Rudolf Heart

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Rudolf Herz (* 1954 in Sonthofen ) is a German sculptor and media artist.    

Life

From 1974 to 1981 he studied sculpture and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , then art history, history and archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Hamburg's art history seminar . In 1995 he received his doctorate in art history / visual communication at the Carl von Ossietzky University , Oldenburg .

In 1987 he received the grant for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, Essen, in 1990 the advancement award for photography from the state capital of Munich and in 1991 the artistic advancement award of the Free State of Bavaria. In 1993 Herz received a scholarship from the German Historical Institute, Washington DC and in 1995 he was a guest at the German Academy Villa Massimo , Rome. In 1997, together with Reinhard Matz, he was one of the winners in the competition for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Rudolf Herz is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Munich and Paris.

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Lenin on Tour, Cologne 2009

Herz's artistic and visual history works are closely related. In the room installation “Zugzwang” (Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 1995, The Jewish Museum, New York 2002) he condensed the experiences he had made during his controversially discussed exhibition “Hoffmann & Hitler. Photography as a medium of the Führer myth ”(Münchner Stadtmuseum 1994). Herz also deals with image politics in artistic projects in public space.

In 1991 he proposed to the city of Dresden that the Lenin monument there, designed in 1974 by the Russian sculptor Grigorij Jastrebenetzki , should be left in place as a destroyed monument on Wiener Platz (“Lenin's camp”). The memorial was inaugurated in front of Dresden Central Station by the then SED District Secretary Hans Modrow . Under the motto “I show my contemporaries Lenin. And Lenin the 21st century. Who will explain it to him? ”Herz traveled with the monumental granite busts of the monument on a semi-trailer through Europe and shot the film“ Lenin on Tour ”(Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2009/2010).

Films are an integral part of his artistic work:

  • Rudolf Herz, Ruth Toma : Remove the House of Art, 1980
  • Rudolf Herz: Lenin on Tour, co-director: Nicolas Humbert / Martin Otter, 2009
  • Rudolf Herz, Julia Wahren, Hary Rason: OX NO OX - A Legend from Madagascar, 2016
  • Rudolf Herz / Julia Wahren: Boris Lurie Has Left the Building, 2019
  • Rudolf Herz: Szeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps, 2020

Together with Reinhard Matz, he was a prize winner in the competition for the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” (1997). The draft “Overridden” envisaged paving a kilometer of the motorway near Kassel and declaring it a monument and financing a foundation for currently persecuted minorities from the sale of the Berlin competition site. In addition to temporary work and participation in international exhibitions, Rudolf Herz realized art in building projects and examined large-scale works such as "In anticipation of the harvest" (Engen-Welschingen 1996), "Lex injusta" (Federal Court of Karlsruhe 2003) and "Huygens' secret" (Deutsche Flugsicherung Frankfurt 2008) the location and time-specific possibilities of art. With the design "Ornament" he won the competition for the design of the newly built subway station in Munich-Oberwiesenfeld (with Hans Döring 2007).

Rudolf Herz taught at universities and art colleges and held a substitute professorship in the visual communication department at the Kassel University from 1994 to 1995. Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Barlach Collection, Hamburg, Museum of Modern Art, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Jewish Museum, Munich.

Working in public space

Oberwiesenfeld underground station
  • 1979 The stairs of illusion. The Illusion of the Staircase, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (with Hans Döring) temporary
  • 1990 Sign on the Feldherrnhalle , Munich (with Thomas Lehnerer) temporarily
  • 1992 car dismantling, art museum Schwerin temporarily
  • 1993 Red is then only the color of the blood, old police headquarters, Baden-Baden (with Thomas Lehnerer) temporarily
  • 2004 Lenin on Tour, House of Art Munich, Helmhaus Zurich , Goethe-Instituts Turin and Rome, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Tranzit Prague, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Academy of Arts and Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin.
  • 2008 Tatlins Dog, Donausteg, Ingolstadt temporarily
  • 1998 In expectation of the harvest, building yard Engen-Welschingen
  • 2000 India and not America, University of Konstanz campus 47 ° 41 ′ 28.8 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 12.5 ″  E
  • 2002 Sol lucet omnibus, LVA Augsburg
  • 2003 Lex injusta, Federal Court of Justice Karlsruhe
  • 2007 Ornament, Oberwiesenfeld underground station in Munich (with Hans Döring)
  • 2008 Huygens' secret, DLF, Frankfurt
  • 2008 ALL, Landratsamt Rastatt
  • 2012 Marcel Duchamp, "LE MYSTÈRE DE MUNICH" 1: 1 reconstruction of his Munich apartment on Barerstr. 65 tilted on its side in front of the Alte Pinakothek . Temporary

Solo exhibitions

  • 1988 Schauplatz, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich
  • 1994 Late triumphs of exhausted contradiction, Villa Massimo, Rome
  • 1995 Zugzwang, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
  • 1997 Transit 1-3, New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin, Barlach Hall K, Hamburg, New Museum Weserburg , Bremen
  • 1999 Council Race, Kunstverein Konstanz
  • 2003 Prologo Sul Lago Maggiore, G 2003, Magadino
  • 2006 The War, Kunstverein Kassel (with Michael Hofstetter)
  • 2009 Tatlins Dog, Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
  • 2009/2010 Lenin on Tour, Museum Ludwig , Cologne: More than 100 photographs of the tour were shown in red-brown wooden frames.

Group exhibitions

  • 1982 Video art in Germany 1963–1982, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • 1983 Starting points for critical art today, Kunstverein Bonn
  • 1989 Contemporary German Photography, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1997 Pictures of Germany, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1999 the 20th century. A Century of Art in Germany, National Gallery Berlin
  • 2001 Counter-Monuments and Memory, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2001 Mirroring Evil: Nazi-Imagery / Recent Art, The Jewish Museum, New York
  • 2001 Mémoire des Camps, Patrimoine photographique, Paris
  • 2002 Iconoclash, ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2002 Power, Casino Luxembourg / Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
  • 2004 Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Basque Center for Contemporary Art, Vitoria / Gasteiz
  • 2004 After Images. Art as social memory, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • 2005 On the presentation of terror: The RAF exhibition, artworks, Berlin
  • 2005 My private Heroes, MARTA, Herford
  • 2006 Snafu, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 2007 Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Art Museum Rüsselsheim
  • 2008 City without Jews, Jewish Museum, Munich
  • 2009 MAN SON 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 2009 Together into the future, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 2009 RECORD> AGAIN. 40 years of video art, ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2010 Mediations Biennale / Erased Walls, Poznań
  • 2012 Schaulager Sculptures, Hamburger Kunsthalle    
  • 2014 (Mis) Understanding Photography, Folkwang-Museum, Essen    
  • 2014 manifestos! Winterthur Photo Museum
  • 2015 Fire and Forget, KUNSTWERKE, Berlin    
  • 2015 Odessa Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Odessa   
  • 2017 Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. To Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York 
  • 2018 Flashes of the Future. The art of the 68s or the power of the powerless, Ludwig Forum Aachen  
  • 2019 The Fountain Memoire. Project space Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
  • 2020 Depicting Duchamp. Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York

Publications (selection)

  • Rudolf Heart . With a text by Heinz Schütz, Galerie der Künstler, Munich 1988
  • Rudolf Heart . Location. Text by Otto Karl Werckmeister , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 1991
  • Rudolf Heart . Lenin's camp. Draft for a sculpture in Dresden. Text by Thomas Deecke, Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1993,
  • Thomas Deecke : About erecting and tearing down sculptures. Festschrift for Siegfried Salzmann, Bremen 1993
  • Rudolf Herz - Thomas Lehnerer . Texts by Dirk Teuber Baldreit Edition Baden-Baden 1993
  • Rudolf Heart . Zugzwang. Texts by Peter Friese and Georg Bussmann, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 1995
  • HEART . Essays by Hubertus Gassner, Johannes Meinhardt, Ludger Derenthal, ed. by Peter Friese and Dirk Halfbrodt, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 1997
  • Rudolf Herz / Reinhard Matz . Two designs for the Holocaust memorial. Contributions by Bazon Brock, Georg Bussmann, Klaus Theweleit et al. Ed. by Matthias Reichelt, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2001
  • Norman Kleeblatt : Impossible Bedfellows: Adolf Hitler and Marcel Duchamp, in: Mirroring Evil. Nazi Imagery / Recent Art, Tutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2002
  • Matthias Reichelt : Rudolf Herz. Artistic image disruption, Kunstforum International, Volume 169, 2004
  • Rudolf Heart . Ornament. A metro station in Munich. In collaboration with Hans Döring, essay by Walter Grasskamp, ​​Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008
  • Rudolf Heart . Tatlin's Dog. 31 days - 31 anagrams. With a text by Kerstin Specht. Edited and introduced by Christine Fuchs, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2009
  • Rudolf Heart . Lenin on tour. Photographs by Reinhard Matz and Irena Wunsch. With texts by Volker Braun, Bazon Brock, Boris Buden, Peter Friese, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Rudolf Hickel, Hans Heinz Holz, Grigorij Jastrebenetzkij, Helmut Laakmann, Renato Nicolini, Achille Bonito Oliva, Guillaume Paoli, Miroslav Petricek, Harald Szeemann and many others , introduced by Susanne Leeb and designed by Gerwin Schmidt, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86930-048-1 .
  • Rudolf Heart. Marcel Duchamp - Le Mystère de Munich, Moser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814177-4-6 .
  • Rudolf Heart. Text Dirk Teuber, Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, Issue 97, Neu-Isenburg 2012, ISSN  0934-1730 .
  • Rudolf Heart. Zugzwang. Duchamp Hitler Hoffmann, Ed. Heinz Schütz, Belleville Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-943157-10-9 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Herz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Biographical Rudolf Herz ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hamburger Kunsthalle @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "H" / Rudolf Herz (accessed on August 24, 2015)
  3. ↑ Rudolf Herz: Zugzwang . Ed .: Heinz Schütz. Belleville Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-943157-10-9 .
  4. ^ Rudolf Herz: Lenin on tour . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9814177-4-6 .
  5. ↑ Rudolf Herz: Ornament. A metro station in Munich . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-939583-85-1
  6. ^ Review of the research report on Marcel Duchamp's time in Munich
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist, sculptor, photographer and media researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonthofen