Reiner Ruthenbeck
Reiner Ruthenbeck (born June 30, 1937 in Velbert ; † December 10, 2016 in Ratingen ) was a German sculptor and conceptual artist .
life and work
After an apprenticeship as a photographer, Ruthenbeck worked as a freelance photographer in Düsseldorf from 1956 until the late 1960s . His documentary and theater photos, portraits and work recordings of works by his artist colleagues were made from the end of the 1950s to the Venice Biennale in 1976 and conceptual photography between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1970s. Among other things, he documented famous avant-garde campaigns such as the Fluxus Concerts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , a series of actions by Joseph Beuys and the ZERO group, and accompanied the Leben mit Pop campaign - a demonstration for capitalist realism in the Berges furniture store , Flinger Straße 11 , with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg . From 1962 to 1968 he completed a sculpture degree with Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. During his last year of study, his sculptures and art objects were exhibited in the Konrad Fischer Gallery , an important avant-garde gallery in Düsseldorf. In 1975 and 1976 he was a visiting lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . From 1980 to 2000 he taught as a professor of sculpture at the Art Academy in Münster . Ruthenbeck lived and worked in Ratingen near Düsseldorf.
His works are very individual and difficult to classify, the early works are sculptural and partly show his interest in Surrealism at the time , later become more abstract and incorporate elements of minimal art , material art , concept art and Arte Povera . He used metal, ash, cloth, glass, wood, paper, light, sounds, photographs, there is a famous video object (actually an anti-video object) and drawings.
Honors and awards (selection)
- 1973: Art Prize of the City of Krefeld
- 1982: Konrad von Soest Prize from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
- 1987: Will Grohmann Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- 1992: Arnold Bode Prize Kassel
- 1997: Harry Graf Kessler Prize of the German Association of Artists
- 2000: Lichtwark Prize Hamburg
- 2005: Fifth graphic award of the Griffelkunst -Members Hamburg
- 2006: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize of the City of Duisburg
Exhibitions (selection)
- Solo exhibitions
- 1967: Copenhagen Art Academy in Charlottenburg Palace , Copenhagen (with Blinky Palermo )
- 1967: Konrad Fischer Gallery , Düsseldorf
- 1971: Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
- 1972: Municipal Museum , Mönchengladbach
- 2008: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation , Duisburg
- 2014: Serpentine Galleries, London
- 2014: Maison de la Culture d'Amiens
- 2017: LWL Museum for Art and Culture , Münster
- Group exhibitions
- 1968: Prospect '68, Düsseldorf
- 1969: When attitudes become form , Bern
- 1969: Prospect '69, Düsseldorf
- 1970: The 10th international art exhibition, Tokyo
- 1972: documenta 5 , Kassel
- 1976: 37th Venice Biennale , together with Joseph Beuys and Jochen Gerz in the German pavilion
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1981: Westkunst, Cologne
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
- 1984: From here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
- 1986: Chambres d'amis, Gent
- 1987: Sculpture.Projects , Münster
- 1990: Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
- 1992: documenta IX , Kassel *
- 1997: Sculpture.Projects , Münster
- 1999: Museu Serralves , Porto; Circa 1968
- 2009: Overturned furniture , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- 2011: Villa Romana , Florence
- 2017: The Hot Wire , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl in cooperation with Skulptur.Projekte Münster 2017, Marl
literature
- Brigitte Wontorra (arrangement): Reiner Ruthenbeck. Photography 1956–1976. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern near Stuttgart 1991
- Catalog raisonnés
- Dieter Blume: Catalog raisonné . In: Catalog Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1983
- Magdalena Holzhey: Catalog raisonné of installations, objects and conceptual work , In: Catalog Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2008. ISBN 978-3-86560-502-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Reiner Ruthenbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage Reiner Ruthenbeck
- Reiner Ruthenbeck - Page in art aspects
- Materials by and about Reiner Ruthenbeck in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice of Reiner Ruthenbeck , FAZ , December 24, 2016
- ^ "Mourning for the Master of Reduction" , Rheinische Post , December 23, 2016
- ↑ Jiri Svestka: Preface . In: Brigitte Wontorra (arrangement): Reiner Ruthenbeck. Photography 1956–1976. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern near Stuttgart 1991
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ruthenbeck, Reiner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and concept artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Velbert |
DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2016 |
Place of death | Ratingen |