Konrad Fischer (painter)

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Konrad Fischer (pseudonym: Konrad Lueg ; born April 11, 1939 in Düsseldorf ; † November 24, 1996 there ) was a German painter and gallery owner .

Life

Fischer was the first child of Helmuth Fischer (1914–1978) and his wife Ada Fischer, b. Lueg (1909–1994), born in Düsseldorf. His two sisters Almut and Erika were born in 1941 and 1950, respectively. While Fischer's father, a director of the Mannesmann steel company , was often away for work reasons, for example to build pipelines in Egypt and Libya, Fischer's childhood was shaped by his upper-class mother Ada - a granddaughter of Carl Lueg , a great-granddaughter of Wilhelm Lueg and a great-niece of Heinrich Lueg - as well as the father's brother, Hans-Georg Fischer, who also lives in the household, called "the uncle" for short. In the years after the Second World War, the family lived on one floor of a stately single-family house, the mother's parental home, on Lindemannstrasse in Düsseldorf- Düsseltal . After changing schools several times, Fischer left high school without a high school diploma. As a regular at the Bobby’s artists' pub in Düsseldorf's old town , he came into contact with artists as a teenager who increased his interest in art. Towards the end of his school days, his parents allowed him to take private painting and drawing lessons.

From 1958 to 1962 Fischer studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , initially with Bruno Goller , from the winter semester 1960/61 together with Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter and Manfred Kuttner under Karl Otto Götz and from 1961 in the stage design class of Teo Otto . In order to “[…] avoid possible confusion with the frequency of the name Fischer”, he took his mother's family name at the start of his studies: “I call myself Konrad Lueg as a painter” . In the group with Polke, Richter and Kuttner, Fischer played a spokesman due to the fact that through his friendship with Peter Brüning, who was ten years older than him, he had already got to know many actors from the Düsseldorf and international art scene. During his studies he dealt with the art of Cy Twombly , the group ZERO and Yves Klein , among others . In 1961 Fischer, equipped with his father's former company car and a fuel card, drove to art exhibitions at home and abroad, around October of that year to a Joseph Beuys exhibition of the collection of the brothers Hans and Franz Joseph van der Grinten in the Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek in Kleve . On November 14, 1962, Hans Schwippert , at that time the rector of the art academy, wrote to him and asked him, without giving any reason, to “consider his 8-semester course (...) to be finished with immediate effect.” The reasons for this expulsion - since they are not documented - speculated; possibly played a role in the fact that the professors felt the fisherman active in the AStA as “rebellious”. In this context, reports were made about various works that Fischer and Richter had submitted to the “ Düsseldorf Artists Christmas Exhibition”, including a bucket of speculoos, a pair of ski boots sprayed with artificial snow, and a wake-up man in a “beautiful baroque frame”.

Since he lacked a gallery that would take care of his interests, Fischer organized the first exhibition of German pop in 1963 with Kuttner, Polke and Richter in a Düsseldorf shop, a former butcher's shop in Kaiserstraße 31a, diagonally across from Jean-Pierre Wilhelm's previous gallery 22 Art , called Demonstrative Exhibition . A few weeks after the exhibition, he and friends, including Richter, visited the art dealer Ileana Sonnabend in Paris , where they saw originals by Roy Lichtenstein for the first time , a “great experience” that “spoke to him”. At the beginning of 1964, Fischer married Dorothee Franke (* 1937), whom he had met as a student teacher in the field of fine arts in 1961 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and who was meanwhile working as a trainee teacher at a grammar school. Under the title Prospect , Fischer initiated a series of international sales exhibitions together with Hans Strelow in 1968 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, which was newly built the previous year . Fischer died of cancer at the age of 57.

Konrad Lueg was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Own art

As a painter Konrad Lueg , he worked from 1963 to 1968. Lueg created deliberately chosen close to wallpaper so-called "Pattern Paintings" ( wallpaper pattern painting). He worked closely with Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. The in the socialist countries of the Eastern bloc largely prescribed as the official art movement Socialist Realism ironically they created the capitalist realism with which they deal put a critical look at the consumerism of the West, as in the realized on October 11, 1963, together with Judge demonstration Living with Pop - a demonstration for capitalist realism in the Düsseldorf furniture store Berges , of which he was personally acquainted. Through this action they initiated German Pop Art . Since Lueg could not make a living as a painter, he also worked as an art teacher at a grammar school in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim until 1967. René Block appeared as gallery owner and sponsor of Luegs , at whose Berlin opening exhibition he, Richter, Polke and Kuttner were represented with works on September 15, 1964. With the works Die Verlierer and Cassius Clay , Lueg showed his first pictures from the series of football and boxer pictures, which were based on newspaper images and occupy a central position in his oeuvre. Lueg's first solo exhibition took place from July 1 to 27, 1964 with new athlete pictures in the Schmela Gallery .

Gallery and art collection

Neubrückstrasse 12 (2016)

Under his birth name Konrad Fischer , he opened a gallery in Düsseldorf in 1967 , which he developed into one of the most influential in the world. He turned the narrow gate passage of the building at Neubrückstraße 12 in the old town into an exhibition space by inserting glass walls at the front and started a conceptually innovative series called “Exhibitions at Konrad Fischer”. The avant-garde artists' bar Creamcheese was located in the same building, with access via the front door, from 1967 to 1976 . Fischer represented artists of minimalism and conceptual art , including Carl Andre , Joseph Beuys , Hanne Darboven , Hamish Fulton , Sol LeWitt , Richard Long , Bruce Nauman , Markus Oehlen , Blinky Palermo , Reiner Ruthenbeck , Lawrence Weiner and Lothar Baumgarten . The gallery gained importance in art history primarily through the exhibition of American artists. She made a significant contribution to making Düsseldorf a focal point for contemporary art. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired a sizeable art collection that Konrad Fischer and his wife had created from up to 250 works by around 35 artists, as well as the archive of the couple's jointly operated gallery, for the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection in early 2014 . The Konrad Fischer gallery has been located in the Flingern district of Düsseldorf for several decades, and in Berlin since 2007.

Exhibitions as an artist (selection)

  • 1963: Leben mit Pop - a demonstration for capitalist realism (with Gerhard Richter), Möbelhaus Berges, Düsseldorf
  • 1964: Galerie Schmela , Düsseldorf
  • 1964: opportunities. 13th annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists, Haus am Waldsee , Berlin (also in 1966: 14th annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists, exhibition halls at Gruga Park )
  • 1964: front garden exhibition , Galerie Parnass , Wuppertal (with Kuttner, Polke and Richter)
  • 1966: Washcloths and towels , René Block Gallery , Berlin
  • 1967: Konrad Lueg: New Pictures , Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
  • 1967: Konrad Lueg , Denise René Gallery , Paris
  • 1980: Konrad Lueg. Pictures 1965–1968 , Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
  • 1999: When I paint my name is Konrad Lueg , PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (USA); As a painter I call myself Konrad Lueg , Kunsthalle Bielfeld; 2000: As a painter I call myself Konrad Lueg , Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent (Belgium)
  • 2013: Living with Pop . A reproduction of capitalist realism . Manfred Kuttner , Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke , Gerhard Richter , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Exhibition of his art collection

literature

  • Lydia Anemüller: Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg - “Living with Pop”. An art and consumer criticism in the FRG 1963 . GRIN Verlag, 2012
  • Konrad Lueg - washcloths and towels, pictures from 1965 . Text: Hans Strelow. Catalog of the René Block Gallery, Berlin, 1966
  • René Block : Graphics of Capitalist Realism 1: Catalog raisonnés up to 1971 . Berlin: Edition Block, 1971
  • René Block: Graphics of Capitalist Realism 2: List of printmaking September 1971- May 1976 . Galerie René Block, Berlin 1976
  • Hubertus Butin : KP Brehmer, KH Hödicke, Konrad Lueg, Wolf Vostell, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, graphics of capitalist realism . Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main, 1992, ISBN 3-9802488-9-5 (German / English)
  • Susanne Küper: Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter: Living with Pop - A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism . In: West German Yearbook for Art History in Dumont Buchverlag, Volume LIII, (pp. 289–306). Cologne 1992
  • Thomas Kellein : As a painter, I call myself Konrad Lueg . Exhibition catalog PS 1 Contemporary Art Center New York, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent 1999/2000, ISBN 978-3-00005297-2 (German / English)
  • Brigitte Kölle , Karl Hoffmann: Konrad Fischer. okey dokey , König, Cologne, 2008 ISBN 978-388375567-0 (German / English)
  • Friedrich Meschede , Guido de Werd (Vorw.): With the possibility of being seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archive of an attitude . Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Museum Kurhaus Kleve , Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-941263-13-0 (German / English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Meschede, Guido de Werd (Vorw.): With the possibility of being seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archive of an attitude . Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, p. 358 ff.
  2. ↑ Brigitte Kölle: The art of exhibiting. Studies on the work of the artist Konrad Fischer / Lueg (1939–1996) , dissertation, University of Hildesheim, 2005, p. 18 f., PDF file in the d-nb.info portal , accessed on January 12, 2014.
  3. ↑ Thomas Kellein: As a painter, I call myself Konrad Lueg , cover page 4.
  4. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 22.
  5. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 24.
  6. ^ Hubertus Butin: Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke - An artist friendship as a microsocial system . In: Julia Gelshorn (Ed.): Legitimations. Artists as Authorities of Contemporary Art . Peter Lang AG, European Science Publishers, Bern 2004, ISBN 3-03910-491-8 , p. 46 f. ( online )
  7. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 27 f.
  8. ↑ Brigitte Kölle: Okey dokey Konrad Fischer . Verlag Walther König, 2007, p. 13.
  9. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lueg, Konrad ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 5, 2015).
  10. ↑ Friedrich Meschede, Guido de Werd (Vorw.): With the possibility of being seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archive of an attitude . Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, p. 360.
  11. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 31.
  12. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 35.
  13. ↑ Brigitte Kölle, p. 36.
  14. ↑ Manfred Schwarz: "That was only possible with Conny" , article from January 6, 2011 in the zeit.de portal , accessed on January 13, 2014.
  15. ^ Christiane Hoffmans: Art market: State of North Rhine-Westphalia buys collection from Konrad Fischer . Article from January 13, 2014 in the welt.de portal , accessed on February 1, 2014.
  16. ^ State of North Rhine-Westphalia acquires Konrad Fischer's collection , article from January 12, 2014 in the rp-online.de portal , accessed on January 12, 2014.
  17. ^ Bertram Müller: Konrad Fischer Collection, a Secret Matter . Article from January 14, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on February 1, 2014.
  18. ^ Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf ( Memento of December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website in the monopol-magazin.de portal , accessed on December 20, 2014.
  19. ↑ Antje Birthälmer, Marlene Baum: "Private". Contemporary Wuppertal collectors in the Von-der-Heydt Museum . Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2009, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lueg, Konrad (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1996
Place of death Dusseldorf