Rixdorfer Drucke workshop

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The Rixdorfer Drucke workshop is a German artist collective . The connection between literary text and artistic design is characteristic of style. The artist group is the oldest existing German artist group. The “Rixdorf Glasses Man” served as a trademark.

precursor

Günter Bruno Fuchs , Günter Anlauf and Robert Wolfgang Schnell occupied a backyard in 1959 at Oranienstraße 27 in Berlin-Kreuzberg and started Galerie zinke with exhibitions of the works of Günter Grass , Lilo Fromm and others. a. Three issues of Zinke newspaper appeared before financial difficulties ended the project. Fuchs moved to Berlin's Oranienstrasse 20, again in a back courtyard, on the fourth floor of a factory building, and first met the painter Johannes Vennekamp . There he found an old high-speed press, a cutting machine, old type cases, and a few piles of paper.

In 1961, Arno Waldschmidt , Christian Chruxin , Dieter Lübeck , Albert Schindehütte and Fridjof Werner founded the artist group "situations 60" in Kassel . The group opened a gallery, but it was closed again after a day. Waldschmidt and Schindehütte went to Berlin in 1962.

founding

The Rixdorfer Drucke workshop was founded in 1963 in a backyard in Berlin-Kreuzberg under the patronage of the poet Günter Bruno Fuchs by graphic artists Uwe Bremer , Albert Schindehütte, Johannes Vennekamp and Arno Waldschmidt. When they started, they were supported by the Social Artists' Fund with 5000 Marks from the Berlin Industry Association based on an expert opinion by Walter Höllerer from the Literary Colloquium . Only when this money was used up and Fuchs announced that they should finally look for work in order to be able to pay the rent for the workshop, did they get down to the artistic work. In 1965 the first Rixdorf picture folder was created with ten woodcuts with the title "Rixdorf Prints Workshop". It was to be the only publication without texts. Günter Bruno Fuchs now introduced the Rixdorfer to the literary scene. Although the artists worked under the label of the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop, they maintained artistic distance from one another and developed their own motifs and techniques. The subtle columnist Robert Neumann assigned two themes to the artist group “Rixdorfer Drucke workshop”: “Firstly, drinking, secondly, birds”. In 1965 the group fooled the Berlin art critics with the exhibition of the non-existent pop artist “Harry Goldschmith”. The Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Kunsthalle Bremen added the portfolio to their collections. In 1966, the “Spiegel” wrote about the self-proclaimed “Bohemians” that the Rixdorfers were “local geniuses” who, however, “preferred to swallow than to print”. In 1967 the Rixdorf artists published the Beatles text “All you need is love” illustrated by Vennekamp, ​​Waldschmidt, Schindehütte and Bremer as “Dr Carl Hansers ff Rixdorfer Tiegeldruckhandpressenbuecher”. In 1969 Günter Bruno Fuchs left the artist group.

Relocation to Gümse in Wendland

In 1974 the workshop moved Rixdorfer Prints by Gümse to Wendland to, but you also met still more than four decades in the studio hand press from Hugo Hoffmann in Kreuzberg courtyard to celebrate together and to work. In the printer's workshop in Gümse, calendars , picture sheets, graphic portfolios, leaflets and book illustrations were created, new typographies and woodcuts that dealt with the political and cultural life of Germany and represented an avant-garde function for subsequent press printers. 66 poets wrote texts for the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop, including HC Artmann , Peter Bichsel , Gerald Bisinger , Elfriede Gerstl , Rolf Haufs , Kerstin Hensel , Sarah Kirsch , Uwe Kolbe , Oskar Pastior , Gerhard Rühm , Peter Rühmkorf , Johannes Schenk and Horst Tomayer . Politicians like Gerhard Schröder and Rudi Dutschke or cabaret artists like Dieter Hildebrandt or Wolfgang Neuss also exchanged ideas with the artists. With poets they met at a soccer game, the people of Rixdorf created the woodcut series Zum Ballspiel in 1989 . With exclamations from Reinhard Lettau , they made the Germany folder in 1991 , an uncomfortable satirical attack on rampant xenophobia. In 1996 the picture calendar of 12 world falls in 21 words was created . The portfolio of Rixdorfer's newest Basler Narrenschiff was published in 2001, followed in 2003 by a Rixdorf picture sheet for the song "Johnny Tannhaus" by Udo Lindenberg , in 2008 the cancer patient Peter O. Chotjewitz pondered in What to do when death , and finally the graphic folder Rixdorf Dance of Death with texts by Otto Jägersberg 2013. In 2014 the graphic portfolio for the return of the wolf in Wendland was published.

Happenings

While preparing for a vernissage in Berlin, the people of Rixdorf came across a stack of briquettes in an adjoining room . The Rixdorfer formed a chain and declared the passing on of the briquettes to be an art event. The well-dressed public willingly followed the art instructions until they turned pitch black and the gallery owner ended the art campaign.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Rixdorfer in the Frankfurter Hof took the buffet table outside for Günter Grass during a reception by Luchterhand Verlag to socialize the delicious bites. It shouldn't be passed inside and outside the poor should starve. An employed cook ran after Uwe Bremer with a knife. Albert Schindehütte, however, had put on a pig's head from the decoration and hung up the lens of a broadcast television camera with a roast beef . The art action went down in art history as a parody of the 1968 generation.

The Rixdorf soccer games were often played against teams of celebrities, which again and again expanded into happening-like art events.

Exhibitions

  • 2018: The big retrospective . KulturBäckerei. Luneburg
  • 2013: 50 years of the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop . Gartow
  • 2013: 50 years of the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop . Berlin
  • 2012: Kreuz-Burger- internationally known Berlin hand presses . Foyer of the Wiesbaden town hall
  • 2003 40 years of Rixdorfer Drucke workshop: "Everyone talks about us. We do too" . Hamburg
  • 1989: Art Association Elmshorn. Gatehouse
  • 1966: Lübeck

Group work

  • "Reinhard Lettau's renovated Rixdorfer Ruebezahl", artistic interior in the IFA holiday park Hohe Reuth in Vogtland from 1999

Portfolio works in museums and collections (selection)

  • Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Otto Paulick Art Collection, Hamburg

Awards

literature

  • Hansgeorg Dickmann; Wolf Ponne: The four Rixdorfer; The time of December 11, 1970
  • Rixdorfer Drucke workshop. Exhibition book. Edited by Günter Bruno Fuchs with the assistance of Uwe Bremer, Ali Schindehütte, Johannes Vennekamp, ​​Arno Waldschmidt. Rixdorfer Drucke workshop, 1965
  • Rixdorfer prints. Oeuvre directory . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf April 1 to June 6, 1971. Workshop, Hamburg, Merlin Verlag Andreas J. Meyer, 1970
  • Workshop Rixdorfer Drucke: To the ball game. Hand press prints 1976 to 1988. For the exhibition "Werkstatt Rixdorfer Drucke" in autumn 1989. Woodcuts, typographics , publisher: Kunstverein Elmshorn. Merlin, Gifkendorf, 1989
  • 40 years of the Rixdorfer Drucke workshop from 1963 to 2003 . Hamburg, Merlin Verlag 2003
  • Rixdorfer Drucke workshop: Kerstin Hensel. Saxony reflections. With 5 original leporellos. Leipzig, House of Books, 2006
  • The poets' printing workshop: Rixdorfer word and picture arches 1st edition, Berlin: Die Andere Bibliothek, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8477-0011-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Exhibition: 50 Years of Rixdorfer Drucke Workshop , on wendland-net.de , May 7, 2013. Accessed January 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Karl Günther Barth: "Rixdorfer Drucke workshop": "Rixdorfer" have lived, painted, printed . In: Abendblatt.de , February 1, 2013. Accessed January 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Picture book - Berlin-Kreuzberg , documentation by the rbb from January 27, 2017, online at rbb-online.de