Fritz Schwegler

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Fritz Schwegler (born May 7, 1935 in Breech near Göppingen ; † June 3, 2014 there ) was a visual artist , painter , draftsman , sculptor , writer and musician .

Life

Fritz Schwegler attended elementary school in Börtlingen from 1942 to 1950. He then did an apprenticeship as a carpenter until 1954. From 1955 to 1958 he traveled as a journeyman through Europe, Asia Minor and Africa, working in Paris, Rome, Cairo, New York and Tokyo. In 1959 he passed the master craftsman's examination as a carpenter in Stuttgart and became a state-certified wood technician, attended the school of the Silesian woodcarver Ernst Rülke . From 1960 to 1963 Schwegler worked as a teacher in the youth center in Stuttgart. At the same time, from 1961 he studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1963 he continued his studies at the City and Guilds of London Art School. From 1962 he lived as a freelance sculptor. In 1973 he was given a lectureship in basic plastic theory at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1975 he received a professorship at the Academy, initially for painting, from 1987 for sculpture, which lasted until 2001.

The grave monument designed by Schwegler on the Blue Lake near Kassel

Fritz Schwegler was a member of the German Association of Artists . In the 1990s he designed a grave monument for the Kassel artist necropolis . Schwegler lived and worked both in Breech near Göppingen and in Düsseldorf. He died in Breech at the age of 79. He was buried in June 2014 in the cemetery in Börtlingen . He was married to the artist Hildegard Schöneck (* 1948 in Cologne), who studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1979.

In 2012 Schwegler established the Das Immovable Theater Foundation . Fritz Schwegler and Hildegard Schöneck-Schwegler Foundation . In July 2015, the first Fritz Schwegler Prize was awarded to Thomas Schütte at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

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From 1962 Schwegler sketched ideas, pictures and ideas on so-called original notes , which were marked with idea numbers, with Effesch numbers, derived from his initials, or as English Nobel = EN. The artist put this collection of motifs on ring binder paper in A5 format, put in transparent sleeves, into folders. The Black Archive was created from 1962 to 1966 , with almost four hundred small-format sculptures made of hard plaster, later in bronze, initially in black throughout. For the presentation, Schwegler developed the “box of ideas”, a kind of type case in which the works were exhibited. From 1966 to the early 1970s, he made around four hundred wooden models, around twenty by twenty centimeters in size, which were painted in color and presented in specially designed sheet steel towers. He also realized some selected shapes in formats of up to 1.80 meters.

After initial successes, Schwegler decided to break the works in the late 1960s. He had neither the money nor the space to implement his ideas and, from 1969, refrained from sculptural execution of his ideas for twenty years. From 1969 to 1974 the work complex Effeschiaden was created , whose name Schwegler derived from his initials F Sch. The Effeschiaden represented an extension of the original notes and consisted of a picture-text arrangement on writing paper in A4 format. Each sheet showed an object or a situational constellation in the upper half, which was combined with handwritten text on the lower half. When Schwegler realized that visitors to the exhibition were not reading his texts, he transformed himself into a kind of pelvic singer in the early 1970s , who reported on sales in ritual singing, accompanied by flute, singing, Schwegler's whistle and bell, and referred to his display boards. From 1973, his appearances were recorded in films and photo series.

In order to bring image and text together, the series Abulvenz was created from 1980 , which Schwegler painted in different formats on white grounds. The abulvence showed a free assignment game of picture and sentence objects. From 1985 the artist undertook another attempt at work in the language and prescribed the program of so-called test runs for another ten years . During the summer vacation at the academy, he began a systematic description of the world in Breech, with twelve chapters each from room, house, village, district, country, through states and continents to space. To do this, he invented the transforming reference figures "Karl Anker" and "Jutta Tann-Dorée". From 1985 onwards, the abulence system was expanded to include the A-bars . Here the painter designed jagged frames with six-color patterns, including the backs of the canvases. From 1990 to 1999 Schwegler produced 1000 pieces of emergency conversion : hand-sized, colored bronze pieces that were made using the wax melt process and represented small figurative constellations. In the year 2000, 111 sole sequels were set up in the same manner and technique as the 1000 emergency transformation pieces , which represented further sculptural ideas in small format. The 42 Göppingen councilors followed in 2001 , an order from the city of Göppingen for the historic town hall foyer on the occasion of the opening of a new extension. The swiveling bronze panels were attached to the wall with hinges at eye level. There are word-picture combinations on them. From 2002 to 2005 Schwegler worked on the group of works 88 Sovereigns . He selected pictures and typesetting objects from the original note volumes 88–99, combined them with the help of drawings and cardboard models, had them cast in bronze and painted the motifs in polished frames.

Instead of catalogs and work documentation, Schwegler published artist books for his exhibitions, which contained drawings and drafts for small sculptures as well as handwritten texts with idiosyncratic word embossing (see under “Fonts”).

In his hometown of Breech, Schwegler acquired empty milk houses , old forest workers' shelters and abandoned water towers, in which parts of the work are presented today.

Student (selection)

During his teaching activity, Schwegler had a studio at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was directly accessible to his students. Some students achieved international significance.

Awards and honors

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Works in public space

Abulvence notice, Figure 14, Stuttgart-Vaihingen
  • 1965: Guardian , Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • 1969: Stahl-U (U Thant) , Grabbeplatz , Düsseldorf
  • 1985: Abulvence notice , 40-part picture cycle, Stuttgart-Vaihingen , university campus
  • 1990: Some late pictures got stuck in the air and were recreated (EN 6114) , Im Tal (sculpture park)
  • 1999: Art runner (2-part), Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • 2004: The red Miss Sankt Bernadette von Altamira , aluminum, painted, exterior facade of the Göppingen town hall, Göppingen
  • 2011: Work cycle “Immovable Theater” (3 parts), Eislingen / Fils

Fonts (selection)

  • Fritz Schwegler, The sun in the dark bed. Eiwer seal. 52nd book . Eremitenpresse , Düsseldorf 1978.
  • Fritz Schwegler, The whole winter is excessive. Last Effeschiade and First Pheine . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1979.
  • Fritz Schwegler, From the Mother of God of the Breast. EN book 57 . Eremitenpresse , Düsseldorf 1980.
  • Fritz Schwegler, implementing new confidants in the country. Sentence objects from En book 25-65 . Performed and selected by Hildegard Schöneck. Self-published, Düsseldorf 1981.
  • Fritz Schwegler, First Saddle Marks. Abulvence EN book 67 . Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart 1984 (on the occasion of the exhibition at the Württembergischer Kunstverein from July 7 to August 12, 1984).
  • Fritz Schwegler, things that can be aired a bit . Düsseldorf 1986 (on the occasion of the exhibition at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , Düsseldorf, from November 28, 1986 to February 8, 1987).
  • Fritz Schwegler, Abulvency. EN 6100-6999. Final meeting . Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf 1988 (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Galerie Schmela from November 4 to December 30, 1988).
  • Fritz Schwegler, bind us fire and touch it. 49 emergency transformation pieces (painted back) from the summer of 1991 and 28 words (subject matter) . Written by Hildegard Schöneck from EN-Volume 83 by Fritz Schwegler in Düsseldorf and Breech. Edited by Jürgen Schweinbraden . Hamburg / Göppingen 1992 (on the occasion of the exhibition "Bindet Uns Feuer." From December 20, 1991 to February 2, 1992 in the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and from March 20, 1992 to April 26, 1992 in the Göppingen Art Association).
  • Fritz Schwegler, Rhine color. 100 selected sheets from "Blue is only the eye" . Hatje Cantz Verlag , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8932-2392-4 .
  • Fritz Schwegler, Abulvence notice: A is easy and does not make any claims . Edited by the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999 (on the occasion of the award of the Hans Thoma Prize ).
  • Fritz Schwegler, The immovable theater. 42 Göppingen councils . Published by the city of Göppingen and the Kunsthalle Göppingen , 2001 (on the occasion of the opening of the extension to the historic town hall of Göppingen).
  • Fritz Schwegler, The immovable theater. 111 sole sequels . Breech 2003.
  • Fritz Schwegler von Breech, The immovable theater . 2 vol., Vol. 1: The bond of the divine cell. Schnitte , Vol. 2: Book of 14 book prefaces . Edited by Ulrike Groos , Hatje Cantz Verlag , Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-9198-1 (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from August 28 to November 14, 2004).

Monographs (selection)

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Fritz Schwegler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Ulrike Lorenz , attempt at a chronicle on the work of Fritz Schwegler with excerpts from his writings . In: Kunsthalle Mannheim (ed.), Fritz Schwegler. Hatje Cantz Verlag , Berlin 2016, Volume 1, p. 129, ISBN 978-3-77574-203-0 .
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schwegler, Fritz ( 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 February 12, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Walter Grasskamp , King in the Imagery. On the death of the artist Fritz Schwegler . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 129, Thursday, June 5, 2014, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Short biography of Hildegard Schöneck-Schwegler on the website of the city of Brühl  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--stadtbrhl-w9a.de  
  5. ↑ Art Academy awards Schwegler Prize for the first time . In: NWZ, July 8, 2015
  6. ^ Karl Ruhrberg (ed.): Zeitzeichen. Stations in fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia . DuMont, Cologne 1989, p. 591
  7. ↑ See: Ulrike Lorenz, attempt at a chronicle on the work of Fritz Schwegler with excerpts from his writings . In: Fritz Schwegler. Kunsthalle Mannheim , Hatje Cantz Verlag , Berlin 2016, pp. 129–140, ISBN 978-3-77574-203-0 .
  8. ↑ Article by Wolfgang Ullrich in: Zeit-Online, April 7, 2016
  9. ↑ See: Obituaries: Fritz Schwegler . In: Der Spiegel , No. 25 of June 16, 2014, p. 139.
  10. ↑ Diane Solway: Charline von Heyl: In the Abstract. In: W Magazine. August 19, 2013, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Ed.): Fritz Schwegler, Abulvenz-Aushang: A is easy and makes no claims , Hatje Cantz Verlag, on the occasion of the award of the Hans-Thoma-Prize, 1999 - acceptance speech by Fritz Schwegler and illustration of the work cycle
  12. ↑ The "Stahl-U" on the website of the city of Düsseldorf
  13. ↑ Photos and description of the work
personal data
SURNAME Schwegler, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter, draftsman, sculptor, writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Breech near Göppingen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 2014
Place of death Breech near Göppingen