Lothar Baumgarten

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Lothar Baumgarten (born October 5, 1944 in Rheinsberg ; † December 3, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German artist .

life and work

Baumgarten studied in 1968 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and from 1961 to 1971 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf - including a year as a student of Joseph Beuys , whose anthroposophical ideas also shaped his work. In 1972 Baumgarten had his first solo exhibition at the Konrad Fischer gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1978/79 he stayed with two Yanomami tribes in the Venezuelan-Brazilian border area for eighteen months . He exhibited sound and video recordings as well as drawings, paintings and photographic works from this period in 2011/12 at the Museum Folkwang in the six-month exhibitionLothar Baumgarten Evening of Time - Señores Naturales Yanomami before. The ethnographic collection and documentation he had compiled was donated to the Folkwang Foundation.

Baumgarten's artistic activity was characterized by installations and situational artistic works. From 1994 until his resignation due to unreasonable working conditions in 2006, he was a professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin .

Lothar Baumgarten lived and worked in Berlin and New York City .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Works (selection)

“Three will-o'-the-wisps”, 1987, baptismal baskets on the tower of the Lamberti Church , Münster

at DOCUMENTA IX 1992

Fonts

  • Lothar Baumgarten, Michael Oppitz : T'E-NET'E. A mythological performance. Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf 1974.
  • Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon. New York and Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art 1991
  • Lothar Baumgarten: America Invention. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 1993, ISBN 0-89207-102-8 .
  • Lothar Baumgarten: Eclipse. Richter, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-928762-80-X .

literature

  • Jürgen-Konrad Zabel: Images of the Other. Art and ethnography with Lothar Baumgarten. Dissertation at the University of Bonn 2001.
  • Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Baumgarten: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Anne Katrin Feßler: Alternative ethnographer: artist Lothar Baumgarten died , derstandard.de, published and accessed on December 6, 2018
  3. ^ Museum Folkwang press release November 2011
  4. ↑ Lothar Baumgarten Evening of Time - Señores Naturales Yanomami , altertuemliches.at, accessed December 5, 2018
  5. ^ Hochschulreport 2006 UDK Berlin , Monopol-Magazin dated September 1, 2006, accessed December 5, 2018
  6. ↑ Artist profile L. Baumgarten , artwiki.fr, December 5th accessed 2018
  7. ^ Prize for art in architecture 2003: Federal President's Office Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 5, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mfi.eu  
  8. ↑ Practice grant 2011 , villamassimo.de, accessed December 5, 2018
  9. ↑ Sculpture.Projects Münster : “Three Irrlichter” ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.muenster.de, accessed on October 18, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenster.de
  10. ↑ Limited Edition, illustrated with 118 photographs by Baumgarten , manhattanrarebooks.com, accessed December 5, 2018
  11. ↑ Inaugural - Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty, Bonn , accessed on December 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinsberg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2018
Place of death Berlin