Ulrich Rückriem

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Ulrich Rückriem during a picture study
Ulrich Rückriem (2017)

Ulrich Rückriem (born September 30, 1938 in Düsseldorf ) is a sculptor who lives in Cologne and London and is often assigned to minimalism , process art or conceptual art .

life and work

Ulrich Rückriem, Variations of a Block, Schloss Dyck (Photo 2004)
Variations of a block, excerpt

Rückriem, who completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Düren from 1957 to 1959 , worked at the Dombauhütte in Cologne and studied under Ludwig Gies at the Cologne factory schools . At the same time he started working as a freelance artist. During this time he worked as an art teacher at the grammar school at Wirteltor Düren , as did Herb Schiffer . In 1966/1967 he emerged with sculptures made of wooden beams, from 1968 he designed stone sculptures. It was here that his artistic process, which is characteristic to this day, developed: Typically, Rückriem divides a stone block of a greatly reduced cubic shape and then puts the parts back together again.

From 1969 Ulrich Rückriem worked in a joint studio with Blinky Palermo in Mönchengladbach . He also lived and worked in Nörvenich from 1963 to 1971 with a studio in the Nörvenich Castle there , which has housed the European Art Museum since 1980 . He also worked in Clonegal, County Carlow , Ireland , and Normandy . In 1974 he became a professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , in 1984 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and in 1988 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main .

In 2010 the New Museum in Nuremberg presented Rückriem's ​​installation Granit bleu de Vire consisting of eleven stone cubes for the third time, together with other works by the artist. The eleven stones are - in analogy to the ladies' problem - arranged on the square floor panels of the museum like on a chessboard. According to the artist's concept, the work is to be presented in a new arrangement every five years. There are 341 different arrangements (“different” in the sense that they can not be converted into one another by rotating or mirroring the chessboard).

honors and awards

Exhibitions and collections

A large number of solo exhibitions were dedicated to Rückriem, for example in 2003 in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. In addition, Rückriem took part in numerous international group exhibitions since 1966, including 1972 at Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies Processes department, 1978 at the Biennale di Venezia together with Dieter Krieg , 1982 at documenta 7 , and 1984 at Von hier aus - Zwei Months of new German art in Düsseldorf , 1987 at documenta 8 or 1992 at documenta IX . The artist's first retrospective took place in 1973 in the Kunsthalle Tübingen .

Rückriem's ​​sculptures are represented in many international collections and museums, including B. in the sculpture garden of the Neues Museum Nürnberg , the Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin, or in the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona . On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2008, the artist donated his archive to the art collections of the Ruhr University Bochum .

In 1994 the Ulrich Rückriem sculpture halls were opened in Rommerskirchen - Sinsteden . Approx. 100 sculptures are presented on 2000 m² in two halls as well as in the outdoor area. The sculpture halls are attached to the Sinsteden cultural center in the Rhine district of Neuss.

Working in public space

Many of Rückriem's ​​works are freely accessible as art in public space . His sculpture Granite Rosa Porriño, for example, is on the old market square in the center of Lörrach as part of the Lörrach Sculpture Trail . More sculptures by Rückriem are in front of the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut in Munich, next to the New National Gallery in Berlin, in front of the Hessian Main State Archives in Wiesbaden , in the sculpture park in Cologne or in front of the Novartis headquarters in Basel and in the Stadtgarten Essen .

At the end of June 2011, his 80 t stone sculpture "Ursprung" was erected in front of the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren. It consists of Anröchter dolomite . He created the main altar of Hildesheim Cathedral from the same material .

For the southern inner courtyard of the Reichstag, Rückriem created two floor sculptures made of granite that take up and complement the architectural spatial situation, cf. Works of art in the Reichstag building .

literature

  • Ulrich Rückriem (Author), Werner J. Hannappel (Ed.), Ulrich Wilmes (Ed.): Bahndamm . Edition König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-699-7 .
  • Ulrich Rückriem (Author), Heinrich Ehrhardt (Ed.): Working . Edition Oktagon, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-927789-33-X (in German, English and French).
  • Jürgen Hohmeyer: Ulrich Rückriem . S. Schreiber Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88960-013-1 .
  • Ulrich Rückriem: Sculptures 1968–1973 Dumont-Schauberg, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7701-0728-4 (in German and English).
  • Mont Joie - Festschrift for Ulrich Rückriem's ​​60th birthday, publisher: Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Sinsteden cultural center 1998

Individual evidence

  1. Ulrich Rückriem: Base - Passepartout - Small Cosmos . Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
  2. Ulrich Rückriem: Granite Bleu de Vire tailored, 2000
  3. http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/duerener-kunstpreis- geht-an-ulrich-rueckriem- 1.1113297
  4. ^ The Ulrich Rückriem archive at RUB , press release, Ruhr University Bochum, September 29, 2008
  5. http://www.novartis.com/campus/index.htm#/tour/basel/p1/fs2-a
  6. http://www.az-web.de/lokales/dueren-detail-az/1728258?_link=&skip=&_g=Nicht-alltaegliches-Spektakel-vor-dem-Hoesch-Museum.html
  7. NEW ALTAR FOR THE HILDESHEIMER DOM
  8. http://www.kunstinfo.net/archiv/gemeinden-initiativen-projekte/rueckriem-stein.php

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Rückriem  - Collection of images, videos and audio files