Rolf Kissel

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Rolf Kissel (born April 15, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German painter and sculptor . He is included in the circle of the artist group ZERO .

Life

Kissel studied from 1956 to 1961 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and became a master student of Albert Burkart . As early as 1961, Kissel had his first solo exhibition in what was then the avant-garde gallery , Zimmergalerie Franck , in Frankfurt am Main. In 1966 he received - together with Benno Walldorf and Thomas Bayrle - the Young Art Prize in Hesse from the Marielies Hess Foundation in Frankfurt. He is a member of the German Association of Artists and, since 1983, of the Darmstadt Secession. In 2015 he received the Goethe plaque from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art.

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Kissel puts the focus of his artistic work on object art and structural painting, he creates white light reliefs, aluminum reliefs, these also in the form of plastic walls in architecture, as well as watercolors, gouaches, embossed prints and drawings.

Kissel sees himself as a constructivist and light artist. His early work was already characterized by his turning away from the colored painting of the "art informel" and the gestural figuration of the 1960s. Its light reliefs, aluminum slats on an aluminum background or white wooden slats on a white background, play with the changing effects of light and shadow and thus achieve a variety of perception. "It does not come to white through the reduction of color, but white is there from the beginning as the sum of the complementary colors and as a reflection of the light." In the 1980s, Kissel was involved in the new social movements (peace movement, anti-nuclear power movement) and in the disputes over the Frankfurt Börneplatz. Posters, drawing collages and drawing objects are created:

  • “(...) I am of the opinion that artistic creativity must also be measured against the political content. In my work I also need an answer to the inhuman threat posed by armament and militarization, to the current brazen continuation of the so-called peaceful use of nuclear energy after Chernobyl and its further expansion to the plutonium economy from Hanau to Wackersdorf, to the open state repression against protest and resistance give(…)."
  • “I try to formulate against what is also aesthetically, my aim is to bring historical reality concretely into the concrete drawing. It's about an 'aesthetics of resistance' (Peter Weiß). An important point is the use of the quotation in the form of fragments, from my own production in the studio as well as from the social movements: texts, leaflets, posters also produced by me. The quote is an evocative space in between, and when reduced to a formal element, it evokes images that I never have to paint. "

(Rolf Kissel)

His investigations into the historical locations of Weimar- Buchenwald lead Rolf Kissel in 1994/95 to a series of drawing collages with the title: Letters from Weimar, Minutes of a Research , in which he lists official documents, letters, especially the correspondence of the relatives of the victims who ask for the ashes of their dead and receive bureaucratic answers, stamps from the time of National Socialism, land maps and fragments from the conversations between Goethe and Eckermann put together and sink into black. The attempt to grasp the interactions between terror and classical humanity takes place in the knowledge of the "failure of images and the impossibility of renouncing images"

You who inhabit rocks and trees, o healing nymphs, "
gladly give to everyone what he quietly desires!
Give the sad consolation, the doubtful instruction
and grant the lover that his happiness may meet him.

(Goethe, mixed epigrams)

"To each his own" (inscription on the Buchenwald camp gate)

The series was exhibited in 1995 by Klaus Scheunemann in the Goldhalle of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt / M, in the NDR / Hanover, and in 1996 by the Weimar Classic Foundation in the Weimar City Palace. It is on permanent loan in the Goethe Museum Weimar.

Working in public space

literature

  • Jürgen Seifert, Horst Albert Glaser u. a. in: Rolf Kissel - letters from Weimar. Exhibition in the Weimar City Palace, publisher: Weimarer Klassik Foundation , 1996 ISBN 3-00-003824-8 .
  • Manfred and Walter E. Baumann (eds.): Phoenix. Catalog of the exhibition on the occasion of the reopening of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Alte Oper Frankfurt 1981, ISBN 3-9800579-0-9
  • Rudolf Dietfried Gerhardus, Marlen Dittmann, Karlheinz Schmied a. a. in: Catalog for the exhibition Rolf Kissel, published by Galerie Lüpke, Rolf Kissel 1960–1990
  • Hilmar Hoffmann, Rudolf Krämer Badoni, Peter Iden, Hanno Reuther, Rolf Wedewer, Rainer Diederich, Dorothee Baer Bogenschütz, Susanne Kujer u. a. in: ROLF KISSEL IN THE TIME OF BEING IN THE DIALOGUE, catalog, ed. Leßmann and Lenser Edition, D63110 Rodgau, 2009 pp. 84–85. Exhibitions 1)
  • Rolf Kissel, Context 2, Zit Galerie LüpkeMagazin Kunst, year 22, 1982, Manifesto 1962, in: Inventory, HG. Darmstädter Sezession 2013, p. 136 f.
  • Städelschüler X 10, 1956–1982, catalog, ed. DAS BILDERHAUS gallery, Frankfurt am Main

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Rolf Kissel, Space and Time, Das Bilderhaus Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010/2011: Rolf Kissel, 2 drawing objects on the Börneplatz conflict
  • 2011: Rolf Kissel, MMK Frankfurt am Main, 20 years present, Maintor level / level 3
  • 2012: Rolf Kissel, White Space, Distance and Proximity, Museum Goch
  • 2013: Inventory, Darmstadt Secession 2013, Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt, Rolf Kissel p. 239 Photo project: Sleeping stone on the fjord - the increase in stones in the lowlands
  • 2014: Rolf Kissel, White Space Distance and Proximity, House of City History Offenbach M.
  • 2014: Two masters of the concrete, - Rolf Kissel and Gerhard Wittner, Galerie M50 Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015: Rolf Kissel, gouache light relief drawing, DAS BILDERHAUS gallery, Frankfurt / M; May 28, 2015. Guided tour and discussion about the work of Rolf Kissel with Eva, Claudia Scholtz, from the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden
  • 2016: Gallery DAS BILDERHAUS, Rolf Kissel, Hetty Krist, Renate Sautermeister, Tatiana Urban, Magarete Zahn, ART KARLSRUHE
  • 2017: Gallery DAS BILDERHAUS, Städelschüler X 10, 1956–1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitta Amalia Gonser: Space + Time: Rolf Kissel in the gallery Das Bilderhaus. In: Feuilleton Frankfurt. accessed November 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Kissel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main