Jürgen Brodwolf

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Jürgen Brodwolf (born March 14, 1932 in Dübendorf ) is a Swiss sculptor and object artist , living in Kandern .

Life

Brodwolf trained as a draftsman's lithographer at the arts and crafts school in Bern in 1948 . After completing his studies in 1953, he stayed in Paris and trained himself in painting. In 1955 he received a federal art grant for painting, settled in Vogelbach in the southern Black Forest and worked as a fresco restorer and glass painter. He received a scholarship at the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1968. In 1976 he was appointed professor for performing drawing at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences . This was followed by a professorship for sculpture (successor Rudolf Hoflehner ) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from the summer semester of 1982 , which he held until 1994. Since 1980 the artist has stayed repeatedly in Vezia in Ticino, which is still part of his second home today. Well-known students are Camill Leberer and Karin Sander . Since 1995 he has lived in Kandern in the former municipal hospital, which has become his place of art, work and life.

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Brodwolf grew up without siblings in an untouched natural landscape, and various natural objects such as branches, moss, driftwood stimulated the rich child's imagination early on to figurative and scenic design. The reference to archaic childhood impressions and archetypal idols continues into his mature works. In 1959 Jürgen Brodwolf discovered the tube figure , which from then on became his "monogram" and for which he is known to this day. The tube figures , which were triggered by the sight of an expressed and peculiarly deformed, figurative-looking tube of paint in the painting studio, are still part of his works of art to this day. The find can be seen as a further development of the ready-made. He has continued to develop the use of the tube figure over the years. This is how the first figure boxes were created in 1965, these are box-like works that contain various tube figures. From 1972 onwards, the artist created figures in a larger format by molding the figures out of lead and thus no longer tied to the given tube size. In addition, the first electromechanical puppet theaters are built. He increasingly expanded his repertoire of figures, so that in the following years canvas, cardboard and paper maché figures were created. In 1993 Brodwolf discovered the paper figure, which he still uses today, mostly in the same dimensions as the tube figure. In 1999 he created the first pigment figure and in 2002 he devoted himself to bronze with the first bronze figures. In addition to the tube, Brodwolf uses numerous other utensils, such as brushes, fabrics, stove tiles, etc., which he incorporates and processes in his works. Thus these objects lose their meaning and function and become part of his works of art. During all of his artistic development, the knowledge he acquired during his activity as a restorer, about the application, use and properties of various substances, flows into his works and creates the enormously wide range of variations in his oeuvre.

Origin of the tube figure

Jürgen Brodwolf's imagination was already stimulated in his childhood. He spent his early childhood without siblings and playmates in a still very unspoilt landscape, with bush and tree forests, pastures, moors and ponds and made this environment his personal playground. The artist himself describes the enormous ability from childhood to project or read human and animal beings into typical stones, woods, twigs, etc.: "A handful of driftwood at the river, broken tree branches, rotted pieces of wood in the forest turn into father , Mother, prince, king, witch, devil, dwarf. " As a child, the artist created his own playmates in the imaginative shapes, taken from his immediate surroundings. Later, the young Jürgen Brodwolf formed figures from tinfoil and played with them, especially during the winter months, in front of cardboard box stages and self-made backdrops. This is the origin of his later tube figures. There are about 20 years between the last stainiol figures and the first tube figures. The artist always remembered the childhood days with his created figures in the forest, which came to the fore when he saw an expressed tube of paint lying on the metal table next to his easel and in the accidental, unintentional deformation of which he immediately recognized figurative features, which the Ur - or corresponded to the model of his inner figure. At the age of almost 30, the artist picked up on the relics of his childhood figures and found his own individual language in art. But the tube figure should not only be seen as his "trademark", but rather as an archetypal, idol-like figure with the phenomenon of constant changeability, which the artist has been processing and processing in his art for almost 60 years and thus repeatedly into new types of figures got.

Awards and honors

Exhibitions (selection)

Foundation, endowment

The Jürgen Brodwolf Foundation was established on August 29, 2005 . It is based in the artist's studio house, a building from the 16th century (decay of the former ironworks) and former hospital and old people's home in the city of Kandern. In addition to a collection of works by artist friends, the premises also contain part of Brodwolf's life's work and are later to be converted into a museum.

literature

  • Jürgen Brodwolf and Peter Härtling : Twenty Transparent Sheets / Fifteen Poems , Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989
  • Jürgen Brodwolf and Robert Creeley: margins. Offset lithographs and poems , Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2004
  • Jürgen Brodwolf: Retrospective for the 80th birthday: From material to metaphor . Exhibition cat. Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Dätzingen Castle, Grafenau 2012 (with a text by Corinna Steimel)
  • Galerie St. Gertrude [ed.]: Jürgen Brodwolf, Visions of Memory. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from April 3 to May 15 in the Galerie St. Gertrude, Hamburg. With a foreword by Dr. Thomas Gädeke and texts on various groups of works by Anne Simone Krüger, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 3935855176
  • Belinda Grace Gardner: "The last portrait of Meret Oppenheim" - for Jürgen Brodwolf's 75th birthday; Catalog text for the exhibition at Galerie Levy, Hamburg 2007
  • Wolfgang Kermer [ed.]: Class Brodwolf: XIII [thirteen] students of the sculpture class Professor Jürgen Brodwolf, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . With articles by Wolfgang Kermer and Bernd Rau. Stuttgart: Dr. Cantzsche Druckerei, 1983 (first exhibition of the Stuttgart Brodwolf class with the 13 participants: Wolfgang Billeb, Peter Schmid, Matthias Kohlmann , Raphael Haber, Camill Leberer , Thomas Lepp, Ebba Binstadt, Oliver Heicke, Gerhard Weber, Jörg Siegele, Manuela Heinz, Wolfgang Otto-Merk, Franz Brunner)
  • Peter Martens (Ed.): Markgräflerland Künstlerland - la région des artistes: entre Friborg et Bâle , Schliengen 2005
  • Manfred Osten : Poems in the core . Word changes by Jürgen Brodwolf. Hamburg: Verlag St. Gertrude 2008 ISBN 3-935855-12-5
  • Theo Rommerskirchen: Jürgen Brodwolf . In: viva signature si! Remagen-Rolandseck 2005 ISBN 3-926943-85-8
  • Wieland Schmied : Presence and Eternity. Traces of the transcendent in the art of our time , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin April 7 to June 24, 1990, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1990; ISBN 3-89322-179-4

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Brodwolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [16]
  2. ^ Gallery Henze & Ketterer., Gallery of the City of Stuttgart .: Jürgen Brodwolf: Works from a collection 1962-1982: another example of private collecting as a source and inspiration for new collections. Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach, Switz. 1992, ISBN 3-906128-03-2 .
  3. ^ Gallery Henze & Ketterer., Gallery of the City of Stuttgart .: Jürgen Brodwolf: Works from a collection 1962-1982: another example of private collecting as a source and inspiration for new collections. Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach, Switz. 1992, ISBN 3-906128-03-2 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Brodwolf. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jürgen Brodwolf. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Stuttgart encounters: the Wolfgang Kermer donation . Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 to June 24, 2005. Ed .: Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH, Nicole Nix-Hauck. Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer, o. P. [8]
personal data
SURNAME Brodwolf, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubendorf