Johannes Reinarz
Johannes Reinarz (born March 5, 1920 in Bad Honnef ; † November 4, 2004 in Avignon ) was a German sculptor and painter from the Rhineland . He was best known as a founding member and chairman of the Bonn artist group Semikolon (1968–1988) and through his exploration of the essence of the "balustrade" (static building element) with artistic means.
Life
Johannes Reinarz came in 1920 as the first of two sons of the carpenter Adolph Reinarz and his wife, Cäcilia Reinarz, née. Köpp to the world. He spent his childhood and youth in Bad Honnef, where he also completed his apprenticeship as a painter and house painter at Neunkirchen & Walkembach with a journeyman's certificate in 1937. In 1939 he was drafted into the military and in 1945 returned physically unharmed from the war from Russia.
As assistant to the stonemason Anton Stockheim, he took part in the development of the Cologne factory schools and began studying sculpture with Wolfgang Wallner in autumn 1947 as one of the first students . In the same year he married Ingeborg Stein, a telephone operator whom he had met during the war by arranging home calls and who had fled from Silesia. He earned his living by doing odd jobs on the Cologne-Bonn Railway, replacing sleepers and painting freight wagons. After completing his studies in 1952, his first creative period can be set to around 1965. It was still strongly influenced by the experiences of the war and produced sacred works of art made of stone and wood for churches, monasteries and as monuments, which impressed with their sobriety and clear form. In 1960 the family moved from an attic apartment on Linzer Straße 41 from Bad Honnef to Witterschlick , Kirchweg 32, near Bonn. The family of six now moves into a spacious bungalow with a spacious studio, which he designed and largely built by himself.
In the second creative period from 1966 to 1988, as a freelance artist, under the influence of the social changes of the 68s, he turned back to love of life and community. He was the initiator and, together with Alf Bayrle , Christoph Fischer, Alexander Opaska, Franz Josef Osterloh and Peter Wartenberg, a founding member of the Bonn artist group Semikolon ; until 1988 he was its chairman. Together with the artist group, he designed his “ social sculpture ” according to the principle of Joseph Beuys ' “Everyone is a potential artist” , opened the private studio and turned it into a “cultural center” to give everyone the opportunity to take courses and develop your creative powers artistically under personal guidance. To this day, the Semikolon group is committed to this approach and offers appropriate courses and events for everyone. During this time, his artistic handwriting also differentiated, as he turned more and more away from representational representation, found abstract forms of expression and experimented with a variety of materials and techniques.
In 1986 Reinarz began his third and final creative period with the purchase of a small property in Provence , which lasted until 2004. Under the impression of the Mediterranean construction, he freed the “ balustrade ” from its mass existence as an architectural support element and made it an exclusive object of his personal attention. By giving her countless individual forms of expression in images and sculpture until the end of his life, he artistically explored her essence and thus created a unique image of the diversity of human existence.
Johannes Reinarz died on November 4, 2004 in Avignon and was buried in Witterschlick. He left a daughter and four sons; Titus Reinarz , his eldest son, successfully continued the family's artistic streak as a sculptor with his own form and expressiveness.
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The artistic life work of Johannes Reinarz is embedded in a basic attitude of humanity and anchored in the Christian virtues of faith, love and hope. He is contemporary and known to the Nobel laureate in literature Heinrich Böll and grew up as a Rhinelander in the small-town community of Bad Honnef, which shaped him Christian through Catholic youth groups and led him on a pilgrimage to Rome at the age of 15. On this trip, in addition to the general audience of Pope Pius XI, he was impressed by an architectural element in numerous buildings: the “balustrade”, which resembles a human figure in its supporting, rounded, soft shape. During his last creative period, under the Mediterranean influence of Provence, he remembered her again, and he took her as a model in order to give her a living, sometimes human form and to breathe a soul through his artistic transformation. Imaginative, bizarre shapes and funny shapes in different sizes were created, for indoors and outdoors. - Like no other artist, he was able to artistically fathom the essence of the "balustrade" and bring it to bear.
His artful “creatures” always bear witness to how he personally perceived, experienced and processed material reality into his own reality, in order to finally defuse it or give it back to the viewer as a true work of art and as a gift.
There were no limits to his imagination and he used numerous materials and techniques for his creations, so that their forms of expression are varied and cannot be assigned to any art style. Rather, they appear in their vital expressiveness and their organic forms as representations of his character and lifestyle, with which he speaks to the viewer and art lover. Quote: “Most of my works are created spontaneously, out of pure emotion without reason and causal connection. It is up to others to interpret me and my work ”. His works testify to an unbroken, child-like, playful joie de vivre and inexhaustible beauty of life as well as an erotic zest for life that never loses respect for human creatures and divine creation with a lot of humor.
A large part of the estate is in private and family ownership.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- Gallery Cross, Paris
- Gallery Blome, Wanne-Eickel
- Gallery of frames, Lüdenscheid
- EVBK European Association of Visual Artists from the Eifel and Ardennes
- Art Chamber Manebrugge, Antwerp
- SEMIKOLON Gallery, Bonn-Duisdorf
- Henkel Gallery, Essen and Düsseldorf
- Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago USA
- Gallery Koczorek, Mülheim Ruhr
- City gallery, Velbert
- 1985 on the 65th birthday of Johannes Reinarz, in the Hartberg cultural center, Bonn-Duisdorf; "EXHIBITION WITH BREAKFAST", in the house on the Redoute, Bad Godesberg
- 1995 for the 75th birthday of Johannes Reinarz, anniversary exhibition in the Hartberg cultural center, Bonn-Duisdorf
- 1997 “New Works” by Johannes Reinarz, Hartberg Cultural Center, Bonn-Duisdorf
- 1995 - 2004 Various exhibitions in Provence, which has been his second home since 1988
- 2005 on the death of Johannes Reinarz, memorial exhibition by the artist group SEMIKOLON, in the Hartberg cultural center, Bonn-Duisdorf
- 2010 Commemorative exhibition for the 90th birthday, Alfter-Witterschlick
Exhibitions with the Bonn artist group SEMIKOLON
- 1967 Aula of the district vocational schools, Bonn
- 1968 Founding exhibition of the artist group SEMIKOLON, Studio of the Beethovenhalle, Bonn
- 1969 "Graphics, Painting, Plastic" in the Kurhaus Bad Honnef
- 1970 exhibition in Villemomble, Paris; Cologne exhibition halls
- 1971 State Museum, Bonn; House on the Redute, Bad Godesberg; Forum food; Funkhaus Hannover
- 1972 Exhibition "Large Formats" and "Small Formats" in the house on the Redoute; Cologne Art Kaleidoscope; Children's forum of the University of Bonn
- 1974 Exchange exhibition with Polish artist group in Warsaw, House of the Artists' Union
- 1980 BILDSTÖCKE exhibition in the house on the Redoute, Bad Godesberg
- 1981 in the art center Krausfeld (today Women's Museum Bonn)
The list of exhibitions is not exhaustive.
Works of art in cath. Churches
Altar and altar cross, cloister, baptismal lids, Easter candlesticks, tabernacles and door handles are among others in the following churches:
- Cologne Höhenhaus, Sankt Hedwig
- Alfter- Witterschlick , Sankt Lambertus
- Volmershoven-Heidgen , Sankt Maria Hilf
Works of art in public space
- “Stadtstele”, Karl-Gatzweiler-Platz, Sankt Augustin town hall
- "Playing children", forest school, Alfter-Witterschlick
- "War memorial", cemetery, Alfter-Witterschlick
- "Cast iron balustrade", Rochusstrasse, Bonn-Duisdorf
- “Balustrade”, donation from the family estate to the municipality of Taillades , Provence
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Johannes Reinarz: Johannes Reinarz -Au commencement était la balustrade- 1988 events in 1992 . In: Johannes Reinarz (ed.): Illustrated book with text . 1000th edition. Self-published, Robion, S. 160 .
- ↑ Oral tradition of the family
- ↑ a b c Johannes Reinarz: Johannes Reinarz - artistic work . Ed .: Johannes Reinarz. 500, with 2 hand-printed serigraphs, 200 of which with 2 signed color etchings. Out of print. Only in the second-hand bookshop. Self-published, printing and processing Richard Schwarzbold ,, Bonn 1976, p. approx. 120 .
- ↑ artist group SEMICOLON: 20 years artist group SEMICOLON 1968-1988 . In: SEMIKOLON (Ed.): Jubilee publication . 600th edition. Self-published, Bonn 1988, p. approx. 60 .
- ↑ Elia Johannes Reinarz: Biography work on Johannes Reinarz . Ed .: Unpublished work, Waldorf School. Original edition. Gummersbach 2017, p. 61 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinarz, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter from the Rhineland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Honnef |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 2004 |
| Place of death | Avignon |