Thomas P. Kausel

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Thomas P. Kausel (born December 23, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German painter and representative of Concrete Art .

Thomas P. Kausel, April 2013

life and work

After graduating from high school at the humanistic Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin, Thomas P. Kausel completed an apprenticeship as a film maker. From 1960 he was a camera assistant, then a cameraman for film and television productions in Stuttgart and Munich.

In addition to photographic work (bronze and silver medals for photography), he dealt with painting, first as an autodidact, then for 9 years he learned color design, composition and art history with Hermine Müller-Cejka (painter, Roter Reiter group, Munich). He studied at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg with professors Emilio Vedova , Sandro Chia (working grant), Antonio Diaz, Strawalde , Akos Birkas , Hermann Nitsch and as an assistant at GK Pfahler.

At first Kausel painted representationally. Then, freed from space and perspective, he reduced abstract works to just three motifs:

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  1. red vertical dyptiches are reminiscent of the human / woman theme
  2. blue right to the sea with horizon and
  3. yellow, green polychromes are associated with landscape.

The encounter with works by Josef Albers , Barnett Newman and US color field painting led to the turning point and Kausel's turn to concrete painting , also known as radical painting , analytical painting , and minimal art . This art does not depict anything, it does not tell anything and only refers to itself - at Kausel everything revolves around the subject of color, around: color substance (color paint), especially the pigments.

Trademarks of Kausel's works are the only 154 pure, unmixed pigments ("pure color has higher energy potential than mixed ones; purer is stronger!") And the inscription of the international official name of the pigment according to the color index system .

Thomas P. Kausel lives in Munich.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 "Thomas P. Kausel. Municipal Gallery Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin"
  • 2017 Thomas P. Kausel. "The power of pure, unmixed color" Flottmann-Hallen , Herne
  • 2014 "The power of pure, mixed colors" Städtische Galerie Schwabach (de)
  • 2013 "Pure color" Wetzlarer Kunstverein. Wetzlar (de)
  • 2011 "Monochrom-Modular" (with H. Kesberg) Kunstverein Bad Godesberg, Bonn (de)
  • 2008 "The power of pure, unmixed colors" Kommunale Galerie Berlin (catalog) (de)
  • 2004 "Change of scenery: Thomas P. Kausel and the concrete color: Pigment Blue 60" Museum for Concrete Art (catalog), Ingolstadt (de)
  • 2002 "Correspondence: TP Kausel painting (with F. Krebs, J. Wurmer) Forum Konkret in the Peterskirche, Erfurt (de)
  • 2001 "Thomas P. Kausel: Color as Color" special show (with Karlheinz Adler and others) Kunsthaus Rehau (de)
  • 2000 "Pigmento B 16 Azul e outras cores" Instituto Goethe Sao Paulo SP, Brazil (br)
  • 2000 "Pigment B 16 blue and other colors" Goethe-Institut Washington DC / USA (us)
  • 2000 "Pigments - the stuff that colors are made of" Museum Modern Art (catalog), Hünfeld (de)
  • 2000 "Pigment PY 110 Amino Ketone - Indian Yellow and other colors" Max Mueller Bhavan, German Cultural Center, Calcutta / India (in)
  • 1999 "Pintura sobre papel: Verde, Pigmento G 8 y otros colores" Club Aleman de Mexico, SA / Goethe-Institut, Mexico, DF Mexico (mx)
  • 1998 "Couleurs de Thomas P. Kausel" Goethe-Institut, Marseilles / F (fr)
  • 1995 "Pittura" Comune di Murlo / Associazione Culturale, Castello di Murlo (catalog) Murlo / Italia (it)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 "Obraz Object" Gallery 72, Muzeum Ziemi Chelmskiej, Chelm / Polska
  • 2018 "Musee Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France
  • 2017 "Minima Silloge" Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Lissone / Italy
  • 2015 "The repertoire of unity", VBK Bayern ver.di, Munich
  • 2013 New opening: Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz
  • 2010 "Art to go II" Municipal Gallery Berlin
  • 2010 "Our modernity, a century struggling for modernity", Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz
  • 2009 "Homage to a generation of founders", Forum Concrete Art / City Administration Erfurt
  • 2009 "Everything", Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
  • 2009 "Konkret" Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
  • 2008 "Gmund Symposia for Concrete Art", Linz / A (at)
  • 2008 "Inteligibilne Procesy" Centrum Sztuki Gallery ELW, Elblagu / Elbing, PL (pl)
  • 2007 "Construktivo, Concreto, Reductivo" Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio, Aranjuez / Madrid / E (es)
  • 2006 "MOTIVA", Austrian Center Vienna, Vienna / A (at)
  • 2005 "Argumenta", Atlas Sztuki, Lodz / PL (pl)
  • 2005 "Experiment Konkret" for Eugen Gomringer's 80th birthday, Museum für Konkrete Kunst (catalog), Ingolstadt
  • 2003 "EUROPA Konkret", Altana Gallery - Technical University Dresden
  • 2003 "Unity and Diversity - Concrete Art", curator Gomringer, KUNST-HALLE eV, Halle (Saale)
  • 1997 KONSTRUKTIV-KONKRET, art pavilion (catalog), Munich
  • 1995 Large art exhibition, House of Art (Munich)

Public collections (selection)

  • Centro de Arte Contempoláneo de Málaga (es)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Freiburg im Breisgau (de)
  • From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal (de)
  • MUSA Museum Collection Culture Department (MA7) of the City of Vienna (at)
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen (de)
  • De La Salle University, Manila (ph)
  • Universal museum Joanneum, Neue Galerie Graz (at)
  • El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX / USA (us)
  • MKK Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt (de)
  • Museum Forum Concrete Art Erfurt (de)
  • Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (gr)
  • Municipal Gallery Berlin (de)
  • Altana Gallery - Technical University of Dresden (de)
  • State Art Collection Dresden (de)
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle (de)
  • Sprengel Museum Hannover (de)
  • BG Berlinische Galerie / Landesmuseum Berlin (de)
  • PIN Pinakothek der Moderne - State Graphic Collection Munich (de)
  • AdK Academy of Arts Berlin (de)
  • Albertina Vienna (at)
  • GNM Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (de)
  • Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (hu)
  • Museums for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (de)
  • University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (us)
  • Art collections and museums of the city of Augsburg (de)
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (us)
  • Mondriaanhuis Amersfoort (nl)
  • Collection Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt (de)

literature

  • Jesus Dionisio Ballesteros: "Internacional Constructivo Concreto Reductivo Inteligible, catalog, 72 p., 242 fig., Ediciones Maranon, Madrid 2007
  • Heidi Bierwisch: "Art goes into the city - art was in the city - homage to a generation of founders - bauhaus 2008" 58 pp., 208 ills., City Administration Erfurt and Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt 2009
  • Jürgen Blum: "Thomas P. Kausel: Pigments - the stuff that colors are made of", 16 pp., 9 figs., Hünfeld 2000
  • Jürgen Blum: "One year - 32 positions", 24 pages, 70 illustrations, Hünfeld 2004
  • Jürgen Blum: "MOTIVA", texts: Burghard Schmitt, Ingrid Auler, Lech Lechowicz u. a., 136 p., 225 fig., Austria Center, Vienna 2005
  • Jürgen Blum: "The Intelligible Non-Violent Art", 40 pp., 58 fig., Vienna - Hünfeld 2007
  • Bockemühl / Scheffold: "The how on what?" FAZ Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, 232 S., Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-89981-133-9
  • Eugen Gomringer: "zur sache der concrete", 552 p., Edition Splitter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901190-30-9
  • Eugen Gomringer: "Thomas P. Kausel - Pigments: Basis and ordering factor for painting?" 62 p., 17 ills., Helsinki - Munich 2002
  • Eugen Gomringer: "the bluest blue? - Thomas P. Kausel and the pure color", text: Eugen Gomringer, 48 p., 73 fig., Berlin 2008
  • Tobias Hoffmann: "Szenewechsel 03/04", text: Frank Schmidt, 84 pp., 38 figs., Publication Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt 2004
  • Tobias Hoffmann: "EXPERIMENT KONKRET - Eugen Gomringer for his 80th birthday", text Eugen Gomringer, 88 pages, 31 illustrations, Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, 2005
  • Claudia Jaeckel: "Thomas P. Kausel, Concrete Painting - Investigations with Colors", texts Claudia Jaeckel, Cornelia Gockel, Anderland Verlag, 32 pages, 15 illustrations, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-926220-55-4
  • Thomas P. Kausel: "Von Grund auf Kunst", text E. Gomringer, 96 pp., 36 figs., Munich-Bangkok 2000
  • Jürgen Knubben: "Blau", 88 pp., 49 illustrations, Rottweil 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024920-4
  • Josef Linschinger: "The intelligible non-violent art", text by Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski, 160 pages, 116 illustrations, Ritter Verlag, Vienna - Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85415-416-7
  • MKK Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, Museum Modern Art Hünfeld: "Thomas P. Kausel and the Concrete Color", preface Tobias Hoffmann / Head of MKK, 16 pages, 11 illustrations, Ingolstadt 2004
  • Rudolf Ortner: "Konstruktiv-Konkret", 56 p., 24 fig., Wertingen 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Hoffmann, director of the Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt: "Each color substance is therefore bindingly defined in terms of its specific properties via the code and can be sensually experienced as a color." In: Thomas P. Kausel and the concrete color , MKK Museum für Konkrete Kunst, p . 1, Ingolstadt 2004


personal data
SURNAME Kausel, Thomas P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin