Ulrich Meister (artist)
Ulrich Meister (born October 14, 1947 in Merishausen near Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss- German conceptual artist and draftsman.
life and work
Ulrich Meister grew up as the son of a master painter near Schaffhausen. He has four younger siblings. In 1963 he began an apprenticeship as typesetter and moved to Düsseldorf in 1967 to study painting and sculpture under Joseph Beuys at the art academy from 1968 to 1973 . During his student days, Ulrich Meister was mainly concerned with writing texts that addressed the relationship between image and text. In 1974, Master was an art teacher at the Max Planck Gymnasium (Duisburg) and in 1976 he was a member of Otto Muehl's action analysis organization in Vienna for three months . Returning to Düsseldorf, expressive pictures emerged during a short period that were influenced by the painting of the Neue Wilde , including Walter Dahn and Martin Kippenberger . Ulrich Meister and Imi Knoebel have been friends for many years . In the 1980s, Meister turned away from expressive painting and returned to working with texts, to "written pictures" as he calls them.
“It's a shame that you can't speak and think like that, that you always have the limited number of letters and the rules you are bound to in front of your eyes. If you had it, you would perhaps always experience the use of language as a sensual activity while thinking or speaking! "
Ulrich Meister combines inconspicuous everyday objects, such as a net of potatoes or a clothes horse with hanging clothes hanger, beyond their functional contexts with concise, poetic descriptions. In a humorous way he poses the philosophical question about the nature of things.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1992 Installations and readings at the Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 1993 Kunsthalle Kiel , Kiel
- 1994 Vienna Secession , Vienna
- 1996 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp , Antwerp
- 1997 Recklinghausen Art Association; Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus; Art Association Bochum
- 1998 Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich
- 1999 Kunstmuseum Thun , Thun
- 2000 Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau
- 2009 Ulrich Meister Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen
- 2020 "Ulrich Meister - The Yellow of the Egg" Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Group exhibitions
- 1992 documenta IX , Kassel
- 1994 Steirischer Herbst , Styria
- 2000 things in the art of the XX. Century House of Art , Munich
- 2003 Gelijk het leven is Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent
- 2005 (my private) Heroes Marta Herford
literature
- Ulrich Meister by Markus Stegmann (English), Hatje Cantz Verlag; Edition: 1 (October 8, 2009) ISBN 978-3-7757-2475-3 .
Web links
- Ulrich Meister at artfacts.net
- Ulrich Meister on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Galerie Kalthoff Ulrich Meister , accessed on September 5, 2016.
- ↑ Grütter, Tina: Meister, Ulrich. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on September 5, 2016.
- ↑ artmagazine, Harald Krämer, November 25, 2009 Everyday finds , accessed on September 5, 2016.
- ^ Galerie Martina Detterer, Ulrich Meister exhibition , accessed on September 5, 2016.
- ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes, volume 1, page 181; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-German conceptual artist and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merishausen near Schaffhausen |