Robert Schwarz (artist)

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Robert Schwarz (* 1951 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German graphic artist and book artist.

Life

Robert Schwarz initially studied art history and art education at the universities of Heidelberg and Mainz and from 1984 to 1991 had a lectureship in lithography at the Mainz Art Academy. Since 1980 he has been living and working as a freelance artist in Mainz with a focus on lithography and book art .

Heinz Höfchen, head of the graphic collection of the Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, said the following about the work of Robert Schwarz on the occasion of the presentation of the Palatinate Prize for Graphics 1998: "Robert Schwarz is one of the few contemporary lithographers who still has full knowledge of stone printing . Since he prints his work exclusively himself, the best possible implementation of his picture inventions is guaranteed. The whole uniqueness and beauty of color lithography ... characterizes his work. ... His virtuoso handling of the profession allows him to cross borders. ... His lithographed artist books, The grandiose 'Passione di Roma' at Catullus, for example, brought him to study ancient book illumination: his arches draw on the archaic ... the translation is modern.

Schwarz has created book art works on Catullus , Hofmannswaldau , Goethe , Hölderlin , Kleist , Büchner and Trakl , among others . He has also designed books of hours and prayer. In recent years he has been working on a connection between the traditional medium of the book and the newer medium of video. He first designed hybrid combinations of a book with a player for a video as a new, parallel table of contents for the book. Ernst Fischer, Emeritus at the Institute for Book Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, said: "... that a new level of intensity has been reached with this multimedia complementary arrangement. When the gradual decline of Trakl's handwriting is made comprehensible in the book on a darkly colored background the film torments with a sequence of images in which war appears as the scourge of humanity. ... 'All roads lead to black decay' is what Trakl's poem says, which is congenially implemented here. "

Subsequently, pure poetry videos were created, such as one on Celan's 'Todesfuge', or Trakl's 'nachts' and 'melusine', which can be found together with other videos on Robert Schwarz's Vimeo page.

Awards

  • 1977 scholarship from the city of Ludwigshafen
  • 1984 Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1987 Casa Baldi scholarship, Olevano / Italy
  • 1989 city printer Mainz
  • 1993 Albert Haueisen Prize from the city of Germersheim
  • 1998 Cité des Arts grant, Paris
  • 1998 Palatinate Prize for Graphics

Solo exhibitions

  • 1977 Mainz, Rehberg Gallery
  • 1977 Ludwigshafen, municipal art collections
  • 1982 Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm Hack Museum
  • 1983 Mainz, Museum Pfalzgalerie MPK
  • 1985 Remscheid, Municipal Gallery
  • 1985 Hamburg, Protestant Art Service
  • 1988 Mainz, Rehberg Gallery
  • 1989 Mainz, Gutenberg Museum
  • 1990 Ludwigshafen, Schillerhaus
  • 1990 Tübingen, Galerie Druck & Buch / Hölderlin Society
  • 1991 Heidelberg, City Library
  • 1991 Stuttgart, Württemberg State Library
  • 1991 Erfurt, Municipal Gallery
  • 1993 Frankfurt, MAK
  • 1993 Frankfurt, Icon Museum
  • 1994 Kaiserslautern, MPK
  • 1994 Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek
  • 1995 Brussels, Argile Gallery
  • 1997 Offenbach, Klingspormuseum
  • 1997 Mainz, Waldthausen Castle
  • 1999 Kaiserslautern, MPK
  • 2001 Mainz, Rehberg Gallery
  • 2002 The Hague, Museum van het boek Meermanno-Westreenianum
  • 2002 Hamburg, Gerd Bucerius Library
  • 2003 Offenbach, Klingspormuseum
  • 2003 Tübingen, Galerie Druck & Buch
  • 2004 Bamberg, Collegium oecumenicum
  • 2005 Speyer, Art Association
  • 2007 Tübingen, Galerie Druck & Buch
  • 2007 Mainz, Roman-Germanic Central Museum
  • 2008 Mainz, Rehberg Gallery
  • 2010 Horn, Rehberg Gallery
  • 2014 Offenbach, Klingspormuseum
  • 2015, Galerie Druck & Buch
  • 2015 Horn, Rehberg Gallery

Public property

  • Bamberg, cathedral and diocesan museum
  • Basel, University Public Library
  • Bonn, Federal Ministry for Education and Science
  • Coburg, State Library
  • The Hague, Museum van het boek Meermanno-Westreenianum
  • Dresden, Saxon State Library
  • Essen, university library
  • Frankfurt / Main, German Library, MAK, City and University Library
  • Frankfurt / Oder, Kleist Memorial and Research Center
  • Hamburg, Bucerius Library / Museum for Art and Commerce
  • Hanover, Lower Saxony State Library
  • Heidelberg, University Library, City Library
  • Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie MPK
  • Kön, art and museum library
  • Leipzig, German Library
  • London, National Library, V&A
  • Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm Hack Museum
  • Luxembourg, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg
  • Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale
  • Mainz, Gutenberg Museum, State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Middle Rhine State Museum, State Central Bank Rhineland-Palatinate, University Library
  • Marbach, German Literature Archive
  • Munich, Bavarian State Library
  • New Haven, Yale University
  • New York, Columbia University, New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art
  • Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum
  • Offenbach, Klingspormuseum
  • Oxford, Taylor Institution Library
  • Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Musée historique de la Ville
  • Saint-Quentin, Bibliothèque municipale
  • Salzburg, Georg Trakl House
  • San Juan, Casa del Libro
  • Stuttgart, Württemberg State Library, State Gallery, Graphic Collection
  • Toulouse, Artothèque
  • Washington, Library of Congress, National Gallery Library
  • Weimar, Anna Amalia Library
  • Würzburg, cathedral and diocesan museum

literature

personal data
SURNAME Black, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and book artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein