Johannes Kares

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Monument to Lotte Zimmer in Tübingen on Bursaplatz, 2011

Johannes Kares (* 1953 in Bazna , Romania ) is a German sculptor and painter .

Live and act

Leonberg Concentration Camp Memorial at the southwest portal of the old Engelberg tunnel, 2005

Johannes Kares studied from 1963 to 1972 Choreography in Cluj . From 1974 to 1978 he studied at the Academy for Theater and Film in Bucharest and from 1980 to 1986 he was a student of Herbert Baumann at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In the meantime he won a prize for sculpture from the “Forum Junge Kunst” in 1985.

He has his workshop in the French Quarter of Tübingen, but now lives mainly in Reutlingen. A large sculpture project was implemented with him in Pforzheim , and he created the monumental steel nameplate that is used to commemorate the concentration camp victims near Leonberg at the old Engelberg tunnel.

Sonnenstelle, Ehningen, roundabout Dagersheimer Strasse / Bühlallee, 2004

He calls his abstract sculptures "sculpture blocks". With the work of art sponsored by the Tübingen master baker Gottfried Gehr for Lotte Zimmer , Friedrich Hölderlin's nurse , he found it “difficult to create a sculpture for one person”. Instead, he had a “magical vessel” in mind, with a vertical “connection between heaven and earth.” It serves both as a “shrine of contention” and as a “place of reflection”, but it is, according to Tübingen critic Karl Corino , neither do Holderlin nor Lotte Zimmer fair.

Kares' large-format paintings exhibited in the entrance foyer of the IHK Reutlingen in 2012 showed sober characters from the alphabet and mathematics in black, white and gray, without revealing words or formulas.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs

  • Johannes Kares: sculptures; State Art Gallery Baden-Baden, February 1 - March 31, 1986. Published by the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden. Editor Ursula Blanchebarbe. Design: Gerhard Köhler. Baden-Baden: State Art Gallery 1986
  • Johannes Kares. [published on the occasion of an exhibition in the study gallery of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, June 7 to July 22, 1990] Bielefeld: Kunsthalle 1990

Scholarships

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Johannes Kares: Biography.
  2. ↑ a b Wilhelm Triebold: Confession before the Burse: How the city struggles with art in public space. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, July 29, 2010.
  3. ↑ Leonberg Concentration Camp Memorial e. V. (Ed.): Stations on the “Path of Remembrance”. The Leonberg subcamp 1944-1945. On the occasion of the inauguration of the concentration camp memorial in the form of a wall of names in front of the old Engelberg tunnel on May 8, 2005, 60 years after the liberation from National Socialism . Leonberg Concentration Camp Memorial Initiative V., Leonberg 2005 (brochure, 38 pages)
  4. ↑ Karl Corino: Cutter bucket with handle: Why neither Holderlin nor Lotte Zimmer deserve this monument . Schwäbisches Tagblatt, March 23, 2011.
  5. ^ Riehle + Associates lend IHK art from Johannes Kares: Alphabet and mathematics in the forum.
  6. ↑ Ursula Blanchebarbe: Johannes Kares: Sculptures : Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, February 1st-31st. March 1986, Die Kunsthalle, 1986 - 25 pages, online .
  7. ^ Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz - issues 605–621, 1986, page 21, online .
  8. ^ Johannes Kares: Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, [7. June - July 22, 1990], Kunsthalle, 1990, online .
  9. ↑ Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, archive of scholarship holders since 1979, Johannes Kares  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kunststiftung.de  
  10. ^ Working grants , 1988 , Art Fund Foundation .
personal data
SURNAME Kares, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bazna , Romania