Johannes Stüttgen

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Johannes Stüttgen (2011)

Johannes Stüttgen (born January 24, 1945 in Freiwaldau in today's Czech Republic ) is a German artist and author as well as a partner in the Omnibus for direct democracy . Stüttgen's social commitment is closely based on the ideas of Joseph Beuys , e.g. B. the expanded concept of art , social sculpture , the German movement for direct democracy and anthroposophy . He lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Life

Stüttgen grew up in Lank-Latum and Süchteln and initially studied theology from 1964 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with Joseph Ratzinger . From 1966 to 1971 he studied with Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , who made him a master student in 1971 . In 1967 Stüttgen was involved in founding the German Student Party. In 1971, together with Joseph Beuys, he founded the Organization for Direct Democracy through Referendum . Between 1971 and 1980 he worked as an art teacher at the Grillo-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen , where he led a working group at the Free International University (FIU) / Fluxus Zone West .

Subsequently, from 1980 to 1986, he was managing director of the Free International University (FIU) and head of the former Beuys studio, "Room 3", at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since 1987 he has organized the omnibus for direct democracy in Germany as a partner and since 1990 the projects Business Economy and Art - Extended and Action and Basic Research Extended Concept of Art . From 1992 to 1993 he was a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg for the extended concept of art. Stüttgen lives as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf . In September 2004 Brooks University in Oxford awarded him an “Honorary Fellowship” for his work on social sculpture . The idea of ​​social sculpture was implemented by Johannes Stüttgen, for example with Kinderstern eV , which has been campaigning for children's rights since 1989. Stüttgen formulates the intention of the children's star as follows: “Just as real art can not be a mere glossing over and decoration of the prevailing grievances, which incidentally affect the children worst, the children's star is not some charitable idea that just wants to iron out everything that is in the Names of the world's ruling systems of misery. "

Stüttgen is linked to the events surrounding the destroyed Fettecke by Joseph Beuys and the distillation of its remains. Stüttgen has been holding ring talks in the Berger Church in Düsseldorf since 2011 .

Johannes Stüttgen is a great-nephew of the Prussian / Belgian sculptor Christian Stüttgen . His younger brothers are the visual artist Stephan Stüttgen (* 1947) and the puppeteer Christoph Stüttgen. Johannes Stüttgen has two daughters: Judith and Greta. His son Jakob Stüttgen works as a chef in Munich. Johannes Stüttgen is married to Ulrike Stüttgen (née Gaschütz).

Works (selection)

  • Social sculpture and the - again and again current - question of money . FIU-Verlag, Wangen 2010, DVD / Video, 90 min, + bonus material, lecture in Pfaffenhofen June 2009, ISBN 978-3-928780-45-2 .
  • The whole belt. The appearance of Joseph Beuys as a teacher - the chronology of events at the State Art Academy Düsseldorf 1966–1972 . Ed. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-306-7 .
  • The question of the meaning of technology and the 'earth telephone' . FIU-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-928780-33-6 (also as DVD, FIU-Verlag, Wangen 2006, ISBN 3-928780-65-4 ).
  • TO CAPITAL - When Chr. Schlingensief was looking for the invisible . FIU-Verlag, 2000 (special edition with DVD / video and screen printing).
  • The plastic eversion process . FIU-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-928780-04-2 .
  • Time jam. In the force field of Joseph Beuys' expanded concept of art. Seven lectures in the year Joseph Beuys died . 2nd, improved edition. FIU-Verlag, Wangen 1998, ISBN 3-928780-04-2 .
  • Free International University (FIU) - organ of the extended concept of art for social sculpture. A presentation of the idea and history of the FIU . FIU-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-928780-02-6 .
  • Similia similibus . DuMont, 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1344-6 .
  • Work of art referendum. The spiritual u. artistic background of direct democracy . FIU-Verlag, ISBN 3-928780-23-9 .

Web links

Texts by Johannes Stüttgen
Videos of lectures by Johannes Stüttgen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Stüttgen - master student and friend of the artist welt.online
  2. ↑ Johannes Stüttgen - Fellow of the Department of Fine Art Archivlink ( Memento from November 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Child star (manifest)
  4. ↑ a b Ulrich Müller: Joseph Beuys. Parallel processes. Archaeologist in an artistic practice . Hirmer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-6011-6 , p. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Stüttgen, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeseník (Freiwaldau)