Will Cassel

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Meditative Art Gallery (Cassel Museum) with Cassel's studio in Krefeld-Traar

Will Cassel (actually Wilhelm Georg Cassel ; born August 25, 1927 in Dortmund ) is a German painter , draftsman and total object performance artist as well as a freelance lecturer in art and cultural education.

Life

He has lived in Krefeld since 1934 and attended the art school there from 1943 to 1948. From 1952 to 1953 he studied at the Venice Art Academy and in 1964 at the School of Textile Arts, Krefeld. From 1966 to 1972 Cassel was a lecturer at the School for Textile Arts in Krefeld and from 1972 to 1980 a lecturer at the comprehensive universities in Dortmund and Essen.

Since 1967 he has been using the white dwarf as an abstraction for being. The artist uses the garden gnome in his art, among other things, as an object against paternalism. In political campaigns since the late 1960s, he placed white gypsum dwarfs on busy public squares in German cities to draw attention to the ongoing environmental destruction and global power politics. With these he demonstrated in New York in front of the UN and in Washington in front of the White House .

His recording posters, such as We are the world or the world arena of violence, are full of abstract dwarf ciphers and include people in his art. The dwarf cipher abstracts being throughout the work. In the world theater pictures , the ciphers are part of the programs shown in the pictures.

In 2011, Cassel was awarded the City Seal of the City of Krefeld for his longstanding services as a Krefeld painter, draftsman and project performance artist.

Art awards

  • 1962 Art Prize of the City of Krefeld (Lower Rhine Art Prize)
  • 1962 Badge Carl Reichsfreiherr vom Stein
  • 1977 International Art Prize Prix Joan Miró, Barcelona
  • 2011 Krefeld city seal

Works in public collections (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959 City Museum Mönchengladbach (also 1963, 1964)
  • 1960 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld (also 1970, 1988)
  • 1966 Turkish-German cultural center, Istanbul
  • 1973 Rotterdam Art Foundation, Lijbaancentrum, Netherlands
  • 1978 Museum galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna
  • 1978 Gallery Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler (also 1979)
  • 1979 Galerie Gmyrek, Düsseldorf (also 1980)
  • 1986 Elephas Gallery, Friedberg
  • 1986 Galerie Peschken, Krefeld (also 1987/88/89/90/91)
  • 1989 Bergisches Museum Schloßburg an der Wupper
  • 1989 Gallery Alena Adlung, New York (also 1991)
  • 1991 Castle Gallery, Beeskow
  • 1992 Mirabell Gallery, Salzburg
  • from 1972 permanent exhibitions in Cassel's MEDITATIV ART GALERIE, Krefeld
  • from 1979 Annual Cassel exhibitions in the Seidenweberhaus, Krefeld
  • 2007 Kunst und Krefeld eV on his 80th birthday, Krefeld
  • 2008 House of Silk Culture, Krefeld
  • 2012 meditative art gallery, Krefeld

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1958 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
  • 1965 State Gallery Stuttgart (also 1969) City Museum Mönchengladbach
  • 1968–1985 participation in the international exhibition "Premi International Dibuix Joan Miró", Barcelona
  • from 1972 participation in international art markets and art fairs
  • 1972 Documenta, Kassel (also 1977, 1982) (accompanying program)
  • 1977 Berlin Pavilion, Berlin (also 1978)
  • 1977 25th annual exhibition - Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1978 Warsaw Biennale (also 1980)
  • 1979 Lahti Biennale, Finland (also 1983)
  • 1979 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
  • 1980 International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, New York
  • 1983 Council of Europe, Strasbourg
  • 1984 Exhibition International Artists, Okinawa, Japan
  • 1985 The museum of modern art, International Triennial, Toyama, Japan
  • 1986 European Political Poster Exhibition, Mons, Belgium
  • 1987ff. Montague Art Galleries, Art 54 - Soho, New York
  • 1989 International Book Art Exhibition (IBA), Leipzig
  • 1989 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1990 Self-image, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1995 International Poster '95, Lahti Poster Museum, Finland
  • 1999 Public Gallery Raststatt
  • 2015–2016 Show & Tell, graphics from the Krefeld art museums, Krefeld

Literature (selection)

  • Krefeld artists and artists from the Lower Rhine 1945–1961 , Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld 1961
  • OBJECTS AND PICTURES , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Stuttgart 1969
  • Paul Wember: WG Cassel 1958-1970, a documentation of the artist's current point of view , Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1970
  • Cassel catalog document , book object, Krefeld 1974
  • KUNSTREPORT 2'77 , catalog, Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Cassel and his dwarf , little book, Krefeld Art Museums, City Director of the City of Krefeld, Krefeld 1988
  • Inventory catalog - contemporary art 1960 to the end of the 80s , Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach 1988
  • Blue: thought-twilight longitudinal , Heidelberger KV, Heidelberg 1990
  • Collection Cremer I , inventory catalog, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Edition Cantz, ISBN 3-89322-368-1 , Dortmund 1991
  • CASSEL ... pictures "welt-theater" , book, Verlag Caßel, ISBN 3-9804315-0-9 , Krefeld 1995/96
  • Symbols of the 21st Century , Mail ART, Museum for Post and Communication Berlin, Berlin 1999
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists , Artist Lexicon, KG Saur 2005, ISBN 3-598-24734-6 , Munich / Leipzig 2005
  • Pictures and stories from the Lower Rhine , Clemens Reinders , Mercator-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87463-414-4 , Duisburg 2007
  • Brief story about Will Cassel who made a work of art out of the dwarf , Margot Overath, WDR 5, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Cassel, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassel, Wilhelm Georg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund