Jürgen Partenheimer
Jürgen Partenheimer (born May 14, 1947 in Munich ) is a German artist .
Life
Jürgen Partenheimer grew up in Lübeck and Munich. After attending the Icking secondary school, he began studying philosophy and art history in 1968 with Ernesto Grassi, Hermann Bauer and Wolfgang Braunfels at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1969 he crossed the Sahara and in 1970 a Columbus scholarship for Brandeis University , Massachusetts. However, Partenheimer chose the University of Arizona , Tucson, where he studied fine arts. In 1971 he made a trip to Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Four travel sketchbooks were created, which were exhibited with the artist's books (Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2004). In 1972 he received an invitation from the Spanish artist Fernando Zobel to Cuenca in connection with the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, where he met the artists Gustavo Torner, Sempere, Gerardo Rueda and Eduardo Chillida . In 1973 he was invited to the Art Department of the University of Arizona as a teaching assistant and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Return to Munich, continuation of studies. In 1974 Partenheimer began a doctoral scholarship from the LMU, as well as a research grant from the Free State of Bavaria for the Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He had a friendship with Carola Giedion-Welcker , who accompanied Constantin Brâncuși's dissertation on photography . In 1976 the doctorate to Dr. phil. at the LMU with Wolfgang Braunfels.
In 1974 Partenheimer married Annette Holzmann. In 1976 a daughter was born, in 1977 and 1979 the sons. He lives with his wife near Cologne.
At the end of the 1970s he moved to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a research assistant and curator at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf under Jürgen Harten , who later invited him to an exhibition in the Kunsthalle after he decided to leave the Kunsthalle in favor of unrestricted artistic work. In 1979 he had his first gallery exhibition at the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.
In 1980 he received a work grant from the BDI. After participating in the XI. At the Paris Biennale , he traveled to Ecuador and Colombia, climbing Chimborazzo in the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt. In 1981 he received the Canada Council Grant for Foreign Visiting Artists for a guest stay in Montréal, lecture at Concordia University and exhibition at the Articule Gallery. In the same year he participated in the XVI. Biennale São Paulo in the section “Nucleus I” and was invited to an exhibition with a lecture in Amsterdam at the De Appel Foundation . In 1982 Partenheimer received the NEA Grant (National Endowment for the Arts), New York for an exhibition at Franklin Furnace, New York and the exhibition at Artists Space, New York. In Düsseldorf the award was made with the Great NRW Prize for Fine Arts. From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a "Visiting Artist" and "Distinguished Visisting Professor" at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Davis. Partenheimer exhibited in 1984 at Leo Castelli's Uptown Gallery in New York. While in New York he met Jasper Johns, whom he visited in his house in Upstate New York.
After returning to Germany with a solo exhibition in the Kunstraum München, he taught as a guest at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1985 and took part in overview exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Kunstmuseum Bern and the Nationalgalerie Berlin (German Art 1945–1985). In 1986 he took part in the XLII Venice Biennale and was invited as artist in residence at the Glassel School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , Texas . In 1987 he was invited to teach at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He worked as an artist in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1988 Partenheimer had a solo exhibition “Metamorphosis-Homecoming” in the National Gallery in Berlin and participation in the international exhibition “Signatures” in the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent. In 1989 Rolf Wedewer showed the first retrospective of his drawings, which then went to the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen , Switzerland. The Fondacion Miró Barcelona showed his work at the first triennial of drawing.
In 1990 Werner Hofmann invited Partenheimer to an exhibition about his graphic work in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. In San Francisco in the Limestone Press the artist's book “Giant Wall” was created during an “artist in residence” invitation. It was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and shown in the 1994 exhibition “A century of artists books” at the Museum of Modern Art , New York. In 1991 Jürgen Partenheimer wrote his poetic manifesto “De coloribus - An attempt on colors”, published by Art Book, Amsterdam and Limestone Press, San Francisco. Between 1991 and 1994 he taught at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg and was a guest at ARTELEKU, San Sebastian. In 1993 he had an exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Städel Frankfurt under the title "Narrow Gates". In 1995 Partenheimer received the Madrid Art Critic's Prize for the best exhibition of the season. In 1996 he made his first trip to China. In 1997 he was a guest at the Institute for Research in Art, Graphic Studio, Tampa, Florida and then worked at Garner Tullis in New York on the series "Borderlines". In 1997 he had a solo exhibition of his work in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the sculpture “World Axis” will be displayed in the city's Vondelpark . In 1998 he made his second trip to China and opened his exhibition at the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern , which is also shown in the Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. In the same year the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe showed an overview of the drawings. In 1999 he had an exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, CGAC in Santiago de Compostela about the painterly and sculptural work.
In 2000, he was the first German contemporary artist in China to receive a comprehensive retrospective in the national museums of Beijing and Nanking, which was accompanied by an extraordinary response in the media. His sculpture “World Axis” will be set up on the outskirts of the “Forbidden City”. In 2001 the first German-Chinese symposium on the cultural dialogue between the two countries took place at the Kunstmuseum Bonn on this occasion, including Xu Huping, director of the Nanking Museum. The sculpture “World Axis” was exhibited for one year in the courtyard of the Gemeente Museum The Hague. In 2002, Jan Hoet invited Partenheimer to an extensive presentation of his work in the SMAK Museum in Ghent, where at the same time he published a book as "artist in residence" with the Ergo Pers publishing house. The group of works “Roman Diary”, 34 works on paper, was shown in 2004 in a solo exhibition by the artist at the Museum Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. In Gent, Ergo Pers, in collaboration with Cees Nooteboom, produced a book for an exhibition of artist's books in the Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg. In 2004 Jürgen Partenheimer was awarded the Fine Arts Prize of the Dortmund Cultural Foundation. Federal President Rau honored him with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, for the outstanding individuality of the work and his personal commitment to international cultural dialogues. In the same year he was invited to the 8th Philosophicum in Lech in Austria as a speaker. In 2005 he was a guest at the Copan, Oskar Niemeyer's most famous residential architecture in São Paulo, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut São Paulo, the Museum Pinacoteca Do Estado and the organization EXO experimental. In 2006 Richter Verlag Düsseldorf published an extensive book on the series of drawings “Römisches Tagebuch” and “Diario paulistano” on the occasion of an exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Pinakothek in São Paulo. In the same year Chris Dercon and Jürgen Partenheimer spoke at a public event at the Haus der Kunst in Munich about the group of works “Das Sao Paulo Diary”, about which the actress Anna Böger from the ensemble of the Kammerspiele in Munich reads texts by Jürgen Partenheimer. Partenheimer was a guest at the Nietzsche House in Sils-Maria for a work stay, during which a new cycle of works on paper was created, which was shown there in 2007 with selected drawings from the “Roman Diary” and the “Diario paulistano”.
In 2008, the IKON Gallery in Birmingham organized a comprehensive exhibition of Jürgen Partenheimer's works, which was accompanied by an “off site” project in Birmingham's “Perrott's Folly”. The exhibition will later be taken over by the Kunstmuseum Bonn in a modified form. From 2009 to 2001, spatial exhibitions for the Chasa Jaura Museum in Switzerland, the Kunsthalle zu Kiel and the Mies van der Rohe House in Berlin follow. In 2011 Partenheimer received the NIROX Residency Award for a stay of several months in South Africa, accompanied by an exhibition in the Nirox Project Space in Johannesburg and an artist book, "Seeds and Tracks & Folded Spirits", published by David Krut Projects, Johannesburg / New York. In connection with the “Schaustelle” project of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, a room installation was created for 2013 for the Museum Mobile in Ingolstadt. In 2014 Partenheimer received the renowned Audain Distinguished Residency Award from the Emily Carr University for Art + Design in Vancouver. In the same year extensive overview exhibitions open under the title “Das Archiv-The Archive” in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Deichtorhallen collection Falckenberg, Hamburg; the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Partenheimer lives and works in Munich and Italy.
Exhibitions
- 1979: Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh. "From image to thought image"
- 1980: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "What is your job?" (Cat.)
- 1980: XI. Biennale Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (cat.)
- 1981: XVI. São Paulo Biennial, Nucleus I (cat.)
- 1981: Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam
- 1982: Franklin Furnace, New York, "Drawings and Books"
- 1982: Artists Space, New York
- 1982: Articule Gallery, Montréal, Canada, "Monument Morale"
- 1983: Kunstraum Munich, "The Way of the Rhinos" (cat.)
- 1984: Westfälischer Kunstverein / Münster Overbeck-Gesellschaft / Lübeck "The place of the bow" (cat.)
- 1985: Nationalgalerie Berlin, "1945–1985 Art in the Federal Republic of Germany" (cat.)
- 1986: XLII. Venice Biennale, Settore Arte Visivi (cat.)
- 1988: National Gallery Berlin, "Metamorphosis-Homecoming" (cat.)
- 1989: Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona, I Triennale of Drawing (cat.)
- 1989: Morsbroich Castle; Art Museum Düsseldorf; Art Museum St.Gallen (cat.)
- 1990: Hamburger Kunsthalle "Vasts Apart" (cat.)
- 1993: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, "Horos" (cat.)
- 1994: State Graphic Collection Munich; Art Museum Bonn (cat.)
- 1997: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, "Cantos" (cat.)
- 1998: IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia (cat.)
- 1998: State Art Gallery Karlsruhe (cat.)
- 1998: Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (cat.)
- 1999: CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (cat.)
- 2000: National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing (cat.)
- 2002: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent (cat.)
- 2004: Pinacoteca Do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil, "Suave Locoura" (cat.)
- 2004: Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, "Gentle Madness" (cat.)
- 2004: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (cat.)
- 2005: Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy, "Roman Diary" (cat.)
- 2005: SLUB Dresden, "Künstlerbücher / Artists books" (cat.)
- 2006: State Art Gallery Karlsruhe (cat.)
- 2007: Pinacoteca Do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil, "Copan-Diario Paulistano" (cat.)
- 2007: Nietzsche House, Sils-Maria, Switzerland (cat.)
- 2008: IKON Gallery Birmingham, "discontinuity, paradox & precision" (cat.)
- 2008: Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.)
- 2009: Museum Chasa Jaura , Valchava "mimesis" (cat.)
- 2009: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, "Xenia"
- 2014: “Das Archiv”, Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich
- 2014: “Le Bouleau Volant”, Falckenberg Collection , Hamburg
- 2014: "Het Archief", Gemeentemuseum The Hague
- 2014: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver "The Archive - The Raven Diaries" (cat.)
- 2014: "Jürgen Partenheimer: The Archive - Le Bouleau Volant." Deichtorhallen , Hamburg .
- 2014: Jürgen Partenheimer. , Gemeentemuseum The Hague
- 2015: Musée Ariana, Geneva, Genève, Geneva etc. "Jürgen Partenheimer: Calliope" (cat.)
- 2017: White Cube, London, Jürgen Partenheimer, Lichtschwarm (cat.)
literature
- Jürgen Partenheimer: The imagination of accuracy. Irrawaddy. Fonts. Institute for Phenomenology, Düsseldorf 1980.
- Hermann Kern: Jürgen Partenheimer. The way of the rhinos. Fragments Part II. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-923874-01-4 .
- Thomas Deecke: Jürgen Partenheimer. The place of the arch, work on paper. Münster 1984, ISBN 3-925047-00-X .
- Jürgen Partenheimer: On tradition and vision in contemporary art. University of California Press, Davis 1985.
- Jürgen Partenheimer: Anti-economic positions. Provincetown, Amsterdam 1987.
- Jürgen Wesseler: Jürgen Partenheimer. The essence of things likes to hide. Art Book, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-71584-07-0 .
- Dieter Honisch: Jürgen Partenheimer. Metamorphosis-homecoming. Fragments IV . Berlin. Art Book, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 3-88609-258-5 .
- Werner Hofmann: Jürgen Partenheimer. Vasts apart - areas of order. Hamburg 1990.
- Milco Onrust, Hans Strelow: Jürgen Partenheimer. De coloribus - experiment on the colors. Art Book, Amsterdam / Limestone Press, San Francisco 1990, ISBN 90-71584-10-0 .
- Gerhard Mack: Jürgen Partenheimer. From the context of things. Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1992, ISSN 0934-1730 .
- Werner Meyer: Jürgen Partenheimer. Varia - pictures from a collection. Edition Cantz, 1992, ISBN 3-89322-474-2 .
- Beatrice v. Bismarck, Franz Kaiser: Jürgen Partenheimer. Selected texts. Frankfurt. Edition Cantz, 1993, ISBN 3-89322-539-0 .
- Christoph Schreier, Michael Semff: Jürgen Partenheimer. Prints and books. Richter, Bonn / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-929790-07-6 .
- Christa Häusler: Partenheimer, architecture and sculpture. (Hatje Cantz - Cantz series.) Hatje Cantz, 1994, ISBN 3-89322-284-7 .
- Dieter Ronte: Jürgen Partenheimer. About memory or the upside-down world. Richter, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-928762-35-4 .
- Rudi Fuchs: Partenheimer. Cantos, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 90-5006-122-2 .
- Kurt v. Figura, Uwe Schramm: Jürgen Partenheimer. The dispatch of the places. Göttingen / Dortmund 1997, ISBN 3-9803790-9-4 .
- Garner Tullis, Wolfgang Häusler: Jürgen Partenheimer. Boder Lines boundary lines. Richter New York 1997. ISBN 3-928726-83-4
- Juan Manuel Bonet: Jürgen Partenheimer. Cantos y otras mentiras. Richter, Valencia 1998, ISBN 84-482-1696-2 .
- Klaus Schrenk: Jürgen Partenheimer. Fragments. Richter Verlag, Karlsruhe 1998, ISBN 3-928762-86-9 .
- Miguel Fernandez Cid: Jürgen Partenheimer . Santiago de Compostela 1999, ISBN 84-453-2589-2 .
- Rolf Wedewer: Jürgen Partenheimer. Resounding shadows. Leverkusen / St. Gallen / Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-925520-16-3 .
- Fernando Francés: Jürgen Partenheimer. La caida del humo. Santander 1999, DL-SA-625
- Franz Kaiser: Jürgen Partenheimer. Architecture-Sculpture. Richter, The Hague 2000, ISBN 90-6730-118-3 .
- Dieter Ronte: Partenheimer in China. Richter Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-933807-56-5 .
- Jan Hoet: Jürgen Partenheimer. La robe des choses. Merz, Gent 2002, ISBN 90-76979-08-1 .
- Wolfgang Häusler: Jürgen Partenheimer. Hamish Fulton. Mindscape. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-9808494-1-4 .
- Hartmut Griepentrog: Jürgen Partenheimer. Gel water. Richter, Gelsenkirchen / Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-9808917-1-2 .
- Heinz Althöfer, Bazon Brock: Jürgen Partenheimer. The appearance of things. Richter, Dortmund 2004, ISBN 3-937572-10-4 .
- Maria Linsmann: Jürgen Partenheimer. Artists Books 1970–2003. Wienand Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-87909-848-4 .
- Marcelo M. Araujo: Jürgen Partenheimer. Suave Loucura. Editora Estação Liberdade, São Paulo 2005, ISBN 85-7448-103-3 .
- Klaus Schrenk: Jürgen Partenheimer. Roma - Sao Paulo. Richter, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-937572-53-8 .
- Jürgen Partenheimer: Copan. São Paulo diary. Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-925212-65-5 .
- Peter André Bloch: Jürgen Partenheimer. Metaphysical landscape. Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7965-2401-1 .
- Jürgen Partenheimer: Fractal thinking. Delicate madness. Moths literary bookstore, Munich 2008.
- Nigel Prince: Jürgen Partenheimer. Discontinuity, paradox & precision. Birmingham 2008, ISBN 978-1-904864-40-0 .
- Uwe Wieczoreck: Jürgen Partenheimer. The keyhole in the Chasa Jaura Valchava museum. Valchava 2009.
- Jürgen Partenheimer: Reality and Vision. The RISD occasional papers series No. 1. Rhodes Island School of Design, Providence 2009.
- Jürgen Partenheimer: The fifth direction is the middle. Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813781-1-5 .
- Baudi & Milco Onrust: Jürgen Partenheimer. Works-Renga. Onrust, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 978-90-76135-00-7 .
- Jochen Kienbaum: Jürgen Partenheimer. Seeds & Tracks and Folded Spirits. South African Diary. Kienbaum Artist Book-Edition, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne 2013 ISBN 978-3-86642-035-1
- Klaus Schrenk, Dirk Lukow, Benno Tempel, Nigel Prince: Jürgen Partenheimer. The Archive - The Archive. Distance, Munich / Hamburg / The Hague / Vancouver / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95476-046-6 .
- Anne Claire Schumacher: Jürgen Partenheimer - Calliope. Exhibition Musée Ariana, Geneva. Snoeck, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86442-147-1 .
- Andrea Schlieker: Jürgen Partenheimer. Swarm of Light , White Cube, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-910844-17-5
Prizes, grants, visiting professorships and honors
- 1970: Columbus Scholarship, USA
- 1972: Artist in Residence , Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
- 1973: Harlan Grant - Guadalajara, Mexico
- 1982: Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the fine arts
- 1982: NEA Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, New York
- 1982: Canada Council Grant for Foreign Visiting Artists, Montréal
- 1983: Artist in Residence ARTELEKU, “La caida del humo”, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Sebastian
- 1983: Visiting professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
- 1985: Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California, Davis
- 1987: Artist in Residence at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Mass. United States
- 1987: Visiting professor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam
- 1990: Artist in Residence, "Giant Wall", Limestone Press, San Francisco
- 1991: Visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh
- 1995: Art Critic's Prize, Madrid
- 1997: Artist in Residence, Institute for Research in Art, Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida
- 1997: Artist in Residence, "Borderlines", Garner Tullis Studio, New York
- 1999 Artist in Residence, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
- 2002: Artist in Residence, “A la rêveuse matière”, Ergo Pers, Gent
- 2003: Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo, Rome
- 2004: Prize for Fine Arts, Dortmund Cultural Foundation
- 2004: Federal Cross of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2005: Artist in Residence, Copan, EXO experimental, São Paulo
- 2006: Artist in Residence, Nietzsche House, Sils-Maria
- 2008–2009: Visiting Artist, RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 2009: Visiting Artist, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
- 2011: NIROX Residency Award, Johannesburg, SA
- 2011: Visiting Artist, WITS School of Art, University of Johannesburg
- 2011: Artist in Residence, "Seeds and Tracks & Folded Spirits", The Artist's Press, White River, SA
- 2014: Audain Distinguished Residency Award , Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver
Web links
- Jürgen Partenheimer - official website
- Jürgen Partenheimer Artists' Books
- Literature by and about Jürgen Partenheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jürgen Partenheimer | State Art Gallery Karlsruhe
- Works (artnet)
- The Roman Diary (Villa Massimo, Annual Report 2003)
- Portfolio
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition, accessed on August 2, 2014.
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , in English, accessed on August 2, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Partenheimer, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |