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Thilo Götze Regenbogen (born March 24, 1949 in Lehnin as Thilo Götze ; † April 30, 2015 ) was a German artist , art historian , cultural scientist and author .

Life

Thilo Götze Regenbogen spent his earliest time in the Mark Brandenburg and in Naunhof near Leipzig before his mother left the GDR with the children via the Berlin Airlift in 1957 . He attended elementary school and grammar school in Bad Dürkheim and studied commercial graphics in Kaiserslautern . There he played a key role in transforming the graphics department of the master school for craftsmen into a craft art school. He became involved as AStA chairman and organized the Kaiserslautern demonstration against the emergency laws . As a student of Helmut Göring (1917–2013) and a founding member of the artist group "Phönix Omnibus", he campaigned for ars phantastica. He then completed studies in art education and media education as well as art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , which he graduated in 1976 and 1977.

Thilo Götze Regenbogen has been active as an artist since 1965, and as a publicist since 1969 . “As a 20-year-old Thilo Götze Regenbogen confessed to Buddhism. In 1970 he was seriously injured in a car accident. While still in the hospital, he decided not to become a graphic artist, but an art teacher. ”From 1978 to 2002 he worked as a teacher for fine arts and visual communication at the Main-Taunus School in Hofheim am Taunus .

Thilo Götze Regenbogen cooperated with personalities from the art and literary scene such as Hadayatullah Hübsch , who wrote: “An artist of his own kind is Thilo Götze Regenbogen, who invited me to various activities.” Götze Regenbogen was also associated with Rolf Schwendter , and he contributed to his festschrift the article Some rule the world, others are the world contributed. A long friendship and collaboration linked Thilo Götze Regenbogen with the Fluxus artist U We Claus. In addition, there was a connection to Klaus Sobolewski , whose memorial Götze Regenbogen contributed to.

Thilo Götze Regenbogen was a committed collector: “An olive-green parka that Thilo Götze Regenbogen wore from 1968 to 1980 is on display in the Historical Museum. He decorated it with seals and colorful ribbons and mended the pockets with denim. The everyday jacket, which became a museum piece, has the number 1339 in Thilo Götze Regenbogen's collection. In 2008 he was the largest private lender of the Frankfurt exhibition "The 68: Short Summer - Long Effect" in the Historical Museum. Sifting through, organizing and archiving his possessions has occupied the Hofheim artist for a long time. When his "Room 1" moved from Kriftel to Hofheim five years ago, he parted with a number of posters, magazines and papers for reasons of space. He burned it publicly and to music, made a performance out of the farewell. "

In 1986 Thilo Götze Regenbogen received the Art Prize of the Humanist Union .

Act

Theodor W. Adorno , Bob Dylan and Lama Anagarika Govinda had significant formative influences on the work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen . “From the mid-1960s onwards, I simultaneously listened to and read Adorno, studied Lama Govinda, and translated and listened to Bob Dylan. So one thing did not follow the other, least of all in the sense that I moved from music to philosophy to Buddhism. Everything has its place, its sound, its range, its own depth. ”From then on, the artistic and journalistic work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen was strongly influenced by an examination of Buddhism .

In 1986 he founded the EygenArt Verlag and in 1989 the EygenArt Gallery. In 1991 he set up "Room 1 - Research Institute for Contemporary Art", which has been located in Kriftel after it was founded and since 2003 in Hofheim am Taunus .

Thilo Götze Regenbogen also worked in cultural studies. He presented studies on topics such as the history of Buddhism in the GDR , Buddhism and film and many other intercultural topics. Research priorities had emerged since 2002: Carlfriedrich Claus (1930–1998) and his friendship and correspondence with Ernst (1885–1977) and Karola Bloch (1905–1994); Buddhism and modernity in a world context; the Buddha image in modern times; Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966), his friendship with Karola Bloch and the Apocalypse; Alternative cultures in German-speaking Europe 1970–2000; Cultural field theory and approaches to integral thinking.

One of Götze Regenbogen's concerns was to reconcile the old tradition of Buddhism with modernity and its art by demonstrating and demonstrating the influences of the wisdom traditions that can be seen in many modern artists and writers.

As early as 1969 he founded the “Lotos Studio” in Bad Dürkheim as “a combination of Buddhism and creativity.” From 1969 to 1972 he published the first and so far only magazine for Buddhism and contemporary art, GARUDA. His more recent books also pursue this goal. Martin Brauen judges Götze Regenbogen's book Field Liberators in Art, Wisdom and Science (2010): “A modern concept based on the current scientific state, attentive and critical perception of cultural forms of expression of globalized Buddhism, the peculiarities in the countries of origin and a pragmatically anchored cultural field theory make this book into a helpful compendium of contemporary culture that also shows the past 200 years in a new light. "

Artistic work

In the artistic work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen eight work phases are distinguished in which very different media such as painting, drawing, printmaking, object art, installation, performance, mail art , stamps , stickers , posters, copy art and postcards can be found. His mail art activities are considered to be influenced by Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Klaus Staeck . His fourth phase of work, "Extended Ecological Concept" (1976–1988), was also one of the most politically active. This is how the contributions against the expansion of Frankfurt Airport ("Startbahn West") were made. In October 2013 he published an essay "Am I doing conceptual art?", In which he describes the beginning of a ninth phase of his work. Artistic works by Thilo Götze Regenbogen can be found in numerous museums, including the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich , the Carl Laszlo Collection and the Hans van der Grinten Collection in the Museum Schloss Moyland .

In 2011/12 a complete list of the artistic work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen was published, the first volume documenting the years from 1965 to 1968, when the artist appeared as “Thilo Götze”. The second volume documents the years from 1968 to 1971 when he worked under “Thilo A. Götze”.

Works (selection)

  • The lost discourse. Buddhism and Art. Marburg: Diagonal Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-927165-90-5
  • Dialectics of Compassion: Buddhism and Film. Marburg: Diagonal Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-927165-79-4
  • Buddha image and modernity: imitation, alienation, criticism. EygenArt Verlag 2012, ISBN 9783925829635
  • Field Liberator in Art, Wisdom and Science. Marburg: Diagonal Verlag 2010, ISBN 9783939346180

A complete bibliography of the work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen exists up to 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen is dead , press release from the city of Hofheim am Taunus , June 3, 2015, accessed on June 7, 2015
  2. ↑ Date of birth, place and other information from: Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Walter de Gruyter Verlag 2007, p. 363
  3. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen, CV 60: First information on the cultural fields in the life work of Thilo Götze Regenbogen, Edition 2 of the series PARALIPOMENA in EygenArt Verlag, 2nd edition, Hofheim 2010, p. 2. ISBN 3-925829-56-3
  4. ↑ Biographical information according to Mail Artists Index : Thilo Götze Regenbogen
  5. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen, 21 notes at the time with Helmut Göring 1966–1971, EygenArt Verlag 2014, ISBN 3-925829-70-9
  6. ↑ Götze Regenbogen, Thilo (signed TGR) ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Barbara Helfrich: His picture of the 68er. Thilo Götze Regenbogen shows “what usually falls under the table” . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 20, 2008
  8. ^ Hadayatullah Hübsch : The first 100: Books by Hadayatullah Hübsch from over 30 years of subculture in Germany. Hadayatullah's Canon . Ariel Verlag 3003, p. 95
  9. ^ Christiane E. Winter-Heider: Festschrift for Rolf Schwendter. Fragments of an encounter - elements of a response. Kassel University Press 2005, ISBN 978-3-89958-075-4
  10. ↑ Buddhist Art Modern
  11. ↑ " Klaus Sobolewski. In memory ." 1st edition 2006, published by Kunst-Keller Annaberg eV, with texts by Klaus Ramm , Brigitta Milde, Peter Huckauf , Thilo Götze Regenbogen, Gerhard Wolf, Ursula Lang, Michael Goller , Jörn Michael, Jörg Seifert and Klaus Sobolewski .
  12. ↑ Andreas Schwab, Beate Schappach, Manuel Gogos (ed.), The 68er. Short summer - long effect, Essen: Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft 2008, pp. 135, 195, 220-221, 259.
  13. ↑ Barbara Helfrich: His picture of the 68er. Thilo Götze Regenbogen showed “what usually falls under the table” . In: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 20, 2008
  14. ↑ Jürgen Seifert / Ulrich Vultejus (Humanist Union), The Security Laws: Texts and Images against the Surveillance Laws, Hamburg: Buntbuch-Verlag 1986, p. 16. ISBN 3-88653-093-0
  15. ↑ 68.69 Dylan Adorno Govinda: an autobiographical montage by Thilo Götze Regenbogen. EygenArt Verlag 2008, ISBN 9783925829390
  16. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen: Dylan Adorno Govinda
  17. ↑ 10 years, room 1: Thilo Götze Regenbogen, Stefan Klingels, Burkhard Rosskothen, Hans-Dieter Russ . EygenArt Verlag 2003, ISBN 9783925829420
  18. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen: Buddhism in the GDR. A search for clues. In: Journal of the SED-State Research Association (ZdF) at the Free University of Berlin, issue no. 31/2012, Halle / Saale 2012, pp. 133–147
  19. ^ Bulletin: The Art History of East Asia in the German-speaking Area. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
  20. ↑ Connexions: Address book of alternative projects . Verlag MarGis 1984, p. 243, ISBN 9783922057406
  21. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  22. ↑ Martin Brauen : Review of field liberators in art, wisdom and science. In: Buddhismus aktuell 1/2011, p. 59 ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ^ Eva Roland-Schellack, Gluing instead of talking: Die Sticker-Fibel, Hamburg: Rasch and Röhring Verlag 1986, p. 53. ISBN 3-89136-070-3
  24. ^ Thilo Götze Regenbogen , Mail Artists Index, June 8, 2013
  25. ^ Art against Startbahn West: Works by Affected, ed. Bruno Struif, Giessen: Anabas-Verlag 1982, p. 15, 24. ISBN 3-87038-094-2
  26. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen Do I do conceptual art? A consideration through eight work phases 1965-2013
  27. ↑ Thilo Götze Rainbow in collections, libraries and archives (PDF; 139 kB)
  28. ↑ Complete directory of the artistic work. Part 1: Thilo Götze 1965–1968 . Hofheim am Taunus 2011, ISBN 3-925829-60-1
  29. ↑ Complete directory of the artistic work. Part 2: Thilo A. Götze 1968–1971 . Hofheim am Taunus 2012, ISBN 3-925829-65-2
  30. ↑ Thilo Götze Regenbogen: Complete bibliography including editions and mentions, audio and videography, internet presence, magazine articles and scattered items . Kriftel am Taunus 2003, ISBN 3-925829-44-X
personal data
SURNAME Götze rainbow, Thilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Götze, Thilo (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, art historian, cultural scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehnin
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2015