Ingo Glass

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Sculpture Hommage à Vasarely (2006/2007) by Ingo Glass in Hünfeld

Ingo Gerhardt Glass (born April 9, 1941 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Ingo Glass completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca ( German:  Klausenburg ) between 1961 and 1967 , as a master student with Artur Vetro . In 1967 he graduated from the art academy with a state examination in art history and a diploma in art, specializing in sculpture. From 1967 to 1971 he was the curator of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Art in Galați. From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an assistant in the form study class at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest. From 1976 to 1978 he held the position of cultural advisor at the Deutsches Kulturhaus Friedrich Schiller . In 1978, Glass was the initiator and organizer of the first national exhibition of German artists from Romania . In 1979 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same year he turned his attention to the organizing committee of the first exhibition of Munich artists in the Galerie im Rathaus , Munich . Here he was also a member of the jury . Since 1980 he has been the curator of the Üblacker-Häusl (hostel museum of the Munich City Museum ). From 1983 until his retirement he was the exhibition designer for the exhibitions of the cultural department of the state capital Munich and the artist workshop Lothringer Straße in Munich. In the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Munich and Upper Bavaria he was engaged from 1983 to 1993 as a member of the board and in the Show Commission. Since 1983 Glass has been a member of the board of the Esslinger Künstlergilde eV, State Association of Bavaria, and between 1989 and 1990 first chairman of the Bavaria section of the Federal Association of Visual Artists . In 1993 he received his doctorate on Constantin Brancusi and his influence on sculpture of the 20th century at the University of Bucharest .

Glass lives and works in Budapest.

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Alpha + Omega (1987), Dunaújváros . 13 m high
Turm (1985), Munich

In his Danube project , which he began in Galatz / Romania in 1976 - his first place of work - up to 13 m high steel sculptures are placed along the Danube via Dunaújváros / Hungary (1987), Regensburg and Ingolstadt to Gundelfingen (1984) and Neu-Ulm (1998) a sign of the connection between the people of the Danube.

In 1992 Glass was co-author of the six-volume documentary on around 2500 visual artists in Munich and Upper Bavaria.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Glass was able to realize several monument projects in Romania: "Opening" - a memorial for the martyrs of the 1989 revolution in Timișoara (1992), "DADA" - a memorial for the 100th birthday of Tristan Tzara in Moinești ( 1996) and a memorial to commemorate the war victims 1941–1945 in Lugoj / Lugosch (1999).

Under the motto Let the spirit have space - give space to the spirit, there is a sculpture path with twelve monumental steel sculptures by the artist in the municipality of Vaterstetten . It was presented to the public on July 11, 1998.

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

The exhibitions marked with "E" ("AB") are solo exhibitions (participation in an exhibition). A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with “K”.

  • 1964 Casa Universitarilor , Cluj-Napoca
  • 1968 Muzeul de Artă Modernă și Contemporană , Galați E
  • 1974 Simeza Gallery of the Romanian Artists Association, Bucharest E
  • 1980 Gallery Glaub , Cologne E
  • 1982 Munich City Museum in Üblacker-Häusl E
  • 1982 Initiator and organizer of the first exhibition "Haidhauser Künstler" in the artist workshop Lothringer Strasse in Munich
  • 1983 initiator and organizer of the first exhibition "Banat Artists in the Federal Republic of Germany" in Landshut and Pforzheim
  • 1985 Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg E
  • 1991 Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm E
  • 1996 Viktor Vasarely Museum, Budapest; E National Museum, Bucharest E
  • 2007 Basic shapes and basic colors in space , Galerie Emilia Suciu in Ettlingen E
  • 2009 Abigail Gallery , Budapest, December 16, 2008 - January 16 E
  • 2009 Goethe-Institut , Munich, January 21 - March 13 AB
  • 2009 Galerie Abigail , Budapest, January 25th - February 21st AB
  • 2009 City Hall, Vaterstetten , March 24th - April 16th AB
  • 2009 Grünhaus of Stadtwerke Ettlingen , March 29th - May 10th AB
  • 2009 Städtische Galerie im Schloss , Ettlingen, March 29th - May 10th AB
  • 2009 Galerie der KünstlerGilde eV , Esslingen am Neckar , May 7th - June 13th AB
  • 2009 Göppingen District Media Center , June 20th - August 1st AB
  • 2009 MTA-MADI-Museum , Győr , Hungary, September 11th - November 14th E
  • 2009 (AB) Rathaus, Kunstkreis Graefelfing October 29th - December 18th
  • 2009 (AB) Kunstvilla Bad Godesberg , November 7th - December 13th
  • 2011 Touring exhibition Open Rooms in the Munich Künstlerhaus , April 15 - May 25 E, K / A22 Galéria, Budapest, April 29 - June 15 K / Timișoara Art Museum , July 7 - August 7
  • 2012 Traveling exhibition The Unifying Power of Basic Shapes and Basic Colors with Room E, K in the Kunsthaus Rehau , May 4th - June 10th / “Hans-Schmitz-Haus” glass pavilion, Rheinbach , July 6th - August 5th / Zichy-Szterényi-Kastell and palace garden of Count Velekey-Modroczky, Sárszentmihály (Hungary) / Galleria il Tesoro (together with Robert S. Gessner / paintings and Eugen Gomringer / concrete poetry), Altendorf , September 9 - October 21, 2012
  • 2013 The magic power of the triangle . On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Vaterstetten sculpture trail. Rathaus Vaterstetten, Lichthof, June 14th, 7pm, until July 4th E, K,
  • 2016 traveling exhibition on the occasion of his 75th birthday with stations in Üblacker-Häusl, Munich (April / May), E, K in the By Art Gallery, Budapest / Hungary (June / July), E in the art museum of the Kreisch district in Oradea, Romania, (September / October) E, K and in the Kulturhaus in der Wesselényi, Budapest (December 2016 to January 2017) E
  • 2018 Ingo Glass: Three forms, three colors - the basis of concrete art. Foundation for Concrete Art , Freiburg-Zähringen, March 18 to April 29, 2018
  • 2018/19 Ingo Glass: Formă - Culoare - Lumină - Spaţiu (Romanian for Ingo Glass: Form - Color - Light - Space). Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Exhibition Halls on Izsó Street, December 12, 2018 to January 11, 2019
  • 2019 Jakob Bleyer Heimatmuseum, Budaörs
  • 2019 Complexul Muzeal Bistrița-Năsăud, Bistrița , 4th July to 4th August 2019; National Museum of Art of Moldova, Chișinău , 8 August to 15 September 2019

Within Europe, Glass also showed its work in France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, and Spain. Outside of Europe, Glass participated in exhibitions in Egypt, Australia (Museum of Modern Art, Canberra), Japan, Canada, Mexico and the USA (Washington DC).

Working in public space (selection)

  • 1969 Sculptură . Location: Dunărea de Jos University Galați
  • 1971 Obiect spațial . Location: Hotel in Târgovişte
  • 1974 relief mural . Location: Tel Aviv
  • 1975 Construcție gotică . Location: Arcus Covasna (city)
  • 1976 Septenarius . Location: Galati
  • 1980 Structură monumentală . Location: Oberhausen
  • 1982 Uvertură gotică . Location: Old Botanical Garden, Munich
  • 1985 tower . Location: Munich
  • 1986 Gate to the Rhön . Location: Hünfeld
  • 1991 Deschidere , memorial to the victims of the 1989 revolution, steel, 10 m high. Gift of the artist to the city of Timișoara. Location: Timișoara
  • 1993 positive-negative . Location: Südstahl, Mertingen
  • 1996 DADA . Location: Moinești
  • 2003 Homage to Vasarely . Gift of the artist to the city of Timișoara. Location: Timișoara Sculpture Park
  • 2009 Gate to Serbia , steel, 9 × 5 × 5 m. Gift of the artist to the city of Timișoara. Location: Michelangelo Bridge , Timișoara

literature

  • Octavian Barbosa: Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani. Bucureşti: Editura Meridiane, 1976.
  • Claus Stephani: Grass and Glass. Two East German artists in Washington. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter (Munich), 49th vol., F. 4/2000, pp. 366–367.
  • Claus Stephani: marginalia. Introduction to the art of Ingo Glass. About the unifying power of art. Stations in Romania, 1941–1979 and 1991 until today. Book accompanying the exhibition. House of the German East: Munich, 2001, pp. 5–12.
  • Claus Stephani: Bridge over times and borders. Ingo Glass' stations in Romania. In: Banatica. Contributions to German culture (Munich), 1/2001, pp. 30–34.
  • Claus Stephani: The milestones of Ingo Glass. Lugosch - Mexico City - Legnano - Milano. In: Ingo Glass. About the unifying power of art. Stations in Romania, 1941–1979 and 1991 until today. Book accompanying the exhibition. House of the German East: Munich, 2001, pp. 14–15.
  • Claus Stephani: At home in Europe. Ingo Glass on her 60th birthday. In: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz (Bonn), No. 1131, May 20, 2001, pp. 17-18.
  • PZ: Culori și forme de bază în spațiu. Sculptorul german de avangardă Ingo Glass expune la Muzeul Țării Crișurilor. In: Jurnal Bihorean (Oradea), anul XI, no. 2886, June 14, 2003.
  • Ana Sălişte: Gateway to Serbia. New sculpture by Ingo Glass. In: General German newspaper for Romania (Bucharest), December 15, 2009.
  • Anna Barbara Ursula Thull: Anniversary exhibition in Budapest shows works by Ingo Glass. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich), September 14, 2009.
  • Oana Turdean: Ingo Glass (70) exhibits in Munich and Budapest. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich), March 23, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Ingo Glass  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sculpture Path Vaterstetten ( Memento of the original dated December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Konkrete-Kunst.de) [Some of the sculptures shown can no longer be seen there as of October 2011 or have been implemented.] @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.konkrete-kunst.de
  2. ↑ Ingo Glass - Vaterstetten Sculpture Path (World of Form)
  3. ↑ sevenbuerger.de , honor for Ingo Glass
  4. ^ Ana Sălişte: Temeswars new honorary citizen . General German newspaper for Romania , March 30, 2012
  5. ↑ Open spaces : Sculptures in the inner courtyard - Ingo Glass (Münchner Künstlerhaus)
  6. ↑ Ingo Glass: "CONNECTING THE POWER OF BASIC SHAPES AND BASIC COLORS WITH THE SPACE" , exhibition in the Rheinbach Glass Pavilion (City of Rheinbach)
  7. ^ Exhibition on the 30th year of Robert S. Gessner's death ( Memento from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), September 9 - October 21, 2012, Altendorf
  8. ↑ The magical power of the triangle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). Vaterstetten community, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vaterstetten.de
  9. ^ Ingo Glass: Forma - Szín - Fény - Tér . Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, 2018
  10. ↑ Ingo Glass , Muzeul Bistrita, 2019
  11. ↑ Galati: Septenarius
  12. ^ Ingo Glass: Tower (1985) . (World of form)
  13. ↑ ziaruldemures.ro , Locurile memoriei Revolutiei din Timisoara (in Romanian)
  14. ↑ convorbiri-literare.dntis.ro ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ȘI O DUMINICĂ "DADAISTĂ", LA MOINESTI (in Romanian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / convorbiri-literare.dntis.ro
  15. ↑ primariatm.ro , Parc de sculptură (in Romanian)
  16. ↑ Raluca Nelepcu: A city festival for young and old . General German newspaper for Romania , August 8, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Glass, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glass, Ingo Gerhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Romanian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania