Richard Schindler

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Richard Schindler (* 1949 in Offenburg ) is a visual artist , author of texts on art and lives in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Life

Studied in Freiburg and Oslo (Norway), since 1979 solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions in Germany, France and Japan. Installations , actions, performances , publications in magazines, newspapers and on the radio.

In 2000 he founded the Institute for Visual Profiling in Freiburg. Visual Profiling is a  qualitative analysis method of visual artefacts developed by Richard Schindler based on objective hermeneutics . He is one of two Germans who were selected by the European Capital of Culture 2007, Sibiu (Hermannstadt, Romania), as artistic representative. In 2007 he accepted a teaching position at the Furtwangen University (master's degree in media design & visualization) and was visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .

Richard Schindler was a lecturer at the University of Art and Design (HGK) in Basel until 2008 . He is the initiator of the non-profit Freie Landesakademie Kunst GmbH, which he founded in 2010 together with the sculptor Rita Deschler in Freiburg.

Richard Schindler is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the Professional Association of Visual Artists. Richard Schindler has supported the citizens' initiative Pro Culture Capital Freiburg since 2011.

2019 excited his project The artist is present. Bauen Wohnen Schenken , where he lived and worked in a church in Kirchzarten , received national attention.

Assessment

Richard Schindler: untitled, chalk on paper 25 × 35 cm, 1985 ff.
Richard Schindler: On high level (From the series Kool Killer Systems, Dingbilder für unpopulare Orte 1885 ff.)
Richard Schindler: KKS Doppel (From the series Kool Killer Systems, Dingbilder for unpopular places 1886 ff.)
Richard Schindler: Three ink drawings on photography, each 210 × 157 cm, installation view at Kunstverein Freiburg 2010
Richard Schindler: Black Forest panorama with two wind turbines; from Richard Schindler: Understanding Landscape, 2005.
“Stop” in the Gertrud-Luckner-Gewerbeschule Freiburg im Breisgau

Richard Schindler became known to a wider audience through the book publication of his artistic expert report in a legal dispute between an operating company of wind turbines in the Black Forest and the city of Freiburg over the construction of wind turbines on the Holzschlägermatte on the Schauinsland . The report is the first of its kind: It is the demonstration of a qualitative artistic analysis process using the example of two industrial plants in a landscape worthy of protection.

Therefore it is also of interest to lawyers (current legal situation with regard to landscape protection and maintenance), landscape planners, architects and sociologists. Schindler demonstrates that and how contemporary artistic activity can contribute to current social problems.

The difference between the artistic approach and previous methods of landscape image analysis and landscape image assessment becomes clear. Since this is an exemplary application, differences to other methods of image analysis - which are not concerned with landscape aesthetics - are clearly evident.

The report published under the title Understanding Landscape was received critically. B. by Hans-Dieter Fronz in the FAZ of January 29, 2007: “As a result, the technical systems not only do not impair the appearance of the landscape, they enrich it. But isn't that the point at which one becomes suspicious and threatens to overturn the whole argument? Do you want to gloss over ugly practice with hard work theory? "

“Artists are not only creative producers, but also highly qualified recipients. At the same time, this perceptual competence is neither recognized by artists themselves nor by companies as an independent qualification and used economically in their sense. Cooperation between art & economy is limited to sponsoring, entrepreneurial collecting or the more or less successful furnishing of rooms with art.

In contrast, I make my artistic perception available to companies. Visual profiling means an expansion of traditional artistic fields of activity. It supports companies in the development of their visual resources (Visual Resources Development) and provides information on unspoken messages in corporate communication - whether internally or externally.

Visual profiling accelerates the self-perception of companies. The gain is self-transparency: a necessary prerequisite for further optimization.

Visual profiling serves artists as a preparatory analysis of their interventions in public space (art in architecture). "

- Richard Schindler : on the concept of his artistic work

Awards

  • Award at the Federal Youth Film Competition 1972.
  • Scholarship from the Markelstiftung Stuttgart 1977–1978.
  • Graduate grant from the University of Freiburg 1981–1983.
  • Project funding from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 1985.
  • Working grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation in 1988.
  • Project funding Siemens Culture Program, Munich 1994.
  • Project funding Kunstfond Bonn, 1995.
  • Project funding Robert Bosch Stiftung, 2007 (with Rita Deschler and possible Kindergarten Schallstadt)
  • Project funding Andrea von Braun Foundation, 2007.
  • Berndt Koberstein Prize for Coexistence and Solidarity, 2012

Fonts

  • Visual profiling. For the development of artistic fields of action in companies, institutions and elsewhere . IKS Garamond, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-934601-33-2 (German, English).
  • Understand landscape. Industrial architecture and landscape aesthetics in the Black Forest . Modo Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-937014-30-6 .
  • Handling images. the I photographed. Modo Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-937014-33-0 .
  • Private Eye On Art. Approaching the eye. Braunverlag, Karlsruhe 1995.
  • Pictures are the last. IKS Garamond, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-934601-32-4 .
    • engl. Edition: Images are the limit. IKS Garamond, Jena 2001.
  • with Jörg Stadelbauer, Werner Konold (Ed.): Points of View - Understanding Landscape. Geography and aesthetics, energy and technology. Modo Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937014-57-9 .

Web links

Commons : Richard Schindler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the state academy | story , accessed March 4, 2019
  2. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kuenstler-wohnte-in-kirche-der-kirchenraum-weitet-den-raum.886.de.html?dram:article_id=460433
  3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Fronz: If you think that's beautiful, you can no longer see the forest for all the wind turbines. In: FAZ , January 29, 2007.
  4. ^ Information brochure from the Institute for Visual Profiling, Freiburg, March 2004.
  5. ↑ Volker Bauermeister: Honoring values, the Freiburg Berndt Koberstein Prize was awarded for the first time. In: Badische Zeitung. May 4, 2012; Richard Schindler's website
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg