Konrad Quillmann
Konrad Quillmann (born March 8, 1936 in Berlin ; † November 1, 2002 in Ostheim (Nidderau) ) was a German sculptor , ceramist , draftsman and publicist .
Live and act
After graduating from the High School in Hanau in 1957, Quillmann studied sculpture with Brigitte Meyer-Denninghoff and Bernhard Graf von Bylandt-Rheydt, ceramics with Walter Popp and art education with Ernst Röttger as well as art studies and sociology at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel until 1961 . Together with his fellow students Robert Sturm , Dieter Crumbiegel, among others, he developed new forms of ceramics and gave the modern ceramics emerging from Popps Kassel School of Ceramics important impulses.
After the first state examination for higher teaching qualifications in 1961 at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel, Quillmann completed his legal traineeship in Frankfurt am Main and founded his first ceramic workshop in Oberau , Upper Hesse, together with his wife Elfriede in 1962 . In the same year he received a teaching position for plastic design (ceramics) at the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main . In 1963, he completed his second state examination to become a teacher. From 1963 to 1967 Quillmann worked as a research assistant and head of the ceramic class at the Art Education Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He then relocated his ceramic workshop to Hainstadt am Main . From January 1968 to August 1998 Quillmann was an art teacher at the Karl Rehbein School in Hanau . In 1967 he began his successful work in product design as a designer for industrial products / porcelain for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM).
From 1966 onwards, his journalistic focus was on approaches to establishing ceramics as an artistic discipline, as well as questions of ceramic morphology and technology. He published his work in specialist journals.
From 1970 on, Quillmann's artistic activity focused exclusively on the acrylic glass sculptures he developed. His works are shown in museums and galleries in Germany and abroad, including in the collection of forms of the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig and in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg . The Swiss galleries Toni Brechbühl and Suzanne Bollag, the Galerie Vivarois in Paris and the Galerie Twenty-One in Johannesburg , South Africa, represented Quillman and exhibited his works. Some of his works have found their way into private and public collections.
Quillmann recognized for himself that what the eye sees is not always necessarily identical with what one knows, and thus defined his acrylic glass sculptures, which use mathematical structures to create spatial syntheses that - due to the transparent material - Redefine body, volume and space. The optically sensitive material, the colorless plastic acrylic glass, is processed in transparency and light refraction to the highest perfection using a technique that Quillmann mastered flawlessly. By cutting and polishing, the material changes color from milky white to crystal clear transparency, shows in innumerable variations of reflex and counter-reflex or partial absorption of the incident light, new inner surfaces, new interiors and spatial displacements - optical illusions due to physical laws.
Honors
- 1969: Awarded the International Bavarian State Prize for Artistic Work as part of the trade fair in Munich
Exhibitions
- 1966 Century Hall of Farbwerke Hoechst AG, Frankfurt
- 1966 Braunschweig Municipal Museum (collection of forms)
- 1967 German goldsmith's house, Hanau
- 1968 Salzgitter Art Association
- 1968 Galerie Gessmann, Frankfurt am Main
- 1969 Galerie Moering, Wiesbaden and Heidelberg
- 1970 Villinger Gallery, Würzburg
- 1970 German goldsmith's house, Hanau
- 1970 Gallery 66, Eckernförde
- 1970 State Museum Oldenburg
- 1971 Old Rathachweinfurt
- 1971 Galerie Gessmann, Frankfurt am Main
- 1972 Salzgitter Art Association
- 1973 Suzanne Bollag Gallery, Zurich
- 1973 Rewolle Gallery, Bremen
- 1973 Krikhaar Gallery, Amsterdam
- 1973 Oly Gallery, Gelnhausen
- 1974 Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen
- 1974 Galerie Vivarois, Paris
- 1974 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
- 1975 Cross Section Gallery, Braunschweig
- 1975 Twenty-One Gallery, Johannesburg
- 1976 Twenty-One Gallery, Cape Town
- 1976 Suzanne Bollag Gallery, Zurich
- 1976 Stonalova Gallery, Wiesbaden
- 1977 Gallery Der Grüne Panther, Frankfurt am Main
- 1978 Keramion (Accrochage), Frechen
- 1979 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
- 1982 Suzanne Bollag Gallery, Zurich
- 1982 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
- 1983 Gallery Das Bilderhaus, Frankfurt am Main
- 1984 Gallery at Winterberg, Vlotho
Works in public collections
- Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf
- State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
- Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
- Kunsthalle Bremen
- Municipal Museum (Braunschweig) (collection of forms)
- Art collections of the Veste Coburg
Publications
- Artisanal ceramics in industrial society - romantic relic or demand and opportunity of the times? , Ceramic magazine 4/66
- Modalities of creative processes - an example from ceramic practice , Keramische Zeitschrift 5/1966
- Between yesterday and tomorrow - ceramic design , ceramic magazine 9/66
- Exhibition ´66 - Konrad Quillmann, ceramics , catalog for the exhibition in Wiesbaden, together with Elfriede Quillmann, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Braunschweig and Cologne, 1966
- Escape to Perfection? , Ceramic magazine 4/67
- Artistic emancipation: ceramics - the material of colored room surfaces , ceramic magazine 6/1970
literature
- Jakob Wilhelm Hinder: On the ceramic work of Konrad Quillmann , Keramische Zeitschrift 12/65
- Josef Erben: Konrad Quillmann - ceramics ´66, exhibition in the Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt , ceramic magazine 10/1966
- Hermelinde Polascheck: Konrad Quillmann - ceramist between art and science , art and craft 6/67
- Ulrich Gertz: Walter Popp and his students , Keramos / 1978, January 1978
- Karlheinz Schmid: The new multiple boom and the old ideology , KUNSTFORUM International, Volume 111, 1991
- Ingrid Vetter: Modern Ceramics of the 20th Century - Inventory Catalog of the Hinder Collection | Reimers des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz , Arnoldsche Stuttgart, pages 20, 65, 105, 193, 198–199, 231, 245, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-275-6
- Ingrid Vetter: Walter Popp - Keramik , publisher Museum for Modern Ceramics Deidesheim eV, page 9, 2013
- Ingrid Vetter: Aspects of Modernism - Walter Popp and his legendary "Kasseler Schule" , pages 14, 18 and 26, exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Speyer June 6th to July 20th, 2014.
- Tim D. Gronert: KPM porcelain - Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin - 1918–1988 - history, artists and works. Volume III, artist biographies, pp. 294–297, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-422-97147-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Schmid: The new multiple boom and the old ideology in KUNSTFORUM International, Volume 111, p. 191
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quillmann, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist (ceramics, design and graphics) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 2002 |
| Place of death | Ostheim (Nidderau) |