Uli Aschenborn

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Video a: Uli Aschenborn with one of his changeable pictures - girl-elephant
Video b: Sculpture-Morph Male Life Cycle , 2003, 40 cm × 40 cm × 40 cm
Video c: The eyes of the Ovahimba woman in this living drawing always follow the viewer, 2009, 29 cm × 21 cm
Photo d: Buffalo attacks a lioness , 2006, 80 × 100 cm
Video e: Storming lion , the colors change when you walk past this picture, sand and color, 2007, 100 cm × 80 cm
Video f: Storming rhinoceros , the colors change when you walk past this picture, sand and color, 2007, 100 cm × 100 cm × 4 cm
Video g: This etching can be turned upside down, many details become visible on closer inspection, 2005, 12 cm × 12 cm
Video h: This drawing of crater or mountain can be turned upside down (was shown in the judged “winter exhibition” in 1975 at the Suermondt Ludwig Museum ), 1975, 21 cm × 29 cm
Video i: Morph cube with fish , 2005, 21 cm × 21 cm × 21 cm
Video j: The picture Rubik's Cube shows 1, 2 or 3 points and its color changes when you pass it, Sand und Farbe, 2007, 40 cm × 30 cm
Photo k: Pontok Berge - Namibia, 2007, 100 cm × 150 cm

Hans Ulrich "Uli" Aschenborn (born September 6, 1947 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is a Namibian artist . Like him, his father Dieter Aschenborn and his grandfather Hans Anton Aschenborn are known animal painters in southern Africa . According to the United Art Rating , all three Aschenborns are among the greatest artists in the world and their works are part of the world's cultural heritage. In Namibia the museums in Swakopmund and Windhoek , the Swakopmund Art Association and the National Art Gallery of Namibia have pictures by Uli Aschenborn, who is also present in Europe. In 2018 the artists 'association "L'Ensad Alumni Paris, l'Association des anciens élèves de l' École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs " in Paris named Uli Aschenborn an honorary member.

style

Uli Aschenborn's special trademark are images with dynamic content, e.g. B. Animals on the run, on the attack (see photo d and videos e , f ), exploding flowers. There are also abstract works and caricatures by him (see video i and the group exhibition 2015 in Paris below). He also restores pictures, e.g. B. from Adolph Jentsch and from his father Dieter Aschenborn . Uli Aschenborn developed a quick way of producing charcoal, red chalk and pastel drawings, which he then perfected together with his father and which they called the Conté technique (see Dieter Aschenborn).

Landscapes (video h and photo k ) and people (videos a - c , g ) are also part of Aschenborn's repertoire.

Changeable works of art

His new works of art change - be it that they move (video b ) or because the viewer moves back and forth in front of the work of art (videos a , c , e , f , i , j ). Movement is therefore an integral part of these works. These works are therefore kinetic art .

For his pictures in his so-called chameleon technique , the content and color of which change in passing, he only uses sand and color (videos e, f, j ). The changing shadows of his illuminated and rotating sculptures show metamorphoses, such as the aging of a boy into an old man to a skull - so-called sculpture morphs (video b ). He creates portraits that roll their eyes so that they always look at you - they may look. also to one up or down, which he therefore calls living drawings (video c ). Its morph cubes change (video i ) - some of them light up.

His so-called rotating images can be turned upside down, showing something new (videos g , h ). Rotary pictures with portraits are often also his puzzle pictures , whereby larger forms are put together by smaller ones, which can also overlap (video  g ).

Aschenborn's mutable art is often referred to by the media as Amazing Changing Art , a name first coined by the Namibian newspapers.

Engineer and artist

Aschenborn studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1968, although he received an art scholarship after the exhibition in 1965. He did this in order to be able to practice his art later without constraints. He then did his doctorate with distinction in structural engineering . After that he was a software engineer. He was finally appointed professor for CAD , IT , mathematics and mechanics at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern and later at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne .

Thanks to his technical and scientific training, Aschenborn is able to develop the diverse techniques that he uses for his varied art. He also uses the computer for drafts (see also exhibition 1993).

Awards

  • 1964 Winner of the Art Competition South West Africa
  • 1978 Borchers badge

Exhibitions

Since 1965 there have been permanent exhibitions of his works - a selection is shown below.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1993 Africa & Computer Art, Galerie Artelier Windhoek Namibia
  • 1999 Africa , Port Andrat's Mallorca
  • 2003 Sculpture Morphs , Gallery Hexagone, Aachen
  • 2005 in the two Maastricht galleries FAH and HAF simultaneous exhibition Morphs
  • 2006 Morphs , National Art Gallery of Namibia , Windhoek, Namibia
  • 2007 Aschenborn - Retrospective, Kendzia Gallery, Windhoek, Namibia
  • 2007 retrospective in the gallery Hexagone Aachen
  • 2008 Changeable art and more , Steinweg Gallery, Stolberg
  • 2008 Africa , Kendzia Gallery, Windhoek (Namibia)
  • 2009 Out of Africa - Uli Aschenborn - Galerie Malmedé, Cologne
  • 2009 and 2010 Africa - Uli Aschenborn , Artedomus Gallery, Paris
  • 2009 Africa & More , Museum Zinkhütter Hof , Stolberg
  • 2009 Uli Aschenborn - Etchings , Galerie Kendzia, Windhoek
  • 2010 In South Africa , Artedomus Gallery, Paris
  • 2010 African animal pictures , Berlin Zoological Garden
  • 2011 Uli Aschenborn , Düsternbrook, Namibia
  • 2011 - 2012 Uli Aschenborn , Schenckswerder, Namibia
  • 2011 - 2012 Aschenborn's African Animals , BBK Gallery, Aachen
  • 2012 Uli Aschenborns chameleon art, Galerie Hexagone, Aachen
  • 2015 Changing Art , Galerie Hexagone, Aachen
  • 2017 Amazing Changing Art , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum-Barmuseo, Aachen

Group exhibitions

  • 1965 3 generations Aschenborn , Windhoek, Namibia
  • 1975 Exhibition by Dieter and Uli Aschenborn, Windhoek, Namibia
  • 1975 and 1976 juried winter exhibition, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • 1979 Photo exhibition, Atrium Aachen
  • 2004 The three Aschenborns Galerie Kendzia, Windhoek
  • 2007 tile exhibition, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2009 20 years of Galerie Hexagone Aachen
  • 2009 Nudes , Fine Art Gallery, Swakopmund
  • 2010 3 generations Aschenborn , Galerie Kendzia, Windhoek
  • 2015 25 years of Galerie Hexagone Aachen , Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen
  • 2015 African animals and caricatures , Artedomus Gallery, Paris

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Lex-art, Internet reference work . Archived from the original on December 6, 2015. 
  2. ^ A b c d Frederick Philander: Namibian Artist Gets European Recognition - Diplomacy Namibia (Namibian Artist Gets European Recognition) . In: originally published in the New Era (English newspaper in Namibia) , August 21, 2009. Archived from the original on January 4, 2016. 
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Singhof, Aileen (October 20, 2017) 100 years of African animal painting - The Aschenborn family: three generations dedicate themselves to art . Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) page 1, quote: 'Uli Aschenborn also lives up to his name and is now one of the most famous painters in Namibia. The “ United Art Rating ” counts him, like his father Dieter Aschenborn (1915–2002) and grandfather Hans Anton Aschenborn (1888–1931), to the world's best artists of the last two centuries. '
  4. ↑ a b c d Peinhardt-Franke, Ingrid (December 24, 2011) Aschenborn brings his animal pictures to life , Aachener Nachrichten , Archive of the Federal Association of Visual Artists Aachen (BBK Aachen), accessed on January 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d biography, Steinweg Galerie Stolberg (see under web links )
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Uli Aschenborn: Art from Namibia in Germany , Galerie Hexagone - Art Hotel Superior Aachen, 2015 - Archive of the Namibiana Book Depot
  7. ↑ a b c d Hans-Ulrich Aschenborn is a German painter and building computer scientist - biography - archive of the Namibiana book depot
  8. ↑ a b c Digital Namibian Archive Collections ("… videos and audio recordings of historical value to Namibia…") archived information about three Aschenborn exhibitions
  9. ↑ Top 15 South African artists (including Uli Aschenborn), by James Ceves, March 12, 2020 on briefly.co.za (leading independent South African news and media website on the Internet)
  10. ^ Paul Aschenborn: Official website, works of the three Aschenborns - most of them by Uli Aschenborn (archiving in fragments) . Archived from the original on June 21, 2018. 
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g Kloppers, Sas (2012), Directory of Namibian Artists Dream Africa Productions and Publishing, page 140 , ISBN 978-0-620-51746-1 Reference to the English artist lexicon in the Afrikaans newspaper Republikein in Windhoek
  12. ↑ a b c d e f Irmgard Schreiber: Changeable like a chameleon - Uli Aschenborn paints "moving pictures" - on the occasion of the exhibition in the National Art Gallery of Namibia . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , July 21, 2006. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved on October 29, 2019. 
  13. ↑ Greatest world artists of XVIII – XXI: A (i.e. the greatest artists of the world from the 18th to the 21st century ). ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Artist rating list compiled by an independent jury for a 23-volume art encyclopedia from the Russian Artists Union , which is active in 55 regions of Russia and in 9 foreign countries. In: United Art Rating , accessed June 22, 2018.
  14. ^ A b Paul Aschenborn: Art of Four Generations - Official Website - Introductory text from the website of F. Philander (art critic of the New Era in Windhoek) . Archived from the original on March 7, 2018. 
  15. ↑ a b inesbres (September 4, 2015) Namibian in Germany , Welwitschia EV Cooperative educational projects in Germany and Namibia
  16. ↑ Link to "L'Ensad Alumni Paris, l'Association des anciens élèves de l'École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs"
  17. ^ Biography of Uli Aschenborn - Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK).
  18. ↑ biography
  19. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Mockler: Painter Uli Aschenborn opens permanent exhibitions on guest farms in Namibia , August 26, 2011, originally published in: Allgemeine Zeitung - Archive of the Namibiana Book Depot
  20. ↑ a b c film by Paul Aschenborn, 2015, Internet search term for it "Expo Uli Aschenborn 2015", speech by Dirk Tölke
  21. ^ Paul Aschenborn: Official website, restorations (archiving fragmentary) . Archived from the original on June 24, 2018. 
  22. ^ Paul Aschenborn: Official website, landscapes (archiving fragmentary) . Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. 
  23. ^ Paul Aschenborn: Official website, people (archiving fragmentary) . Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. 
  24. ↑ The definition of Kinetic Art, which can be found at the beginning of the Wikipedia page Kinetic Art , corresponds exactly to the general description of Aschenborn's changeable works of art.
  25. ↑ a b c d Heike Freimann, changing fabric gave him the impetus for his art , VDI nachrichten , January 16, 2015
  26. ↑ a b c Schlegelmilch, Jan (July 11, 2008) Uli Aschenborn makes his Mona Lisa smile , Aachener Zeitung
  27. ↑ s. Film in the "GALLERY" and also other variable works of art at the end of the biography of Uli Aschenborn - Federal Association of Visual Artists Aachen (BBK Aachen).
  28. ↑ a b by admin (2008) Uli Aschenborn Stolberg , Eifel art portal
  29. ↑ Extensive exhibition list on artoffer (art and support group on the Internet) with access to the corresponding photos, accessed on February 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Aschenborn, Uli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aschenborn, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa