Jorge Machold

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Jorge Machold (born August 6, 1940 in Chemnitz ; † November 16, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German artist who was best known as a sculptor . His sculptures, reliefs and material pictures made of metal, wood and stone, like his drawings and embossed prints, are mostly abstract .

Life

Jorge Machold was born in Chemnitz , Saxony, in 1940 and spent his childhood there until the family moved to Kempten (Allgäu) in 1953 . After a molding apprenticeship, he completed a technical degree and worked as a designer. Initially, all of his free time was devoted to jazz music, which led him to the country's stages as a drummer in various bands in 1958. When he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1959, he began to draw and paint his first oil paintings.

In 1964, one year after marrying Heike Steen, West Berlin became Machold's lifelong adopted home. There he discovered watercolor painting , working with pastel chalk and devoted himself to graphic art . When his first embossed prints were made two years later , he spontaneously gave up his permanent position as a designer in order to be able to devote himself fully to artistic work.

Machold's interest soon expanded to include three-dimensional art. The relief pictures on canvas were followed by material pictures made of stainless steel, copper, bronze and lead, which were created in his studio in Berlin-Tempelhof , which he had had since 1972. In 1976 he moved into the tower of the former Zeiss-Goerz factory in Rheinstrasse in Berlin-Friedenau , which he expanded into a workshop and studio. It was there that he created his large-format material pictures on which he experimented with steel, copper, iron and lead. In every construction, the incidence of light was taken into account in order to create alternating color magic. The addition of dissolved metals resulted in surfaces that were sometimes matt and sometimes shimmering. Machold's material images developed into custom-made products such as floor-to-ceiling chimney cladding, doors or room dividers. In collaboration with architects, he led these interior designs, initially mainly for private customers, to a synthesis of space and art. Public contracts for representative designs of company headquarters, hotel complexes and shopping centers followed.

From 1977 water sculptures in stainless steel were created, in which the changing light effects on the metal are additionally intensified by the natural element water. Another main field of his sculpture were sculptures made of stainless steel , Corten steel , granite , marble and burned wood, in which the combination of material and structure as well as color and shape are compositional components of the work as a whole. An essential composition and design feature is the use of opposites such as light and dark, silver and black, smooth and rough or glossy and matt. This principle also applies to the numerous sculptures made of wood and steel or steel and stone, most of which were created in his studio in Lower Saxony in the second half of the 1980s .

In the Lüchow-Dannenberg district , he had a second place of work and living parallel to his Berlin studio. The large property belonging to it offered enough space for large-scale sculptures to be created. Machold was able to carry out several commissions for art in public spaces and art in buildings there from 1992. The generous open space at the house developed into a sculpture garden.

From 1973 Jorge Machold was at international art fairs a. a. represented in Düsseldorf , Berlin, Cologne and Basel . In addition to continuous solo exhibitions in various art galleries, in 1991 a. a. in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg . In 2008 the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz showed a retrospective of his work. The start of this solo exhibition in his hometown was a large sculpture made of black granite and stainless steel on the theater square in front of the museum building. The extensive bundle of works that the artist donated to the Chemnitz Museum's collection includes: a. a 1974 multi-part frieze made of stainless steel, Corten steel, lead, copper and canvas on wood.

Repeated stays in Japan , where Machold 1997 a. a. visited the Fude (brush) festival in Kumano and came into contact with traditional brush makers, belonged to Macholds like other study trips, for example to Iceland in 1970, to the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains in Northwest Africa in 1984 , and to the USA in 1995 and 2001 intensive occupation with foreign cultures and art forms.

In 2006 and 2013, in addition to working on sculptures, he once again intensified his occupation with embossing, for which he constructed a special printing press. The colors, which his material images obtained exclusively through precisely defined chemical reactions, were created during embossing by the color rubbed onto the plate and its tone modulations before printing. The deformation of the moistened paper by the artist's hand press pressure can reach a depth of up to five millimeters.

Characteristic of Jorge Machold's artistic work over almost five decades is the constant alternation between work phases that focused on sculptures and those in which primarily works on paper were created. The material images and sculptures pursued the same intention as the drawings, collages and embossed prints with minimalist basic structures and archaic forms of representation .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1967 Berlin, gallery biibobh
  • 1968 Vienna, modern art center
  • 1969 Frankfurt am Main, private gallery Dr. Hoheisel
  • 1970 Frankfurt am Main, Böckel private gallery and Siegel-Verlag
  • 1970 Cologne, Baukunst gallery
  • 1971 Amsterdam, Galerie Ina Boerse
  • 1971 Berlin, Galerie Bassenge
  • 1971 Cologne, CDH house
  • 1972 Berlin, Galerie Gombert & Meyer
  • 1972 Bonn, German Bundestag and Galerie Contra Club
  • 1973 Munich, Penta Hotel
  • 1974 Berlin, Galerie Nothelfer
  • 1974 Munich, Heseler Gallery
  • 1974 Willich, Löhrl Gallery
  • 1974 Düsseldorf, Achenbach and Löhrl Gallery
  • 1974 Frankfurt am Main, Dresdner Bank
  • 1975 Berlin, Galerie im Wintergarten
  • 1975 Cologne, Galerie Volker Wiegand
  • 1975 Bielefeld, Gallery John-Herden
  • 1975 Bad Zwischenahn, Galerie Moderne
  • 1976 Munich, Heseler Gallery
  • 1977 Munich, Heseler Gallery
  • 1978 Bad Zwischenahn, Galerie Moderne
  • 1979 Berlin, Galerie Nothelfer
  • 1980 Düsseldorf, Galerie Mensendieck and Commerzbank
  • 1981 Oldenburg, Galerie Die Form
  • 1982 Munich, Heseler Gallery
  • 1983 Oldenburg, Haarenufer Gallery
  • 1984 Stuttgart, Galerie Götz
  • 1985 Kronberg, object form
  • 1985 Munich, Galerie Heseler
  • 1987 Gfrees, Galerie Krüger
  • 1989 Munich, Galerie Heseler
  • 1991 Oldenburg, State Museum
  • 1996 Berlin, F + V
  • 2000 Jameln, Kunsthalle
  • 2003 Hanover, Galerie Schoen and Nalepa at the CeBIT
  • 2008 Chemnitz, art collections
  • 2008 Chemnitz, Galerie Weise
  • 2012 Chemnitz, Galerie Weise
  • 2013 Berlin, SNP Schlawien partnership

Works in public collections

Works in public space

  • Berlin (Sparkasse branches in Spandau and Mariendorf, Mierendorffplatz office center, Berlin mortgage and Pfandbrief bank)
  • Braunschweig (Public Prosecutor)
  • Chemnitz (art collections)
  • Frankfurt am Main (Hospital of the construction trade association)
  • Hamburg (Vivo Center)
  • Karlsruhe (St. Vincentius Hospitals)
  • Koblenz (Löhr Center)
  • Marktheidenfeld (Raiffeisenbank Vorspessart)
  • Neukirchen (Urbachtal Rehabilitation Center)
  • Potsdam (State Chancellery; Seminaris SeeHotel)
  • Ratingen (EBE)
  • Semlin (golf resort)

Literature (selection)

  • Friedrich Danielis: Catalog for the exhibition by Jorge Machold in the Modern Art Center , Vienna 1968
  • Jorge Machold - oil paintings ∙ watercolors. ∙ pastels. ∙ Embossed prints ∙ Plastics . Catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie Baukunst Köln, Cologne 1970
  • Jörn Merkert and Ursula Prinz: Jorge Machold - Embossed prints and watercolors , exhibition catalog, Berlin 1971
  • Heinz Ohff: Jorge Machold - Materialbilder ∙ Sculptures , exhibition catalog, Berlin 1974
  • 6th International Art Fair Berlin, Berlin 1974 , catalog p. 103
  • Ten years of architecture. Review of the exhibitions from 1964 to 1974 , Cologne 1974, p. 106
  • 7th Spring Fair of Berlin Galleries , Berlin 1975
  • Ursula Prinz, Roland H. Wiegenstein , Jürgen Weichardt: Jorge Machold - material pictures ∙ sculptures . Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 1979
  • Art in Berlin from 1960 to today . Exhibition catalog Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1979, p. 102
  • Printmaking - Changes in a Medium since 1945 . Catalog for the exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett in the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1981, pp. 120, 184
  • Collage-material-pictures-objects , catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstamt Wedding, Berlin 1982
  • 3rd Biennial of European Graphics Baden-Baden , 1983, pp. 59 and 334
  • That's it! Catalog for the exhibition 15 Years Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin 1988, p. 118
  • Peter Raue, Roland H. Wiegenstein, Hermann Wiesler: Jorge Machold - sculptures ∙ material pictures ∙ drawings. Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Heseler, Munich 1989
  • Contemporary Art 89/90 , Catalog Galleries Munich, 1990, p. 108
  • Hermann Wiesler: Stone and steel - gracefully rugged . Sculptures by Jorge Machold, in: Bilderleben, texts for modern art , Cologne 1992, p. 416
  • Hope against violence. For the exhibition of the sculpture project of the interest group galleries on Maximilianstrasse in Munich, Munich 1993
  • Think tank : Small art guide through the Seminaris SeeHotel , Potsdam 1997
  • Piepenbrock Collection: Color ∙ Form ∙ Signs. Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation at Gottdorf Castle. Exhibition catalog ed. by Herwig Guratzsch, Heidelberg 2002, p. 142
  • Bärbel Mann, Nicolaus Neumann, Simone Reber et al. : Jorge Machold. Work 1966–2006, Berlin 2007
  • Bärbel Mann, Peter Raue: Jorge Machold - Sculptures ∙ Drawings , Berlin 2007
  • Given, donated, acquired . Chemnitz art collections since 1997, Chemnitz 2015, p. 297

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personal data
SURNAME Machold, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2015
Place of death Berlin