Rainer Weingärtner

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'LaborArbor' H = 4m, KV Jülich, Citadel Sculpture Park '90, Copyright Rainer Weingärtner
'IKAR', diamond manipulation, drawing 75 × 50 cm, copyright Rainer Weingärtner
'Shockheaded Faraday', wood, cable, iron H = 44 cm, Copyright Rainer Weingärtner
'Maitresse de soi', 121 × 117 cm, purchase from the NRW collection, Reichsabtei Kornelimünster, copyright Rainer Weingärtner

Rainer Weingärtner (born December 6, 1937 in Iserlohn ) is a German object maker and graphic artist .

biography

Weingärtner studied graphics from 1958 to 1963 at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen under Professor Max Burchartz and Professor Josef Urbach.

From 1964 to 1982 he worked as an art director in Düsseldorf advertising agencies for international companies and institutions. In 1980 his 19 year old son died. He has been married to Lisa Rave-Weingärtner since 1982.

Weingärtner has been working as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf since 1983. After leaving the world of consumer advertising, he deals with its downside. In his objects he confronts technoid found material from the bulky waste with biological debris from the banks of the Rhine and later also from the Riviera. In 1987 a sculpture was bought at the 8th Biennale for Satire in Art, Gabrovo Bulgaria. In 1991 and 1996 he had a guest studio for 2 months in the artist village Ein Hod / Israel, artist exchange of the city of Düsseldorf. In 1993/1997/1999 he worked for two months in a guest studio of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists in the 'Cité Internationale des Arts' in Paris. In 2003, Weingärtner acquired a small house on a piece of wilderness in Liguria near the foothills of the Alps, which he built in the summer half of the year with reduced exhibition activity until it was sold in 2017 for reasons of age. During this time he also wrote 240 satirical poems with 17 drawings that were published by Geest-Verlag in 2009.

The guest studio stays in Israel prompted Weingärtner to collect structures in the area with the analog camera (parallel to the object finds). Graffiti and poster remains from Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank (also Christian graffiti from Bethlehem). Weingärtner mixed these finds from both written cultures using the slide sandwich method to create informal, abstract compositions, since in Europe neither Hebrew nor Arabic can be read. Weingärtner used his guest studio stays in the “Cité Internationale des Arts” to mix Louvre exhibits, erotic journal clippings, and leftover placards with leftover Parisian graffiti. These and other finds from Europe, New York, Bangkok etc. are the basis for abstract as well as figurative compositions, to which protein glaze drawings are added if necessary.

Weingärtner works with found material that is generally perceived as ugly or worthless, which he would like to give a value and a poetic shine again according to the evolutionary principle of chance (of the finds) and necessity (of artistic intervention).

Exhibitions

  • 1985: 'HEINRICH HEINE - An Encounter', German-Dutch. Traveling exhibition: D'dorf, Kunstpalast - Heerlen, Stadsschouwburg - Amsterdam, De Nieuwe Kerk - Eindhoven, de Krabbedans - Rotterdam, Goethe-Institut -
  • 1986: 'HEINRICH HEINE - An Encounter', German-Dutch. Traveling exhibition: Nijmegen, Stadsschouwburg - Venlo, Museum van Bommel-van Dam - Bielefeld, Ravensberger Spinnerei - Wesel, Städtische Galerie, K
  • 1986: Jülich, KUNSTAKTION WASSER , Kunstverein Jülich eV, K
  • 1987: Gabrovo / Bulgaria, 8th intern. Biennial Satire in Art, K
  • 1988: Vilnius / Lithuania, Kunsthalle: 25 Niederrheinische Künstler , K
  • 1988: Frankfurt / Main, Eiserner Steg: SCULPTURES ON THE MAIN , K
  • 1990: Düsseldorf, Ballhaus (with Sighard Gille, Peter Könitz, Hardy Döhrn, Reiner Roemer)
  • 1990: Moscow, INTERART , Sokolniki-Hallen, K
  • 1990: Kunstverein Jülich eV: SCULPTURE PARK IN THE CITADEL , K
  • 1991: Tilburg, Netherlands, Centrum voor Kunst (with Ursula Bolck-Jopp, Dieter Crumbiegel), K
  • 1992: St. Cyr l'Ecole / Versailles, German. Cultural festival, Goethe-Institut u. a .: Credit Agricole, E
  • 1993: Brakel, Art in St. Michael, E - Düsseldorf, Ballhaus (Performence: Michaele Cox), E
  • 1994: Jülich, Kulturhaus, Kunstverein Jülich eV, E
  • 1994: ART COLOGNE, Kunsthaus Langenberg e..V .: GRUNDSTEINKISTE , K
  • 1995: Hemer, Foundation for Art and Culture, SSK Hemer, E
  • 1995: Düsseldorf, Ministry of Economic Affairs: International artist exchange
  • 1995: Solingen, Blade Museum: Bergische Kunstausstellung , K
  • 1996: Willich, Städt. Gallery Schloss Neersen, E - Ein Hod near Haifa, Kulturhaus, E
  • 1998: Jülich, State Garden Show North Rhine-Westphalia: Object group , K
  • 1998: State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, MIFGASH German-Israeli exhibition
  • 1999: Jever, Künstlerforum eV, Galerie im Lokschuppen, E
  • 2000: Mülheim / Ruhr, Art Museum in the Alte Post, E
  • 2000: Langenberg, Kunsthaus Langenberg eV: Project TUCHfüHLUNG 2 , K
  • 2000: Kranj, Slovenia, World Art on Paper Festival . K
  • 2001: Kornelimünster, former Reichsabtei, state collection NRW: purchases since 1945
  • 2002: Mülheim / Ruhr, 160 years of Stadtsparkasse: PORCUS ARTIS , K
  • 2004: Mülheim / Ruhr, art museum. Box art
  • 2006–2007: Traveling exhibition, art collection, former Reichsabtei Kornelimünster: 'PHOTO ART FROM 60 YEARS - ART FROM NRW ON THE ROAD': Herne, Flottmann-Hallen - Ratingen, Städtisches Museum - Emsdetten, Galerie Münsterland eV, K
  • 2009: Düsseldorf, Café Mondrian and Galerie Klaus Bänder, drawings, reading: satirical poems: Sexameter-Salbeien-Skurrilosophismen , Geest-Verlag, E
  • 2016: SITTart Gallery, Association of D'dorfer Artists * 1844, with Klaus Ritterbusch, E
  • 2017: Düsseldorf, City Hall: CHOOSE COLOR
  • 2018: Jülich, Hexenturm, Kunstverein Jülich eV, For the 80th year of life , E
  • 2019: Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum: 'BETWEEN HUNGERTUCH AND KUNSTPALAST', 175 years Association of Düsseldorf Artists * 1844, K
  • 1986 -1990/1992/1994 -1999/2001: Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, LARGE ART EXHIBITION NRW, K

E = solo exhibition K = catalog - gallery exhibitions: Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Wesel, Wilhelmshaven, Iserlohn

literature

  • Visual artists and authors Düsseldorf. Literatur-Büro NRW eV, 1983
  • HEINRICH HEINE An encounter. 1985/1986, printing: SSN, Nijmegen / NL
  • Artist life in Düsseldorf. Grupello-Verlag, ISBN 3-928234-02-1 , 1992
  • Documentation 92. Kulturwerk BBK, printing: Schneider + Hense Düsseldorf, 1992
  • State Vilnius Art Gallery : BRIDGING THE BRIDGE. 1988, printing cooperative Lage / Lippe
  • Sculptures on the Main in 1988, Frankfurt, sculptor collective Albatros
  • Kunstverein Jülich eV sculpture park. 1990, Sterken printing company, Aachen
  • Kunsthaus Langenberg eV BASE STONE BOX. Box Catalog, 1994
  • Blade Museum: Bergische Kunstausstellung 1995. ISBN 3-930315-09-2
  • Catalog Cologne 11/95. ISBN 3-9804380-3-1
  • Kunsthaus Langenberg eV: TUCHÜHLUNG 2. 2000, catalogs 1 + 2, print PRINTAG, Krefeld
  • Porcus Artis. 100 art objects in Mülheim an der Ruhr. ISBN 3-85820-161-8 , 2002
  • Art around the LANDESGARTENSCHAU NRW. Jülich 1998, HGB Druck Jülich
  • PHOTO ART FROM 60 YEARS - Art from NRW on the move. 2006/2007, Landessammlung NRW, Kornelimünster, ISBN 3-926538-61-9
  • Large art exhibition NRW, catalogs 1986–1990 / 1992 / 1994–1999 / 2001 including ISSN 0931-0908
  • Rainer Weingärtner WITH FOUND FOURTHS. Catalog, Druck Wust & Co, Düsseldorf 1993
  • Rainer Weingärtner SEXAMETERS, SAGE SAGE, SCURRILOSOPHISMS. Satirical poems, drawings. Geestverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86685-162-7 , was included in the Heine yearbook 2009 , volume 48, ISBN 978-3-476-00490-1 .
  • RAINER WEINGÄRTNER | ART | FINDER | Catalog, Kettlerdruck, Bönen 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Weingärtner, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German object maker and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn