Irmin Kamp

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Irmin Kamp (born December 21, 1940 in Delmenhorst ) is a German sculptor . From 1974 to 2008 she was a professor of sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , and from 1981 to 1988 also its director .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a shop window designer, Kamp studied at the Bremen State Art School at the beginning of the 1960s , where she studied painting with Karl Fred Dahmen , Winfried Gaul and Johannes Schreiter . With a grant from the British Council , she then studied in London at St. Martin's School of Art . This was followed by an activity as a freelance artist in Delmenhorst, Münster and Barrenstein ( Grevenbroich ). In 1980 she moved to Cologne .

Under Norbert Kricke , the director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, who was made aware of her by John Anthony Thwaites and from then on was her mentor, Kamp was appointed professor of sculpture at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1974. In the following 33 years, around 160 students visited their class, among them Volker Anding , Mathias Antlfinger, Christoph Büchel , Bogomir Ecker , Luka Fineisen , Klemens Golf, Gabriele Horndasch, Marcus Jansen, Bernd Kastner, Axel Lieber, Dirk Löbbert , Peter Mönnig , Wilhelm Mundt , Michael van Ofen , Heike Pallanca, Norbert Radermacher , Jürgen Schmitt , Simon Schubert , Ralf Streuf , Günter Thorn and Birgit Werres . Her experiments with various materials were known, in particular the use of plastics in the 1960s and 1970s. As the successor to Kricke, she became director of the art academy in 1981. In this function, she argued with the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Science about the Art Academy Act in the 1980s . Along with John Stüttgen she tried unsuccessfully in 1986 to preserve the fat corner of Joseph Beuys . In 1988 Markus Lüpertz Kamps succeeded him in the management of the art academy. From 1988 to 1990 Kamp stayed on the Caribbean island of Tobago for research purposes . She retired in 2008. On the occasion of the opening of the tour in 2010, Tony Cragg made her an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

In front of the entrance to the main building of the Düsseldorf Art Academy there is the phrase “Only the best for our students”, coined by Irmin Kamp. The sculptor formulated these demands on the academy during her rectorate. On the occasion of Klaus Staeck's appointment as visiting professor, students in Ulrich Rückriem's class chiseled this saying into the pavement slabs in 1986.

Works (selection)

  • Moderato Andante , 1964
  • Stones , 1965
  • Memories of (Reflections on) , 1965
  • Trees , 1970
  • Flames , 1970
  • Black Onions , 1970
  • Onion domes , 1971
  • Waves , 1973
  • Beet harvesting at Barrenstein , 1974
  • Black Mushrooms , 1974, reproduced for the 2006 Quadriennale , Düsseldorf
  • Bogen , 1977, based on a drawing by Fritz Schwegler
  • Greenhouses , 1978
  • Black Turtle , 1988
  • Black rock, Tobago , 1990, 2008
  • Large silver, Hommage à Kricke , 2008

Exhibitions

  • 1975–2008: regular exhibitions by the Kamp class , each with a catalog
  • 2006: Kamp class 1974 to 2006 , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2008: Exhibition of 15 restored works in the Seewerk am Silbersee in Kapellen (Moers)

literature

  • Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (ed.): The Düsseldorf Art Academy . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-422-07229-9
  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (ed.): Class Kamp 1974-2006 Art Academy Düsseldorf . Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-937572-61-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seed to the greater . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1969 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Art . Verlag AE Trost, Volume 9, p. 1186
  3. ↑ Stefanie Stadel: In a class of its own . In: Welt am Sonntag , July 2, 2006.
  4. ↑ Kunsthochschulen: Irmin Kamp recalls the words of Beuys. Expert criticism of the government draft. Committee report . In: Landtag intern , Volume 18, Issue 10 of June 30, 1987, pp. 3-4
  5. ↑ Katja Behrens: A happy class reunion . taz , June 28, 2006; accessed on October 30, 2015
  6. ↑ Tour: Opening of the tour 2010, appointment of the new honorary members of the Art Academy Düsseldorf and announcement of the new appointments for the summer semester 2010 . ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, February 2, 2010; accessed on October 30, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de
  7. ↑ Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. 2nd Edition. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-044-4 , p. 48
  8. ↑ Karl Daniel: Treasure at the Silver Lake . derwesten.de, July 24, 2008; accessed on October 31, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kamp, Irmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst