Sepp Bögle

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Sepp Bögle signs his book Encounters

Sepp Bögle (as Josef Bögle * 1950 in Luttingen ) is a German visual artist and author .

Life

Sepp Bögle in action (June 2011)

Sepp Bögle was born in 1950 as a working-class child and grew up as Josef Bögle with his three brothers and three sisters in Luttingen , a district of Laufenburg since 1972 .

As a temporary dropout , he gained his first experience at the age of 20 when he traveled to Greece and India by backpack and bicycle . Bögle learned the trade of industrial clerk in Bad Säckingen . At 23, he quit his job there and went on a tour of Asia for more than a year . From 1973 he completed a second apprenticeship as a cook in Gundelfingen near Freiburg . In the 1970s, adventure trips took him to India and Turkey . Third station Bögles was working as a traveling salesman for cooking pots in direct sales . He had two children, a son and a daughter with a Japanese woman whom he met on a long trip to Southeast Asia while staying on the Indonesian island of Bali in Singapore and who he married in Dogern in 1980 . But the marriage finally failed, and after the sale of the common home in Meßkirch , he moved with his daughter to Radolfzell on Lake Constance and moved into an apartment with her, while the couple's son had already left his parents' house and was studying.

When the daughter went to Munich to study , Bögle, who despite his professional and economic success and social advancement was deeply dissatisfied with his life situation due to the lack of opportunity to satisfy his emotional needs, decided to make a radical change, which he considered the beginning of a second In life: he gave up his previous job and reduced his belongings to two suitcases in order to work as a stone artist on the lakeshore in Radolfzell, the fourth and so far last station. Since then, in order to clearly distinguish his new existence as an artist from the old one, whose bourgeois conventions and goals in life he left behind, he has only used the stage name Sepp Bögle. His official postal address has been : Sepp Bögle, An der Mole, last tree, D-78315 Radolfzell , since 1997 . From April to October he lives in a Radolfzell hotel and can be found at the pier of the marina , from October to April he lives on the Canary Island of Lanzarote , where he uses a holiday apartment .

Stone art as the art of living

Arrangement with various stone sculptures
Arrangement with various stone sculptures
Stone sculpture June 2011
Stone sculpture June 2011
Stone sculpture June 2011
Stone sculpture June 2011

Since 1997 Sepp Bögle designed to Radolfzeller pier towers, which he made at the bank collected arbitrarily and without adhesive or anchors one above the other to balance erected placed stones. Every day, stone sculptures are created from up to five stones of different types , sizes , shapes and weights that are always unprocessed as objects trouvés , which are paradoxically kept in balance by gravity alone , although they are due to the underlying design principle of minimizing the Support surface whose laws seem to mock. Every evening, for safety reasons alone, he takes it down again and then reassembles it the next day in a different shape. In Lanzarote he erects his stone towers on a hotel beach .

According to Bögle, the impermanence of his works of art in the tradition of action art and performance art does not see them as a disadvantage, and certainly not as a questioning of their quality as works of art, on the contrary: they correspond to that of human life and draw the viewer's attention to this and the necessity to accept them. Bögle looks at his ephemeral works of art, which overcome their heaviness and clumsiness, allow the stones to reach the lightness of a state of suspension, but can also be brought to collapse by the slightest external influences such as a gust of wind or a landing bird, without even using such abstract terms use, as allegories of human life and thus as suitable means of expression of his pantheistic , cosmo - erotic , ascetic and autonomistic view of life and the world, the numerous points of contact with the so - called philosophy of life , but also with the ancient philosophy of the Stoa , Buddhism and yoga having. His works of art show that what seems impossible, a state of calm, harmony, freedom from stress and fear, becomes possible if you only want to and go to work with courage, self-confidence, perseverance and patience. Instead of creating a permanent work and the supposedly to achieve perpetuation of himself and his fame as an artist, Bögle is concerned with the process of his artistic activity, which he consciously relocates from the studio to the public space , instead of spontaneous contact and encounter To enable only the elite of art connoisseurs, museum and gallery visitors with everyday people of all kinds, who feel attracted by his work and his astonishing creations and with whom he comes into conversation. With his interlocutors, he consistently uses the Duke, avoiding any possible hierarchical claim on both sides. The recognition of limitation, the renunciation of the unnecessary, the loving acceptance of oneself without taking oneself too seriously, and the only possible sympathetic turn to simple things, people and animals would have a liberating and calming effect and lead to complete serenity . For this it is important to gain the absolute trust in being able to shape and change one's life autonomously and to awaken one's own hidden abilities. Bögle considers the world as it is to be well-ordered, beautiful and good, fears and worries are unfounded, because: God sleeps in stone / breathes in plants / dreams in animals / and awakens in people ". Therefore, man creates all problems himself through wrong attitudes and objectives, which he however has unlimited freedom to change or give up at any time . Bögle expresses this message with his works of art, photographs, texts and in conversation and gently promotes dealing with it and drawing consequences for one's own life and making decisions that lead to significant changes.

Bögle's conception of art, which is based on the dissolution of the classical concept of work, i.e. the idea of ​​the self-contained, perfect, immortal and absolute masterpiece, in favor of the merging of life and work in the creative process, i.e. a strived for unity of art and the art of living in aesthetic execution How she, as one of the first Pablo Picasso , endeavored to realize with his serial variations of certain pictorial themes , such as painter and model , is by no means within modern art, whether in conscious reference to such tendencies or rather through their intuitive reception isolated there. Bögle said he was inspired to work with natural materials and the photographic documentation of his ephemeral works of art by the work of the Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy , an important representative of the so-called land art movement. In this respect, there are also references to art movements such as Landart (also Earthart), environmental art (Enviromental Art), ecological art (Ecoart) and natural art (Natural Art), for which, as for Bögle, a more or less elaborate philosophical and ethical, sometimes The political background is also characteristic, which is culturally critical against the materialism of the western capitalist consumer society and the destructive (destructive) and auto-destructive (self-destructive) effects of the exploitation , alienation , emotional desolation , distant nature, environmental pollution and environmental destruction that it promotes. The meaning of artistic activity is seen here not only in the creation of objects of aesthetic perception, but in the development of a force that changes people and the world using the means and media of art.

"The sculptures are a symbol for life itself, its beauty and its dangers."

- Wolfgang Messner : Sepp Bögle, stone and life artist from Radolfzell. The Diogenes from Lake Constance has prepared for each one wisdom

So far Bögle has published seven illustrated books, mostly with his own texts and self-made photographic reproductions of his transitory works of art. One bears the programmatic title Ruf der Steine (under the speaking pseudonym Peter Steiner), another is ambiguous Balance . In addition, there are individual reproductions, with the sale of which he mainly earns his living and finances his flights to Lanzarote. Royalties from book sales only earn him extra income.

In addition to Bögle, there are two other representatives of stone art with Axel Reinhard Böhme and Volker Paul at Lake Constance.

Bögle in the media

Sepp Bögle was reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , among others , and in 2002 he was a guest on the ZDF program “Mensch und Umwelt”. This was followed by an appearance in October 2005 as a talk show guest on the SWR - “Nachtcafé”, and another in March 2015. In September 2012 he was a guest on the SWR's Baden-Württemberg show. Franz Xaver Gernstl from Bayerischer Rundfunk dedicated a portrait to him in his “Deutschlandreise” in the episode “From Basel to Lake Constance”, broadcast on September 28, 2008.

Literary and photographic work

all books self-published and available from the author and from the Greuter bookstore in Radolfzell

  • The bricks from Lake Constance
  • Peter Steiner (that's Josef Bögle): Call of the stones
  • Simply being (also as an audio book)
  • Balance (with poetry by Rose Deroussas )
  • Encounters
  • Love your life
  • You

literature

  • Joachim Beck: Life artist Josef Bögle. Of stones and life. In: Lotto-Zeitschrift-Bayern from March 2, 2004.
  • Hans Gasser: In addition to stones from Lake Constance, Sepp Bögle brings some people seeking advice into balance - a portrait of a life artist. Life as idleness. In: Südkurier July 7, 2004.
  • Roland Gerard: Stone forklift Sepp Bögle visits the SWR night café. The bon vivant from Luttlingen . In: Südkurier from October 2005.
  • Andrea Jagode: Sepp, the "Molenstar". Stone artist at SWR3 “Night Cafe”. In: Wochenblatt. 2005.
  • Wolfgang Messner: Sepp Bögle, stone and life artist from Radolfzell. Diogenes from Lake Constance has wisdom ready for everyone. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung from August 1, 2005.
  • Roland Dost: Radolfzeller Sepp Bögle winters in Lanzarote: A commuter between two paradises. In: Südkurier from December 8, 2016 ( suedkurier.de ).
  • Dagmar Gehm: Met on the way. The life of the stone artist from Lake Constance. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 22, 2012 ( abendblatt.de ).

Web links

Commons : Josef Bögle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Karola Kuhn: Snake with a flabby tongue. In: Südkurier of August 12, 2003
  2. ↑ Josef Bögle, You, outside of the back cover; Roland Dost, Radolfzeller Sepp Bögle winters in Lanzarote: (see below literature and web links); Anonymous, Sepp Bögle, the stone stacker in Radolfzell (see below under web links).
  3. ↑ Peter Steiner (that is Josef Bögle), Ruf der Steine, p. [4], p. [12]; S. [14].
  4. ↑ Things just went well here: Stone sculpture by Sepp Bögle with a songbird , a house sparrow (after the friendly information of the Konstanz ornithologist Harald Jacoby). To him eulogy Harald Jacoby at the presentation of the Lina-Hähnle-Medille on 5 January 2020 .
  5. ↑ Josef Bögle, Du, pp. 4–48 (the even page numbers in each case), p. 31, p. 51.
  6. ↑ Josef Bögle, Du, p. 8, p. 14, p. 20, p. 26, p. 32, p. 42.
  7. ↑ Josef Bögle, Du, p. 10, p. 16, p. 30f., P. 38, p. 46
  8. ↑ Peter Steiner (that's Josef Bögle), Ruf der Steine, outside of the back cover.
  9. ↑ Josef Bögle, Du, pp. 6–32 (the even page numbers in each case).
  10. ↑ for example Hans Belting , The concept of the work of artistic modernism, in: Cornelia Klinger, Wolfgang Müller-Funk (ed.), The Century of the Avant-garde. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2004, pp. 65–79; Hans Belting, The Invisible Masterpiece. The modern myths of art. CH Beck, Munich 1998, especially pp. 83-101; Pp. 283-328; Pp. 355-374; Pp. 394-419.
  11. ↑ Dagmar Gehm, met en route (see links below).
  12. ↑ Anke Teichert, Was ist Landart on her homepage Naturkunst Landart Objektkunst ; Wikipedia article List of Land Art Artists ; English Wikipedia, articles Environmental art and Land art .
  13. ↑ Gerald Jarausch: Stone Art on TV. In: Südkurier of February 3, 2007.
  14. ↑ Physics as a magic hour. In: Südkurier of May 14, 2003.
  15. ↑ Josef Bögle, You, inside of the front book cover.
  16. ↑ homepage Rose Deroussas
personal data
SURNAME Bögle, Sepp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bögle, Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Luttingen