KL Schmaltz

Macrokern 170 sculpture in Würzburg

Atelierhaus Schmaltz in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel (2020)

KL Schmaltz (* 1932 in Vellahn , Mecklenburg ), actually Karl-Ludwig Schmaltz, is a German visual artist.

Life

Schmaltz studied from 1951 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Kurt Kranz , Willem Grimm and Fritz Winter and from 1954 to 1955 in Ulm at the University of Design at the Institute for Form Research with Max Bill . This training was followed by a degree in architecture from 1955 to 1962 at the TH Karlsruhe. There Schmaltz did his diploma with Egon Eiermann , whose freelancer he became. From 1962 to 1966 he was part of the planning team at the Ruhr University Bochum. He has been working as a freelancer since 1967 and has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1968 .

Schmaltz has lived and worked with his own studio in Düsseldorf since 1962 . Its kinetic objects tower above the historic farm at Oberkasseler Straße 62 in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel . Schmaltz is married to the tapestry artist Gabriele Grosse (* 1942).

Prices (selection)

• 1967 Art Prize for Sculpture from the City of Wolfsburg
• 1968 Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen
• 1969 Burda Prize, Munich
• 1972–73 industrial scholarship from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI
• 1983 Award of the Society for Computer Art

Exhibitions (selection)

The exhibitions marked with an “E” were solo exhibitions. A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K".

• 1967 Young city sees young art , Museum Wolfsburg ^K
• 1968 Young German sculpture , Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg ^K ; Deutscher Künstlerbund, Kunsthalle Nürnberg ^K ; Contemporary sculpture , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern ^K ; Gallery Porta Wuppertal ^E ; Soest City Art Pavilion ^E
• 1970 40 Germans under 40 , museums in Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen, Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and Kunsthalle Bremen ^K
• 1972 Art on the Kiellinie , Kunsthalle zu Kiel ^K ; City and Sculpture , City of Marl ^K
• 1973 12th Middelheim Biennale, Antwerp ^K
• 1975 Xth Padua Biennale
• 1975 KL Schmaltz: energetic objects, drawings, projects 1967 - 1975 . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz, Kunsthalle, June 27 to August 31, 1975 ^{E, K}
• 1979 KL Schmaltz: Cell Body Galax K 324 - the graphic network . Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein Kiel ^{E, K}
• 1982 Freilichtgalerie Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein and City of Ludwigsburg ^E
• 1983 KL Schmaltz: Energetic Processes , City Museum Wesel ^{E, K}
• 1996 TogetherKunst 3, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
• 1998 KL Schmaltz: Constructive sculpture , sculpture in the city and in the Rathausgalerie Langenfeld (Rhineland) ^{E, K}
• 2005 Allee des Windes , Heilmannshof Landscape Park, Krefeld ^E
• 2006 What is plastic? 100 years - 100 heads . Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation, Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg
• 2007 Sculptures in the wind and on the water , Zweifallshammer in Kalltal ^{E, K}

plant

Schmaltz developed a constructive-stereometric art: "constructive" in the sense that his sculptures are based on a rational blueprint, " stereometric " in the sense that the sculpture is made up of spatial and / or surface geometric, "crystalline" (structural ) Elements such as B. cuboid, tetrahedron, regular hexagon or circular disk is composed and often also takes the shape of a stereometric body on a large scale.

Schmaltz 'sculptures often develop from “an invisible point of power, the primordial center”. [KL Schmaltz] "Understanding the mystery of natural growth processes, shifted in parallel, is the dominant theme in the art of KL Schmaltz." [Karl-Heinz Hering, Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf]

In his cell-body stereomids and macro-cubes (around 1970) made of acrylic glass, the many form-identical elements are arranged along a three-dimensional crystalline grid. A look into this order structure appears like looking through a microscope, and it seems to suggest that all matter on the microscopic level is based on a cosmic order. «Schmaltz uses [...] the materials that the technical age has in store, in addition to steel and aluminum, especially plastic and acrylic glass [...]. The exact construction always complies with a maximum of immaterialization. As precisely as everything seems to be built - the stereometry becomes transparent, sometimes even kinetically moved. The physical appears transparent, dissolved in clarity, purity, symmetry. " [Heinz Ohff 1975]

Schmaltz received numerous commissions for sculptures in the space of architecture. «A separation between architecture and sculpture [...] seems absurd to me for his person. The tectonics, the spatial structure, are fundamentally present in all of his works ”, said Heinrich Gillis Görtz at the vernissage of the exhibition Allee des Windes 2005 in Krefeld.

Many of his sculptures are kinetic . Schmaltz's macro core 170 in Würzburg was considered the first large kinetic sculpture in the Federal Republic of Germany, but the moving parts inside the stump of the cube have now disappeared. Its counterpart in Hanover, the Macrokernel 1290 , has also suffered from improper handling and was misused as a garbage can. An art commission therefore advised that this work of art be removed as quickly as possible.

Collections (selection)

• Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren
• Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen
• Art Museum Düsseldorf
• Kunsthalle Hamburg
• Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• Nuremberg Art Gallery
• Kröller-Müller Museum , Otterlo
• Wolfsburg City Art Museum

Working in public space (selection)

Many of Schmaltz's works of art are displayed in public spaces .

• 1970 macro kernel 170 . Kinetic, in front of the City Theater, Würzburg
• 1971 macro kernel 1290 . Hanover (currently in the depot)
• 1971 octahedron cube . Kiryat-Tivon-Park , Braunschweig
• 1973 space sign alpha . 2.55 × 1.40 × 1 m, client: Municipal Building Department, Primary School Emst, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Str. 60, Hagen
• 1974 macro kernel . 3.40 × 3.20 × 2.80 m, client: Municipal Building Department, Fritz Steinhoff School, Amügel 20, Hagen
• 1974 Macrokern Bonn . Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium (Bonn) , client: State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1975 macro kernel 375 . Kiel University Clinic, since June 2015: RBZ-Wirtschaft-Kiel, Kiel
• 1976 LZB room sign . Landeszentralbank BW, Stuttgart
• 1977 macro kernel 177 . BHW Hameln
• 1978 macro kernel 277 . Technical Town Hall, Düsseldorf
• 1978 Stereo stele alpha . Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
• 1979 tide buoy . A polyhedron made of aluminum, Duisburg Bertasee
• 1983 Bottrop water column . Tax office Bottrop
• 1988 sky pyramid alpha . Stuttgart
• 1994 Oberkassel town sign . 4.1 m high, stainless steel. Location: Luegplatz, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
• 1994 Pyramids of the Four Winds . 5.4 m high, stainless steel, kinetic. Location: Schwietzkestrasse, Düsseldorf
• 1997 Escape pyramid of the four winds . Langenfeld District Court
• 2003 Core pyramid of the wind . Stainless steel, 5.90 m high, wind kinetic. Location: pedestrian zone, Weinstrasse, Bad Hersfeld
• 2004 helical column of light . Stainless steel, 7.00 m high, light kinetic. Location: pedestrian zone, Breitenstrasse, Bad Hersfeld

Illustrations

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  Macrokernel 170 (1970). Wurzburg

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  Octahedral cube (1971). Kiryat-Tivon-Park , Braunschweig

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  Space sign alpha (1973). Hagen -Emst

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  Helical column of light (2004). Bad Hersfeld

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  Helical Stele of Light (detail)

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  Core Pyramid of the Wind (2003). Bad Hersfeld

literature

• KL Schmaltz: Energetic objects, drawings, projects 1967 - 1975 . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, 1975 [on the occasion of the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz, June 27 to August 31, 1975, with 7 color prints and numerous black and white images]
• KL Schmaltz - Constructive Plastic . Rathausgalerie Langenfeld (Rhineland) , 1998, 40 pages [on the occasion of the exhibition Sculpture in the City from August 16 to October 2, 1998, with biography, list of free sculptures and art in public space and numerous black and white images]
• Wolfgang Funken: Ars Publica , Volume 2, Klartext-Verlag Essen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0874-1 , p. 1041

Web links

Commons : Karl-Ludwig Schmaltz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• KL Schmaltz . Artist life in Düsseldorf, cultural office of the state capital Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See KL Schmaltz - artist life in Düsseldorf
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Karl-Ludwig Schmaltz (accessed on January 21, 2016)
3. ↑ KL Schmaltz: Stereometric Sculptures, 20 pages, with numerous colored images [without the year], p. 18
4. ↑ KL Schmaltz: Stereometric Sculptures, 20 pages, with numerous colored images [without the year], p. 6
5. ↑ KL Schmaltz: Stereometric Sculptures, 20 pages, with numerous colored images [without the year], p. 5
6. ^ KL Schmaltz: Energetic objects, drawings, projects 1967 - 1975 . Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Grabbeplatz, Kunsthalle, June 27 to August 31, 1975. Processing and design: Karl-Heinz Hering
7. ↑ " Allee des Windes ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 27 kB) “- Sculptures by KL Schmaltz in the wood garden of the Heilmannshof. Manuscript of the opening speech by Heinrich Gillis Görtz, May 15, 2005 
8. ↑ http://www.didaktik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/projekt/wiki/index.php/Der_W%C3%BCrfel_vor_dem_Stadttheater  ( 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.  
9. ↑ http://www.zuzuku.de/essay/essay-texte/hannover-umsetzung.htm
10. ^ KL Schmaltz: Macro kernel 1290 . SkulpTour Hannover (World of Form)
11. ^ KL Schmaltz: Raumzeichen LZB (1976) . SculpTour Stuttgart (World-of-Form)
12. ^ KL Schmaltz: Himmelspyramid alpha (1988) . SculpTour Stuttgart (World-of-Form)
13. ↑ Oberkassel town sign . Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf
14. ↑ Pyramids of the Four Winds . Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf
15. ↑ Fliehpyramid ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Langenfeld (Rhineland)