Norbert Müller-Everling
Norbert Müller-Everling (born March 27, 1953 in Bensheim ) is a visual artist and representative of Concrete Art .
Life
Müller-Everling grew up in Wattenscheid . From 1973 to 1979 he studied with Erwin Heerich at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , followed by a degree in philosophy in Aachen . From 1982 he lived as a freelance sculptor. From 1987 to 1992 he had a studio in the wax factory in Cologne . From 1986 to 1990 he worked with Markus Stockhausen in the performance Lila . He now lives near Altenkirchen (Westerwald) , where he worked as an art teacher at the Westerwald Gymnasium until 2015.
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Initially, Müller-Everling worked on sculptures and reliefs that, in the sense of Concrete Art, were based heavily on the formal language of geometry and that were also realized in public space.
Since 1995, wax has been the main focus of his interest. Since then, Müller-Everling's wall pieces are monochrome paraffin plates , which are intensely colored and curved in a concave manner . The wax, as a transparent material, allows the light to shine through more intensely in the thinning central zones of the sculptural works. The light is the central event of the wax work. Not in its illuminating function, but as the quality inherent in the image body. Noticeably present in the thin as well as in the more massive parts, it is enhanced by their polarity. The imaginary continuation of the objects beyond the lateral edges creates an imaginary, cylindrical interior into which the viewer is included. With vivid sensitivity and a reduced formal language, Müller-Everling leads his wax work to a sensitive unity of form, material and light. Andreas Pohlmann wrote: "The reliefs are a convincing attempt to create an artistic synthesis between the three great worlds of the rational, the emotional and the spiritual."
Since 2007, another phase of wax work has followed in Müller-Everling's factory. There are now yellowish stripes or fields in the front and back of uncolored paraffin plates. There is an interplay of clear and diffuse forms in the field of tension between the silence of the white surface. Since 2017, Müller-Everling has also been working with different colored paraffin layers that are poured on top of each other and that produce even color transitions when cut at an angle.
Working in public space
- 1989 - Goethe Institute , Lima
- 1992 - Logarithmic water staircase, Social Court, Cologne
- 1994 - Design of the square, Clemens-Hastricht-Platz, Cologne-Bickendorf
- 1994 - Suermondt Ludwig Museum , Aachen
- 1997 - Federal Ministry of Defense , Bonn
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1982 - Baroque factory , Aachen
- 1985 - Gallery "monochrom", Aachen
- 1988 - wax factory, Cologne
- 1989 - Ministry of the Interior, Bonn
- 1991 - Aine Art Museum Tornio in Finland
- 1995 - Kunstverein Gummersbach
- 1997 - University Club, Bonn
- 2000 - Siegburg City Museum
- 2002 - Crypt of the Kreuzkirche , Bonn
- 2008 - art & communication, Bochum
- 2018 - Art Pütz, Montzen , Belgium
Participation in exhibitions (selection)
- 1988 - "Pyramiden", International Congress Center Berlin a. Jule Kewenig Gallery, Frechen
- 1998 - BBK Cologne, stack house
- 1998 - 1st Biennale for Concrete Art, Künstlerforum Bonn
- 1999 - 7 concrete artists in the Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel
- 1999 - “group concrete” and guests, Museum Abtei Liesborn
- 1999 - International Art Festival, Naju, South Korea
- 2000 - Society for Art and Design , Bonn (with Norvin Leineweber )
- 2001 - 3rd Biennale for Concrete Art, Andernach
- 2001 - “Logic and Poetry in Concrete Art”, Dacheröden House, Erfurt
- 2001 - 4 specific from Rhineland-Palatinate, Landtag, Mainz
- 2002 - "Transparent - Translucid", Renate Bender Gallery, Munich
- 2002 - "Overview" - West German Artists Association , Museum Bochum
- 2002 - "Europe Concrete Reductive", Museum Modern Art , Hünfeld
- 2003 - 30 positions - 30 rooms, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld
- 2005 - Concrete Art in Rhineland-Palatinate, Metternich House , Koblenz
- 2005 - “Wages of Labor” - West German Artists Association, Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
- 2007 - The crooked truth of space , art office Berlin, Berlin, Germany (with Norvin Leineweber , Dirk Radtke and Heiner Thiel )
- 2010 - "Landpartie", West German Artists Association, Museum Abtei Liesborn
- 2017 - 25 years of "Art and Communication", Bochum
literature
- Dirk Tölke - Gently resting presence - In: Klenkes (Stadtmagazin), Aachen / Euregio from May 2, 2018
- Landpartie - Exhibition catalog for the complete exhibition of the West German Artists Association, 2010
- The crooked truth of space - exhibition catalog Kunstbüroberlin, Bremen, Hachmannedition, 2007
- Europa Konkret Reduktiv - Exhibition catalog Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, 2002, Ed. Jürgen Blum
- Logic + Poetry - Documentation for a colloquium in the Forum Konkrete Kunst Erfurt, 2001
- During studies with Erwin Heerich 1961–1987 - Bookstore Walther König, Cologne, 2000
- Norbert Müller-Everling, Diaphainon - exhibition catalog, publisher Gert Fischer, in it: Andreas Pohlmann : Diaphainon - to the wall works made of wax by Norbert Müller-Everling - catalog Stadtmuseum Siegburg 2000
- Art and Construction NRW - Ministry f. Building and Living, Düsseldorf, 1998
- Johannes Peter Hölzinger: “Synthesis des Arts” - The connection between art and art Architecture at the government buildings on Hardthöhe in Bonn. Edition Axel Menges , Stuttgart / London, 1998, ISBN 3-932565-09-6
- Ingeborg Flagge (Ed.): An architecture for the senses: Busmann & Haberer. Verlag Ernst & Sohn, 1996, ISBN 3-433-02658-0
- Norbert Müller- Everling: Exhibition catalog, Galerie am Tiergarten, Hanover, 1993
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Müller-Everling, Diaphainon - exhibition catalog, publisher Gert Fischer, in it: Andreas Pohlmann : Diaphainon - To the wall works made of wax by Norbert Müller-Everling - catalog Stadtmuseum Siegburg 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Everling, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensheim |