Nils-Udo

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Nils-Udo (* 1937 in Lauf an der Pegnitz , Middle Franconia) is a German visual artist who is particularly known for his contributions to Land Art .

Life

Nils-Udo lived in Fürth from 1950 to 1960. After numerous trips, he moved to Paris in 1960. Nils-Udo began his artistic career as a painter, incorporating plants and natural materials into his paintings as early as Paris.

After almost ten years as a freelance painter, Nils-Udo moved to Upper Bavaria in 1970. In 1972 he turned away from painting and began to work with nature. The first earthworks and plantings with trees and bushes were made on meadows that he leased from farmers.

Later he realized landscape interventions a. a. in France, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Japan, India, Mexico, Israel, Namibia, Reunión and Lanzarote. Nils-Udo photographs his works, which often have a short lifespan. Since 1980 he has also implemented permanent large-scale projects for urban areas. Since 1989 he has been making paintings again.

Nils-Udo is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives and works in Riedering (Chiemgau).

Awards (selection)

  • 1998: 1st prize at the International Triennial for Photography in Friborg, Switzerland
  • 1985: 1st prize in the international Parc d'Éole competition in Brest

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Nils-Udo had since 1984 a. a. Solo exhibitions in France, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Canada and repeatedly in Japan. A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K".

  • 2011 Nils-Udo Nature. L'dresse - Musée de La Poste, Paris, May 30th - October 1st 2011 (retrospective) K, 
  • 2006: Traces in Nature. Sala Picasso, Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid K
  • 2005: Maison des Arts, Paris
  • 2004: Museé de Châteauroux, Strasbourg
  • 2003: nests. art gallery fürth K,
  • 2002: Nils-Udo Towards Nature. Gunma Art Museum, Tatebayashi / Hokkaido Obihiro Art Museum / Iwate Art Museum, Morioka K
  • 2000: L'art avec la nature. Center européen d'actions artistiques contemporaines (CEAAC), Strasbourg; Nils Udo. Zadkine Museum, Paris
  • 1999: Nils-Udo. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo; Nils-Udo. Art with nature. Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen / California Center for the Arts, Escondido, USA K
  • 1995: Nils-Udo. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

plant

Stone - Time - Human (2001), Wittgenstein-Sauerland Forest Sculpture Trail

With his interventions, Nils-Udo would like to sensitize people to nature.

For the Federal Horticultural Show 2005 in Munich, for example, Nils-Udo created an oversized bird's nest with over 2 m bird eggs and up to 18 m long spruce trunks as branches in a specially created earth hollow. The visitor moved on the bottom of the nest on white gravel - which represented the fluff - and thus experienced the 'bird's eye view' from inside the nest.

For his work Stein - Zeit - Mensch (2001) on the Wittgenstein-Sauerland Forest Sculpture Trail , Nils-Udo brought a quartzite monolith weighing about 150 t to the surface and surrounded it with monumental spruce trunks felled by the storm. The monolith appears to the observer as if he needed protection or as a temple shrine.

Most of his work, however, is far less monumental. Nils-Udo arranges what he finds rather sensitively - stones, twigs, leaves, flowers, berries, sand, salt - and transforms them into images, metaphors and symbols of often poetic intensity.

“My job consists of working in nature, with nature, working parallel to nature and above all: working out of it and working for it. That means: my work does not consist in furnishing nature with artifacts, that doesn't work. "

- Nils-Udo (2009)

Perhaps his best-known work is the album cover for Peter Gabriel's album OVO .

Works in public space (selection)

literature

Movie

Web links

Commons : Nils-Udo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • NILS-UDO Official website of Nils-Udo
  • Literature by and about Nils-Udo in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Portrait of Nils-Udo at the Environmental Art Museum (with the artist's thoughts on his work)
  • Portrait of Nils Udo on Morning Earth (with a longer interview)
  • Portrait of Nils Udo at the Lumas Gallery, Berlin (with exhibition directory)
  • Portrait of Nils Udo at the Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Geneva (with numerous illustrations)
  • film portrait on the website of the journalist and filmmaker Tilman Urbach under -> film (excerpts) the first minutes of the portrait "The natural artist Nils-Udo - drawing with flowers" for br / arte 2012
  • black flamingo agency represents Nils-Udo for commercial assignments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "N" / Nils-Udo (accessed on November 27, 2015)
  2. ↑ [1] . Pierre-Alain Challier Gallery, Paris; Nils-Udo - Vita ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Lumas Gallery, Berlin @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lumas.de
  3. ↑ Nils-Udo NATURE ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 639 kB). Rétrospective photographies et peintures du 30 mai to 1st octobre 2011. Press release, March 15, 2011, L'Adresse - Musée de La Poste, Paris (in French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.laposte.fr
  4. ↑ Marion Genaivre: sacrée Terre. In: L'Intermède , September 14, 2011 (French)
  5. ↑ Nils-Udo - Nests. Art Gallery Fürth, January 17 - February 9, 2003
  6. ↑ Sandra Schwaiger: Traunsteiner lays an egg in the nest of the BUGA. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruperti-nachrichten.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Chiemsee Nachrichten , September 14, 2005
  7. ↑ Nils-Udo: sculptée Nature. In: BR alpha , Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 22, 2009
  8. ↑ Nils-Udo  ( 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. : Grove - Romantic Landscape (1992). Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ludwigforum.de  
  9. ↑ Kunstweg MenschenSpuren ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Neanderthal Museum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neanderthal.de
  10. ↑ Nils-Udo presents an art project in the castle park. In: Hertener Allgemeine , April 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Nils-Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauf an der Pegnitz , Middle Franconia