René Böll

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René Böll (2010)

René Böll (born July 31, 1948 in Cologne ) is a German visual artist. He was the head of the Lamuv publishing house . He is also the administrator of his father Heinrich Böll's estate .

Life

Böll was born in Cologne as the third son of Heinrich Böll, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his wife Annemarie Böll . His eldest brother Christoph died in 1945, the year he was born, while his other brothers Raimund and Vincent were born in 1947 and 1950.

From 1963, Böll continued his autodidactic training in drawing and painting. From 1966 he had lessons with Bernhard Müller-Feyen , from 1967 he studied painting and printmaking (especially: lithography) at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne and in Vienna. First he showed his works under the artist name "Muta". In 1972 he made his first works with Chinese and Japanese ink.

From 1975 to 1988 Böll was head of Lamuv Verlag, which he co-founded . In 1978 he worked as a publisher and translated works from Spanish, he also worked as a photographer. In 1985 he was editor in charge of the six-volume edition of Vincent van Gogh's Complete Letters .

Since 1988 he has been working as a freelance painter again and since 1993 has been working again with Chinese ink. From 1999 he worked in the field of etchings. From 2005 to 2010 he worked with Günther Beckers in the Beckers Böll Artists Museum .

He has shown his work in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including in Chile, China, the USA, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. In 1996 he was one of the first German painters to show a retrospective of 100 works in China. It has been shown in Beijing and three other cities. In October 2014 he opened his exhibition Cillíní - The Cemeteries of the Unbaptized Children of Ireland on Achill Island. In October 2016, an exhibition by the Solingen art association shows Finsheen - a village has disappeared. Epitaph .

René Böll is the administrator of Heinrich Böll's estate and was one of the co-founders of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

literature

  • Siegfried Pater: René Böll, nameless silence: oil paintings, ink, watercolors. Exhibition catalog. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, St. Augustin.

Fonts

  • Finsheen - a village disappeared. Epitaph. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Solingen, 2016.
  • Cillíní - or: The dead children of Achilles. Poems, German-English-Irish-Italian. Alla chiara fonte, Lugano 2015.
  • Cillíní - The graveyards of Ireland's unbaptized children on Achill Island. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the LVR-Landesmuseum in Bonn, 2014.
  • O end of my time - work on the "Death of Empedocles by Friedrich Hölderlin" with 8 original screen prints. Redfoxpress, Dugort - Achill Island, Ireland, 2009.
  • But we are given not to rest in any place. Exhibition catalog of the diocesan and cathedral library. Publishing house Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-939160-11-3 .
  • René Böll / Binghu Shanren (René Böll's Chinese artist name): Reaching the void, pictures with bright and achromatic colors from the studio at the Eissee. Schuffelen, Pulheim 1996.
  • with Viktor Böll: Heinrich Böll: Life & Work. City of Cologne, 1995.
  • Heinrich Böll: Life and Work, for his 70th birthday. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1987.
  • An author creates reality: Heinrich Böll. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1982.

Web links

Commons : René Böll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father's Legacy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1982, pp. 145-146 ( Online - Aug. 9, 1982 ).
  2. ↑ Benedikt Erenz : The whole world at one table In: The time of June 21, 1985
  3. ↑ http://reneboell.wixsite.com/meinewebsite/ausstellungen
  4. ↑ Rene Böll . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1995, pp. 297 ( Online - Oct. 16, 1995 ).
  5. ↑ René Böll: Cillíní - The cemeteries of the unbaptized children of Ireland on Achill Island. Catalog of the exhibition in the LVR-Landesmuseum in Bonn Oct. 2014-Jan. 2015, Catalog with paintings, photos, poems of the cillíni
  6. ↑ Solinger Tageblatt, October 6, 2016, online [1]
  7. ↑ Rene Böll . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1989, pp. 202 ( Online - Jan. 30, 1989 ).
personal data
SURNAME Böll, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne