Irmel Droese

Irmel Droese , née Irmhild Rodenacker (born May 25, 1943 in Landsberg an der Warthe ), is a German artist who works through improvisation of voices , improvisational theater and dance with hand -made puppets , through drawing , graphics , painting , sculpture , textile art and photography expresses.

Life

Droese saw the light of day as the fourth (and youngest) child and second daughter of the mechanical engineer Wolf Georg Rodenacker (1909–1995) and his wife Ida, née Lawaczeck (1914–2007). The father, who had worked as a development engineer for the Wolfen film factory from 1933 , joined Bayer AG after completing his doctorate , developing machines and design guidelines for their Dormagen plant. In 1965 he became a professor at the Technical University of Munich , where he set up the first institute for construction technology in West Germany. His daughter Irmel began studying at the Werkkunstschule Mainz in 1960 . She then worked in various advertising agencies from 1964 to 1969 . She then studied from 1969 to 1974 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich were her most important teachers. In 1972 she became a master student of Beuys, whose performative Fluxus art and extended concept of art shaped her.

During an activity in the artistic teaching post from 1975 she began her free artistic work, in particular with hand puppets and objects. 1978 she finished her school service and began under the name Irmels Puppen - the hand puppet theater on the shoulders own pieces as "one-person" - Perform puppet theater . She used language, music and facial expressions in her performances at children, youth, culture and street festivals. She addressed the range of human emotional states and included the audience as “co-creators” in the epic conception of her performances. From 1990 she worked on the Hekabe- Übergabe des Euripides and publicly performed her revision of the subject in 1992 in the movement theater Werkstattbühne Düsseldorf, which she founded . She creates her pictures and drawings with expressive forms and representations linked to the representational with pencil, colored pencil, charcoal and watercolor, as a woodcut, lithograph or photogram. She uses tinted and mixed colors in which clear, luminous tones set individual accents. She also worked with textiles by embroidering faces onto fabrics in “sewing pictures”. She created numerous works in collaboration with Felix Droese , with whom she has been married since 1972 and has lived in Mettmann since 1990 .

Works (selection)

Objects, pictures, photo work

• Serve , lithograph, 1985
• Mirroring , lithography, 1985
• Sunken City , lithograph, 1985
• The Wayward Child , watercolor, 1986
• Loreley , 1994
• Dancer , doll made of wax paper, sewn
• Lying doll made of wax paper
• Hare and hedgehog , pair made of waxed paper
• The heart of the potato , photogram, 2012

Appearances

• 1992: Hekabe , workshop stage in Düsseldorf
• 1994/1995: Voice improvisation, free improvised music in the Ensemble Peter Kowald , Wuppertal
• 2000: Ellida, the woman from the sea , Alte Post Neuss
• from 2007: Participation in various performances of the Wuppertal Improvisation Orchestra (WIO)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1978: with, alongside, against - the Beuys class , Frankfurter Kunstverein
• 1984: From here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf , Messe Düsseldorf
• 1987: Intercourse I – XII , with Felix Droese , Galerie M. and R. Fricke, Düsseldorf
• 1987: The Techne case , with Felix Droese, Kunstverein Kassel and Society for Contemporary Art , Bremen
• 1989: Irmel Droese - the stubborn child , Galerie M. and R. Fricke, Düsseldorf
• 2000: Eva in front of Cain , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
• since 2011: Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf

literature

• Irmel Droese, Mario Delgado, Carl Vogel , Ferenc Jádi , Karin Genoux, Gerhard Theewen, Peter Kowald : Line, Movement, Tones . Verlag Gerhard Theewen / Salon Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 978-3-93218-971-5

Web links

• Irmel Droese , autobiography in the portal irmeldroese.de
• Irmel Droese , biography and overview of works in the portal 2.bonner-kunstverein.de ( Bonner Kunstverein )
• Voice and movement improvisation: stop, where are you going? and further examples , videos and pictures in the portal irmeldroese.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Descendants of Johann Georg Lawaczeck: sixth generation , website in the portal lawaczeck.de , accessed on December 31, 2015
2. ↑ Klaus Ehrlenspiel: Rodenacker, Wolf Georg . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 21 (2003), pp. 692–693
3. ↑ Das Seewerk, catalog 2008, artist of the work show ( PDF )
4. ↑ The stubborn child ( memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 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. , Presentation in the portal 2.bonner-kunstverein.de , accessed on December 31, 2015 
5. ↑ Between love and marriage . Article from March 13, 2000 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on December 31, 2015
6. ^ Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester: Members , website in the portal wio-orchester.com , accessed on December 31, 2015