Richard Wientzek

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Richard Wientzek (born May 17, 1970 in Bamberg ) is a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Richard Wientzek grew up near Bamberg. From 1992 to 2000 he studied art history , German and Dutch language and literature in Bamberg and Amsterdam . Since 2000 he has been a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Upper Franconia eV He lives and works in Bamberg.

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One of the main themes of Wientzek's painting is the pointed depiction of the human-organized cultural landscape and the rural-urban mixed zones between idyll and economic use, with subtle allusions to the painterly traditions of bygone eras, v. a. the 19th century.

In addition to his work as a painter and draftsman, he devotes himself to media projects, performances, illustrations and music. Since 2000 he has been developing projects together with the Vienna-Graz-Bamberg artists' collective monochrom , and in 2003 he received an artist-in-residence grant at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. In collaboration with the artist collective monochrom, he played a key role in the multimedia installation of the Austrian pavilion at the 2002 São Paulo Biennale .

In June 2007 his painting “Land in Sicht” was bought by the museums of the city of Bamberg. In 2008 Wientzek received the Volker Hinniger Prize for Contemporary Art. In April 2010, the government of Upper Franconia acquired the painting "Europe".

“Anyone who would like to classify Wientzek's art in the category“ Photo Realism ”is not completely wrong at first glance, but on closer inspection it is completely wrong. In contrast to photos, his large-format landscapes, naturally revealing nudes and modernly arranged still lifes show not just a small section of reality, Richard Wientzek's paintings are reality in all of their contradicting facets. "

- Lydia Schuster : Atzenhofer Gallery, Nuremberg

From 2010, Wientzek shifted his creative focus from painting to drawing. Recalling his former work as a draftsman at the Archaeological State Collection in Munich, he depicts objects and bizarre found objects on a 1: 1 scale with drawing ink and colored pencils on paper Art and cultural history as well as book or song titles.

"" This is how symbols are created - defective symbols of a diverse, sad and funny world, the substance of which we ultimately know is made up of molecules, of much empty space and little that can be understood in between. Wientzek describes this state of the world without even rising above the smallest. It is an astonished smile again and again, a delighted acknowledgment that applies to the ephemeral creations of this world - and this quality of Wientzek's works is deeply poetic. ""

- Jiři Fait : On Richard Wientzek's art.

In 2018, Wientzek's graphic work was honored in a solo exhibition in the National Gallery in Prague.

Honourings and prices

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019, "One Artist", Art Karlsruhe
  • 2018, “Kresby / Drawings”, National Gallery Prague, Národní Gallery Praha
  • 2018, "One Artist", Art Karlsruhe
  • 2017, "60 Songs - Drawings / Drawings", Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2016, “10 drawings by Richard Wientzek”, Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2014, “12 drawings by Richard Wientzek”, Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2013, Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2012 “One Artist”, Art Karlsruhe
  • 2011 “Good things”, Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2010 “Paradise and no parking”, Atzenhofer Gallery, Nuremberg
  • 2010 “Government and Art”, Government of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth
  • 2009 “Tagwerk”, Bamberg City Gallery / Villa Dessauer
  • 2007 “Land consolidation”, Stadtische Galerie Alte Mühle, Bad Vilbel

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016, "Five", Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2016, “Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten”, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
  • 2016, “7 im Kesselhaus”, Kunstraum Kesselhaus, Bamberg
  • 2015, "Affordable Art Fair Hamburg"
  • 2015, "Cranach 2.0 - The international Lucas-Cranach Prize 2015", Wittenberg / Kronach
  • 2014, "Mixed", Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2014, Art Fair Cologne
  • 2013 “Realisme”, Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam
  • 2012 “class reunion”, Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2011 “2500 m² painting in a square”, Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011 “Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten”, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
  • 2010 “I love everyday life”, Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2009 "Akt + Badende", Galerie Voigt, Nuremberg
  • 2004 "Utopia Station / Future Editing", Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2003 "25. Bienale de Sao Paulo. Iconografias Metropolitanas "

literature

  • Patricia Grzonka and Linda Klösel: Richard Wientzek / Jun-Jul 3. In: Elisabeth Hajek and Therese Schmalzl (eds.): 100 Artists-in-Residence / quartier21 / MQ / 2002-2006. Vienna 2006, pp. 70–71.
  • Markus Hörsch and Frank Taschner (eds.): Richard Wientzek. Next picture. Paintings and drawings. Bamberg 2009.
  • Ewald Karl Schrade and Rigo Fay (eds.): One Artist. Art Karlsruhe 2012. Karlsruhe 2012, p. 311. ISBN 978-3-941850-36-1 .
  • Mirja Müller-Pentz and Frank Hoff (eds): Kunsthaus Hannover / Catalog 2012/13. Hanover 2012, pp. 44–45.
  • Mirja Müller-Pentz and Frank Hoff (eds): Kunsthaus Hannover / Catalog 2011. Hannover 2011, pp. 44–45.
  • Mirja Dieckhaus and Frank Hoff (eds.): Richard Wientzek - Drawings 2010 - 2017. Bielefeld, New York 2017.
  • One artist. Art Karlsruhe 2018, p. 284.
  • Sebastian Quenzer: Richard Wientzek: Extinction of the world . In: StadtechoBA, December 2018, pp. 18–23.
  • One artist. Art Karlsruhe 2019, p. 265.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Markus Hörsch, Frank Taschner (ed.): Richard Wientzek. Next picture. Paintings and drawings. Bamberg 2009, foreword
  2. ↑ quartier21 scholarship holder: June 2003 to July 2003 ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quartier21.mqw.at
  3. ↑ monochrome project at the Biennale de São Paulo 2002
  4. ↑ Painting "Land in Sight" ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard-wientzek.de
  5. ↑ Painting "Europe" ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard-wientzek.de
  6. ↑ http://www.atelieratzenhofer.de/
  7. ^ Richard Wientzek drawings 2010-2017 Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, New York, 2017
  8. ^ Jiři Fait: On the art of Richard Wientzek. In: Mirja Dieckhaus and Frank Hoff (eds.): Richard Wientzek - Drawings 2010–2017, pp. 4–6.
  9. ↑ https://www.ngprague.cz/en/exposition-detail/richard-wientzek-drawings

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personal data
SURNAME Wientzek, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg