Heribert C. Ottersbach

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Heribert C. Ottersbach - Portrait by CV Dahmen, 2008

Heribert C. Ottersbach (born June 28, 1960 in Cologne ) is a German painter . He lives and works in Leipzig and Sörmland ( Sweden ).

Life

From 1979 to 1983 he studied fine art at the later Cologne International School of Design at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and German and philosophy at the University of Cologne . From 1983 to 1985 he stayed in Portugal, New York and Paris for study purposes and as a scholarship holder. In 1992/93 Ottersbach taught as a visiting professor at the Centro de Arte e Communicação Visual in Lisbon , and in 2001 he had a teaching position at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art . In 2003 he was visiting professor at California State University in Los Angeles . In 2007 he received the Wilhelm Loth Prize of the City of Darmstadt.

In August 2009 Ottersbach was appointed professor for painting and graphics at the University of Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig and took over from Neo Rauch in the 2009/2010 winter semester . From 1982 to 1987 he worked in a studio in the former Stollwerck factory in Cologne.

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Ottersbach's figurative , object-related painting has a conceptual approach, but he is not a concept artist, his pictures are not theses. His work focuses on questions about the status of art, the importance of painting and the role of the artist in a social context.

Ottersbach deals intensively with the history and the ideological, political and historical implications of modern art. He criticizes “ Anything goes, the specialization or ever new avant-garde attitudes of the modern age ” and instead calls for a new approach in the visual arts. He is concerned with the defense of contemporary painting against " entertainment painting - which then also turns out to be avant-garde ". Ottersbach contradicts the theorem that art became disoriented with the end of the ideological age after 1989. Rather, the time afterwards should be seen as a new freedom that should be understood and used. He wants to find out what can be brought back into painting after the formal and content-related restrictions of classical modernism. He counters the dictum that less is more, “ less is no longer ”. For Ottersbach, painting is a place to place mental processes in a pictorial and pictorial way and is also an integral part of contemporary social discourse, in which the present must participate if it does not want to degenerate into mere decoration. “ All this self-referential painting or art, which today has mostly passed into a nice, harmless and decorative dispensability, is a single opportunistic reflex. It is compatible with savings banks / government and office buildings, it is only boring and at the same time disavowed its intellectual fathers and mothers. "

Heribert C. Ottersbach demands that painting should appreciate and, above all, exploit and use digital imagery even more, and this with all the means available to it from the history of painting. Painting should also pick up on aesthetic results and the painterly competence of the entire history of painting.

Ottersbach paints failed dreams, idylls that cease to be idyll at the moment the picture is created. His motifs seem to be bathed in an unreal light, reminiscent of negatives or snapshots of a memory that is slowly fading out.

Since the mid-1980s, Ottersbach's works have been shown in over 100 international and national solo and group exhibitions. In 2007 he received the Wilhelm-Loth Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt.

Heribert Ottersbach is a member of the German Association of Artists .

  • Pixelpark 2002

  • Great forest walk 2006

  • Fortune seekers 2005

  • Education for abstraction 2006

Quotes

Ottersbach on painting:

“ Terms like ornament, virtuosity, mastery and also the narrative moment should be brought back on board. We should also remember the results of premodern painting in the 18th and 19th centuries. Mention should be made here of Delacroix, Constable, Turner and others. ... Because what counts is the result, the picture made, and not the intention, no matter how honorable it is! "

Ottersbach about his pictures:

“ I myself move with many of my images and image generations exactly in that area of ​​perception where memory and déjà-vu overlap with the visible, incidentally, as if by chance, by chance. Many of these people, rooms, buildings, situations that can be made out in my pictures seem somehow familiar. But: They are only projections - mediated images. Perhaps they resemble perceptual patterns and schemes, they resemble remembered images, but not themselves. "

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1998 - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, "Favorite place: Cologne", Cologne
Pessoa 2006
  • 1999 - Art Museum, Düsseldorf
  • 2000 - Senate House, University Art Gallery, Liverpool
  • 2002 - Mannheimer Kunstverein , Mannheim
  • 2003 - Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York
  • 2003 - Museum Folkwang, "Real Time 6869", Essen
  • 2005 - Museum Frieder Burda, "Bildwechsel", Baden-Baden
  • 2006 - College Museum of Art, Williamstown (USA)
  • 2006 - Museum Frieder Burda "Nouvelle Peinture", Baden-Baden
  • 2006 - Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf
  • 2007 - Kunsthalle Tübingen , "In anticipation of events" (retrospective), Tübingen
  • 2008 - Mathildenhöhe Institute, "Education for Abstraction", Darmstadt
  • 2008/2009 - Museum Villa Stuck, "Half of Life", Munich
  • 2008/2009 - Hamburger Kunsthalle, "Arkadia Block", Hamburg

Public collections (selection)

The 2008 excursion

Literature by and about Ottersbach (selection)

  • Heribert C. Ottersbach - In anticipation of events. Works 1995–2006, Hatje Cantz Verlag (2007), ed. Götz Adriani (texts: Durs Grünbein, Martin Hellmold, Elke Kania, Reinhard Spieler), ISBN 9783775719391
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach: Artist's studio of Martin Stather , Wienand Verlag (2002), German language, ISBN 3879097828
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach, Heribert C. Ottersbach and Maria Linsmann, Edition Braus (January 2005), language German and English, ISBN 389904147X
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach. Education for abstraction. Die Architekturbilder, Hatje Cantz Verlag (August 2008), language German and English, ISBN 3775721754
  • Heribert C. Ottersbach, Arkadia Block, by Hubertus Gaßner and Petra Roettig, Verlag Kehrer, Heidelberg (November 2008), language German and English, ISBN 3868280480

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b - HC Ottersbach, Painting releases its patients , lecture at the Institute for Art and Didactics, University of Cologne on November 18, 2005
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "O" / Heribert Ottersbach (accessed on November 4, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Ottersbach, Heribert C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne