Werner Bauer (artist)

Werner Bauer, 2007

Werner Bauer (born November 13, 1934 in Völklingen ) is a German light and kinetics artist .

life and work

From 1955 to 1957, Bauer studied for teaching at secondary schools. In 1958 he attended the “School of Seeing” with Oskar Kokoschka as part of the Salzburg Summer Academy . He then continued his studies and passed his exams for art education and works in secondary schools in 1964. From 1964 to 1993 he worked as an art teacher at the secondary schools in Lebach / Saar and Dillingen / Saar . Bauer has lived and worked in Saarbrücken since 1988 .

Works by Bauer are owned by the Gelsenkirchen City Art Collection, the Kunsthaus Graz , the Museum Tinguely in Basel and the Museum Ritter . Bauer participated in several art exhibitions in the field of light art and kinetics , u. a. in the Center for Art and Media Technology , Museum for New Art in Karlsruhe.

Concrete-constructive work o. T. Gouache (1973)

Bauer began his artistic career towards the end of the 1960s. Since 1968 he has been creating works in the specific area, initially with white, then colored serial wooden parts. At that time he was mainly interested in light, movement and material structures in his own experience environment; he dealt with the interplay of form and light in concrete objects , mostly made of wood. In later creative phases he occupied himself more and more with new materials such as plexiglass, acrylic paints, silicone or light foils.

Awards / prizes

• 2006: Albert Weisgerber Prize for Fine Arts of the City of St. Ingbert
• 2014: Saarland Art Prize

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1972: Saarbrücken University of Music
• 1973: Galerie Unip - Art contemporain, Lausanne (Switzerland)
• 1973: Galerie Ring, Bühl (Switzerland)
• 1978: Sole 1 , picture gallery of the city of Bergkamen
• 1983: Art Circle (Tuttlingen)
• 1983: After-work house Rosenthal (Selb)
• 1983: Rosenthal Glasfabrik ( Rosenthal AG ) (Amberg)
• 1983: Modern Gallery ( Saarland Museum )
• 1984: Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
• 1988: Suzel Berna Gallery, Antibes (F)
• 1995: Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
• 2006: Museum Gelsenkirchen, exhibition of his 50 works from 1996–2006
• 2006: Museum St. Ingbert , comprehensive retrospective on the occasion of the presentation of the Albert Weisgerber Prize for Fine Arts of the City of St. Ingbert
• 2008: "lux, lucis ... Declination of light" Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch
• 2009: "The art of arranging the light", The small museum - culture on the Peunt, Weissenstadt
• 2010: "Werner Bauer Light Objects", Union Foundation, Saarbrücken
• 2014: Museum St. Wendel (retrospective)

literature

• Werner Bauer - organizing light. Work 1969–1995 . Exhibition catalog: June 30 - July 30, 1995 Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt; December 8, 1995 - January 14, 1996 Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid; January 25th - March 15th Aschaffenburg City Gallery, Jesuit Church; April 26 - June 1, 1996 Museum St. Wendel; September 3 - October 12, 1996 Galerie Neher Essen. Edited by Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt; Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid; Municipal Gallery Aschaffenburg; Museum St. Wedel; Galerie Neher, Essen. With texts by Peter Volkwein, Eugen Gomringer, Georg-W. Költzsch, Lorenz Dittmann and Cornelia Langerwaard, Ingolstadt 1995.
• Werner Bauer - Works 1964-1989 . Ed .: Jo Enzweiler, Institute for Current Art (Saarlouis), Saarbrücken, Verlag St. Johann, 2001. ISBN 3-928596-60-8 .
• Werner Bauer - light objects. Works 1997–2003 , exhibition catalog, Ludwigshafen: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, 2003. 30 pages, 23 color illustrations, ISBN 3-934713-11-4 .
• Werner Bauer - Works 1989-2005 . Ed .: Jo Enzweiler, Institute for Contemporary Art Saarlouis, Saarbrücken, Verlag St. Johann, 2006. ISBN 3-928596-60-8 .
• Werner Bauer - lux, lucis ... Declination of light , exhibition catalog, published by Museum Ritter / Gerda Ridler, Heidelberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-88423-303-0 .

Web links

• Entry in the Saar lexicon of artists
• Literature on Werner Bauer (artist) in the Saarland Bibliography