Johannes Dörflinger (artist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Art frontier": the saint

Johannes Dörflinger (born April 12, 1941 in Konstanz ) is a contemporary German painter, graphic artist and object artist who became particularly well-known for his sculpture project "Art Frontier".

life and work

Johannes Dörflinger studied painting with Otto Laible and Georg Meistermann at the Karlsruhe Art Academy from 1960 to 1961 and painting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1962 to 1965 . In 1965 he was a master student with Hann Trier . This was followed by scholarship stays in London and New York, where he became a lecturer in painting at New York University in 1969 . From 1972 he moved into a studio in London.

From 1969 to 1970 he painted the cycle “The Eating Quartet” in Ireland and New York. In the years between 1976 and 1981 his series “Life Cycle” was created, in which the artist was “about embedding the individual in larger contexts”. It consists of 12 images that represent both the 12 months and the zodiac signs. Since 1980 he has created numerous pastels with themes from the areas of people and trees, mountains and figures or wings and people.

Polaroid images

In 1984 he created his “Vogelbilder”. They consist of overpainted Polaroid photographs; The starting point for all pictures were photos of a carved bird from the area of ​​the West African Senufo people . The series “Apocalypse - open” also consists of painted Polaroid transformations. Like Pablo Picasso , Dörflinger was fascinated by the old, illuminated Spanish Beatus manuscripts and alienated details from the leaves with his own objects, thereby playfully reinterpreting the fantasies about the last things.

Tarot series

During his stay in New York for several years, Dörflinger met American artists in the late 1960s who were drawn to the iconography of the tarot cards. The subject, especially the symbols of the 22 trump cards , occupied him to this day. In 1975 a first picture cycle was created with granolithographs in a dotted painting technique, in 1988 a tarot series with hand screen prints dedicated to Oscar Schlemmer and in 2002 the sculptures “Tarot - Models for Large Sculptures”, which ultimately became the basis for the “Art Frontier”.

Johannes Dörflinger Foundation

In 2004 the Johannes Dörflinger Foundation was established with its headquarters in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland). The task of the non-profit foundation is to maintain and research his artistic work. This is done through the publication of books and constantly changing themed exhibitions in Kreuzlingen, for example the 2011 exhibition "Himmelskörper cannibalisch".

"Art frontier": The magician (This sculpture is the only one in the water.)
Art border

In 2007, the city of Konstanz replaced the chain-link fence between Konstanz and Kreuzlingen with an "art border" consisting of 22 Tarot sculptures by Dörflinger with the motifs of the Major Arcana . The 6 meter high, red coated sculptures made of stainless steel stand on 2 meter high silver-tinted stainless steel plinths into which the titles of the sculptures have been milled in four languages. The sculptures are illuminated at night, the border is monitored by cameras. The easternmost of the sculptures is now the common sea mark of Konstanz and Kreuzlingen.

Dörflinger lives and works in London, Gozo , Konstanz and the Black Forest.

Quote

“ Dörflinger's tarot signs along the“ art frontier ”can be understood as an expression of supra-personal attitudes towards life and the world in an objectified form. They challenge us personally and in terms of content, in a rather playful way, because they capture the fleetingness of life, which we mostly experience as fate, in large, magically enraptured symbols. If we wish to deal with them, they form gates of transcendence . "

- Christoph Bauer

Exhibitions

Works in public collections (selection)

year Image title Art Dimensions abode
1979 Folder for pyramid Acrylic on canvas 81 × 122 cm Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg
1983 Ghammar Pastel on laid paper 69 × 101 cm Guggenheim Museum , New York
1984 Apollonian tree Acrylic on canvas 200 × 142 cm Museum of New Art (Freiburg im Breisgau)
1986 wing Charcoal, pastel on laid paper 69 × 101 cm Tate Gallery , London
1992 horizon Charcoal on laid paper 63 × 91 cm Singen Municipal Art Museum

Publications, exhibition catalogs

  • Johannes Dörflinger. Painting and drawings . Edited by Hans H. Hofstätter; Red. Jochen Ludwig. Augustinermuseum Freiburg im Breisgau, 1983.
  • Johannes Dörflinger. The mountain / Gozitan Mountain. Pastels . Fischer Fine Art Limited, London 1985.
  • Jill Lloyd: Johannes Dörflinger. Pastels and drawings . Döbele Gallery, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Johannes Dörflinger. Tree and bird. Charcoal drawings and pastels . Thoughts and reflections on the work of the artist by Wolfram Vogel and Hermann Kinder. Stadler, Konstanz 1989, ISBN 3-7977-0205-1 .
  • Johannes Dörflinger. Painting and drawing 1981–1993 . Hans Thoma Society / Art Association Reutlingen and Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen 1993, ISBN 3-927228-50-8 .
  • Hans J. von Büdingen: In Gozo. Johannes Dörflinger sculptures . Photos. Peter Hamm. Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1995, ISBN 3-7294-0220-8 .
  • Johannes Dörflinger. A monograph / A monograph . Edited by Siegfried Gohr. Wienand, Cologne; Gray edition, Zug / Switzerland 1999, ISBN 3-906336-26-3 .
  • Johannes Dörflinger. Imagery / Tools of invention . Editors: Siegfried Gohr, Walter Sauer. Wienand, Cologne; Gray edition, Zug / Switzerland 2003, ISBN 3-906336-37-9 .
  • Johannes Dörflinger. Tree idea . With contributions by Kathleen Bühler, Siegfried Gohr, Amelie-Claire von Platen. Johannes Dörflinger Foundation, Niggli, Sulgen 2006, ISBN 3-7212-0594-4 .
  • Johannes Dörflinger. Art border. Sculpture idea place . With contributions by Helmut Bachmaier. Johannes Dörflinger Foundation, Niggli, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7212-0677-7 .

literature

  • Christoph Bauer: Beauty and Truth. What is important to us in Johannes Dörflinger's work? In: Südkurier . dated October 1, 1996.
  • Siegfried Gohr : Johannes Dörflinger. Apocalypse - open . In: Crossroads. Annual font for skeptical thinking . Hirzel, Stuttgart, 40-2010 / 2011, ISSN  0048-9336 .
  • Siegfried Gohr, Bettina Rosenburg: Johannes Dörflinger. Art border. Viewing the sculptures . Johannes Dörflinger Foundation.
  • Waltraut Liebl: Johannes Dörflinger. The beautiful and the true . In: Bodensee-Hefte. 1/1990, ISSN  0006-548X .
  • Hans Price: Johannes Dörflinger. Alchemy and Landscape . In: the art. 11, 1986.
  • Walter Rügert, Andy Theler (ed.): From the border fence to the art border. The story of an unusual project . Constance 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-642-7 .
  • Fritjof Schultz-Friese: Johannes Dörflinger, creator of the world's first art frontier, celebrated his 70th birthday . In: Lake Constance Week. dated April 17, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Dörflinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Gohr: Image and Individual . In: Johannes Dörflinger. A monograph / A monograph . Cologne; Zug / Switzerland 1999.
  2. ↑ Johannes Dörflinger. Apocalypse - open . In: Crossroads . Annual font for skeptical thinking . Hirzel, Stuttgart 2010/2011
  3. ^ Rolf Eichler: The Tarot of Johannes Dörflinger . In: Johannes Dörflinger. Art border. Sculpture, idea, place . Niggli, Zurich 2008.
  4. ^ Siegfried Gohr, Bettina Rosenburg: Johannes Dörflinger. Art border. Viewing the sculptures . Johannes Dörflinger Foundation.
  5. ↑ Borders - Signs - Gates. To the "Art Frontier" by Johannes Dörflinger . In: Walter Rügert, Andy Theler (Hrsg.): From border bridle to art border. The story of an unusual project . Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-642-7 , p. 81.
personal data
SURNAME Dörflinger, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and object artist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy