Michael Cornelius scepter

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Michael Cornelius Zepter at a reading in Cologne in 2012

Michael Cornelius Zepter (born October 1, 1938 in Cologne ) is a German artist and writer .

Life

Michael Cornelius Zepter is the eldest son of the painter Hans Alfred Zepter and his wife Margarete von Vacano. Zepter grew up in Gollenshausen am Chiemsee . In 1950 he returned to Cologne where he acquired the Dreikönigsgymnasium 1959, the High School . From 1959 to 1964 he studied drawing , painting , graphics and art education at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Otto Coester and Joseph Fassbender . He also studied philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf (1966–68) and art history / art history with Hans Holländer ( RWTH Aachen University , 1973–1976). Zepter began his career in the mid-1960s as an art teacher at the Albertus Magnus Gymnasium in Cologne. Zepter worked as a social worker and as a lecturer for art education and textile design at RWTH Aachen University and, until 2002, academic senior councilor at the University of Cologne . Today he works as an artist, art scholar and freelance writer . His research areas include the cultural history of disguise, carnival and art as well as 20th century artist festivals.

Zepter has been married to Dascha Verne since 1963 and they have two children together (* 1964 and * 1966).

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
  • 1965: Galerie NOS , Duisburg (drawings and oil paintings)
  • 1976: Arthotek , Cologne (drawings)
  • 1981: Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen ("OSTVIERTEL")
  • 1984: VHS Essen ("Black Landscapes")
  • 2008: BBK Cologne (“DOPPELSPUR”) - retrospective together with Dascha Verne
  • 2018: Galerie & Antiquariat Rolf Hartung , Cologne-Kalk ("TERRA" - new watercolors)
Group exhibitions
  • 1970: "Rooms" - group exhibition KKK 70 (Cologne)
  • 1973: Bayer Gallery
  • 1973: Messe Düsseldorf
  • 1978: "Rudolph-Platz - place of the event", Hahnentorburg Cologne
  • 1981: "6 Cologne Artists" Kunstverein Salzburg
  • 1982: "Stern-Bilder" Brühl / Rhineland
  • 1982: “Artists in Aachen today” Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen
  • 1983: "Motto photo - 13 artists, 13 methods" Villa Engelhard, Düsseldorf
  • 1984: "Practice" exhibition by lecturers and students of the seminar for fine arts, RWTH Aachen University at Stolberg Castle
  • 1988: "Fog Chamber" BBK Cologne

Works

  • Willi Frommberger, Primitive Architecture: Exhibition d. Art circle Xanten in the regional museum Xanten, October 21 - December 2, 1979 , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979. ISBN 3-7927-0522-2
  • From papier collé to material action Notes on the history of the collage . (Foreword to the catalog of the exhibition Collage, Assemblages, Objects in the Hahnentorburg Cologne 1981)
  • Drawing (article in the catalog "PRAXIS" for the exhibition of the seminar for fine arts and their didactics, RWTH Aachen, Burg Stolberg 1984)
  • Escape the horror with a billowing sail. (Catalog foreword to a Blalla exhibition in the producers' gallery in Hamburg 1984)
  • In the garden of paths that branch out - the ensembles of Anna Oppermann (annotations in Anna Oppermann - pathos gesture)
  • Printing Experiments - Examples of a Simple Technique; experimental printing techniques (in textile design - information for teaching, issue 1, Düsseldorf 1989)
  • The woven screen - textile design and textile arts on the threshold of the electronic age (in textile work + teaching, issue 4, November 1992).
  • To be dressed like a stranger ... - Costumes and disguises of the Cologne tribes ( Petra Hartmann and Stephan Schmitz, Kölner Stämme. People - Myths - Masquerade. Vista Point Verlag Cologne 1991).
  • On the aspect of the fantastic in clothing (in Heidi Lerche-Renn (ed.). Kleid und Menschenbild. Art & Therapy, Issue 18, Cologne 1992).
  • The carnival thing in itself. Cologne artist festivals between the world wars. (in Rheinisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde. Volume 31 - 1995/96. Ferd. Dümmlers Verlag Bonn 1996).
  • Bird of paradise and rag ball. Two Cologne artist festivals between 1925 and 1939 in the mirror of the press. (in Dieter Breuer / Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann (eds.) Modernism and National Socialism in the Rhineland. Verlag Ferd. Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 1997).
  • Malewitschs clothes (in Waltraud Rusch (ed.): Der Faden der Ariadne. Festschrift 25 years, professional association for textile instruction. Schneider Verlag Hochgehren 2000).
  • Tünnes, Möhn and Lappenclown. The desire of the Cologne people to dress up (in Petra Hartmann and Stephan Schmitz: em Veedel. Photographs Kölner Veedelsvereine. Ed. Friends and Patrons of Kölner Customs eV Cologne 2000).
  • proper, staats, flott (in Petra Hartmann and Stephan Schmitz: Kölle danz! Schmitz & Hartmann: Köln 2009).
  • The world without a veil. Cologne artists at festivals in the twenties (in Bodo von Dewitz (ed.): La Bohème. The artist's staging in photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. Catalog Museum Ludwig: Cologne 2010).
  • Masquerade: Artists 'carnivals and artists' festivals in the modern age , Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2012. ISBN 978-3-412-20877-6
  • Rhenish artists between democracy and the market in the 1960s . In Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Jasmin Grande, Ulrich Rosar, Jürgen Wiener (eds.): The Bonn Republic 1945-1963, the founding phase and the Adenauer era - history - research - discourse. transcript - Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4218-6 .
  • "The victory of the clown" - Oskar Schlemmer's stair joke . In: Andreas Tacke, Ulrike Münch u. a .: artist festivals in guilds, academies, associations and informal circles. Michael Imhoff Verlag Petersberg 1919, ISBN 978-3-73190831-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AOR Michael Cornelius Zepter University of Cologne , accessed on November 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ literatur-muenchen.de - The Munich artist carnival around 1900: A lecture by Michael Cornelius Zepter (Cologne)  ( 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. Retrieved February 3, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.literatur-muenchen.de  
  3. ↑ Notes on the history of the collage , accessed November 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ Article in the "PRAXIS" catalog on the exhibition of the seminar for fine arts and their didactics, RWTH Aachen University, Burg Stolberg 1984, accessed on November 16, 2012
  5. ↑ Catalog foreword to a Blalla exhibition in the producers' gallery in Hamburg in 1984 , accessed on November 16, 2012.
  6. ↑ Notes in Anna Oppermann - Pathos Geste. Edition Lebeer Hossmann, Hamburg Brussels 1987. Retrieved on November 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Scepter, Michael Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne