Rainer Devens

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Rainer Devens (born  January 17, 1938 in Breslau , Silesia ) is a German painter and draftsman . He has lived in Wasserburg am Inn in Bavaria for over 50 years .

Rainer Devens 2013

Life

Gut Straß dance hall

Rainer Devens was born in 1938 in Breslau, Silesia. In 1945 his parents fled with him to Bachmehring near Wasserburg in Bavaria. Devens painted and drew from childhood. He attended high school in Wasserburg and then did a craft training. Later he did a commercial job. He began his artistic career around 1972 as an autodidact in self-study fine arts . Since 1982 Devens has been a member of the artist group Arbeitskreis 68 (AK68) in Wasserburg. From 1983 he showed his work in solo and group exhibitions. Between 1989 and 2001 he was a member of the board of AK68. Occasionally he was a member of the jury.

In 2001 Devens set up a studio in Gut Straß near Wasserburg, where he still organizes exhibitions today. From 2009 to 2010 he played a key role in the restoration and furnishing of the historic dance hall in Gut Straß. His paintings can also be seen in these rooms today.

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Atelier Gut Straß with the paintings for Schubert's winter journey

Starting from landscape and city views, Devens has increasingly devoted himself to the subject of the house since the 1980s . He often translates his thoughts into excerpts. In his paintings and drawings he also gives an insight into the history of the house and town. His works not only reveal individual Wasserburg buildings and facades, but also illustrate the typical Inn-Salzach architecture and medieval urban planning , for which the city of Wasserburg is exemplary. In addition, his painter's book with the title Wasserburger Houses with pictures and texts was published in 2000 .

Since the 2000s, Devens has been concerned with the relationship between house and person in his work cycle House Thoughts in increasingly abstract and symbolic paintings. In the pictures, the complex meaning of the house for people is treated as the first and last place, as a home and cage, as a place of retreat, but also as a stage. His works describe the tension between the individual and society, which is also reflected in the architecture. For many of his paintings, Devens chose the color red with its warm tones, which occasionally enabled a glimpse into the innermost part of the house.

His wide-ranging work also includes portrait art in drawings and paintings and the representation of technical details. In addition, he tries to make music and its effect pictorial. In 2008 he created the picture series Winterreise for Franz Schubert 's song cycle of the same name . Devens is also active as a sculptor and participated with his works Resonanz and Im Forst da the houses grow on the sculpture paths in Wasserburg and in the Ebersberger Forst.

Selection of works

Portraits

Wasserburger houses

  • Ganserhaus (2004)

  • Wasserburg: City Note (2016)

  • Cockchafer House (2004)

House thought

  • Ark (2016)

  • Build (2016)

  • Night piece (2015)

music

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Heavy Equipment (1999)
  • 2003: Wasserburg, gallery in the Ganserhaus, exhibition house with catalog.
  • 2006: Aschau im Chiemgau , exhibition house.
  • 2006: Burghausen , exhibition Das Haus.
  • 2007/2008: Wasserburg, Gut Straß chapel, exhibition 14 Stations of the Cross.
  • 2008/2009: Wasserburg, Gut Straß, exhibition Winterreise with 24 paintings on the song cycle by Franz Schubert.
  • 2009: Wasserburg, Rathaussaal, Schubert's Winterreise in sound and images.
  • 2010: Wasserburg, Gut Straß, theme exhibition melody.
  • 2011: Seeon Abbey , exhibition A Human Face.
  • 2011/2012: Traunstein , State Building Authority, exhibition Das Haus.
  • 2012: Rosenheim , Stadtwerke, exhibition Heavy Equipment - Biceps of the Modern Man.
  • 2012: Wasserburg, Gut Straß, exhibition of pictures from 30 years with an illustrated book.
  • 2014: Rosenheim, Kleine Werkraumgalerie, exhibition of thought houses.
  • 2016: Wasserburg, middle school, permanent exhibition Heavy Equipment - Biceps of Modern Man.
  • 2016/2017: Wasserburg, Stadtmuseum, Haus und Stadt exhibition .
  • 2017: Rosenheim, parish church St. Nikolaus , exhibition A Human Face. 14 stations of the cross with meditation texts by Odilo Lechner.

Group exhibitions (selection)

Ebersberg, Bavarian State Forests, Sculpture Trail: Houses grow in the forest (2014)
  • 1988: Wasserburg, gallery in the Ganserhaus, exhibition Artists see Wasserburg.
  • 1990: Seebruck , Haus des Gastes, exhibition drawing circle Bad Endorf.
  • 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019: Wasserburg, City Hall, large art exhibition.
  • 2003: Munich, House of Art, annual exhibition of the Munich artists' cooperative .
  • 2004: Munich , Haus der Kunst , exhibition Close to the Free Munich and German Artists .
  • 2002, 2007, 2010: Ebersberg , Alte Brennerei Gallery, annual exhibition of the Kunstverein.
  • 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013: Traunstein, municipal gallery and art space Klosterkirche, annual exhibition of the art association.
  • 2012: Wasserburg, gallery in the Ganserhaus, exhibition kaleidoscope of city views.
  • 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019: Prien am Chiemsee , gallery in the old town hall, annual exhibition.
  • 2014: Ebersberg, St. Hubertus Sculpture Path, Sculpture In the forest, the houses grow.
  • 2015: Wasserburg, Galerie im Ganserhaus, exhibition Wasserburg in portrait.
  • 2015: Tacherting , Kulturhaus Holzapfel, exhibition of picturesque music impressions & sculptures with Franz Wörle (sculptures).
  • 2019: Wasserburg, Gut Straß, exhibition Man and Music with Wilhelm Zimmer (sculptures).

Publications

  • 2000 Rainer Devens - Wasserburg houses.jpg
  • 2003 Rainer Devens - House.jpg
  • 2008 Rainer Devens - A Human Face.jpg
  • 2011 Rainer Devens - On the Unity of the Diverse.jpg
  • Wasserburger houses. Vochezer Druck GmbH, Traunreut 2000, ISBN 3000068279 .
  • House. First place, protection, warmth, stage, last place. Wasserburg 2003.
  • with Odilo Lechner : A human face. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 9783898704731 .
  • On the unity of the diverse. Wasserburg 2011.

Web links

Commons : Rainer Devens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c http://blog.museumsperlen.de/2016/12/05/rainer-devens-haus-und-stadt/ (January 19, 2018)
  2. ^ Rainer Devens: House. First place, protection, warmth, stage, last place , p. 31.
  3. ↑ a b Rainer Devens: From the Unity of the Diverse , p. 62.
  4. ↑ http://www.rainer-devens.de/vita (January 21, 2018)
  5. ↑ a b http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ebersberg/wasserburg-kulissen-des-lebens-1.3203306 (January 19, 2018)
  6. ↑ https://www.wasserburger-stimme.de/stadt/der-kreuzweg-ein-menschengesicht/2016/03/24/https://www.wasserburger-stimme.de/stadt/der-kreuzweg-ein-menschengesicht / 2016/03/24 / (January 19, 2018)
  7. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/kultur/bildvision-toenende-reallichkeit-437417.html (January 19, 2018)
  8. ↑ https://www.echo-rosenheim.de/gedanken-haeuser-haus-gedanken/ (January 19, 2018)
  9. ↑ http://www.wasserburg.de/fileadmin/Dateien/Dateien/Museum/Ausstellungen/Sonderausstellungen/vergangene_Sonderausstellungen/Flyer_Rainer_Devens_Internet.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/wasserburg/haeuser-portraets-fangen-baugeschichte-6983666.html (January 20, 2018)
  11. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/rosenheim-stadt/antlitz-christi-regt-nachhaben-7447749.html (January 19, 2018)
  12. ↑ http://kunstaspekte.art/event/jahresausstellung-2007-2007-06 (January 19, 2018)
  13. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/kultur/spiegel-gegenwartskunst-1483178.html (January 19, 2018)
  14. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/kultur/kaleidoskop-stadtansichten-2542733.html (January 21, 2018)
  15. ↑ http://www.baysf.de/fileadmin/user_upload/05-wald_erkunden/02-Ausflugszüge___Tipps/pdf/Skulpturenweg-Hubertus-2014_klein.pdf
  16. ↑ http://rojo.de/der-arbeitskreis-68-praesentiert-wasserburg-im-portraet-2/ (January 21, 2018)
  17. ↑ https://www.wasserburger-stimme.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-7-ausstellung-devens-woerle-aussen-150730.pdf
  18. ↑ https://www.wasserburger-stimme.de/stadt/malerische-musik-trifft-auf-eisen/2015/10/23/ (April 30, 2018)
  19. ↑ https://www.ovb-heimatzeitungen.de/haben-kultur/2019/05/08/ Zwischen-gegenstaendlichkeit-und- abstraktion.ovb (May 31, 2019)
  20. ↑ https://www.wasserburger-stimme.de/schlagzeilen/mensch-und-musik/2019/04/30/ (May 31, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Devens, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw