Klaus Ritterbusch

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Klaus Ritterbusch (* 1947 in Bodenwerder , Weserbergland ) is a German artist.

Life

Ritterbusch studied first in Hanover, then from 1969 at the FU Berlin philosophy with Wilhelm Weischedel and Peter Brückner as well as theoretical sociology with Dieter Claessens , in particular the system theory of Niklas Luhmann . In 1972 he founded the artist group Amelith , which mainly dealt with film projects. He received the Bernhard Sprengel Prize for painting and in 1979 the sponsorship award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for the fine arts . After a residency in Amsterdam, Ritterbusch has lived in Düsseldorf since 1978 .

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The work includes painting, photography, overpainting photos, as well as texts and writings.

In the 1970s he created photographic variables , which represented a kind of relativity theory of photography using the example of landscapes, but then devoted himself mainly to painting. His choice of topics ranges between industrial vedutas, extreme landscapes and physiognomic studies. In the case of the landscapes, the decades of preoccupation with the structures and changes in the Alpine glaciers form a separate part of the work.

The large-format pictures by Ritterbusch are often thematically located in industrial interiors. This includes the painting La Poubelle , which depicts the stylized bunker of a waste incineration plant and was shown as a synonym for criticism of civilization in the exhibition The Second Creation in Berlin's Gropiusbau .

Publications (selection)

  • Photographic variables , catalog Kunstverein Karlsruhe 1977
  • The river and the mountains , illustrated book Herder Verlag Freiburg 1981 (texts by Werner Schmalenbach and Jean-Claude Lemagny ) ISBN 3-451-19664-6
  • In the realm of shadows , catalog Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf 1981 (text by H.Schulze Altcappenberg)
  • From concept to illusion , catalog Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen 1993 (texts by Leane Schäfer and Martina Sitt)
  • Everyday life and paranoia of the beach crabs , catalog Kunstvereine Meerbusch and Wesel 1996 (text by Wolfgang Drost)
  • The sun rises beyond the edge of the plate (art theory text) in: Akzente, Hanser Verlag Munich 2000, ISSN  0002-3957
  • Ramayana , catalog Überseemuseum Bremen / Museum Herne / Prince-of-Wales Museum Bombay 2000 (text by Gottlieb Leinz)
  • Tower room in Babel , catalog Suermondt-Museum Aachen 2000, (texts by Gerhard Finckh and H.Schulze Altcappenberg) ISBN 3-929203-32-4
  • Landscapes , catalog DASA Dortmund 2004 (texts by Marcus Starzinger and G. Finckh), ISBN 3-88261-816-1
  • Il pittore per caso (art theory text) in: Series of publications for the defense of art, Aquinarte Verlag Kassel 2008, ISBN 3-933332-41-9

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personal data
SURNAME Ritterbusch, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenwerder , Weserbergland