Wenzel S. Spingler

Wenzel S. (Sebastian) Spingler (* 1964 in Reutlingen ) is a German university professor and 3D designer. He has been teaching as a professor for media design in the design department at Münster University of Applied Sciences since 2010 .

biography

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart, Spingler studied painting with Michael Buthe at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was later a master student of Gerhard Richter . During his studies he received a DAAD scholarship to study at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago , USA. After completing his studies, he first worked as a graphic designer / junior art director at the StöhrScheer agency in Düsseldorf. In 1996 Spingler founded his office for 3D visualizations »aplant«. Since then, many visualizations have been created for the BBDO advertising agency in Düsseldorf, among others, and a long-term collaboration with the renowned design agency meiréundmeiré and Mike Meiré in Cologne. Since 2001 continuous training activities for agencies in Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Wiesbaden, among others. For the Otto Versand in Hamburg W. Spingler sets up a new department for 3D visualization. Since 2004 collaboration with Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen of the Mainz University of Applied Sciences on the “decodeunicode” project, which has received many international prizes.

In 2010 Spingler was appointed professor for media design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences. Since 2012, Wenzel Spingler has been working with the photo artist Thomas Ruff on a series called »Photograms«. These works relate to the historical photogram, but were created completely digitally through the simulation of a virtual darkroom and partially rendered with the Juropa supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich . This is how purely virtual, large-format colored shadow images were created. The photo series has been exhibited since 2014 in the David Zwirner Gallery in New York, the SMAK in Ghent, the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .

Prices

• Imagina, Monte Carlo, bronze for VR heart simulation
• 100 Best Posters, ADC Bronze, IF Award Gold, TDC New York and RedDot Best of the Best for the collaboration with Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen on the decodeunicode project, 2005–2011

Web links

• Homepage at Münster University of Applied Sciences
• Article about photograms in the Tagesspiegel
• Literature by and about Wenzel S. Spingler in the bibliographic database WorldCat