Theo Windges

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Theo Windges (born September 29, 1943 in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt ) is a German graphic and photo designer and photo artist living in Krefeld .

Life and education

After attending school and training as a window dresser and poster painter, Theo Windges studied "Visual Communication" with Klaus Kammerichs at the Peter-Behrens-Werkkunstschule in Düsseldorf . He completed his studies in 1969 as a photo and graphic designer.

Act

LTU red roof
City coat of arms Krefeld
Silk weaver house logo

Since 1969, Windges has been designing logos and edited appearances for these companies for numerous clients. One of his ideas was to make the roofs of the LTU planes red. Further work for Messe Düsseldorf , RWE , Bayer AG , action medeor , Viersen district and the State Geological Office followed. He also worked for institutions in Krefeld ( Städtische Bühnen Krefeld / Mönchengladbach , Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, Flachsmarkt Linn ). The redesign of the Krefeld city coat of arms into a graphically simplified form was also a noteworthy work .

Almost 400 posters designed by him were handed over to the Krefeld City Archives in April 2016.

In addition to his work as a graphic artist, he was a theater photographer from 1970 to 1973. In 1971 he met the artist Joseph Beuys and photographed a large series of photos of him. In 1984 he won the international Polaroid competition. The winning pictures were included in the "Polaroid Collection".

Even during his studies, experiments with and around photography were in the foreground at Windges. So he experimented with "cameraless photography in the darkroom" and "photo burn self-exposure". When dealing with the subject of “time”, a cycle of over 450 motifs was created. For his more recent works he chooses the simplicity of representation and created images that he calls “two-dimensional space”. He calls various images of this kind a "multive".

Windges has been the "Doctor humoris causa" of the Krefeld carnival society "Uzvögel" since 1999.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1979 Shirt-Art-Gallery, Mönchengladbach
  • 1979 Scene K, Rheinische Post Gallery, Krefeld
  • 1980 Foyer Theater Duisburg
  • 1980 Ruhr Area Municipal Association, Essen
  • 1981 Culture Hall, Neukirchen-Vluyn
  • 1982 Städt. Gallery in the park, Viersen
  • 1982 Parliamentary Society, Bonn
  • 1987 "Portraits Josef Beuys", Association of Krefeld Artists (GKK)
  • 1988 Argentum, Galerie Meta Weber, Krefeld
  • 1995 Gallery in Glasesefanen, Hamm
  • 1996 artist gallery, Duisburg
  • 1997 Old Church, Krefeld
  • 2000 Gallery in Sensenhammer, Leverkusen
  • 2000 Galerie M-Art, Arnheim (NL)
  • 2000 City Photo gallery Factory Heeder, Krefeld
  • 2002 Gallery bij de Boeken, Ulft (NL)
  • 2004 Kulturschoppen, Pax-Christi, Krefeld
  • 2005 Kultur.Punkt, Friedenskirche, Krefeld
  • 2008 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, photo series Josef Beuys
  • 2009 "Two-dimensional rooms", GKK Krefeld
  • 2010 Art in the Lukaskirche, Krefeld
  • 2014 posters, "Gallery in the swimming pool"

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983 “Show your colors”, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
  • 1983 "Photograms", Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
  • 1985 “The Tree”, Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 1986 “The Tree”, Saarbrücken Art Association
  • 1993 to 2001 large art exhibition NRW, Düsseldorf
  • 1994 to 2002 Huntenkunst, Doetinchem (NL)
  • 1997 Groote Kerk, Veere Zeeland (NL) with Klaus Peter Noever
  • 2007 Forum Art and Architecture, Essen
  • 2008 with Maika Korfmacher and Udo Steneberg at Cargill , Krefeld
  • 2016 with Martin Lersch in the archive of the city of Krefeld

Memberships

Works

  • Schöne Krefeld, the beautiful, la belle / with photos by Theo Windges and texts by Renate Wilkes-Valkyser. Ed .: Norbert Beleke . Translated from: St. Clair Consulting, ISBN 3-8215-0523-0
  • Krefeld: Seidenstadt am Niederrhein / photogr. by Theo Windges. With texts by Eckhard W. Scholz ISBN 3-929229-62-5
  • Way of the Cross: Photos / by Theo Windges ISBN 3-00-000723-7

Web links

Commons : Theo Windges  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/krefeld/kultur/theo-windges- Zwischen-kamera-und-kunst-1.1438230
  2. ↑ Logo of the district of Viersen
  3. ↑ https://www.kreis-viersen.de/C1257960002A21E3/0/10AAABCF3A317FB2C1257DAC002F7C1C/$file/19_2014_16.pdf Kreiszeitung Viersen
  4. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung (print edition) April 28, 2016
  5. ^ Exhibition south station Krefeld
  6. ↑ Beuys in the KWM
  7. ^ "Profifoto", GFW-Verlag Düsseldorf 5/1983 pp. 35-36
  8. ↑ Zeitforum
  9. ↑ Time images
  10. ↑ Uzvögel ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.xn--gkguzvgel-57a.de
  11. ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/krefeld/kultur/windges-plakate-aus-45-jahren-1.1770507 WZ Krefeld
  12. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/krefeld/eine-un-zensierte-ausstellung-zu-beuys-aid-1.6033722 Press report accessed on June 10, 2016
  13. ↑ Culture Office
  14. ^ Association of Düsseldorf Artists, Members
  15. ↑ Association of Krefeld Artists ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gkk-ev.de
personal data
SURNAME Windges, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach-Rheydt