Till Verclas

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Till Verclas (born June 28, 1953 in Düsseldorf ) is a German copper printer and artist.

life and work

He grew up in Hamburg , learned copper printing from Hermann Kätelhön in Westphalia, before studying painting with Kai Sudeck from 1976 to 1982 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . While still a student, he founded his own copper printer in 1979, which he ran until it was handed over to his employees in 2010.

In the copper printing shop, which he ran alongside his own artistic work, he worked (from 1985 to 1991 together with Henning Bergmann) for artists such as Georg Baselitz , Jörg Immendorff , Günther Förg , Albert Oehlen , Rosemarie Trockel , Cy Twombly , Christo , Joseph Kosuth , Dan Flavin and many others.

In 2010 he handed over the printing company to his long-term employees Lars Dahms and Daniel Vogler. Since 2000 he has been in charge of all of Thomas Schütte's etchings (approx. 600 motifs), with whom he is the only one to develop further projects to this day.

At the same time he created a number of steel, wood and bronze sculptures and in 1991 founded his press UN ANNO UN LIBRO Till Verclas , in which an artist book is created every year with his work.

In 2014, the "Kunsthalle Wedel" was created, a new 300 m² studio with a showroom in Wedel near Hamburg.

Many large museums and public and private collections have works by Till Verclas, such as the Museum Ludwig ; Kunsthalle Karlsruhe ; Bavarian State Library ; Museum of Arts and Crafts , Hamburg; State and University Library Hamburg ; Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg; Clapp Library, Wellesley College ; Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, San Diego ; Museum Meermanno , The Hague; Library of Yale University ; Berlin State Library ; New York Public Library ; Harvard Fine Arts Library; Boston Athenæum ; San Francisco Center for the Book.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985 Exhibition showroom at Alte Königstrasse 5
  • 1989 Participation in the »Autumn Salon« in the DuMont-Kunsthalle, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 1992 Exhibition at Galerie Cato Jans, Hamburg
  • 1993 Group exhibition at Galerie m, Bochum
  • 1994 Group exhibition "Susret", Galerie m, Bochum
  • 1995 Participation in an exhibition at Galerie m, Bochum
  • 1996 »Holländisches Bad«, Kunstverein Weißensee, Berlin and Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1996 Exhibition participation at Galerie m, Bochum
  • 1999 teaching position at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in the design department; Participation in the exhibition "Buchermacher", Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  • 2000 Exhibition in the graphic cabinet, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  • 2003 Participation in the exhibition "Streifzüge", Galerie Lelong, Zurich
  • 2004 Participation in an exhibition with “13+” (artist books and graphics), Tallinn National Library, Estonia; Group exhibition; Lelong Gallery, Zurich
  • 2005 exhibition Johannes a Lasco Library with Clemens-Tobias Lange, Emden; Solo exhibition Galerie Freiraum, Hamburg; Prize for artist book “Black Truffle” from the Birgit Skjold Memorial Trust, London
  • 2007 exhibition in the San Francisco Public Library (aged 13+); California
  • 2008 practical scholarship Villa Massimo, Rome; Palais Salfeldt, Quedlinburg, “Artists' Books from Germany”, (aged 13+); Feininger Galerie Quedlinburg, drawings and etchings; Library Museum Ludwig, "Contemporary artist books from Germany", (with 13+)
  • 2009 Davidson Library, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, “Made in Germany”, artist books (catalog); Galerie 401Contemporary, Berlin, “Linie”, group exhibition; Germanisches Nationalmuseum “Wonderful Book Worlds”, group exhibition
  • 2010 Gallery FRIEDERIKE ROHSE jewelry & drawing
  • 2011 lecture at the KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, California on the occasion of the 3rd Codex Artists Bookfair; "Dialog: Graphics", exhibition Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, group exhibition; Exhibition Læsø Kunstmuseet og Gallerie, Læsø, DK
  • 2012 Galerie Druck und Buch Tübingen: “UN ANNO UN LIBRO Till Verclas, the last 20 years”; Kunsthal Læsœ, bronzes and prints;
  • 2013 Læsø Kunsthal: “The Nature of Things”; TWU Texas USA, "Seductive Alchemie, Books of Artists" group show;
  • 2015 Læsø Kunsthal "Rebound", landscape sculpture with six boat sculptures in the Wadden Sea of ​​Læsø; Copenhagen Art Week, 3 boat sculptures on St.Jørgen Sø in central Copenhagen; "Hand pressing or the art of craft book design", Gallery Handwerk Munich, group exhibition
  • 2017 Exhibition in the State and University Library Hamburg: BLACK TRUFFLE. 25 years of UN ANNO UN LIBRO. Till Verclas with books and sculptures.

Trade fair participations

  • Art Basel, Art Frankfurt; Frankfurt Book Fair, since 2000- 2012; 2007-2015: CODEX International Book Fair, California, CA; Affordable Art Hamburg, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Till Verclas: Black Truffle / Black Truffels - Twenty-five years of UN ANNO UN LIBRO . Ed .: Till Verclas. UN ANNO UN LIBRO, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-055451-3 , p. 112 .
personal data
SURNAME Verclas, Till
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German copper printer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf