Joachim Bandau

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Joachim Bandau (born April 18, 1936 in Cologne ) is a contemporary German sculptor , painter , graphic artist and former university professor.

Life

Troisdorf city gate by Joachim Bandau and Victor Bonato
Plastic tolerance. Equal Weight - Balance (1998) on the theater forecourt in Osnabrück

Joachim Bandau was born in Cologne. From 1957 to 1960 he studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1962 he created plastic works. In 1966 he was one of the founders of the artist group K 66 . He had his first solo exhibition in 1967 in a gallery in Hamburg. The following year the city of Cologne awarded him the plastic sponsorship award. In 1973 he received an industrial grant from the Kulturkreis des Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie . In 1977 he was represented at the documenta 6 in Kassel with motorized sheet steel sculptures on wheels, which he had made at the Daimler-Benz AG plant during his fellowship in Sindelfingen . From 1982 to 1986 Bandau taught sculpture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . In 1984, together with Victor Bonato , he created the Troisdorf city gates, which were set up at the end of the pedestrian zone in Alt-Troisdorf . In 1986 the Berlin Academy of the Arts awarded him the Will Grohmann Prize . From 1988 to 2001 he was a professor of sculpture at the Art Academy in Münster . In 1998 he won the Tolerance Prize of the City of Osnabrück . Its plastic tolerance. Equal weight - balance , which was donated by the Herrenteichslaischaft , stands on the forecourt of the Osnabrück theater . He also designed the memorial in the new synagogue in Aachen and the central monument Escape and Expulsion 1945 of the Free State of Bavaria on Hallplatz in Nuremberg (1999).

Among others, Klaus Dauven , Wiltrud Föcking, Zandra Harms, Jupp Linssen , Olivia Seiling, Gerda Schlembach and Klaus Schmitt studied at Bandau .

Joachim Bandau lives and works in Aachen and Stäfa (Switzerland).

Works

After studying in Düsseldorf, Joachim Bandau first created sculptures, primarily from polyester, which he reinforced with fiberglass, and from aluminum. His bunker drawings date from the years between 1976 and 1978 , to which he was inspired by the catalog for the exhibition Bunker Archeology by Paul Virilio at the Center Georges Pompidou in 1975 in Paris. From 1978 he returned to sculptures, for example made of lead over a wooden core or made of steel and cast iron. In 1983 he added black watercolors , which he paints with a wide Japanese hairbrush. Several of these works are among the exhibits in the Lentos Art Museum in Linz (Austria). Bandau participated in the first all-German sculpture project in Gotha with the sculpture BACH , which was erected in 1992 in front of the Bach family's headquarters in Wechmar (Thuringia).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970 Kunstverein Kassel
  • 1972 Nuremberg Art Gallery
  • 1975 Kunsthalle Cologne
  • 1979 Kunsthalle Kiel
  • 1981 New Gallery , Ludwig Collection, Aachen
  • 1987 New Berlin Art Association
  • 1990 Museum van Heedendagse Kunst, Antwerp
  • 1994 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kupferstichkabinett
  • 1996 Museum Ludwig , Cologne
  • 1998 Cora Hölzl Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2001 Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2003 Art Association Friedrichshafen
  • 2005 Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne
  • 2006 Couven Pavilion, Aachen
  • 2008 Galleria Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Lisboa
  • 2009 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
  • 2010 Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • 2010 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2010 Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg
  • 2011 Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
  • 2012 Nicholas Metevier Gallery, Toronto
  • 2012 artmark gallery, Vienna
  • 2012 Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
  • 2013 Pheobus Gallery, Rotterdam
  • 2013 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2013 Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • 2014 Artmark Gallery, Vienna
  • 2014 Super Dakota, Brussels

literature

  • Bandau, Joachim . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 64-65, 72-73, 78-79, 112-113, 186-187, 210-211, 228-229 .

Web links

Commons : Joachim Bandau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial in the new synagogue in Aachen (PDF; 87 kB)
  2. ^ Museums of the City of Gotha (Ed.): Sculpture Project Gotha . Gotha 1992, ISBN 3-923576-36-6 , pp. 116-119 .
personal data
SURNAME Bandau, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne