Klaus Müller-Domnick

Klaus Müller-Domnick

Klaus Müller-Domnick (born February 1, 1937 in Feudingen ; † April 6, 2000 in Kassel ) was a German sculptor , graphic artist and art teacher .

Life

Klaus Müller-Domnick was born as Klaus Friedrich Müller on February 1, 1937 in Feudingen near Bad Laasphe in Westphalia.

After elementary school in Feudingen, he graduated from the Laasphe secondary school in 1956. From 1956 to 1962 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (at that time the so-called Werkakademie) in Kassel, specializing in art education and crafts with a major in sculpture. This was followed by traineeship training, which he completed in 1965 with the 2nd state examination for teaching at grammar schools. From 1965 until his retirement in 1997 he worked as an art teacher at the Wilhelmschule Kassel .

In the meantime, from 1968 to 1970 he had a teaching position at the HbK Kassel (teaching content school practical studies) and in 1969 a guest lecturer at the HbK Kassel on "Spatial-plastic design".

From 1971 to 1972 he had a teaching position at the comprehensive university in Kassel, organizational unit of Gestalt theory (teaching content of Gestalt theory and school practice). Before that, he spent 1970 on a grant from the Federal Minister of the Interior at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

From 1973 he worked in the documenta forum Kassel. From 1974 he was the specialist for art and works of the study seminar 1 for the teaching post at grammar schools in Kassel. From 1990 he gave lectures at Gazi University in Ankara.

In addition to his job as an art teacher, he worked as a sculptor in his own workshop. He was interested in the geometric shape of the cube from an early age. Since the systematic-constructive work he began in the 1960s, he has been intensively concerned with the definition of the cube in space.

genesis

• from 1959 experiments with stereometric basic bodies and their derivatives

Material: plaster, wood, marble

• from 1965 variable objects made of structural elements in Plexiglas, systematic investigations of the basic body of the cube and its cutting possibilities, combination of cube derivatives, penetration of cube and cutting planes and saddle surfaces

Material: acrylic glass, white plastics

• from 1970 rows of rotating cut surfaces in a cube grid, combination of surface digonals

Material: white plastics

• from 1972 development of a spatial structure for architecture, participation in a team of architects
• from 1974 drawings
• from 1978 combination of surface and room diagonals in a cube grid, work in aluminum and PVC, rows of cube sections
• from 1980 definition of rows (full cube to zero), cube sections as single bodies

Material: white plastics

Participation in competitions for large plastic

• from 1981 installations, tension in space

Material: wire rope

• from 1982 addition of single cubes to columns, combination of columns to spatial structures, penetration of cubic columns with quarter spheres

Material: wood

• from 1990 combination of different materials: stone / wood / steel / acrylic glass, leaving the cube lattice, confrontation of planed and cracked wood, working in Thassos marble, drawings with pencil and ink

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

• 1963 Recklinghausen: "Young West"
• 1965 Emden, Art Cabinet: "Concrete Art"
• 1966 Fulda, Atelier Böhm
• 1967 Rheine, Small Gallery: "Kinetic Art"

Mönchengladbach, Jülicher Gallery

Gelsenkirchen, Galerie Hauptstrasse 1

• 1968 Wiesbaden, Ludwigshafen, Dortmund: "Art + Plastic"

Bad Godesberg, Gallery Schütze

Kassel, Cologne, Reckermann Gallery

Hamburg, Kunsthaus: "public eye"

Koblenz, Teufel Gallery: "Systematic Programs"

Mannheim, Museum: Exhibition on the youth art award

• 1969 Braunschweig, Langer Gallery

Nuremberg, Kunsthalle: Biennale 69 "Constructive Art, Elements and Principles"

Belgrade, Museum: "Constructive Art"

Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle: "Art as game - game as art"

Bochum, Gallery M

Koblenz, Gallery Teufel

Berlin, Galerie Daedalus: "Mini-Objects-Pictures"

• 1970 Eindhoven, International Agency of Modern Art

Basel, Galerie Teufel, art fair

London, Arts Council: "New Multiple Art"

Brussels, Le Disque Rouge gallery

• 1971 Munich, Münster: "Aktiva 71"

Basel, art fair, Teufel gallery

Cologne, Galerie Teufel

Bielefeld, Galerie Jesse: "Light and Movement"

Brussels, Le Disque Rouge Gallery: "Recherches Objectives"

• 1972 Paderborn, town house: Norm + Form
• 1981 Kassel, art association
• 1985 Kassel, art association
• 1986 Friedberg, Edition Hoffmann: "The Corner"
• 1988 Sion, Cantonal Museum
• 1989 Hagen, Osthaus Museum: "From the Cube Museum"

Heringen art space: "Art on the border"

• 1992 Bollstedt, ZEITBRÜCKEN art project

Kassel, Dock 4, BBK: drawings

• 1994 Wiesbaden, State Museum "Hessiale 94"
• 1996 Kassel, Dock 4, BBK: Drawings II
• 1998 Kassel, Kunstverein, BBK: "Tagesform"
• 2000 BBK: "Kassel - Erfurt"

Solo exhibitions

• 1964 Emden, art gallery
• 1967 Kassel, Ricke Gallery
• 1970 Cologne, Reckermann Gallery

Koblenz, Cologne, Teufel Gallery

• 1971 Giessen, Ortas Gallery

Bielefeld, Jesse Gallery

• 1972 Kaiserslautern, Galerie Goebels

Gelsenkirchen, Gallery Pa Czepan

• 1981 Fritzlar, Gray Tower
• 1983 Kassel, art association
• 1987 Kassel, Atelier Müller-Domnick

Frankfurt, dugout gallery

• 1992 Mühlhausen, museum
• 1998 Kassel, Wilhelmsgalerie

Publications

Catalogs

• 1965 Concrete Art, Emden
• 1968 Kunst & Kunststoff, Wiesbaden
• 1968 public eye, Hamburg
• 1969 Biennale Nuremberg, Constructive Art
• 1969 Mini-Objects-Pictures, Berlin
• 1970 New Multiple Art, London
• 1971 Aktiva '71, Munich
• 1971 Récherches Objectives, Brussels
• 1972 Norm & Form, Paderborn
• 1986 the corner the corner le coin, Friedberg
• 1989 Art at the border, herring
• 1989 From the Cube Museum, Hagen
• 1992 "Drawings", BBK Kassel

Magazines

• 1971 The Strukturist no.11, Canada
• 1973 Nothpfortenstr. 1 - magazine for contemporary art, Bielefeld

literature

• Juliane Müller-Domnick sculptures, objects, drawings 1959-1999: Catalog for the exhibition in the MÜDO gallery in Kassel 03.08. - August 30, 2002 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-927941-32-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Müller-Domnick in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.mue-do.de Official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mue-do.de/genese.htm
2. ↑ http://www.mue-do.de/ausstell.html
3. ↑ http://www.mue-do.de/ausstell.html