Oliver Jordan

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Oliver Jordan (born March 29, 1958 in Essen ) is a German painter. He lives and works in Cologne , Essen and in Port-Blanc ( Brittany ).

Life

From 1980 to 1985 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Ellen Neumann, Anatol Herzfeld and in the context of the FIU with Joseph Beuys and Johannes Stüttgen .

Oliver Jordan has been actively committed to helping landmine victims since 2000.

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Oliver Jordan has been pursuing a concept of representational painting since the early 1980s, which he consistently enforces and clarified in the manifesto and the cycles "Lost and Found in Blue" and "Rembrandt Hears John Lee Hooker". In addition to the portrait and the landscape, the city is the focus of his painting. Until 2003 u. a. realized the following city cycles: Dortmund, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Florence, Naples, Lyon, Paris, Madrid, Cologne, Essen and London.

He portrayed many well-known personalities such as the athletes Daniel Narcisse and Helmut Rahn , musicians such as Anne Sophie Mutter , Kent Nagano , Keith Richards and Bob Dylan . In 2001 Jordan portrayed the Lord Mayor of Cologne, Norbert Burger for the Old Town Hall in Cologne. In 2001/2002 a series of 16 portraits of the industrialist Berthold Beitz was created . In 2002 he painted an 8 × 9 meter triptych with Gustav Mahler , Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schönberg for the Dortmund Philharmonic . In 2003, Jordan represented the state of North Rhine-Westphalia as an artist at the invitation of Prime Minister Peer Steinbrück on the Day of German Unity in the German Embassy in London.

His pictures are in public and private collections. Since 1983 he has had regular exhibitions in galleries, museums, art associations, as well as presentations at national and international trade fairs. Numerous books and catalogs as well as film and television contributions, such as the scientific film about seeing with Detlef Linke for Bavarian television (2003), document his work.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990: Kolbhalle, Cologne
  • 1991: "Pictures against the Gulf War", Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1992: "Blues for Dortmund", Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 1995: "Blues of Pictures", Cologne City Museum , Cologne
  • 2000: “Meisterschüler Beuys” (group exhibition), Museum Schloss Moyland
  • 1998-2003: Art Cologne a . a. with “Spirito del Lago”, art project on Isola Bella with Peter Gilles, Enrico Baj, Jan van Munster, Patrick Raynaud and others. a.
  • 2000: German Federal Press House, Berlin; Kunstverein Augsburg "Good Morning Painting" (with Polke, Richter, Schumacher, Zimmer, Hoehme)
  • 2001: Annual gift Motif: J. Beuys; Beuys Museum Schloss Moyland; Van der Grinten collection, Kleve
  • 2001: "The citizens of Hattingen", Kunstverein Hattingen
  • 2002: Kunstverein Dortmund
  • 2000–2007: Arco (Madrid art fair), Pulse (New York and Miami art fair), Art Cologne; Group u. Solo exhibitions at Galerie Röpke y Arnès (Madrid, Cologne), Galerie am Hauptplatz, Fürstenfeldbruck
  • 2003: Exhibition on the occasion of the reception of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Day of German Unity, German Embassy London
  • 2005: Cologne Fine Art , Cologne; Solo exhibition accompanying the Picasso exhibition, Galerie Noah in the Glaspalast , Augsburg
  • 2006: Group exhibition with Frank Auerbach, Baselitz, Barcelo, Kiefer and Kippenberger, Galerie Röpke, Cologne
  • 2006: Cologne Fine Art, Cologne; Galerie der Moderne, Mainz, with Thomas Baumgärtel
  • 2012: Oliver Jordan painting, Seippel Gallery , Cologne
  • 2013: Wedding of the Light homage to Albert Camus, Grand Théatre Aix-en-Provence, France, as part of the European Capital of Culture-Marseille / Provence
  • 2014: Ver-Seal of Reality, Seippel Gallery , Cologne
  • 2014: Rhineland scene: Oliver Jordan: Painting as a revolt - A homage to Albert Camus , LVR Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 2017: moments. Homage to Heinrich Böll , Kulturkirche Ost , Cologne-Buchforst

Public collections (selection)

Literature by and about Oliver Jordan (selection)

  • Oliver Jordan Portraits, Volume I, ed. by Ralf-P. Seippel, Kehrer Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-86828-817-9
  • Oliver Jordan, Painting as Revolt - Homage to Light, Beauty and Camus, ed. v. Ralf-P. Seippel u. Oliver Jordan, Kehrer Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-565-9
  • Oliver R. Jordan. Blues for Dortmund, Tayfun Belgin, Gunnar F Gerlach, 1992, ISBN 3926141301
  • Oliver Jordan. Oliver Jordan, Ricarda Fox, Manfred de la Motte , Edition Braus by Wachter Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3899040481
  • Good Morning. Painting, edited by Manfred de la Motte, Augsburg, 2000, ISBN 3-929769-68-9
  • After the rain. Published by Michael Euler-Schmitt and Roland Scotti, Cologne / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929769-41-7
  • Oliver R. Jordan: Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Kölnische Galerie, October 1995, ISBN 3929769158

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on July 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH eat