Thomas Reichstein

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Portrait Thomas Reichstein 2011

Thomas Reichstein (* 1960 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Thomas Reichstein grew up in Halle on the Saale in a geologist's home. After an apprenticeship as a gardener in Leipzig , he studied landscape architecture at the Technical University in Dresden from 1982 to 1984 for the fourth semester. Reichstein then studied sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden with Professor Klaus Schwabe , graduating in 1990. In spring 1989, he completed a guest semester at the University of Art, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle / Saale with Irmtraud Ohme in the metal design department.

Three brass figures from the 2003 stay in Ghana

As a freelance sculptor, Thomas Reichstein worked from 1992 to 1997 in Ghana for the Ashanti brass foundry in Krofrom near Kumasi for three months a year. The results were shown for the first time in 1994 in the Magdeburg art museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen . In 1995 and 1996 he learned to carve Malangan on the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea .

Two wooden Malangan sculptures, carved in New Ireland

As a result, Thomas Reichstein developed a special type of rattan bark plastic. In 1997 he won a competition at the Semperoper Dresden for a prize sculpture that has since been awarded several times a year. His submission won over the jury with its balance between abstraction and objectivity. Thus the reference to music, song and dance succeeded the basic elements of the opera on an equal footing. Since then Reichstein has received further orders for prize sculptures from politics and business (for example Dresden Marketing Prize, MTM Award).

From January 1st, 1998 to December 31st, 1998 Thomas Reichstein taught at the Saxon stonemason school in Demitz-Thumitz . There he developed the stonemason-specific subject Basics of Design and taught, among other things, freehand drawing, design and modeling from nature. Thomas Reichstein has been working in a Buddha foundry in Ban Pong for several months a year since 1999 . A series of abstract sculptures was created here from 1999 to 2005 .

Three graces in front of the Albertinum

Since 2006 Thomas Reichstein has increasingly turned to the human figure. For example, in 2009 he created a group of depictions of Nereids, inspired by classical Greek models from the British Museum in London .

Figure overview image

From 2000 to 2012 Thomas Reichstein was chairman of the Saxon Artists Association / State Association of Visual Arts of Saxony e. V. and from 1997 to 2012 member of the board of the Dresden Artists Association. In 2005 he was a provisional member of the federal board of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK). Thomas Reichstein has been Chairman of the Board of the New Saxon Art Association since 2012 . Thomas Reichstein is the father of four children.

In 2006 Thomas Reichstein won with an excursion into the world of geometry. He created a polyhedron ring free sculpture from Platonic, Archimedean and Catalan solids and thus achieved first place in a competition organized by the Free State of Saxony for the Riesa State Academic Academy . Reichstein received first prize in a competition in the city of Jena in 2007 for his sculptures “Big Fish” and “Saalewelle”. These are directly involved in the redesign of the promenade of the Wenigenjena bank of the Saale. With a fall protection base, they are especially designed for touch and feel. The overall project received the Thuringian Landscape Architecture Prize in 2009.

In 2010 Thomas Reichstein began a new collection of life-size bronze figures, which by 2013 had grown to 25 works. These develop from statuesque creations in the style of Lucas Cranach the Elder to freely moving, dance-expressive representations dedicated to the Palluca School in Dresden.

Work abroad

  • Bulgaria - Black Sea Coast / Plovdiv, 1983, As part of the landscape architecture studies, ancient excavations were studied here and city landscape drawings were created.
  • Soviet Union - Leningrad, 1987, study trip of the Dresden art students to the Hermitage and to the studio of the monumental sculptor Michail Anikuschin
  • France - Paris, October 1989, participation in an exhibition in the GDR cultural center in Paris with study trip
  • Ghana - Kumasi 1992–1997 annual three-month work stays in the brass foundry village of Krofrom, Reichstein models around 200 small sculptures here.
  • France - Montpellier / Clermont de Herault, At the invitation of the French cultural institute in Dresden, Reichstein is working here together with the French sculptor Christine Mattia and is exhibiting the results in Dresden.
  • Papua New Guinea - New Ireland, 1995 and 1996, Reichstein learned the art of indigenous mask carving from the Malangan wood sculptors.
  • Colombia - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1998, working for a priest of the Kogi tribe
  • Thailand - Ban Pong / Ratchaburi, 1999 to 2013, annual work stays in the largest Buddha foundry in Thailand to model and cast the main oeuvre consisting of approx. 500 large and small sculptures made of bronze, brass and aluminum.
  • Italy - Laas / South Tyrol, 2011, marble symposium and exhibition

Exhibitions (selection)

Cube meadow - polyhedron ring made of brass, Riesa 2006
Saale wave in Jena
Big fish 222
  • Gallery Gebrüder Lehmann 1990 "Ferrum Vitalis"
  • Gallery Autogen, 1991 "Stahl axial"
  • Landhaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie 1992.
  • Otomfo - Okomfo : African brass by Thomas Reichstein 1992–1994, curator: Uwe J Gellner, Monastery of our Dear Women, museums of the city of Magdeburg
  • Export Import , Thomas Reichstein with L. Azure, H. Lippmann and H. Stark: October 2 to November 6, 1994, Galerie Rähnitzgasse of the state capital Dresden
  • Thomas Reichstein - Art communication across continents. 1. Oeuvre exhibition in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden by the sculpture collection in the Albertinum. October 29, 2000 to January 31, 2001, curator: Bärbel Stephan, acting director of the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • Galerie Sybille Nütt 2004, of source gods, young horses and this premonition of the primal sound of things ...
  • Galerie Tatzl Graz / Austria 2006, Thomas Reichstein "auf Draht" & Hans Staudacher
  • Figure-Abstract exhibition trilogy in Bangkok in the German Embassy, ​​in the Goethe Institute and in the Central World Center . March to April 2008, initiator and curator W. Eckstein, director of the Goethe Institute.
  • Seemannskirche Prerow 2011, Ne-re-i-den and other bronze sculptures
  • Art Association Worpswede 2011; "Piano and violin - works by Karl Oppermann and Thomas Reichstein" with Prof. Karl Oppermann, Berlin
  • Markus Church in Laas / Italy 2011
  • Pillnitz Castle, 2011
  • Doreen Wolff and Thomas Reichstein: “Paar-a-dox”, 2012, gallery in the regional office of the Free State of Saxony
  • Library Stettin / Poland with Timm Stütz 2013.
  • City archive of the state capital Dresden 2013 with Doreen Wolff
  • Kunstverein Worpswede, summer open-air exhibition "Livesize, Together-Alone", summer 2014
  • Gallery Waidspeicher of the state capital Erfurt, Nov. – Dec. 2014 with Andreas Eichstaedt, sculptures and painting
  • Double exhibition in Westerland on Sylt, May to September 2015 Six life-size figures on the town hall forecourt, May 2015 Galerie "Alte Post" with the art association "Kunstfreunde Sylt": sculptures and paintings by Thomas Reichstein and Doreen Wolff

Works

Sculpture group on the Elbe: shaman, a couple, flora and fauna
  • "Arche" - copper sculpture. Dresden Zoo, 1995.
  • "Elbewächter" - sandstone sculpture. Tangermünde on the banks of the Elbe on the tip of the pier at the mouth of the Tangiers, 1998.
  • "Mamawata Ostara" - sandstone sculpture. Ostritz / Neisse, 2000.
  • "Kentauer" - bamboo sculpture. Dresden, 2001. Olbrichtplatz, partially destroyed by a hurricane in June 2002.
  • "Minos" - stainless steel plastic. Dresden, 2002. Stübelallee, near Comeniusplatz
  • "Saalewelle" and "Big Fisch" - bronze sculptures. Few of the banks of the Saale in Jena, 2007.
  • "Cube meadow" - polyhedron ring made of brass. Campus of the State Study Academy in Riesa, 2006.
  • "Nereid Group" - bronze sculptures. German Embassy Bangkok, 2010.
  • Sculpture group on the Elbe in Dresden, 2017.

literature

  • Bärbel Stephan: Minos Centauros - Thomas Reichstein. Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-933109-09-4 .
  • Uwe-Jens Gellner: Otomfo, Okomfo. African brass. 1992-1994. Magdeburg museums, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg 1994, ISBN 3-930030-06-3 . (Catalog for the exhibition in the monastery of Our Dear Women from March 10 to June 5, 1994)
  • State capital Dresden, cultural office (ed.): Thomas Reichstein. Cultural Office of the State Capital, Dresden 1994. (Catalog for the "Export Import" exhibition from October 2 to November 6, 1994 in the Rähnitzgasse gallery)

Web links

Commons : Thomas Reichstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Reichstein. In: Graduate directory of the HfBK Dresden on kunstknall.de. Retrieved September 23, 2013 .
  2. ^ Website of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Semperoper , accessed on September 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Modern art for the Staatliche Studienakademie Riesa: Competition "Art in Architecture" for the completion of the renovation of the buildings of the Staatliche Studienakademie Riesa decided. January 18, 2006, accessed on September 23, 2013 (press release from the building authority of Saxony).
  4. ↑ Website of the landscape architecture firm Roos Grünplanung , accessed on September 23, 2013.
  5. ^ A b New exhibition by Doreen Wolff and Thomas Reichstein in the city archive. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, July 31, 2013, accessed on August 17, 2015 (press release).
  6. ↑ Thomas Reichstein: As a sculptor for Malanggan carvers in New Ireland. In: Small contributions from the State Museum for Ethnology Dresden. 15/1996, Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ Christin Grothaus: The somewhat different embassy guests in Thailand. In: Thaizeit.de. Retrieved September 23, 2013 .
  8. ^ Exhibition: Sculptures by Thomas Reichstein ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), südtirol.info.
  9. ↑ ALBERTINUM retrospective “The Sculptor Thomas Reichstein” ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Picasa Gallery
  10. ↑ Infinite (Andaman - Pantha Rei) , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  11. ^ Exhibition review by the Sybille Nütt gallery
  12. ↑ Thomas Reichstein / Hans Staudacher: January 11, 2006 - February 18, 2006 , kunstaspekte.de
  13. ^ Exhibitions , kirchengemeinde-prerow.de
  14. ↑ 19.6. - 13.8.2011 Karl Oppermann and Thomas Reichstein. Kunstverein Worpswede, accessed on July 4, 2016 .
  15. ^ Exhibition sculptures by Thomas Reichstein from Dresden , municipality of Laas
  16. ↑ Thomas Reichstein shows his sculptures in the Alte Wache , September 8, 2011 ( Memento from October 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  17. ^ Doreen Wolff and Thomas Reichstein: Paar-a-dox. Gallery in the regional directorate, October 12, 2012, accessed on July 4, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Fascinating sculptures from foreign cultures by Thomas Reichstein. In: Germany today . October 30, 2014, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  19. ^ Art project on Sylt: Sculptures, inspired by Gret Palucca. In: Sylter Rundschau . November 21, 2014, accessed July 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Reichstein, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)