Robert Ryman

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Robert Tracy Ryman (born May 30, 1930 in Nashville , Tennessee , † February 8, 2019 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American painter .

life and work

Ryman studied in 1948 at the "Polytechnic Institute" in Cookeville, Tennessee and in 1949 music at the "George Peabody College" in Nashville. From 1950 to 1952 he served in the US Army as a saxophonist . He then moved to New York and trained as a jazz musician . During his work as a supervisor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1953 to 1960, he met numerous artists. The works of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse particularly impressed him. Then he gave up music in 1954 in favor of painting. After a few attempts at painting in the context of Abstract Expressionism, in which he combined numbers, letters or other characters with lyrical abstract color zones, he reduced the color gamut to white in the early 1960s and concentrated on variations of different paint applications and painting techniques on the picture surface. Ryman now also began to attach his canvases directly to the wall without a stretcher. Since the mid-1960s he has been developing a variety of white canvases, which differ solely in the different application of paint, style and surface differentiation. His painting refers to itself and thus becomes an object of art itself.

Ryman is considered a representative of analytical painting . His life's work consists of a diverse exploration of the color white and is of international standing. His works are exhibited at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, the Museum of Modern Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Dia Art Foundation , among others . The Haus der Kunst in Munich devoted a large solo exhibition to the artist in 2000 .

Robert Ryman took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 7 in 1982. He also exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia (1976, 1978, 1980 and 2007) and the Whitney Biennial (1977, 1987 and 1995). The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam dedicated his first retrospective to him in 1974 .

In 2005 Ryman was awarded the Praemium Imperiale and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize . In 2006 the National Academy of Design elected Robert Ryman a full member ( NA ). He was also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1994 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2000 .

Public collections

literature

  • Peter Iden , Rolf Lauter : Pictures for Frankfurt. Inventory catalog of the Museum of Modern Art. Munich 1985, p. 132 f, 196. ISBN 978-3-7913-0702-2
  • Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007. Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4
  • Christel Sauer (Ed.): Urs Raussmüller: Ryman Paintings and Ryman Exhibitions. Raussmüller Collection, Frauenfeld / Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-905777-00-0
  • Christel Sauer (Ed.): Robert Ryman at Inverleith House Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Raussmüller Collection, Frauenfeld / Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-905777-01-7
  • Christel Sauer (Eds.): Robert Ryman and Urs Raussmüller: Advancing the Experience Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen. Raussmüller Collection, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-905777-06-2
  • Christel Sauer, Urs Raussmüller (Ed.): Robert Ryman. Schaffhausen 1991, ISBN 3-906352-03-X
  • Christel Sauer, Urs Raussmüller (eds.): Robert Ryman: Versions. Schaffhausen 1992, ISBN 3-906352-50-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Iden , Rolf Lauter : Pictures for Frankfurt. Inventory catalog of the Museum of Modern Art. Munich 1985, p. 132 f, 196. ISBN 978-3-7913-0702-2
  2. ↑ engine detail page ::: collection Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ All National Academicians (1825 - Present). In: nationalacademy.org. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Members: Robert Ryman. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter R. (PDF; 508 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ryman, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryman, Robert Tracy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2019
Place of death Manhattan , New York