Reinhard Dassler (originally Reinhard Dassler , so the signature; * 8. June 1933 in Elbing in, then still the German Reich belonging, East Prussia ) is a since 1950 in Karlsruhe -based German painter and graphic artist, which the realism is attributable.
He began his artistic training after his flight from East Prussia in 1945 at the painting school in Zwickau . In 1950 he moved on to Karlsruhe, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1955 to 1963 and studied with Wilhelm Schnarrenberger , HAP Grieshaber and Emil Wachter . He became known in the 1960s for his combination of socially critical representations with a picture structure borrowed from the old masters and the clear forms in the tradition of realism. In his numerous altarpieces and triptychs , he translates key scenes from the Christian world of images into the modern era, thereby visualizing problems of the present. According to the art historian and curator Chris Gerbing, he is “the old master of figure-still-life interiors”. For him it is about “longing to find beauty in the simple things of everyday life. The overcrowding of the world in the consumer and throwaway society , the possibility of individuality in the crowd, the failure of modern design utopias and a dense and deeply graded background create the resonance space for (his) brilliantly painted pictures. ”At the beginning of the 1970s he co-founded Helmut Goettl , Tutilo Karcher , Herbert Kämper , Waltraud Kniss and Klaus Langkafel form the group Realists Karlsruhe . Together with Ulrich J. Sekinger and again Göttl and Langkafel, he is one of the members of the group Die Unzeitgemässer , whose manifesto from 1984 a rejection of the “perfection of the faster, better, more beautiful” of the technological modern and a commitment to people, “his Portrait and his doing ”, to“ nature as landscape ”and to the“ wonders and wounds of the real ”. There are also contacts to the international artists' association PAIR , which emerged in 1991 from the group Die Untzeitgemäße and whose exhibition at the organ factory in Karlsruhe Dassler took part in 2013.
Reinhard Daßler: The four pictures of the choir arch in the form of medallions in the parish church of St. Bartholomew in Ortenberg. o. O., o. J. (ca.1980).
Reinhard Daßler: Oil paintings. Exhibition from September 11 to November 10, 1972 (catalog. Gallery in Girokassse 12). Gallery in the Girokasse, Stuttgart 1972.
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Hermann J. Roth, Dietrich Maier, Matthias Maier: Water in everyday life. Exhibition of the realists Karlsruhe, Helmut Goettl, Reinhard Dassler, Herbert Kämper, Tutilo Karcher, Waltraud Kniss, Klaus Langkafel in the Water and Fountain Museum Karlsruhe, November 29, 2008 to December 31, 2009. Stadtwerke Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe undated (2008) .
Ruth Dornauf: Wiesbaden creation cycle. Art of our time. Parish Church "Holy Family" Wiesbaden 1989 to 1994, ed. of Friends and Sponsors for the Church of the Holy Family. Eggebrecht-Presse, Mainz undated (1994).
Karl-Wilhelm Bruno: The creation cycle by Reinhard Daßler. Church of the Holy Family, Wiesbaden. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1994.
Anonymous: The untimely. Reinhard Daßler, Helmut Goettl, Klaus Langkafel, Ulrich Sekin. Self-published, Karlsruhe 1984.
Richard Hiepe, Sigbert Fischer, Franzsepp Würtenberger: Realists in Karlsruhe. Tutilo Karcher, Waltraud Kniss, Herbert Kämper, Reinhard Dassler, Klaus Langkafel, Helmut Goettl. Self-published, Karlsruhe 1970.
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Ed.): Representative Art of the Present 1965. Catalog for the exhibition in the rooms of the NKV in the Municipal Museum, September 19 - November 14, 1965. Elanin KG, Wiesbaden 1965.
