René Eight

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René Acht (born March 24, 1920 in Basel , Switzerland ; † May 3, 1998 in Herbolzheim near Freiburg im Breisgau ( Baden-Württemberg ), Germany ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor .

Life

René Acht studied painting and sculpture at the art and trade school in Basel from 1936 to 1940 . From 1941 to 1943 he received a first scholarship for his artistic work as a private grant from an art dealer. In 1945 he moved to Stockholm and worked there as a volunteer stage designer at the Royal Opera . From 1947 to 1948 he lived in Helsinki , in 1948 he stayed for a long time in Italy , mainly in Rome , and in 1950 he returned to Finland , Lapland .

Since 1950 he has taught at the Migros Club School in Basel. In 1953 he received the grant from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation, in 1954 the grant from the His Foundation, Basel, and went on a study trip to Spain and North Africa . This was followed in 1955 by another scholarship from the city of Basel and a study visit to Rome. Between 1958 and 1960 he received scholarships from the Swiss Confederation and was elected for life as a member of the FIAL (International Institute of Art and Letters) . 1963 to 1965 he taught as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since 1965 he was a member of the GSMBA , Basel and the St. Lukas Society, Switzerland. From 1965 to 1966 he taught as the head of the painting class at the Basel Art and Trade School, where his students included a. a. Rémy Zaugg and Reinhard Klessinger .

René Acht moved to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1972, where he married Bärbel Acht (née Geigele) in 1978. In 1974 he went on a study trip to Japan and became a member of the professional association of South Baden. In 1976 he founded the "ART-CLUB + Art Forum" in Freiburg. In 1978 he went on a study trip to the Ivory Coast and became a member of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association. Between 1980 and 1988 he worked as a lecturer in paint at the University of Education in Freiburg. In 1982 he went on a study trip to China . In 1997 he was awarded the European Culture Prize, Adolf Unmüssig Regio Prize.

A first international breakthrough came in the Informel in the 1950s with the invitation to documenta 2 in Kassel and to the 5th Sâo Paulo Biennale . Until his death, René Acht lived and worked from 1989 alternately in Freiburg and Vaudémont , Champagne .

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The artistic work of René Acht spanned the period of a good sixty years, at the beginning of which the academic artistic training of the sixteen-year-old took place, whose talent worthy of support was also rooted in the artistic profession of his father, a wood and stone sculptor . The extensive early work from this period of study testifies to the intensive artistic examination of the then more recent art history but also of the old masters.

From 1949 onwards, his work turned towards the non-representational world, which one notices the previous preoccupation with Cubism and which is close to concrete art . When informal painting articulated a new need for freedom of expression in the early 1950s , René Acht was one of the most important Swiss exponents of this style. Following this new freedom, Acht succeeded internationally with a painting that never completely devoted itself to the impulsive, gestural and uncontrolled chaotic, in favor of a structured orientation and formal composure of the "soul", until in 1962 he formulated the first doubts about the Informel as the right path for him Asked a question and in 1965 clearly defined the metaphor “figure house” for the first time.

The house as a synonym for the dwelling of the soul and the human being became the central theme and philosophical psychological substrate of his further work. His artistic thinking, which was already broad and encompassed mysticism, alchemy, astrology and astronomy, is in balance from West to East to the Christian occidental heritage and the spirituality of Zen and Confucianism. René Acht's time and again striving to reduce the means - including the color - culminates in 30 years of artistic preoccupation with paper cutting. This genre, which is intimate in itself, is increased to a monumental level in René Acht. But above all, it is the development of a visual language that, reduced to the use of basic geometric shapes and their emblematics, has an almost "warning symbolism" in itself.

Collections

Eight's work has been presented in more than 100 solo and 200 group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, North and South America and is represented in important collections. (including Kupferstichkabinett, Basel, CH; Kunstmuseum, Basel, CH; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne , CH; Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, CH; Kunsthaus, Zurich, CH; Musée d'art, Nantes, F; Modernes Museum , Vienna, A; Foundation Museum Schloß Moyland-Sammlung van der Grinten, D; Museum, Nijmegen, NL; Museum Ulm, D; Augustiner Museum, Freiburg.i.Br., D; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg i. Br. , D; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, D; Cincinnati Art Museum , Cincinnati, USA; Carnegie Pittsburgh, USA; Modern Art Museum, New York, USA; Museum Peggy Guggenheim, New York, USA; Museum Chicago, USA; White Collection, Chicago USA ; Collection Ströher, Darmstadt, D; Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, D; Collection Peltzer, Aachen, D; Collection Faber Castell, D; Collection Thompson, Pittsburgh, USA; Collection Galerie B. Schaefer, New York, USA; Collection Alix de Rothschild, Paris, F; Elie de Rothschild collection, Paris, F; Facchetti collection, Paris, F; Tapié collection, Paris, F; Alfred Lichtwark collection, CH; Sa mmlung Robert Hess, Basel, CH; Richard Dryfus Collection, CH; Municipal Collection Innsbruck, A; Collection Arp-Hagenbach, Meudon, F; Collection Galerie Tunnard. Mac Roberts, London, GB; Collection Roloff Beny, Toronto, Canada; Swiss Confederation, CH; Art credit, Basel, CH; Culture Authority Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, D; Regional Council, Freiburg i. Br. And Tübingen, D; Paper Museum Düren, D; Collection of Marli Hoppe-Ritter, D; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen aR, D; Aargauer Kunsthaus, CH; Art Museum Stuttgart, D; Art Museum Singen, D; Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, D;).

Literature (selection)

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959.
  • René Eight silhouettes 1968–1983. Text contribution v. Franz Joseph Van der Grinten. Edited by Museum Nijmegen and Kunstverein Ulm, 1983.
  • Way to the figure house. Selection of graphics 1939–1969. Drawings, paper cutouts. Text contribution v. Dieter Hofmann Catalog Gallery Regio. Loerrach 1969.
  • Paper cuts 1968–1998. Ed .: Städtische Museen Freiburg / Museum für Neue Kunst. Articles by Jochen Ludwig, Isabel Herda, Peter Mayr, Peter Staechelin , René Acht. Freiburg 2003.
  • Oil paintings - silhouettes - sculptures. Exhibition catalog. Art Association Freiburg i. Br. 1972.
  • Exhibition catalog. (Informel). Paul Facchetti Gallery. Paris 1959.
  • Oil paintings - silhouettes - sculptures. Exhibition catalog gallery AK-current art. Frankfurt 1975.
  • Monograph and catalog raisonné. Text contributions by Hans H. Hofstätter and Jochen Ludwig. Exhibition catalog Augustinermuseum, Freiburg and Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen. Freiburg 1980. Edited by Hans H. Hofstätter
  • Works from six decades. Ed .: Museum Schloss Moyland - Van der Grinten Collection. Articles by Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Hans van der Grinten, Hans H. Hofstätter, Rolf Wedewer, Remy Zaug, René Acht. Bielefeld 2004.
  • Knaur's Lexicon of Abstract Painting. Text: Michael Seuphor. Translated from the French by Alfred P. Zeller. Munich 1957.
  • Dictionnaire. Art abstrait. Paris 1957.
  • Darmstadt artist lexicon. 1958.
  • Young generation art. America Memorial Library, Berlin Central Library 1968, 1970, 1972.
  • Dictionary of International Biography. London 1968.
  • Guida all Arte European. Rome 1969.
  • DuMont's Art Dictionary - From 1945 to the present day. Cologne 1976.
  • New church art in Switzerland. Sacred Art Vol. 11. Ed .: Swiss St. Luke Society. Zurich 1976.
  • Thieme Becker Lexicon. Leipzig 1977.
  • Lexicon of contemporary Swiss artists. Ed .: Swiss Institute for Art Research. Zurich 1981.
  • Artist directory Baden-Württemberg. Vol. V. Ed .: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, GEDOK, State Association of Visual Artists Baden-Württemberg. Freiburg 1981/1982.
  • Lexicon of the Arts. Herder Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1987.
  • DuMont's 20th Century Art Dictionary - Artists, Styles and Terms. Edited by Karin Thomas. Cologne 2000.

Music to work

  • Andreas HH Suberg : HAUS music. Audio kaleidoscope for 12 speakers, piano and electroacoustic sounds after and with selected texts and a. by René Acht, Gaston Bachelard, Henri Bosco, Joe Bosquet, Vilém Flusser and Henry David Thoreau. 2003/04. Commissioned by Museum Schloß Moyland for an exhibition by René Acht. Production: Klang Art Studio Freiburg, studio technology: AHH Suberg. WP March 13, 2004 Museum Schloss Moyland, Kleve, Paulo Alvares - piano. House music. CD with booklet, text by AHH Suberg. Edited by Klang Art Studio Freiburg. 2004 Freiburg
  • Andreas HH Suberg: TURM music. Audio kaleidoscope for 8 speakers, a trumpeter and electroacoustic sounds based on and with texts by Gaston Bachelard, Joe Bousquet, Henri Bosco and Carl Gustav Jung. 2008/09. Commissioned work on the occasion of the installation exhibition Tower-House-Dialogue with Tower-Houses by René Acht in the Kulturwerk T66, Freiburg. Production: Klang Art Studio Freiburg, studio technology: AHH Suberg 2009. Premiere April 24, 2009, Kulturwerk T66, Freiburg, Steffen Baral - trumpet. Tower music. CD with booklet, text contribution from AHH Suberg. Edited by Klang Art Studio Freiburg. 2004 Freiburg

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Works from six decades. Ed .: Museum Schloss Moyland - Van der Grinten Collection. Articles by Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Hans van der Grinten, Hans H. Hofstätter, Rolf Wedewer, Remy Zaug, René Acht. Bielefeld 2004.
  2. ↑ Stefanie Faccani-Baumann: Eight, René. In: Sikart (as of: 2018) [accessed on August 9, 2019].
personal data
SURNAME Eight, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1998
Place of death Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany