Wolfgang Gäfgen

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Wolfgang Gäfgen (born September 12, 1936 in Hamburg ) is a German artist who works in the pictorial media of expression of drawing, wood printing, paper cutting and photography. From 1983 to 2002 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

Life

Wolfgang Gäfgen studied from 1956 to 1958 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Theo Garve (1902–1987) and with Kurt Kranz . Until 1961 he continued his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where Karl Rössing and Walter Brudi were his teachers, both of whom were particularly committed to contemporary artistic original graphics, typography and book design .

After graduating, Gäfgen moved to Paris, where he was able to gain experience in Johnny Friedlaender's studio . From 1962 to 1964 he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) . From his move in 1961 to 2012, Wolfgang Gäfgen had his own studio in the French capital - parallel to Stuttgart. With individual presentations in French and German galleries and museum institutions since the 1960s, he was also represented at numerous graphic biennials, where he was awarded prizes. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 with a block of drawings . In the winter semester 1983/84 he was appointed to a newly established professorship for free graphics and painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and held this position until his retirement in 2002. He lives in Stuttgart, where his studio is in Bad Cannstatt.

Wolfgang Gäfgen's works are represented in numerous German and international - especially French - museums, as well as in other public and private collections.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1968 Drawings and etchings , Overbeck Society , Lübeck
  • 1971 Drawings , Kunsthalle Bielefeld
  • 1976 Wolfgang Gäfgen, drawings 1970–1976 , Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; (afterwards Hamburger Kunsthalle )
  • 1979 dessins, aquarelles 1977–1979 Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris
  • 1982 master of drawing: Denes - Gäfgen - Tübke -U-Fan Kunsthalle Nürnberg ; (then Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne )
  • 1994 Gravures 1971–1987 , Singen Municipal Art Museum
  • 2000 Wolfgang Gäfgen , Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard; (subsequently Musée Baron Martin, Gray)
  • 2003 Wood prints, drawings and photographs , Gallery of the City of Backnang
  • 2007 Wolfgang Gäfgen - scenarios, actions , drawing and photography, Kunstverein Reutlingen
  • 2010 Thought splinters - Wolfgang Gäfgen. Wood prints , Municipal Art Museum, Spendhaus Reutlingen

Publicly owned work

  • Art Museum of the City of Albstadt (D)
  • FRAC Picardie, Amiens (F)
  • FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême (F)
  • Artothèque de Caen, Caen (F)
  • FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen (F)
  • FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (F)
  • Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA): Angles , 1981. Portfolio with six etchings
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle (D)
  • Kiasma, Museum of Modern Art Helsinki (FIN)
  • Municipal Gallery Neunkirchen (D)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (F)
  • Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen (D): Seventy graphics
  • State Gallery Stuttgart, Graphic Collection (D)
  • Maeght Foundation, Saint Paul-de-Vence (F)
  • NMWA National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (JPN)
  • IAC Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne (F)

Literature (selection)

  • Christoph Bauer: "You'd have to do woodcut differently" , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen. Wood prints - hand drawings 1992–1994 , exhibition catalog Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen 1994, pp. 3–5
  • Herbert Eichhorn: Wolfgang Gäfgen , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen. Thought shards. Wood prints , AKat. Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen, Stuttgart 2010, p. 4f.
  • Paul Gabon: Wolfgang Gäfgen , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen , AKat. Musée du Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard / Musée Baron Martin, Gray, Montbéliard 2000, p. 42ff.
  • Kai Hohenfeld: Wolfgang Gäfgen (* 1936) - Black Art , in: The dark side of the moon. Shadows from art and literature (publications by the Art Museum Albstadt, No. 181/2019), text by Kai Hohenfeld, exhib.-cat. Art Museum Albstadt 2019/20, p. 46
  • Margarita Jonietz: The space in between , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen. Wood print. Paper cut. Drawing 1988–1992 , AKat. Städtische Galerie Albstadt 1992, pp. 9-18 (German-French)
  • Olivier Kaeppelin: Dessiner , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen. Wood print. Paper cut. Drawing 1988–1992 , AKat. Städtische Galerie Albstadt 1992, pp. 20–37 (French-German)
  • Martina Köser-Rudolph: Wolfgang Gäfgen , in: Treasure House Spendhaus. The woodcut in the 20th and 21st centuries , AKat. Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen 2009, p. 212f.
  • Clemens Ottnad: Scenarios - Actions , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen. Photographs , Galerie Franke, Stuttgart 2006, p. 2
  • Marko Schacher: "There is neither scribbling nor phone calls here" , in: Wolfgang Gäfgen , AKat. Backnang City Gallery 2003, pp. 5–11
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer : inventory catalog . Ed. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011 ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 p. 58f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Rössing on his 80th birthday: Exhibition of former students: Robert Förch, Wolfgang Gäfgen, Dieter Groß, Christine Heuer, Heinrich Heuer, Friedrich Meckseper, Walter Rabe, Malte Sartorius, Walter Schöllhammer, Günter Schöllkopf, Hans Peter Willberg . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, October 28th to November 30th 1977 [exhibition and catalog: Wolfgang Kermer ], o. P. [3].
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [16].
  3. ↑ Internet page  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Block Museum@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu  
  4. ^ Portal art history
personal data
SURNAME Gäfgen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg