Helmut Federle

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Helmut Federle (born October 31, 1944 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss painter .

Life

Federle spent childhood and youth in St. Margrethen in the canton of St. Gallen. At first he worked as a singer and guitarist / accordionist. In 1959 the first small pictures with his initials HF were created.

From 1964 to 1969 Federle studied at the general trade school in Basel, among other things in the painting class of Franz Fedier, and exhibited in the Basel gallery Riehentor in 1971 . In 1969 and 1971 he received the Federal Art Scholarship . This was followed by trips to Tunis and the USA, where he a. a. engaged in the work of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin . Together with his painter friend Martin Disler , he exhibited in 1976 in the “Art Museum of the City of Solothurn”. This was followed by a solo exhibition at the Elisabeth Kaufmann gallery in Basel. The motifs in the pictures were mountains reduced to small triangles.

In 1979 Federle showed large-format pictures with geometric shapes in the Kunsthalle Basel under the direction of Jean-Christophe Ammann . However, the exhibition mostly met with incomprehension. Federle lived in New York from 1979 to 1980 and had his first exhibition there in C-Space (together with John M. Armleder , Olivier Mosset , and Christoph Gossweiler). The artist's book New Suicide Grafic, Faces and other Pieces was published in 1981 and the artist's book Arbeit der Neuenordnung (NSG II) was published in 1984 .

Federle lived in Zurich from 1983 to 1984 and was given a teaching position in Reykjavík . He then moved to Vienna , where he has lived and worked with the gallery next St. Stephan . In 1997 Federle represented Switzerland at the XLVII. Venice Biennale. From 1999 to 2007 he was professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

honors and awards

  • 2008: Prix Aurelie Nemours
  • 2016: Prize of the Ricola Collection

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions and art on site

Works

  • New Suicide Grafic, Faces and other pieces, Zurich, Verlag Nachbar der Welt, 1981.
  • Work of the New Order (NSG II), Dudweiler, AQ-Verlag , 1983.

literature

  • Pictures 1977–1978. Kunsthalle Basel, 1979
  • Drawings 1975–1984. Zurich 1984
  • Pictures, drawings. Basel 1985
  • Every sign is a sign for other signs - on the aesthetics of Helmut Federle. Klagenfurt 1986
  • Wilfried Dickhoff (Ed.): Helmut Federle - Pictures and Drawings 1975–1988 , Bielefeld 1989, ISBN 3-924639-10-8
  • 5 + 1. New York 1990
  • Helmut Federle. Vienna Secession, Vienna 1991
  • Helmut Federle, XLVII Venice Biennale. Baden (Switzerland) 1997
  • Helmut Federle. Cologne 1999
  • Helmut Federle. Nantes / Arles 2002
  • Helmut Federle - drawings 1975–1997 from a Swiss museum collection in the Rudolf Steiner Archive, Dornach. Basel 2005
  • Helmut Federle - Catalog for the exhibition in the Gallery next St. Stephan, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85042-053-2
  • Helmut Federle - The Ferner Paintings - Peter Blum Edition, New York, NY 2013, ISBN 978-0-615-86042-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. An analysis of 'Work of the New Order'
  2. ↑ Acceptance speech for the award of the Aurelie Nemours Prize
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  4. ^ Franziska Leeb: It can't be cheap that cheap Die Presse , July 25, 2014