Ludwig Gosewitz
Ludwig Gosewitz (born January 20, 1936 in Naumburg (Saale) , † October 2, 2007 in Bad Berka ) was a German artist .
life and work
Gosewitz studied first for one year at the Academy for Tonkunst Darmstadt , then from 1957 to 1965 music history, German literature and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and Philipps University in Marburg . From 1960 he published his first own works, for example in 1967 in the Anthology of Concrete Poetry compiled by Emmett Williams for " Something Else Press " . In 1962 he took part in events of the Fluxus movement in Amsterdam, for example in the parallel performances of the latest music and in 1964 in the ACTIONS / AGIT-POP / DECOLLAGE / HAPPENING / EVENTS / ANTIART / L'AUTRISME / ART TOTAL / festival organized by Tomas Schmit REFLUXUS at the Technical University in Aachen . In the 1970s he dealt with glass art, attended the "Glasfachhochschule Zwiesel" in 1972 and worked in a glass factory in Berlin from 1973 to 1978 . From 1988 to 2001 he was professor for the glass class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .
His artistic work encompasses a diverse field of drawings, mixed media, glass objects, graphics, typograms , throw texts , number pictures, concrete and visual poetry.
Public collections
Iceland
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel; Wiesbaden Museum , Wiesbaden
- 1984: from here , exhibition grounds, Düsseldorf
- 1985: New National Gallery , Berlin
- 1990: 44th Venice Biennale , Venice; Museum Fridericianum , Kassel
- 2002: Kunstverein Weiden, Weiden; New Museum Weserburg , Bremen; Bellevue Hall, Wiesbaden; Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden; Wiesbaden City Museum, Wiesbaden; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
- 2004: National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
- 2005: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile
- 2006: MALBA - Coleccion Costantini, Buenos Aires; Goethe Institute São Paulo
literature
- René Block , Gabriele Knapstein (concept): A long history with many knots. Fluxus in Germany. 1962-1994. Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart 1995
- Do you want total life? Fluxus and agit-pop of the 60s in Aachen . Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 1995, ISBN 3-929261-24-3 .
- Never again trouble-free! Aachen Avantgarde since 1964 , Kerber Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-602-8 .
Web links
- Ludwig Gosewitz in the kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
- Ludwig Gosewitz on kunstaspekte.de
- http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/3806
- Literature by and about Ludwig Gosewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Ludwig Gosewitz in the documenta archive
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gosewitz, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Naumburg (Saale) |
DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 2007 |
Place of death | Bad Berka |