Karlheinz Schäfer

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Karlheinz Schäfer (* 1941 in Kaiserswalde , Schluckenau district ) is a German sculptor .

life and work

From 1956 to 1961, Schäfer completed an apprenticeship as a porcelain modeler at the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meißen . After briefly studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , he worked as a stonemason in Meißen from 1964 to 1966 . During this time, he was shaped by numerous encounters with like-minded people and budding artists at Scharfenberg Castle near Meißen, some of which resulted in lifelong friendships, such as the one with the painter, set designer and director Achim Freyer or the Dresden painter Gunter Herrmann .

In 1967 Schäfer became a master student in plastic with Fritz Cremer at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . After completing the master's school and the first negative experiences with taking on state commissions that were not realized due to the required artistic concessions, Schäfer worked from 1970 in refusal and confrontation with the official GDR ideological art and became one of the important representatives of the avant-garde of this time in the GDR . At that time he appeared primarily with a series of cardboard sculptures as descriptions and satirical comments on the reality of the GDR. With other excluded artists - Wasja Götze , AR Penck , Willi Müller u. a. - he took part in important underground exhibitions in Dresden and in the Berlin EP Jürgen Schweinbraden . In 1977 he created sets and costumes for the chamber opera "R.Hot or die heat" by Friedrich Goldmann (libretto: Thomas Körner after JMR Lenz ) at the German State Opera Berlin . This was followed by largely unpublic years in which Schäfer was looking for a new direction in his work. He found this at the beginning of the 1980s when he dealt with Dante's “ Divine Comedy ”, as a result of which - in its broadest form - it was again possible for him to artistically depict people.

In 1987 Schäfer moved to West Berlin . Here he took up cardboard again as his working material and at the same time developed fragile, hollow sculptural objects made of paper mache to respond to the changed situation in the West.

Since 1996, Schäfer's preferred material has been stone again, especially the limestone from the Unstrut Valley , as it was built and used in this area and is available from demolished buildings. Due to the expanded opportunities that resulted for him, he shifted his work focus increasingly to the country - with the exception of a visiting professorship at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 1998/99. Schäfer lives and works in Branderoda near Naumburg (Saale) .

Solo exhibitions

  • 1977: Works from 1972, Galerie Jürgen Schweinbraden, Berlin
  • 1982: Painting, sculpture, drawings, Galerie im Turm, Berlin
  • 1987: Painting, MORA, Berlin
  • 1988: Raum-Schweigen, MORA, Berlin; Galerie Manfred Giesler, Berlin
  • 1990: Drawings - oil paintings - sculptures, Kaleidoskop workshop gallery, Trier
  • 1995: Painting and sculpture, Nerly Erfurt
  • 1996: Painting and sculpture, Oberlausitzer Kunstverein, Görlitz
  • 2003: Duration and transformation, landscape watercolors and wood sculptures, Michaeliskirche Erfurt
  • 2011: Sculpture and painting, WeinGalerie im Schweigenberg, Freyburg ad Unstrut
  • 2014: Sheets on the Divine Comedy, exhibition on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Dante Society 2014, gallery of the University and State Library of Münster
  • 2017: Painting and sculpture, Schleberoda summer gallery near Freyburg (Unstrut)

Group exhibitions

  • 1971: "Other" GDR art, Gartenhaus Hofmannstrasse 46, Dr. E. Gäbler, Dresden
  • 1972: Master student, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1973: Karlheinz Schäfer, AR Penck with group Lücke - Untergrundende, Zeit im Bild-Gebäude, Dresden
  • 1976: Homage to Robert Filliou, Galerie Jürgen Schweinbraden, Berlin
  • 1981: Drawings by Berlin artists, Galerie Oben, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) / small sculptures and drawings, Otto-Nagel-Haus, Berlin
  • 1982 and 1983: Plastic for Understanding, Domstift, Brandenburg
  • 1989: Artist of the gallery, MORA, Berlin
  • 1990: Expatriated, Albertinum, Dresden; Deichtorhallen Hamburg / graphics - painting - sculpture, workshop gallery Kaleidoskop, Trier
  • 1996–2008: The scenic eye - fine arts and theater, Institute for Foreign Relations . Tour stations: House of World Cultures, Berlin; Royal Festival Hall, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, Museo de Arte Moderna MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Santiago de Chile, Chile; The Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania; Valsts Makslas Muzejs Izstazu Zale Arsenals / Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia; Tallinna Kunstihoone galerii, Tallinn, Estonia; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Soros Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine; Theater Baltiski Dom , St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Muzej "25. maj", Belgrade, Yugoslavia; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan; Samsung Museum of Modern Art: Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Centro Cultural Corp Group, Caracas, Venezuela; Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand; Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; Apeejay Media Arts Gallery, New Delhi, India; Performing Arts Center KAD, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • 1999: EXTREME, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 2014: OVER 80 FOR 80, Kunsthaus of the Achim Freyer Foundation, Berlin

literature

  • Painting - sculpture - drawings, Galerie im Turm, Berlin 1982 (catalog)
  • Expatriated, Albertinum, Dresden; Deichtorhallen Hamburg 1990 (catalog)
  • The scenic eye - fine arts and theater, texts by W. Storch, A. v. Graevenitz and M. Freitag, Institute for Foreign Relations 1996 (catalog)
  • Eberhard Gäbler, “Other” GDR art in four exhibitions (1971–1974, Dresden, Hofmannstrasse 46), in: Dresdener Kunstblätter. Bimonthly publication of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 19th vol. Issue 4, p. 121ff
  • Art documentation SBZ / GDR 1945–1990, essays, reports, materials, ed. By Günter Feist, Eckhart Gillen, Beatrice Vierneisel, Berlin 1996, p. 703 ISBN 978-3-7701-3846-3
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. 2 volumes. KG Saur Verlag, Munich Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3-598-24734-6

Collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Landesbibliothek - State and University Library Dresden ; Signature: Mscr.Dresd.Aut.1327a-u Briefe (heading title of the editor) Penck, AR (1939) [author], Schäfer, Karl-Heinz [addressee] July 18, 1973 to December 20, 1973 [see below]. - German; Letter, photograph, envelope; Handwriting
  2. ↑ http://www.dante-gesellschaft.de/galerie/k-schaefer/
  3. ↑ http://www.achimfreyer.com/80f80/
  4. ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivStock/kunstsammlung/index.htm?hg=sammlung&we_objectID=2050
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswalde , Schluckenau district