Helmut Schober

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Helmut Schober (born January 1, 1947 in Innsbruck , Austria ; lives in Milan , Italy ) is an Austrian painter and performance artist .

Life

Helmut Schober was born in Austria as the first child in 1947. From 1966 to 1967 he attended evening courses in life drawing in the studio of Carl Heinrich Walter Kühn (1895–1970), son of the photographer Heinrich Kühn , Innsbruck . From 1968 to 1972 he studied painting and graphics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . He also went on study trips to Italy . From 1969 to 1971 he worked artistically with the Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli , a classic of photography .

In 1971 Schober had his first exhibitions in smaller galleries in Milan , Venice and Parma . In 1972 he graduated with honors. In the same year he moved to Milan, where he still lives today, and founded his own studio there. In 2004 he was awarded the title of professor in Austria.

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From 1973 to 1974 Helmut Schober performed his first performances, which he created with the use of video tapes and films. In 1977 he was a participant in documenta 6 in Kassel and in 1978 in the Venice Biennale . From 1979 he turned to painting. Also drawings and sculptures are part of his repertoire .

In his painting he developed a special technique with which he visualizes the luminosity of light. He applied almost unbound, pure color pigments together with graphite to the canvas in a mixture he developed . This is applied in many superimposed layers, some of which have a relief-like character. The light shines out of the two-dimensionality or provokes a deep suction in the picture.

The main themes of his non-representational, imaginary painting are light, space, time.

In 1996 Helmut Schober painted ten large pictures, each approx. 3 m × 3 m, the "Zarathustra Cycle". In 1997 he created six large-format paintings entitled “For WA Mozart I-VI”, and in 1998 a series of 56 drawings, “WA Mozart - clay line”, charcoal on paper. Two further series of large-format pictures followed in 2004/05: “WA Mozart - Schwetzinger Cycle” and “WA Mozart - Luce assoluta”. In 2008 the series “Fire” was created, consisting of three pictures on canvas, each 150 cm × 150 cm.

Helmut Schober's art has an international status and is shown in important museums in Germany , Italy , the USA, England and Austria .

Schober took part in documenta 8 a second time in 1987 and, after 1978, represented Germany and Italy in the international pavilion again in 1986 at the Venice Biennale . One exhibition was "William Turner and Helmut Schober - Two Creators of Light", which took place in 2002 in Bury , Manchester , in collaboration with the Tate Gallery , London .

Solo exhibitions

(Selection):

  • 1975: Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne
  • 1977: Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
  • 1979: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 1981: Sprengel Museum, Hanover
  • 1982: Rotonda di Via Besana, Milan
  • 1984: Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna
  • 1989: Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • 1990: Kunsthalle Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  • 1993: Sprengel Museum, Hanover / Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein e. V., Dresden / Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck / Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 1994: Fondazione Mudima, Milan
  • 1995: Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal / Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
  • 1998: Art Museum, Bonn
  • 1999: Galerie der Stadt Waiblingen, "Kameralamt", Waiblingen / Orensanz Foundation, Center for the Arts, New York / PAC, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
  • 1999–2000: Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
  • 2002: Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Bury ( Manchester )
  • 2006: WA Mozart - Luce assoluta , Art Collections and Museums Augsburg - New Gallery in the Höhmannhaus
  • "WA Mozart - Schwetzinger Cycle", Kunstverein Schwetzingen e. V. (Orangery in the palace garden: paintings; Palais Hirsch: drawings)
  • 2006–2007: For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
  • 2007: Lumen , representation of the European Region Tyrol - South Tyrol / Alto Adige - Trentino / Rappresentanza della Regione Europea del Tirolo - Alto Adige / South Tyrol Trentino, Bruxelles
  • 2007: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
  • 2008: Lumen , Innsbruck City Museum, Innsbruck
  • 2009: “Time delimited - Delimited Time - Tempo senza confini”, Imperial Hofburg Innsbruck (The Emperial Court Palace in Innsbruck), Innsbruck
  • 2011–2012: "Helmut Schober - Enigmatic Horizons", Fondazione Mudima - Milan
  • 2015: In concomitanza con / At the same time as / Simultaneously with the EXPO: "Traccia di luce / Trail of Light / Lichtspur", Fondazione Mudima - Milan (April 9th ​​- May 9th)

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Literature and Sources

  • Schwarzbauer, Georg F .; Performance: 14 interviews. In: Kunstforum international , Volume 24; Ruppichteroth 1977
  • Schwarzbauer, Georg F .; Performance: Performance Festival Vienna - Workshop Graz '78. In: Kunstforum international , Volume 27; Ruppichteroth 1978
  • International Art Forum , Volume 32; Annelie Pohlen, Helmut Schober, Wintersberger Gallery, Ruppichteroth 1979
  • Kunstforum international , Volume 104; Jürgen Kisters, Helmut Schober, Kunsthalle Cologne, Ruppichteroth 1989
  • Kunstforum international , Volume 182; Helmut Schober; Ruppichteroth 2006

Monographs

  • Helmut Schober. Intermediate areas, catalog for the Museum of the 20th Century (Vienna, 1984), Mazzotta, Milano, 1984 (German, English, Italian); Karl Ruhrberg: Helmut Schobers works. P. 7, Dieter Ronte, "Zwischen Areas - Interspaces - Interspazi", P. 11 ISBN 88-220-0588-0
  • Helmut Schober. Schwarze Sonne, catalog for Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle (Cologne, 1989), Prestel, Munich, 1989; Dieter Ronte, “Zeit-Raum”, p.18; Klaus Flemming, “Kraftlinien”, p.7; Achille Bonito Oliva, “Horus”, p.15 ISBN 3-7913-1013-5
  • Helmut Schober. Performance, drawing, painting, plastic projects, catalog for Sprengel Museum (Hanover, 1993), Prestel, Munich, 1993; Gert Ammann, “An Austrian Artist?”, P. 158; Antje Birthälmer, “Ideas of the Moment: The Drawing”, p.130; Hans Gercke, “The Mirror of Narcissus: The Work and the Plastic Projects”, p.73; Justus Müller Hofstede, “The Creation of Light in Painting”, p.152; Achille Bonito Oliva, “The garden of the drawing”, p.156; Dieter Ronte, “From Performance to Painting”, p.8; “Performance”, p.14; Karl Ruhrberg, “Meditation and Movement”, p.71; Manfred Schneckenburger, “Feuersäule”, p.68 ISBN 3-7913-1246-4
  • Helmut Schober. Light-Licht, catalog for Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, 1998), publisher Dieter Ronte, Electa, Milano, 1998; Manfred Fath, “Helmut Schober. The materialization of light ”, p.71; Hans Gercke, “Helmut Schobers Generatio III (1992)”, p.130; Helmut Herbst, “Between the Times (Impressions from a studio visit)”, p.106; Wolfgang Müller, “To the sketches”, p.145; Justus Müller Hofstede, “On the position of the red images in the work of Helmut Schober”, p.139; Peter Anselm Riedl, “The Cosmic and Existential. To the new pictures by Helmut Schober ”, p.49; Dieter Ronte, “Amadeus - Ten Thoughts about Painting”, p.23; Veronika Schroeder, “A conversation with Helmut Schober”, p.201; Elmar Zorn, “Painting of the Future: To Helmut Schober's Zarathustra Cycle”, p.81 ISBN 88-435-6439-0
  • Helmut Schober - Dimension of Time, catalog for the exhibition Mudima 2 (Milano, 2001), Mazzotta, Milano, 2001 (German, English, Italian): Peter Anselm Riedl, foreword, p.13; Helmut Schober, “Reflections from Letters”, p.19, “When the Wind Doesn't Blow”, p.37, “Monument to the Moment”, p.41; Veronika Schroeder, “A Conversation with Helmut Schober”, p.65; Helmut Herbst, “Between the Times (A Visit to the Artist's Studio)”, page 75 ISBN 88-202-1504-7
  • Tone-Line, Ton-Linie, Suono-Linea, catalog for Center Culturel Français de Milan, Bury Art Gallery and Museum (Bury, Manchester, 2001), Mazzotta, Milan 2001: p.9: Foreword Dominique Stella; P.15: Peter Anselm Riedl, “On Helmut Schober's Mozart Cycle” ISBN 88-202-1494-6
  • Turner and Schober - Two Creators of Light, catalog for the exhibition in the Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Bury / Manchester, publisher: Barbara Rose and publisher: Richard Burns, Mazzotta, Milano, 2002; Richard Burns “William Turner and Helmut Schober, Two Creators of Light”, p.81; Helmut Herbst, “On the Reality of Imagined Light”, p.109; Peter Anselm Riedl, “Light Interpretations”, p.19; Barbara Rose, “Schober's Cosmic Vision”, p. 9; Manfred Schneckenburger, “Epilogue, The Genius of the Atmospheric and the Painter of Light”, p.141 ISBN 88-202-1568-3
  • Helmut Schober - time without a beginning, catalog for RLB-Arts (Innsbruck 2003), Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG, Innsbruck, 2003 (German, English): Magdalena Hörmann, “Helmut Schober and Tirol”, p.13; Dieter Ronte, “The world is different”, p.17; Helmut Schober, “Time without a Beginning”, p. 25
  • Toscana immaginata, catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie der Stadt Waiblingen, Stuttgart, IKB Innsbruck, 2004, edition in German, English and Italian: p.9: Helmut Schober, “It all started with an ellipsis”; P.13: Peter Anselm Riedl, “Toscana immaginata”; P.77: Helmut Herbst, “Born of Memory”
  • Mozart Cycles, catalog for the exhibition “WA Mozart - Luce assoluta” (New gallery in the Höhmannhaus, art collections and museums of the city of Augsburg), “WA Mozart-Schwetzinger cycle” (Schwetzingen, pictures in the orangery drawings in the Palais Hirsch), “For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ”(Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck): p.19: Peter Anselm Riedl,“ On Helmut Schobers Mozart Cycles ”; P.53: Klaus Kropfinger , “Mozart's Picture Times”; P.75: Thomas Elsen, “WA Mozart - Luce assoluta”; P.89: Barbara Brähler, “A paradise for musicians. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Electoral Palatinate ” ISBN 3-931718-39-5
  • Lumen, catalog for an exhibition in the Stadtmuseum, Innsbruck, Edizione Mudima, Milano, 2008, edition in German and English, p.9 Robert Scherer, p.12 Helmut Herbst, p.20. Gottfried Knapp, p.36 Peter Anselm Riedl, p.50 Manfred Schneckenburger ISBN 88-86072-44-9
  • Helmut Schober "Orizzonti enigmatici - Enigmatic Horizons" Edizioni Mudima, German and Italian, p.11,13 Dieter Ronte, p.15,19 Peter Anselm Riedl, p.22,26 Helmut Herbst ISBN 978-88-96-817-07 -0
  • "Helmut Schober - Traccia di luce - Trail of Light - Lichtspur", book catalog for the exhibitions of the same name in the Fondazione Mudima, Milano and the Museum am Dom, Würzburg in Italian, English and German. Editor: Manfred Schneckenburger, “From the Energy Core to Light - New Pictures by Helmut Schober” pp. 11–23; Fortunato D'Amico, “Helmut Schober - Vestigia Solis” pp. 29–31; Helmut Schober, “Falke or Taube”, p. 33; Jürgen Lennsen, “Lichtspuren - Lebensspuren”, pp. 97–103; Helmut Schober, “Sahara Project”, pp. 143–149. 2014 ISBN 978-3-200-03421-1 Galerie Rhomberg, Innsbruck. Published: March 22, 2014
  • "Helmut Schober - Vortex", edited by Dieter Ronte, Edition Jürgen B. Tesch - Hirmer, Munich, 2020, English and German. Dieter Ronte: "Flung into the Cosmos" pp. 11–13 / "Flung into the Cosmos" pp. 15–17; Helmut Schober: "Notes on my Biography" pp. 141–144 / "Biografische Selbstzeugnisse" pp. 145–148. ISBN 978-3-7774-3436-0

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personal data
SURNAME Schober, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck