Michael Seyl

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Michael Seyl: Rot Blau , Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer 1998

Michael Seyl (born July 8, 1963 in Bedesbach ) is a German artist.

Life

Michael Seyl grew up in Rutsweiler am Glan . After graduating from high school in Kusel , he began studying art education and German at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . His artistic teachers there were Sigurd Rompza and Karl-Otto Jung . After an interruption due to his civil service, he continued his studies in Münster in 1988 at the university and at the art academy , where he also enrolled in the subject of fine art. At the art academy he studied with the total artist Timm Ulrichs . From 1989 to 1994 Michael Seyl was a research assistant at the chair of Rudolf Schützeichel at the Institute for German Language and Literature of the Middle Ages at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. From 1994 to 2008 he was the founding chairman of the Kunstkreis Kusel art association . In 1999 he was awarded the Ludwig-Roos-Foundation of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein for his artistic work . Michael Seyl lived in Altenglan from 1998 to 2011 . Since then he has lived in Kaiserslautern .

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Michael Seyl's artistic development takes place in two phases: During his studies in Saarbrücken, he mainly created realistic drawings as well as watercolor and acrylic paintings in an expressive style, before he made a radical break at the Münster Art Academy and worked non-representationally. From now on, his themes are light and color. 1989 the first works in the field of light art were created. Again and again he refers to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , whose color theory he dealt with in his thesis The Immateriality of Color in Cross-Border Painting at the art academy. Initially, objects and installations with spotlights, fluorescent tubes, projectors and colored foils were created before he began to create works for the outdoor area. Since then, numerous light installations have been created on castles, in churches, in museums and in public spaces. He became known nationwide in 1998 with his castle red on twelve Palatinate castles. Seyl designed light installations for the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer (1998), the Landesmuseum Mainz (2000) and the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken (2012). The artist has been present several times with illuminations in the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site . Seyl was able to record a great success in 2002 when two of his light installations were on view at the Licht (e) wege exhibition , which was shown as part of the Kassel supporting program for Documenta 11 in the Bergpark of Wilhelmshöhe Castle. On the occasion of the 2006 soccer World Cup, he created a light sculpture for the town hall in Kaiserslautern.

Exhibitions

  • Solo exhibitions (selection)
    • 1989: Painting , art at the pigeon garden in Grünstadt
    • 1998: Rot Blau , Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer
    • 2004: Michael Seyl sees red , Kusel City and Local History Museum
  • Participation in exhibitions (selection)
  • Light installations in public spaces (selection)
    • 1998: Burgenröte , light installation on 12 Palatinate castles
    • 2000: Red for Gutenberg , Landesmuseum Mainz
    • 2000: Blauraum Rotraum , World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte
    • 2002: Fire light , Bedesbach village community center
    • 2012: Yellow Red Blue , Saarland Museum at Schlossplatz, Saarbrücken
    • 2018: Sternlicht red blue , Kaiserslautern town hall
  • Light installations in the church (selection)

literature

  • Michael Seyl. Yellow red blue . With a text by Rainer Dick, Druckerei und Verlag Koch, Kusel 1997.
  • Meinrad Maria Grewenig (Ed.): Michael Seyl. Red blue . Historical Museum of the Palatinate, Speyer 1998.
  • Castle red. Light installations by Michael Seyl . TR-Verlagsunion, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8058-3381-4 .
  • Meinrad Grewenig: The Historical Museum of the Palatinate, Speyer, in dialogue with Michael Seyl . In: Westrichkalender Kusel 2000 . Görres Verlag, Koblenz 2000, p. 214.
  • Meinrad Maria Grewenig (Ed.): Fire water air. Ingrid Mwangi, Robert Hutter, Michael Seyl, Stephan Mathieu . Editing: Frank Krämer, Quantum Books Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-935293-13-5 .
  • Light (e) paths. Light installations in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Kassel . Exhibition catalog, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-00-010743-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the general artist lexicon
  2. ↑ See who was that! An identification book for Timm Ulrich's class at the Münster Art Academy from 1972 to 2005 . Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2005, ISBN 3-929040-89-1 , p. 138.
  3. ↑ Michael Seyl. Yellow red blue . With a text by Rainer Dick, Druckerei und Verlag Koch, Kusel 1997, p. 22
  4. ↑ Michael Seyls Blauraum Rotraum on the pages of the World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte
personal data
SURNAME Seyl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedesbach