Hans Rudolf Thull

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Hans Rudolf Thull (* 6. December 1945 in Bochum ) is a German artist will be working on photography , collage , object and sculpture . He was one of the first German contemporary photo artists to be shown in solo exhibitions in German art museums .

Life

Thull grew up in a musical family, his father was concertmaster of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra . In 1968 he began studying visual communication / photo design / artistic photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , where Pan Walther was his teacher; he finished his studies in 1973 with the title Diplom Designer .

After completing his studies, he began his freelance artistic work. At first he worked almost exclusively in the field of photo art . From 1983 to 1986 he was a lecturer at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, teaching primarily experimental and artistic photography.

During a turning point from 1989 to 2000, he discovered other artistic forms for himself: collage, object and sculpture. His affinity for these was already shown in earlier individual works, around 1985 through his floor space sculpture of the Ruhr area project crossing borders .

Thull exhibited in important national and international museums, and his work was curated by prominent curators such as Thomas Grochowiak and Uwe Rüth . 1979–1980 his first exhibition Reality - Unreality was shown together with Rolf Glasmeier in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen and in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen . This made him one of the earliest contemporary German photo artists to be presented with solo exhibitions in German art museums.

Hans Rudolf Thull lives in Bochum.

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The central approach of his work is the examination of the various phenomena of duality and interaction.

In his photographic work, Thull generates dualities by detaching everyday objects or situations from their originality and placing them in a different context through unusual image details and camera techniques, including blurring and panning. Through these interactions, traditional viewing habits are broken, the content is given a new identity and dualities become visible. Thus “there are offers and possibilities for the viewer to awaken the imagination and to activate creative impulses through their own reflection and action.” His series of images can therefore be assigned to experimental photography, some also to subjective photography . Thull works primarily in color, both analog in medium format and digital in small format .

The duality of media and consumer is the focus of his collages. Through various cutting, tearing and gluing techniques as well as contradicting classifications in sequence, accumulation and reduction, primarily with print media, he creates irritations of meaning - imposed processes of perception are questioned: "The signs of everyday life have to a certain extent conquered an additional reality."

His tubular and sheet steel sculptures, which are mostly accessible, address the dualities of viewpoint – perception and surface – space; they create interactions of form, material, light, viewer and environment. “By changing viewpoints or perspectives, a communicating, variable whole is created visually across borders.” The basis of his work is formed by flat geometric steel sheets, which he elevates from the surface into the room through incisions, folds, upsets and assignments, or steel tubes that he creates put together in serial or geometric systems.

Exhibitions (selection)

1979 Ludwig Gallery Schloss Oberhausen (E) and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (E)

Reality - unreality (with Rolf Glasmeier)

1981 Ludwig Gallery at Oberhausen Castle

Villa Romana price

1983 Osthaus Museum Hagen

20th exhibition of the West German Artists Association

1984 Goethe House New York (E)

Four aspects of contemporary German photography
(with Rolf Glasmeier, Robert Häusser and Pan Walther)

1985 Kunstverein im Revier, Essen / Art Museum Gelsenkirchen / Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl

exceeding the limit

1985 Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl

Photo art in the Ruhr area: 8 rooms - 8 examples

1985 Museum of Modern Art , Toyama

I. International Triennial for Poster Art
Contribution of the Federal Republic (with Rolf Glasmeier)

1989 Olympus Gallery, Hamburg (E)

Unreal landscapes

2009 Künstlerzeche Our Fritz 2/3 , Herne

Industrial Land Art in the Ruhr region: border crossing 2

2009 Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl

50 years of artistic design in the Ruhr region: Industrial Land Art in the Ruhr region

(E) = solo exhibition

Sculpture in public space

2002 forecourt Thürmer-Saal / Volksbank Bochum

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literature

  • Grochowiak, Thomas (Ed.), Reality - Irreality , Herten 1979
  • Glasmeier, Rolf, Documentation 2nd Art Festival 1975–1982 , Oer-Erkenschwick 1982
  • West German Artists Association (Ed.), 20th exhibition of the West German Artists Association , Hagen 1983
  • Bettenhausen, Helmut et al. (Ed.), Border crossing , Herne 1985
  • Goethe House New York (Ed.), Four Aspects of Contemporary German Photography: Rolf Glasmeier, Robert Häusser, Hans Rudolf Thull, Pan Walther , Essen 1984
  • Leismann, Burkhard et al. Rüth, Uwe (ed.), Industrial Land Art in the Ruhrland: 50 Years of Artistic Design (Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl). The artist group B1 and the consequences (Kunstmuseum and Kunstverein Ahlen). border crossing 2 (artist mine Unser Fritz 2/3, Herne) , Essen 2009

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One of the very first photo art exhibitions in German-speaking countries was shown at documenta 6 in 1977. See catalog for documenta 6, Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video , Kassel 1977
  2. ↑ Grochowiak, Thomas, in: ders. (Ed.), Reality - Irreality , Herten 1979, p. III
  3. ↑ Bove, Jens, Aesthetics of the Real, in: Scheps, Marc (ed.), Our century. Images of people - worlds of images , Munich / New York 1995, p. 103
  4. ↑ Rüth, Uwe, in: Leismann, Burkhard u. Rüth, Uwe (ed.), Industrial Land Art in the Ruhrland , Essen 2009, p. 171
personal data
SURNAME Thull, Hans Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist with the fields of photography, collage, object and sculpture
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum