Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer

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Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer (born March 8, 1953 in Duisburg as Harald Schmitz ; † December 3, 2019 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German painter and object artist .

Life

Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer studied art and art history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973 to 1981 . In 1977 he was named a master student there.

Schmitz-Schmelzer had a teaching position at the University of Duisburg from 1977 to 1983 and taught art for many years at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Duisburg.

Since 1980 he lived and worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

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After studying painting and dealing with traditional color materials, Schmitz-Schmelzer began to work more and more with lacquers and plastics in the 1970s and to experiment with various image carrier formats such as steles and circular shapes.

The resulting difficulty in precisely defining and categorizing Schmitz-Schmitzer's objects was already recorded by Professor Reinhard Hoeps in 1981 in the description of one of Schmitz-Schmelzer's installations at the time: “[the work] opens up a gap between image and sculpture” and “This The interplay of space and painting in the exchange of dimensionalities implies their mutual influence, which is present in every picture. "

This hybridity of the work continued. His “color space bodies” or “mural objects” were created from synthetic resin dyed with pigment and poured onto a wooden carrier, which was then polished to a high gloss by grinding and polishing. "Towards the wall, a piece of wood of different widths serves as a picture carrier and the wood can [...] develop a strong dynamic of its own."

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Dialogue: Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer and Troy Simmons , JanKossen Contemporary, New York City
  • Infinities of Color Galerie Bernd Lausberg, Düsseldorf
  • A Wall Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal / Toronto
  • New Works , Gallery van Dun, Oisterwijk
  • 2017 Sharp Shapes , Braunbehrens Gallery, Stuttgart
  • Beneath the surface , Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
  • Schmitz-Schmelzer , Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • Awakening , Galerie ProArta, Zurich (with A. Cont)
  • 2016 Etheral Stone , Jan Kossen, NYC
  • 2015 New works , Galerie Frank Schlag & CIE., Essen
  • 2014 encyclopedias , Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Düsseldorf
  • 2011 Lionization of Color , De Buck Gallery, NYC
  • 2011 Science of Color , Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton
  • 2010 Chroma , Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal
  • 2008 Hybrids , ProArta Gallery, Zurich
  • 2003 Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
  • 2002 Show Low, the Blue Wonder and the natural theater of Oklahoma Kunstverein Dresden-Loschwitz
  • 2001 Association for Current Art, Oberhausen
  • 1997 The Chinese wild pheasant , Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr

International trade fair participation (selection)

  • 2018 Art Palm Beach, Florida, Art Wynwood, Miami, Art New York, Pier 94, Art Aspen, Art Karlsruhe
  • 2007 Art Karlsruhe
  • 2006 ART.FAIR (Cologne)
  • 2006 Art Moskow (Russia)
  • 2005, 2006, 2007 KIAF Seoul (Korea)
  • 2005, 2006, 2007 TIAF Toronto (Canada)
  • 2005 Art Miami (USA)
  • 2005 Chicago Contemporary & Classics (USA)
  • 2004, 2005, 2006 Art Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 2003, 2004, 2007 Art Cologne (Cologne)
  • 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Art Frankfurt

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 Jackson Pollock Visiting , Galerie an der Ruhr / RUHR GALLERY, Mülheim
  • 2015 Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. , Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
  • 2013 No Paint , Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
  • 2012 47/12 , Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
  • 2012 Best of Ruhr Area - Top Twenty , Frank Schlag Gallery, Essen
  • 2010 100 + 1 year , selected works from the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr collection

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dennis Vollmer: Mülheim artist Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer died. December 5, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ See: https://www.lokalkompass.de/muelheim/kultur/schueler-enthaben-jackson-pollock-aktionstage-im-kunsthaus-muelheim-stadtmitte-ruhrstr-3-d789919.html
  3. ↑ Reinhard Hoeps: On the relationship between painting and architecture in "Tankse" by Harald Schmitz. January gallery, Bochum 1981.
  4. ↑ John Kissick: hybrid. Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal 2008, ISBN 978-2-922173-85-7 .
  5. ^ Gabriele Uelsberg: Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer color space body. Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1997, ISBN 3-928135-16-3 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Finckh: About the way things are in the work of Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer. Mülheim an der Ruhr 1995/1996.
  7. ↑ Harald Krämer: My dear Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer. Braunbehrens Gallery, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-922268-33-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz-Schmelzer, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz, Harald (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2019
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr