Leo Erb

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Leo Erb

Leo Erb (born January 21, 1923 in St. Ingbert , † October 21, 2012 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German artist .

biography

Erb attended the arts and crafts school in Kaiserslautern from 1940 to 1943, where the St. Ingbert artist Albert Weisgerber had previously completed his first training at the turn of the century. In 1946/1947 he attended the school for arts and crafts in Saarbrücken . There he mainly studied with Boris Kleint , who represented the Bauhaus theory ( color type theory ) of the Bauhaus educator Johannes Itten . In the early years (1948/1949), Erb set up his own studio in his hometown.

During this time he created his first linear paper cuts, sculptures and "line drawings". In 1957, together with his teacher Boris Kleint and other young Saarland artists, he founded the “Neue Gruppe Saar”, which was part of the avant-garde at the time. From around 1958 he began his structured "line pictures" and "line reliefs", which he u. a. 1958 in Düsseldorf as part of the 7th evening exhibition "The red image" of the ZERO group in Düsseldorf.

In 1961, Erb moved to Paris, where he lived until 1975 and worked in his self-built studio. During this period he further developed his line work and created "linear light objects", "solar sculptures" and kinetic objects. In 1977 he took part in Documenta 6 in Kassel . Through the entire work of Leo Erb “the line” and the color white in all shades runs like a red thread. This core theme of his concerns all of his work groups such as hand drawings, material pictures, reliefs, sculptures, kinetic objects, light objects and hand prints. In Erb's work “... the great Bauhaus doctrine returns, radicalized and concentrated on its essential elements. Many of Erbs line images and line objects can be read both flat and spatially. Erb's lines are three-dimensional light ridges or shadow lines; they turn the pictures into things that are presented to the light, that live in the light ”(Lorenz Dittmann).

Awards / prizes

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957 Elitzer Gallery (Saarbrücken)
  • 1961 Duncan Gallery (Paris)
  • 1966 Galerie le Soleil dans le Tête (Paris)
  • 1967 Gallery Mensch (Hamburg)
  • 1970 Center Co-Mo (Paris): "Leo Erb - la ligne et le mouvement"
  • 1973 Püschel Art Promotion (Bielefeld)
  • 1975 Galerie Leaman (Düsseldorf): "Line pictures and objects"
  • 1976 The Electric Gallery (Toronto): "Leo Erb - kinetic art"
  • 1977 documenta 6 (Kassel)
  • 1977 Art Basel (Galerie Seebacher)
  • 1978 Gallery Art Line (The Hague) / Galeria Pellegrino (/ Bologna) / Galerie Hermanns (Munich)
  • 1979 Gallery Lang (Vienna): "Kinetics - Cybernetics"
  • 1980 Art Museum (Sprengel Collection, Hanover)
  • 1983 Palatinate Gallery (Kaiserslautern)
  • 1988 Dr. Luise Krohn (Badenweiler) / Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken): "Line pictures 1968 - 1988"
  • 1992 Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen): "Early Drawings"
  • 1993 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken): "Leo Erb. Drawings 1947-1992"
  • 1993 Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens (Stockholm) * 1997 Gallery Kain (Basel) / Villa Zanders (Bergisch Gladbach): "Retrospective"
  • 1999 The White Gallery (Cologne)
  • 2001 Museum for Concrete Art (Ingolstadt): "With white you have to show your colors"
  • 2003 Ucher Gallery (Cologne): "a life for the line"
  • 2007/08 Gallery Wack (Kaiserslautern)
  • 2008 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken) Special exhibition as part of the Saar State Art Exhibition 2008
  • 2016 Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin
  • 2018 Gallery Wack (Kaiserslautern)

literature

  • Leo Erb - line pictures 1968 - 1988. [exhibition catalog]. Saarbrücken: Saarlandmuseum, 1988. 96 p., With numerous, partly color illus.
  • Leo Erb - Early Drawings. [Exhibition catalog]. Ludwigshafen: Wilhelm Hack Museum, 1992. 154 pp.
  • Leo Erb - drawings 1947 - 1992. (exhibition catalog). Saarbrücken: Saarland Museum, 1993. 142 p., With contributions by Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Ernest W. Uthemann
  • Leo Erb - a retrospective. [Exhibition catalog]. Bergisch Gladbach: Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, 1993. 98 p., With numerous. full-page fig.
  • Leo Erb - with white you have to show your colors. [Exhibition catalog]. With contributions from Lorenz Dittmann, Peter Volkwein, Manfred Schneckenburger. Ingolstadt: Museum for Concrete Art, 2001. 84 p., Numerous. Color ill.
  • Leo Erb - a life in white. Retrospective for the 80th birthday. [Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen. Exhibition and catalog: Ulrike Lehmann]. Bielefeld: Kerber, 2003. 127 p., Numerous. Fig. ISBN 3-936646-10-4
  • Graf, Sabine: Totally devoted to the line. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (culture) v. December 20, 2007, p. B 4
  • Graf, Sabine: "I think I've earned it" - Leo Erb and the Saarland Art Prize. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung v. November 19, 2008, p. B5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition Leo Erb - July 8 to August 26, 2016. Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, July 3, 2016, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Erb, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2012
Place of death Kaiserslautern