Michael Danner

Michael Danner (born August 5, 1951 in Neu-Ulm ) is a German painter and sculptor.

biography

Danner studied from 1972 to 1977 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and from 1973 to 77 of art history at the University of Stuttgart. In 1989 he worked in California. In 1996 and 2004 he went to Central China, Normal University, Wuhan , China as a visiting professor .

He lives and works in Ulm and Werfen (Austria)

Michael Danner's work concept is an open system that creates a kind of energy field in a comprehensive view of the world, of the universal whole, of people and their senses, from which spiritual potentials take shape. His works can be seen as manifestations in a progressive continuum, as relics of a procedural process, as a pause that has become matter on the path of permanent change. This approach is characterized by a deeply felt closeness to the human body and the cycles of nature. Michael Danner deals with spaces, tensions, processes. The preoccupation with East Asian philosophy and the active practice of an Asian martial art (Tae Kwon Do, 3rd Dan) has influenced him to a concentrated presentation reduced to the essentials.

In painting, Michael Danner lets color penetrate from the back to the front through linear surface damage in the vibrating monochrome picture surfaces. In this way, the underneath and behind, the flat and the spatial, become visible at this interface. In large-format, reduced ink pictures, he visualizes states of tension that dynamize the entire picture surface. Empty spaces or points of contact often form the focus, action and reaction are mutually dependent. Michael Danner's installations relate the various forms of representation and their fields of tension with the surrounding space and the viewer located in it. This creates a complex physical-mental and spatial-temporal network of relationships.

"ascending", 2000 stone steel

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1986 Gallery Asperger & Bischoff, Chicago
• 1987 Art Association Pforzheim
• 1988 Ulm Art Association

  Pagodenburg, Kunstverein Rastatt

  Goethe Institute, San Francisco, 1989

• 1992 Göppingen Art Gallery
• 1993 Fullerton College Gallery, Los Angeles

  Gallery Schloss Mochental , Ehingen

• 1994 Manege, Moscow
• 1996 Kuenburggewölbe, Werfen

  Hubei Province Museum, Wuhan, China

  De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, USA

• 1998 Ludwig Gallery in Oberhausen Castle
• 1999 Ulm Art Foundation

  Eislingen Art Association

  Museum Villa Haiss, Zell aH

• 2000 City Hallein Gallery

  Kunstverein Konstanz

  City Gallery Kirchheim / T.

• 2002 Michaelerkirche and Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna,
• 2003 City Wendlingen Gallery
• 2006 Art Park Casa Austria, Salzburg
• 2007 Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
• 2007/2008 House of Senses, New Center Ulm
• 2009 Gallery in the Ganserhaus, Wasserburg

  Gallery of the Art Foundation, Ulm

• 2010 Foundation f. Concrete art, Freiburg

  Sebastianskapelle Gallery, Ulm

Web links

• www.michael-danner.com
• Literature by and about Michael Danner in the catalog of the German National Library

Commons : Michael Danner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files