Joachim Spies (artist)

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Joachim Spies (born January 8, 1930 in Berlin ; † March 2, 1994 in Marburg ) was a German artist and art educator and worked as a sculptor, painter, graphic artist and designer of glass windows in Marburg; he signed as Jochen Spies .

Life

From 1945, Joachim Spies, born in Berlin in 1930, lived in Marburg, where he graduated from high school in 1951. For his studies he attended various art colleges from 1951 to 1958 and studied in Stuttgart with Karl Rössing , in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka and in Berlin with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Huth , whereupon he was appointed master class at the local University of Fine Arts in 1958. In 1961 he went to Ibiza for a longer period of time , and from 1962 (until 1981) he taught etching and graphic techniques at the Universities of Giessen and Frankfurt. From 1975 to 1992 he was professor of artistic principles in the architecture department at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, interrupted by a research semester in 1986/87, which he spent in the lagoon city on the subject of “The Venice Ghetto”. In 1994 he died in Marburg.

Works

  • 1963: Design for a window of the Heresbach chapel in the cath. St. Willibrod Cathedral in Wesel
  • 1965/69: Design for a cast bronze altar cross in the Protestant church in Sorga near Bad Hersfeld
  • 1967/68: Design for glass windows in the Protestant church in Bronnzell near Fulda
  • 1967/68: Design for glass windows, wall design and a relief in the Protestant Martinskirche in Bad Hersfeld
  • 1970/71: Design for stained glass windows for the Evangelical St. Luke Church in Reinhardshausen
  • 1972: Design for a glass window for the Protestant church in Heringen

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1969: Marburg, University Museum
  • 1970: Munich, Galerie Dürr
  • 1975: Bonn, Federal Ministry of Justice
  • 1980: Marburg, University Museum
  • 1981: Gießen, Museum of the City of Gießen
  • 1981–82: Cologne, Theater am Dom
  • 1983: Wetzlar, town house by the cathedral
  • 1984: Meersburg, baroque palace
  • 1985: Hanover, AGF exhibition pavilion
  • 1985: Venice, Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca
  • 1986: Hanover, AGF exhibition pavilion
  • 1987: Darmstadt, gallery in the ink district
  • 1988: Hanover, AGF exhibition pavilion
  • 1988: Konstanz, gallery in the town hall
  • 1989: Tecklenburg, Städt. Art gallery
  • 1989: Kassel, Galerie Kausch
  • 1989: Aabenraa, German Central Library
  • 1989: Gießen, Upper Hessian Museum
  • 1989: Tel Aviv, Beit Ariela
  • 1990: Jerusalem, Institute for Research of Italy Jewry
  • 1990: Celle, Municipal Museum
  • 1990: Marburg, Labor Court
  • 1993: Marburg, University Museum
  • 2005/06 Marburg, Labor Court

literature

  • Exhibition cat. 1970: Joachim Spies (small work catalog), with an introduction by Horst Schwebel, Marburg, 1970.
  • Exhibition cat. 1970: Joachim Spies, Chr.Dürr Gallery, Munich, 1970.
  • Exhibition cat. 1993: Joachim Spies - graphics, Marburg, 1993.
  • Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at Cologne University of Applied Sciences Part I / The alumni. Edited on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or faculty for architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 171 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Spies, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spies, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1994
Place of death Marburg