Joerg Eyfferth

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Joerg Eyfferth, November 2013

Joerg Eyfferth (born January 14, 1957 in Witzenhausen ) is a German artist and painter .

Life

Joerg Eyfferth was born in Witzenhausen in Northern Hesse. The parents were Jürgen Eyfferth and Krista Eyfferth (née Kratz). The father was a trained photolithographer and lived briefly in Hanau until the family settled in Frankfurt / Main. Joerg Eyfferth spent the first two years of his life in Frankfurt, after which the family moved to Hamburg for professional reasons. After leaving school, he trained as an electronics technician and then trained as a lithographer.

Eyfferth then worked in his father's company, from repro photography to lithography to manual proofing. He later took over the company; In the course of the associated modernization, he came into contact with electronic image processing.

Joerg Eyfferth, 2011, Karlsruhe Art Prize

Since 1982 Eyfferth has been intensively concerned with the further development of his painting skills and the autodidactic study of art history. Since 1993 he has been working as a freelance artist; he lives in Hanau . He has been exhibiting his works since 1994. In 1997 Eyfferth received the Cläre Roeder Münch Prize of the city of Hanau, endowed with DM 10,000, from the then Hanau Head of Culture, Klaus Remer. An exhibition in the museum of Schloss Philippsruhe was associated with this award. In the same year he took part in Art Cologne .

In 2006 he received the Main-Kinzig-Kreis culture award for outstanding artistic achievements. Since 2008 he has been working at the technical college for design at the Eugen Kaiser School. Eyfferth has been chairman of the Hanauer Kulturverein since 2009. In 2011 he was awarded the 2nd prize of the Art Prize of the Sparkasse Karlsruhe Foundation.

Painting style

Glas 225 ,
2013, oil on canvas, 70 × 115 cm

Joerg Eyfferth deals with the still life . He reduces the composition to what is essential for him. Shiny, reflective surfaces and glass form the starting point for his picture arrangements. The objects shown appear against an undefined background. Joerg Eyfferth is interested in the refraction of light in its diverse colors and mirror surfaces with their distortions.

Exhibitions

Since 1994, the work of Joerg Eyfferth has been shown in over 50 exhibitions, mostly in the Rhine-Main region, but also some in other federal states and abroad. In addition to a few group exhibitions, the majority of them took place as a solo exhibition.

  • Remisengalerie, Hanau (1994/2002/2004/2005/2008/2009/2010/2011)
  • Forum of the BMW branch, Frankfurt / Main (1995)
  • Museum-Hanau, Hanau (1997, City of Hanau Art Prize / 1999/2005/2007)
  • Norderstedt art district, Pinneberg (1997)
  • Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt / Main (1998/1999/2002/2004/2005/2007/2008/2009/2012)
  • Sparkasse Art Prize, Karlsruhe (1998)
  • Kunsthalle-Jameln, Jameln (1999)
  • German House Gallery, New York (2000)
  • Claudia Boer Gallery, Hanover (2000)
  • Sparkasse Art Prize, Esslingen (2002)
  • Gallery Supper, Baden-Baden (2003/2005/2006/2009/2011/2014)
  • Rice Media Center, Houston / Texas (2003)
  • Art Association Bretten, Bretten (2005)
  • Kunstverein Siegen, Siegen (2005/2006)
  • Galeriemarlène, Zurich (2005/2010)
  • Kunstraum 69, Hanau (2005)
  • Museum Giersch, Frankfurt / Main (2006/2011)
  • Gallery start-Hanau, Hanau (2007/2009)
  • Museum painter colony, Kronberg / Taunus (2007)
  • Heussenstammstiftung, Frankfurt / Main (2007)
  • Reinacher Gallery, Berlin (2007)
  • Sparkasse headquarters, Gelnhausen (2008)
  • Altstadt-Galerie, Speyer (2009)
  • Municipal Gallery, Speyer (2010)
  • Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bad Salzdetfurth (2010)
  • Sparkasse Art Prize, Karlsruhe (2011)
  • Kunstverein Neustadt, Neustadt / Weinstrasse (2011)

Participation in trade fairs

  • ART Cologne
  • ART-Frankfurt
  • ART-Karlsruhe
  • ART Lake Constance
  • ART-Fair Cologne
  • List Cologne
  • Art Vienna
  • ART-Santa Fe / USA
  • Kiaf-Seoul / Korea
  • Realisme Amsterdam
  • ARTHelsinki

literature

  • Gerhard Bott and Roland Held: Joerg Eyfferth “Mirrored Realities” . CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-928100-98-X .
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Joerg Eyfferth "Transparency and Reflection" . CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 2007, ISBN 978-3-937774-40-4 .

TV portrait

  • The still life of Joerg Eyfferth ; by Josef Kirchmaier, HR Bilderbogen, Juliane Hipp; ARD buffet

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the city of Hanau , accessed on February 20, 2014
  2. ↑ Website of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis Culture Prize , accessed on February 20, 2014
  3. ^ Website of the Hanauer Kulturverein , accessed on February 20, 2014
  4. ^ Website of the city of Karlsruhe , accessed on February 20, 2014
  5. ↑ Ulrich Gering: Mirrored Realities , Hanau 2003, p. 7
  6. ↑ Website Joerg Eyfferth ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 20, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joerg-eyfferth.de
personal data
SURNAME Eyfferth, Joerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Witzenhausen