistic form, Märkisches Museum Witten
  • 2019: Three-Houses-Art-Path 3.0, Daun / Eifel
  • 2018: Forever Blue, Kunstverein Duisburg
  • 2013: Disturbance of calm, forays into the world of collage, Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Marta Herford
  • 2011 - 2013: Heaven divided, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • 2012: Best of Ruhrgebiet, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
  • 1999: Natural light, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne
  • 1993: 68 Art and Culture, Marl; Gelsenkirchen; Herne; Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau
  • 1991: The seasons, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne
  • 1989: B-1. Flottmann-Hallen, Herne
  • 1988: European Landscape, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California, USA
  • 1987: Summer Show, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California, USA
  • 1984–1985: Border crossing, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Marl
  • 1982: 96 Westphalian artists, Landesmuseum Münster
  • 1979: Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Food scene, Folkwang Museum
  • 1978: German Association of Artists, Berlin
  • 1977: German Academy Rome, Villa Massimo and Galleria Giulia, Rome; Naples; Bolzano; Saarbrücken; Darmstadt
  • 1976: Wood-plastic, Baden-Baden
  • 1972: Rhein-Ruhr scene, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1971: Aktiva 71, Munich; 2nd Biennale, Nuremberg; German Association of Artists, Stuttgart
  • 1970: Gallery of the University of Zagreb; Galerie Orez, The Hague; City and sculpture, Marl
  • 1969: 12 German sculptors in the Gruga, Essen; Sculpture, Heidelberg; B – 1, 20 German artists, Liège; Hamburg; Oberhausen Castle Gallery; "Now". German Art Today, Cologne; 5th International Triennial for Colored Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland
  • 1968: German Art Today, Hanover; German Youth Art Prize, Mannheim; 40 Germans under 40, Norway; Finland; Wilhelm Morgner Prize for Experimental Art, Soest
  • 1967: Great Munich Art Exhibition, Munich; Young city sees young art, Wolfsburg; West German Artists Association, Hagen
  • 1963: Junge Stadt sees young art, Wolfsburg; Great Berlin art exhibition, Berlin

Publications

  • Rudolf Knubel. Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Flottmann-Hallen, LVR-Landesmusum Bonn. Kettler Publishing House, 2016
  • Franz Rudolf Knubel. Works on Paper, 1971-2004. With texts by Klaus Herding and Thomas Zaunschirm, Essen, 2004
  • Pioneer Pilot, 1995. In: Kent Kleinman; Leslie van Duzer (eds.): Rudolf Arnheim: revealing vision (Festschrift for Rudolf Arnheim). Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1999
  • Franz Rudolf Knubel. Périphéries and Centers. Voyages d'exploration visuelle 1971–97, ed. from the Goethe-Institut, Rabat-Casablanca, 1998
  • Spur der Kraniche - Tracing Cranes. Research report, University of Essen, Cologne: Bookstore Walther König, 1997
  • Visiting Rudolf Arnheim. Video interview (Ann Arbor, USA) in cooperation with the media center of the University of Essen, 1994 (with Thomas Strauch, Jochen Ehlert and Ralf Wassermann)
  • Stones and Star Path. Four steps on the way to Santiago de Compostela. Video essay, Essen 1993 (with Thomas Strauch, Jochen Ehlert and Ralf Wassermann)
  • KIT box, case, unit, in: Art teaching and learning, published by the functional area of ​​art and design education in Faculty 4 of the University of Essen, Essen 1986 (with Wolfgang Pilz)
  • The seasons. A system of the basics of design. Research work at the University of Essen 1981–1983. Essen, 1984 (with Ralf Blaschke, Heinz Francke, Wolfdietrich Jost and Luise Müller)
  • Pocket Museum - Indians of North America. Cologne: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, 1984 (with Gisela Völger, Karin von Welck, Renate Neuser, Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel)
  • The Tigris of ancient Mesopotamia. Iraq 1980. Hanover: Kestner Society, 1981 (with Ursula Schulz-Dornburg)
  • Views of Pagan, Burma. Cologne: studio dumont 1978 (with Ursula Schulz-Dornburg)
  • On function and expression. In: Merry Henle (ed.): Festschrift for Rudolf Arnheim. New York, 1974
  • System design. Catalog Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Museum Ulm , 1970 (with Bernd Damke and Eckart Heimendahl)

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personal data
SURNAME Knubel, Franz Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2020
Place of death eat