Rolf Escher

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Rolf Escher on a guided tour through his exhibition “Cologne Search for Traces” in the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne 2014

Rolf Escher (born September 4, 1936 in Hagen / Westphalia) is a German graphic artist .

Live and act

Escher studied German at the University of Cologne from 1956 to 1962 and painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1965 he moved to Essen, where he had the first graphics printed in the Steidle press. Since the end of the 1960s, he has dealt exclusively with graphics, mainly with drypoint and line etching . In 1968 he set up his own printing workshop and in 1976 received a professorship at the Münster University of Applied Sciences . In the same year he was awarded the Medal of Honor at the 4th International Graphic Triennial in Frechen. In 1988 he received the prize of the 5th International Portrait Biennial in Tuzla.

Escher has been traveling to Italy annually since 1980 and visited various libraries in Europe between 1990 and 2004. The cycle Book Times - Drawn Discoveries arose from these visits . Escher also deals with graphic sequences for literary works such as Franz Kafka's story The Metamorphosis or Thomas Mann's The Railway Accident .

After his first major exhibition in 1973 in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen, other exhibitions followed, for example in the Museum Folkwang Essen (1979, 1994, 2007) and in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim (1986) as well as exhibitions in libraries such as the Duke August Library in Wolfenbüttel (2001), the State and University Library Göttingen (2002) and the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe (2002).

Rolf Escher is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Essen and Berlin.

Publications

Publications by Rolf Escher:

  • Memory rooms, drawings / watercolors 1989-1994 , Museum Folkwang Essen 1994.
  • Book times , Drawn discoveries , Herne 2000, ISBN 3-922987-63-X .
  • The life of things, drawings and prints 1970-2002 , Paderborn and Mülheim an der Ruhr 2003. ISBN 3-935019-76-9 .
  • ZeitOrte , Schloss Cappenberg 2004.
  • Human spaces - the draftsman Rolf Escher looking for traces in Europe's libraries. Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage 2007. ISBN 978-3-88053-146-8 .
  • Recorded - Italian sketchbook , Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-028981-1 .
  • Roma, drawing forays through the Eternal City. Sketchbook. buechergilde.de, Frankfurt / M, 2019, 120 pages

literature

  • Dirk Schwarze: Exhibition catalog with a catalog raisonné of the etchings from 1968 to 1972 . Hagen 1973.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers . Athenaeum, Königstein / Taunus 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 62f.
  • Kai Hohenfeld: Rolf Escher (* 1936) - The unreal in the real , in: The dark side of the moon. Shadows from art and literature (publications by the Art Museum Albstadt, No. 181/2019), text by Kai Hohenfeld, exhib.-cat. Kunstmuseum Albstadt 2019/20, pp. 48–55

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "E" / Escher, Rolf (accessed on July 27, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Escher, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen