Helmut Rieger (painter)

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Helmut Rieger (born September 6, 1931 in Neisse / Upper Silesia ; died August 27, 2014 in Munich ) was a German painter.

Life

At the end of the Second World War, Helmut Rieger came to Bad Reichenhall with his family , where he spent his childhood and trained as a printer. From 1953 to 1956 he attended the master school for book printers, graphic design department in Munich. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student at Erich Glette .

At the end of the 1950s, Rieger belonged to a group of Munich art students who tried to refuse the Munich Academy's style guidelines. In the groups we , trace / we and mesh , Rieger wrote manifestos in which painting and drawing should be understood as an art of expression. At the end of the 1960s, Rieger withdrew from the group. In the 1970s, an illness caused Rieger to turn to drawing and sculpture. In the early 1990s he fell seriously ill again, and life's borderline experiences were reflected in his work.

Since 1997 Rieger has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Writings and exhibitions (selection)

  • Intermediate spaces , in: Geflecht, Heft 2 Munich 1966
  • Helmut Rieger. Wax pictures 1972–73 . Galerie van de Loo , Munich 1973
  • Magic of the Image , in: Florian Rötzer: Make Art? Conversations about the production of images , Leipzig 1993, pp. 229–244
  • Helmut Rieger. Work from 1959–1995 . Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg 1996
  • Helmut Rieger. Works from 1959–2000 , Rathausgalerie Munich , Munich 2000
  • Helmut Rieger. Orbis pictus - the world of pictures . Galerie van de Loo , Munich 2008
  • Helmut Rieger, “Africa in me” . Museum Lothar Fischer , Neumarkt id Oberpfalz, 2012

Literature and film

  • Nicola Schmid: "Pictures are like batteries": pictures and sculptures by Helmut Rieger . Berlin: Logos, 2002. Dissertation Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Jörg Bundschuh : Until the picture looks at me - the painter Helmut Rieger . Movie. Kick Film GmbH 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Rieger , website with biographical information.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Knapp : On the death of the painter Helmut Rieger , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 30, 2014, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse / Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2014
Place of death Munich