Rainer Wittenborn

Rainer Wittenborn (* 1941 in Berlin ) is a German painter and graphic artist who lives in Munich .

life and work

Rainer Wittenborn was born in Berlin in 1941 and was a professor at the Technical University of Munich until his retirement .

In the beginning he worked with the architect Thomas Herzog and the conceptual artist Nikolaus Lang .

In the 1980s , Wittenborn and journalist Claus Biegert documented the lives of the Canadian Cree Indians. The Goethe-Institut used its influence to support this trip. From August to December 1979, the two were on their research in Québec .

architectural art

• Design Center Linz, Austria

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2000 Rainer Wittenborn. De finibus terrae. South-North. An exploration on two borders Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce , Genoa
• 1995 Description Amazons of the North: James Bay Revisited , Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State
• 1977 R. Wittenborn, Landscape Management Westfälischer Kunstverein , Münster

Group exhibitions

• 2010 The first impulse - sketches - drawings Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
• 2004 Description War - Media - Art Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen , Bietigheim-Bissingen
• 2003 The Night of the Hunter ... - the Night of the Hunter Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
• 2002 Utopie Quotidiane - L'uomo ei suoi sogni nell'arte dal 1960 ad oggi PAC-Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
• 1987 But where there is danger, what is saving also grows (Hölderlin) Hospitalhof Stuttgart , Stuttgart
• 1985 The Tree in Mythology Art History and Contemporary Art Heidelberger Kunstverein , Heidelberg
• 1983 Übersee-Museum , Bremen
• 1983 currently '83 Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
• 1979 hermit? Researcher? Social worker? The changed self-image of artists Kunstverein in Hamburg , Hamburg
• 1977 documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel

literature

• Joint work 1972 - 1996 by Thomas Herzog, Nikolaus Lang, Rainer Wittenborn and Norbert Huse from Hatje Cantz Verlag (December 2001)
• with Claus Biegert: The great river drowns in water. James Bay, journey to a dying part of the earth. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-498-00479-4 .
• R. Wittenborn: Catalog Kestner Society Hanover. Catalog ed .: C.-A. Haenlein, 1975
• R. Wittenborn: Pictures, drawings, graphics 1968 - 1973. military offers, transmitted pictures, landscape management. 1974

Awards (selection)

• 1971 Scholarship from the German Academy Villa Massimo
• Fritz Winter Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gottfried Sello: Die Zeit online 1975 , accessed on July 21, 2013.
2. ^ TU Munich Former professors at the Faculty of Architecture ( memento of October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 21, 2013
3. ↑ Der Spiegel: Der Spiegel 24/1983 , accessed on July 21, 2013.
4. ↑ Peter Kraft: The Artists' Message (PDF; 7.6 MB) accessed on July 21, 2013
5. ↑ Der Spiegel: Der Spiegel 24/1983 , accessed on July 21, 2013.
6. ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Prize winners and award ceremonies Fritz Winter Foundation (PDF; 12 kB) accessed on July 21, 2013