Volker Bartsch

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Volker Bartsch (born March 13, 1953 in Goslar ) is a German painter and sculptor .

biography

Volker Bartsch studied sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1973 to 1979 under Hans Nagel and Joseph H. Lonas and was appointed master class in 1979. In 1988 he received the Goslaer Kaiserring scholarship and in 1990 won the art prize of the Darmstadt Secession . Bartsch has been living as a freelance artist mainly in Berlin since 1983 and has had a studio in Wildenbruch near Potsdam since 1996 . In addition to longer working stays in North Africa, Portugal , Tuscany , Rome and London , more than 50 solo and numerous group exhibitions have taken him through Europe .

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Perspektiven (2007), in front of the Henry Ford Building at the Free University of Berlin

From 1980 to 1982 Bartsch lived in Tuscany and earned his living with landscape and portrait painting. His first commission for public space was the artistic design of the ammonite fountain on Olof-Palme-Platz in Berlin based on an idea by the architects Pit Achatzi / Rolf Backmann in the years 1985-1987. In May 1987 the fountain system was inaugurated by Queen Elisabeth II . The death of a close friend resulted in an intensive painterly examination of the topic of AIDS, which is only just becoming public . The main themes of the 1990s were the gate as a symbol of the passage and the obstacle in its cultural and philosophical variety of meanings. In addition to accessible portals and gates or those that only leave a viewing opening, block-like compositions were created that even block the view. From 2001 the space became the dominant theme in sculpture , painting and graphics . The most important evidence of this creative period is the 5.5 × 5 × 7.5 m outdoor sculpture "Brückenschlag" in Frankfurt am Main .

In 2006/2007 he designed and built the bronze sculpture "Perspektiven", which, with its 8 × 9 × 12 m, is considered to be the largest and most complex bronze sculpture in Europe. It stands in front of the Henry Ford Building of the Free University in Berlin-Dahlem is a gift from the Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Dedicated to the Free University of Berlin and students who were murdered in the founding phase of the university for their commitment to academic and political freedom. Other memorial monuments created by him are the T4 commemorative plaque to commemorate the euthanasia crimes under National Socialism (1933 to 1945) in Berlin-Tiergarten and the bronze sculpture at the University of Potsdam (Golm location) to commemorate victims of the GDR's state security .

In 2008/2009 there was an intensive preoccupation with the "Seven Deadly Sins " and the relocation of the center of life and work to Rome . The bizarre excesses of the youth craze and cosmetic surgery led from 2009-2011 to the complex "Curse of Beauty - From Botox Horror to Silicone Disaster", which was implemented in painting, graphics and sculpture . In 2012/2013, Volker Bartsch examined the topic of "Berlin club scene - the toughest in the world?" From his studio in the Berlin techno club Kater Holzig . With the relocation of the center of his life and work to London (2013/2014), work began on the “Away with it! Between modernity and gentrification ”In 2015, Bartsch developed a special embossing process for the three-dimensional representation of color etchings. In 2017, a series of car paintings and car prints was created in historical locations.

Further works in public space (selection)

Bartsch's other works in public space include:

Special exhibitions

  • 2013: Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday , Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin

Photo gallery

literature

  • Volker Bartsch. 1979 - 1981 (exhibition catalog), Berlin 1982
  • Paul Corazolla , Hermann Wiesler , Wolfgang Winkler: Volker Bartsch - Works from 1976 to 1987 (exhibition catalog), Berlin 1988
  • Volker Bartsch - Transformations (exhibition catalog), Haus am Lützowplatz / Obere Galerie (publisher), Berlin 1990
  • Lothar Romain, Annett Klingner; Volker Bartsch. CuSn6 - WSt / 37, Berlin 2000
  • Mönchehaus Museum for Modern Art Goslar (ed.); Volker Bartsch. Sculptures - Painting - Graphics from 1984 - 2001, catalog for the exhibition from February 3rd-2nd June 2002, Goslar 2002
  • Annett Klingner, Hans-Thomas Bender: "Freiraum", Frankfurt 2003
  • "Building bridges". BHF-Bank sculpture project, Frankfurt 2005
  • President of the Free University (ed.); "Perspectives". On the bronze sculpture by Volker Bartsch, Berlin 2007
  • Alexander Bastek ; Volker Bartsch - sculptor - painter - graphic artist (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Giersch Museum from November 13, 2008 to February 1, 2009), Petersberg 2008
  • Karl Joachim Meyer; Curse of beauty. Volker Bartsch: Painting - Sculpture - Graphics, Berlin 2011
  • Georg Kolbe Museum (ed.); Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday, Berlin 2013
  • Galerie Ruhnke (ed.); Away with it! Between the old, the new and gentrification, Potsdam 2015
  • Kunst- und Kulturkreis Rastede eV (publisher); Lonely together, Oldenburg 2016
  • Potsdam Museum - Forum for Art and History (Ed.); The wild 80s in German-German painting, Petersberg 2017, passim
  • Galerie Ruhnke (ed.); All scratched. Volker Bartsch: Prints from four decades, Potsdam 2017

Web links

Commons : Volker Bartsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kaiserring scholarship ( Memento from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) - Promotion of young art by the Association for the Promotion of Modern Art (VFK), Goslar
  2. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum (ed.): Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday, Berlin 2013, pp. 103-106
  3. ↑ Alexander Bastek; Volker Bartsch - Sculptor - Painter - Graphic Artist (on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum Giersch from November 13, 2008 to February 1, 2009), Petersberg 2008, p. 291f.
  4. ↑ Bastek, Alexander (ed.): Volker Bartsch. Sculptor - painter - graphic artist, Frankfurt / M. 2009, p. 13
  5. ↑ ibid.
  6. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum (ed.): Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday, Berlin 2013, p. 105
  7. ↑ Bastek 2008, pp. 262-268
  8. ↑ Georg Kolbe Museum 2013, p. 106
  9. ↑ a b Freedom and Perspectives for Generations , Freie Universität Berlin, Press Release No. 193/2007 of September 6, 2007.
  10. ↑ Konstantin Sakkas: Monument to Freedom . Der Tagesspiegel, September 6, 2007
  11. ↑ Freedom and Perspectives for Generations press release of the Free University of Berlin, No. 193/2007 from September 6, 2007
  12. ↑ http://gedenkort-t4.eu/de/zukunft/erinnerungsformen-t4
  13. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/potsdam/1041060/
  14. ↑ Georg Kolbe Museum 2013, p. 106
  15. ↑ ibid.
  16. ^ Gallery Ruhnke (Ed.): Away with it! Between the old, the new and gentrification, Potsdam 2015
  17. ↑ Kunst- und Kulturkreis Rastede eV (ed.); Lonely together, Oldenburg 2016, p. 43
  18. ↑ Jäger, Heidi: Spurensicherung, in: Potsdamer Latest News from September 30, 2017, available online: [1]
  19. ↑ Bronze sculpture stolen from Matthäikirchplatz ( memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). BerlinOnline, August 3, 2012
  20. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum: Volker Bartsch. The Berlin sculptor on his 60th birthday , accessed on August 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar