Stefan Kaiser (artist)

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Stefan Kaiser: Triangular South Pole Expedition (2007). From the group of works "Boules cloutées"

Stefan Kaiser (born July 13, 1952 in Viersen ) is a German visual artist, draftsman, sculptor , engraver and art teacher.

Life

Stefan Kaiser: After and Before (1993; colored pencil and pencil, 145 × 110 cm)

Stefan Kaiser grew up in an art-loving family; his mother was the photographer Ruth Kaiser and his father the artist and art teacher Hanns-Josef Kaiser (1920–2017); his brother (* 1950) is the writer Reinhard Kaiser . Kaiser attended the Viersener "Humanist Gymnasium" (today: Erasmus-von-Rotterdam-Gymnasium ) and studied from 1971 to 1976 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich . Since 1978 he has worked as an art teacher, draftsman and sculptor. From 1986 to 1989 he had a teaching position in the field of design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences . In 1990 he opened a studio in Viersen. Many of his works are in public space, including some memorial plaques, for example for the former Viersen synagogues (1988), for the earlier city gates in Dülken (1993) and for the painter Hermann Schmitz (1996). He designed the coats of arms of the twin towns in Viersen on Remigiusplatz (1991) and the Duisburg underground station St. Anna Hospital right next to the St. Anna Hospital . His drawings can be found in the public collections of Rheydt Castle (Mönchengladbach), the Katharinenhof Museum (Kranenburg), the Stone Gate Museum, the Mönchengladbach Museum, the House of Spiess (Erkelenz) and the city of Viersen.

Kaiser is married and has three children; he lives in Viersen.

Art cycles

The first cycle (1982/83) consisted of 16 individual drawings. They created a 360-degree panorama under the title “A special place”.

In 1995, Kaiser's annual cycle “ZEIT stories” was created. A large-format sheet was produced every week, which was marked with an excerpt from the respective issue of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT . The themes were small everyday finds that the artist discovered by chance. They were drawn realistically at a high magnification. As a result, Kaiser succeeded, as the Duisburg art professor Hans Brög wrote, “ rudiments of meaning, should they have been transported by the found objects themselves, to wipe out and instead generate surprising semantic fields. An important, supportive measure is the arrangement, the position of the figure on the (picture) ground . "

In the years 1997 to 1999 the texts and drawings for the portfolio "The Hagrines-Kasten" were created. About the large-format pencil drawings of the “Genesis” cycle from 2002 to 2004, Christian Krausch said that they offered “ new stories parallel to Genesis , just as Kaiser's drawings basically allow new perspectives. It is never just about drawing something perfectly and enlarging it. Rather, Kaiser's works expand the fund of information about a thing or thing, knowing that in each thing and in each thing there is usually more hidden than can be seen on the surface. "

The groups of works “Boules cloutées” (2006–2012) and “Kopfbuchen” (2008–2010) have been followed since 2012 by the “Himmelsbilder”, in which Kaiser brings drawing and photography into a new kind of tension.

The king . Drawing (2009) by Stefan Kaiser from the group of works "Kopfbuchen" (2009)

Exhibitions and publications

Solo exhibitions

  • 1984: Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 1986: Municipal gallery in Viersen Park
  • 1988: Werner-Jaeger-Halle , Lobberich
  • 1991: Galerie Peschken, Krefeld
  • 1993: Spiess House , Erkelenz
  • 1994: Noack Gallery, Mönchengladbach
  • 1998: Municipal Kramer Museum, Kempen
  • 1999: Katharinenhof , Kranenburg
  • 2004: GKK Kunstspekturm; Krefeld
  • 2005: Galerie Judith DieLämmer, Grevenbroich
  • 2008: Gallery Old Latin School, Viersen
  • 2010: Werner-Jaeger-Halle, Nettetal
  • 2011: Galerie Meta Weber, Krefeld
  • 2012: Gallery Old Latin School (with Georg Ettl ), Viersen

Group exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

Catalogs and other publications

  • Stefan Kaiser. A special place. Panorama from sixteen drawings . Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 1984
  • Contemporary stories . 52 drawings. Christian Fochem Verlag, Krefeld 1996, ISBN 3-928668-26-9
  • The Hagrines box . In: Clams. Annual journal for literature and graphics . Vol. 41, Viersen 2001
  • Reinhard and Stefan Kaiser, Albert Pauly: Four times Kaiser. Ruth • Hanns-Josef • Reinhard • Stefan . Book accompanying the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen. Viersen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9808779-8-5
  • Reinhard Kaiser: Monsieur Dupont wakes up (1965). With drawings by Stefan Kaiser. Facsimile edition for the friends of the publishing house, Frankfurt: Schöffling 2000

Quote

“The intensity of the interpretation comes from the fact that the object, which it stands or hangs down, is transformed into a large form with great care, without projections, and initially with very tentative, indefinite lines that begin, reality that To raise the depicted very gradually into the consciousness, and not only into the consciousness of the beholder, but also into the consciousness of the person making the drawing. Roughly speaking, one could say: the objects that Stefan Kaiser treats in his drawings represent the ultimate in metamorphosis. After all, art is constantly involved with metamorphoses. This kind of real transformation of an object that is not worth noticing in itself comes close to the uniqueness, the uniqueness of what is present in the most inconspicuous objects in our daily environment. "

- Hans van der Grinten

literature

  • Ingrid Flocken: Monuments and Modernity . In: Rheinische Post from December 11, 2007
  • Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher: Visit to the copper engraver Stefan Kaiser. The mystery is above things. In: Niederrheinische Blätter , May 1999
  • Hans Brög : archeology of waste or styled scrap . In: Stefan Kaiser. Contemporary stories . Krefeld 1996, ISBN 3-928668-26-9

Web links

Commons : Stefan Kaiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ What remains of Kaiser in Viersen ( Rheinische Post January 20, 2017, p. C5)
  2. ↑ Hans Brög: Archeology of waste or styled scrap . In: Stefan Kaiser. Contemporary stories . Krefeld 1996
  3. ^ Christian Krausch, managing director of the Abteiberg Museum Association , on February 11, 2005 in his opening speech in Grevenbroich
  4. ↑ Hans van der Grinten : Exhibition opening speech on March 14, 1999 in the Katharinenhof Kranenburg
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist, draftsman, sculptor, engraver and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen