Joachim Feldmeier

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Joachim Feldmeier (born January 28, 1949 in Altenstadt (Iller) ) is a contemporary German painter , graphic artist and wood cutter .

Life / career

Joachim Feldmeier was born on January 28, 1949 in Altenstadt (Iller). At the Staatliche Gymnasium Kaufbeuren he obtained the general university entrance qualification in 1968. By 1970 he completed his military service. From 1970 to 1972 Feldmeier studied at the University of Munich. In 1974 he passed the state examination for teaching. From 1974 to 2014 Joachim Feldmeier taught art education, crafts and technical drawing at the Sophie-La-Roche-Realschule Kaufbeuren. From 1986 intensive training and teaching in CAD , later also in computer science . Since 1993 he has been living and working in Fuchstal / Bavaria.

Work / work

Contrasts I, 2004

Joachim Feldmeier worked as a painter and graphic artist with a wide variety of pictorial techniques. Since 1983 he has limited himself to printmaking processes and has worked exclusively as a wood cutter since then. He dedicates himself intensively to his artistic projects, examines his intentions in depth and explores motifs, mostly in extensive series. His works are purely intuitive and visual art, the capture of a fleeting situation, the connection between instantaneousness and duration, blurriness and shape, color and form.

Artistic peculiarity

The Enlightened One, 2007

Joachim Feldmeier works with the "lost plate" and the "woodcut with several printing blocks" for the woodcut. In the "lost plate" process, the woodcut is made from a single printing block by cutting away the last color printed. The number of copies is determined with the first color. Repeated cutting away and printing with other colors creates further states of the printing block. Earlier states are "lost" and can therefore not be reprinted. In the “woodcut with several printing blocks”, the artist cuts a separate printing block for each printing color. By combining these two possibilities, he uses up to 15 printing blocks for a woodcut. Joachim Feldmeier prints his sheets with transparent colors, thus achieving an unusually painterly effect for a woodcut.

Joachim Feldmeier designed the computer-aided woodcut. He calls this process CAW ( C omputer A ided W oodcut) = Computer-Aided Woodcut . He has some of the printing blocks processed by a CNC-controlled machine. First publications appeared in 1997 in the "Augsburger Allgemeine". Other artists are now using this technique.

Exhibitions

  • 1997: Special show and printing demonstration woodcut, Messe Düsseldorf trade fair art multiple, Düsseldorf
  • 2000: Special show Forces of Nature - Forces of Nature, Messe Frankfurt Fachmesse Gallery, Frankfurt
  • 2002: A természet HATALMA - The power of nature, Kunsthalle Szombathely , Szombathely, Hungary
  • 2002: Forces of Nature, Heylshof , Worms
  • 2006: Forces of Nature, Museum Schloss Lackenbach , Lackenbach, Austria
  • 2007: Forces of Nature - Forces of Nature, Forum Mindelheim , Mindelheim

Works

Fukushima 17, 2011

Joachim Feldmeier can look back on an extensive oeuvre. In his catalog raisonné there are currently 2070 woodcuts listed, Wvz-Nr. H0001 to H2070 (current status May 2016). These are iridescent hand prints in small editions. The back of the print shows a slight embossing, which is a typical feature of manual letterpress printing. All sheets are hand-signed and cannot be reprinted. Almost all of them are elaborate color woodcuts from several printing plates. These include 80 series with 12 or 24 motifs each.

  • Tropica. Portfolio with 12 woodcuts 1995.
  • Chronology of an hour. Portfolio with 12 woodcuts 1998.
  • Forces of nature - forces of nature. 56-part woodcut on canvas (unique).

Works in public collections

Wildes, 2008

Works by Joachim Feldmeier are represented in the following collections:

Image series Impression Glass (2009)

  • Impression glass I

  • Impression glass II

  • Impression glass III

  • Impression glass IV

  • Impression glass V

  • Impression glass VI

  • Impression glass VII

  • Impression glass VIII

Film contribution

  • Bayerischer Rundfunk: Joachim Feldmeier - woodcuts with the computer. Film by Winfried Parkinson. Duration 15 minutes. First broadcast in the program "Between Spessart and Karwendel", 1999

Individual evidence

Wild Coast, 2001
  • Trade magazine "Graphische Kunst", issue 47, 1996
  • Trade journal "Graphic Art", issue 51, 1998
  • Catalog for the exhibition in the Kleiner Schloss Türkheim, 1999
  • Trade magazine "Graphische Kunst", issue 55, 2000
  • Specialist magazine "Artprofil", issue 33, 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Feldmeier, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenstadt / Iller