Karl A. Meyer
Karl Andreas Meyer (born July 23, 1958 in Basel ) is a Swiss painter and sculptor .
Live and act
Karl A. Meyer began his artistic career in New York City in the 1980s with large-format woodcuts , inspired by the iconography of the Hopi .
Since 2010 he has been involved in Raiding Project and stood next to artists like Hiroshi Hara , Ai Weiwei and Terunobu Fujimori from his works, including the installation of People Cloud (Engl. Cloud of Humanity ), which consists of 15,000 clay figurines and in numerous exhibitions in Was shown at home and abroad. This resulted in large-format sculptures such as B. the Birdman , which was built in 2015 at the entrance to Raiding , the birthplace of Franz Liszt .
Publications
- Karl A. Meyer , Roland Hagenberg: RIO - Love and Life in Times of Executions. Polaroids and Poems . Art In Flow , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-938457-45-0 .
- Karl A. Meyer , Terunobu Fujimori , Hiroshi Hara (architect) , Roland Hagenberg: Raiding Project - Ten Fabulous Years . Art In Flow , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-938457-46-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl A. Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl A. Meyer. In: Sikart
- Website from Karl A. Meyer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raiding Foundation: Raiding Project , overview of the editions of the Raiding Project
- ↑ Menschenwolke in Raiding , ORF , report from June 25, 2013
- ↑ Newspaper report on the human cloud (formerly the pack ) ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 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. , Newspaper article from November 2001
- ↑ Birdman - the huge Voglmandl from Switzerland
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Karl A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Karl Andreas (full name); CAME |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel , Switzerland |