Raffael Rheinsberg

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Raffael Rheinsberg with his installation Black Water , 2002 in Amersfoort

Raffael Rheinsberg (born March 12, 1943 in Kiel ; † October 27, 2016 in Forst (Hunsrück) ) was an installation and object artist . He was one of the most famous contemporary German artists and worked with selected, large-scale found objects. His found objects were discarded and disposed of objects from the world of work, things that nobody needs anymore, but which have been given an independent form, a new being through use and processing.

The objects, taken out of their actual context, are given a new, current identity through large-scale installations. The "symbolic value of an object is infinite" said Rheinsberg. He processed objects relevant to the social structure and the past or present historical situation that would otherwise often be overlooked. Rheinsberg put this under his motto: "Every object has a soul".

Pineapple, gold, cocaine , 1992 drill heads of gold prospectors from the Amazon.
Installation sole instead of coal
Installation Bolzani Gallerie Listros Berlin

Life

After finishing school, Raffael Rheinsberg completed an apprenticeship as a moulder and caster from 1958 to 1961. From 1973 to 1979 he studied at the Muthesius-Kunsthochschule, the former technical college for design in Kiel. After that he drew attention to his work through numerous performances and exhibitions. In 1984 he received the German Critics' Prize and the Fine Art Prize of the " Art Prize Berlin " of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , in 1988 the Culture Prize of the City of Kiel and in 1994 the State Art Prize of Schleswig-Holstein.

Raffael Rheinsberg had been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1984 .

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Raffael Rheinsberg always traveled without art luggage, he found the elements required for his works at the places of work and life, the respective stations of his world trips. In Brazil, for example, he found the legacies of people on the dragas of the prospectors, in Mexico, Venezuela, Finland, Sweden or Norway, not infrequently in the form of apparently useless everyday objects and transformed them into his works of art. In Jens Rönnau's opinion, Rheinsberg's works touch people because they are directly related to their lives: with war and peace, with work and the economy, with nature and the destruction of nature, with home and foreigners as well as people themselves. With an awareness of history, present and future, Rheinsberg made this anchored in the inconspicuous things of everyday life, which he placed in surprising contexts.

Works in public collections (selection)

Germany

Finland

  • Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Sweden

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972 Lübeck, performance campaign on the market square
  • Between 1974 and 2013 17 solo and 13 group exhibitions in Kiel
  • 1976 Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin
  • 1977 Flensburg
  • 1978 Preetz
  • 1979 Berlin (East) solo exhibition Galerie Schweinbraden
  • Between 1979 and 2012 in Berlin 28 solo exhibitions, including in the Neue Nationalgalerie and 54 group exhibitions, including in the Jewish Museum
  • 1980 Berlin, Anhalterbahnhof ruin or temple?
  • 1980 Paris, Center Culturel de Marais
  • 1983 New York, three solo exhibitions and 5 group exhibitions
  • 1984 Bergen ,
  • 1985 Malmö, Oslo, Reims
  • 1986 Stockholm, Worms, Eckernförde
  • 1990 Venice, Kotka , Oslo, Munich, Tønder , Schwäbisch Hall,
  • 1991 Brazil, João Pessoa , Riga, Dublin, Knislinge (The Wanas foundation),
  • 1992 Mexico City, Seville, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Tokyo, Rauma , Volgograd, Washington DC, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1993 Hegvi , Bien , Vienna, Nuremberg, Heidelberg
  • 1994 Istanbul, Prague, Warsaw, Gdansk
  • 1995 Odense, Tallinn, Regensburg
  • 1996 Chicago, Flensburg, Brunsbüttel
  • 1997 Bochum, Eckernförde, Potsdam, Dresden
  • 1998 Copenhagen, Minden, Odense
  • 2000 Wismar, Tecklenburg , Weiden , Plön
  • 2002 Amersfoort , Münster, Weingarten , Marburg, Stuttgart
  • 2003 Oerlinghausen , Schwäbisch Hall
  • 2005 Lehnin , Dresden
  • 2009 Los Angeles,
  • 2012 Flossenbürg ,
  • 2013 Krems-Stein , Kiel (Flanders bunker)

Web links

Commons : Raffael Rheinsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Rönnau: World-wide celebrated object artist Raffael Rheinsberg is dead . In: Husumer Nachrichten . 3rd November 2016.
  2. ↑ Maren Kruse: Mourning the Kiel artist Raffael Rheinsberg: The magic of things. Kieler Nachrichten , October 29, 2016, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Kiel News. November 5, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Excellent or elitist? The return of the elites. Gegenworte , issue 17, spring 2007, accessed on October 27, 2016 (with pictures by Raffael Rheinsberg).
  5. ^ Raffael Rheinsberg . Artist database of the Institute for Foreign Relations , November 10, 2015, accessed on October 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Cover text for Jens Rönnau: “Changing values ​​in the work of Raffael Rheinsberg” . ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2016 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. Weltbild-Verlag , accessed on October 29, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltbild.de
personal data
SURNAME Rheinsberg, Raffael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2016
Place of death Forst (Hunsrück)