Rolf-Hermann Geller

Rolf-Hermann Geller (right) with Claus-Peter Enders, in June 2016

Rolf-Hermann Geller (also: Rolf-H. Geller and Rolf-Hermann Geller SF ); (* 1945 in Hanover ) is a German artist, painter and graphic artist and professor of visual communication and aesthetics .

Life

Rolf-Hermann Geller was born in the last year of the Second World War on Güntherstrasse in the Hanover district of Waldhausen as the maternal grandson of the composer and conductor Hermann Ritzau . Geller's father worked as a judge in Nienburg an der Weser, where Geller then spent the first decade of his life. His "[...] only joy" during this time were the visits he made with his mother in Hanover, where Geller, who had been drawing almost constantly since he was four, signed the large works exhibited in the Landesmuseum's picture gallery . At his mother's side, Geller visited the Hanover Opera House as a child , but was artistically influenced in particular by his grandfather, who composed and created scores as drawings, who was a "[...] socially large-scale house with singers, musicians and visual artists". There Geller experienced "[...] festive evenings, evening gowns decorated with medals, beautiful women", and his own urge for an aesthetically and sensually charged world developed.

Geller completed his first training at the Hanoverian Werkkunstschule , which at that time was based in the Künstlerhaus . Already during this time he received his first awards and enjoyed his almost 2 meter high drawing of a coffee cup, which was hung in the Café Kröpcke for almost a year .

After graduating as a graphic designer , Rolf-Hermann Geller went freelance as a graphic designer and worked temporarily as an art director in an advertising agency . His subsequent studies in art education, art history and philosophy took him to Stuttgart to the Academy of Fine Arts there , to the University of Fine Arts there in Braunschweig and to the painting class under Peter Voigt and to the Technical University of Braunschweig . Finally doctorate Geller in 1982 at the University of Bremen on to proletarian -pädagogischen cultural work , shown on the iconography of the art of working-class culture movement and the historical development- and forms of art, education and workers' education .

From 1983 Rolf-Hermann Geller worked as senior counselor at the University of Kiel , but at the same time sent art exhibitions with his own works of art in Braunschweig, Kiel , Hanover, Berlin , Hamburg , New York and, for example, San Francisco .

Almost a decade after his employment in Kiel, Geller was appointed professor at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences in 1992 .

Rolf-Hermann Geller created numerous publications, particularly on art-theoretical topics as well as artistic and multiple representation processes. His research focuses on "[...] performative processes in didactics and teaching as well as in writing and writing aesthetics". In addition, he developed a lively lecture activity, for example in the Ästhetik meeting point .

Geller pleaded many times for the preservation of beauty and education. For example, he commented on the amendment to the University Framework Act in a letter to the editor in April 2009 to the magazine Der Spiegel :

“While Humboldt's educational concept is discredited to the point of disappearing, with the bachelor's degree, narrow and fast-track training, the building of freedom of research and science has become the grave of the spirit. Now you don't need to be surprised if the star of scientific redemption no longer shines above highly qualified research capacities, which is the goal of politicians through underfunding. "

While he - together with others - could not stop the demolition of the "Castle of Tears" , his commitment at least to the preservation of the historical image of Güntherstrasse, his birthplace, prevented the construction of a modern chemical administration building, in Geller's words as "meaningless" cubic glass architecture .

Geller is a member of the Hanoverian Artists' Association and is committed to the permanent seat of the traditional association in the Künstlerhaus as well as to the whereabouts of the archer sculpture in front of the New Town Hall of the Lower Saxony state capital.

Works (selection)

Fonts

• ... "The political drawing of the layperson". Workers' draftsman for the KPD during the Weimar Republic . Non-artistic conditions and iconographic features. An investigation. Bock and Herchen, Bad Honnef 1984, ISBN 3-88347-123-2 ; contents
• Rolf-Hermann SF Geller: Spritzers pen. Ficktum brutum of art (= Edition Delta Tau / Art , Vol. 1). First edition. Materialis, Ed. Delta Tau, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-88535-176-5 .
• with Hans-Werner Klusemann (Ed.) et al. : "From teddy bear to Tamagotchi ...?" Childhood in transition (= series of publications of the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg / series C / department of social work and health , vol. 14). Neubrandenburg: Rector of the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg 1999, ISBN 3-932227-28-X . (This book was created following an exhibition of the same name, which was shown from October 15 to December 13, 1998 at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences.)
• Practical aesthetics and didactic foundations in the training of the "reproducing" artist. The applied drawing as a document of the history of the arts and crafts school 1850–1920. An investigation (= series of publications of the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, series F, general writings , vol. 4). Ed .: Rector of the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences. Editing: Department for public relations, research matters and knowledge transfer at the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences Rector of the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg 2001, ISBN 3-932227-43-3 .
• Man Ray - parallelismi formali in the horizon of design aesthetics. The history of photography in parallels (= series of publications by the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg / series F, general publications , vol. 8). Rector of the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932227-65-4 .

Visual arts

• Oil painting with the portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , donated to the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis , where the grave of the polymath is located
• Logo of the Festival of Philosophy , made available free of charge for this purpose.
• various portraits of Geller's contemporaries

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein

Web links

Commons : Rolf-Hermann Geller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and the cross-references there.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Assunta Verrone (Responsible): Rolf-Hermann Geller and the logo of the Festival of Philosophy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page accademia-di-ipazia.de , last accessed on June 28, 2016. 
3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Güntherstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 100.
4. ↑ Letters to the title Science Policy: For Education and Research Germany sleeps through the future (to issue No. 16/2009.), In: Der Spiegel of 27 April 2009; online edition
5. ↑ Florian Hoffmann: Neustädter Hof- u. City Church of St. Johannis. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 468.