Manfred Stumpf
Manfred Stumpf | |
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 Mosaic at Habsburgerallee (Underground station), Frankfurt am Main, 2010 | |
| Born | November 25, 1957 |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Städelschule |
| Known for | Sculpture, Drawing |
| Notable work | Entry into Jerusalem, 1986 |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| Awards | Reinhold Kurt-Kunstpreis der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Marielies Hess-Kunstpreis |
Manfred Stumpf (born November 25, 1957 in Alsfeld, Hesse) is a German draftsman, Conceptual artist, and Digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He currently resides in Romrod in the Vogelsbergkreis and Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1995, Stumpf became professor for figure drawing and conceptual drawing in the faculty for Visual Communication and is leading interdisciplinary projects with Prof. Dieter Mankau at the HfG Offenbach.
Works
"Searching for a mandatory, symbolic visual depiction, Stumpf discovered early Christianity and the Byzantine Art. He uses these conventionalized symbols for his art and fills them with actual topics."[1]
Stumpf's developed icon "Entry into Jerusalem" (1986) emerged from there and has been sent—during the project "Contempler"—in a container around the world and is still varied by him until today.
Right from the start, Stumpf used the technical pen Rotring to work on his clear, flawless and filigree A-4-drawings.[2] As to develop new visual depictions, he used a computer later as well—e.g. the screensaver Angeline (1994/96)—and so moved into a "spiritual/virtual" world.
If the drawing isn't proper, you can forget everything else.
(Wenn die Zeichnung nicht stimmt, kannst Du alles andere vergessen)
Manfred Stumpf [3]
In 1987, he dissolved the element of the palm leaf from his icon and transferred it onto wooden objects, covered them with red paint and placed them in his hometown Alsfeld on an acre, near the Autobahn A5 as hieratic signs.
The donkey from "Entry into Jerusalem" lives an independent life as a motif as well, for example on the huge mosaic at the underground station Habsburgerallee in Frankfurt am Main, where he carries a clock, a computer display or an atomic nucleus.[4] The mosaic was created in 1992 and displays 66 donkeys on a ca. 7874-inch wall area.[5]
In 2005, Stumpf created a stained glass window for the Waldhufen church in Winterkasten (Germany), which represents the "Resurrection of Jesus at Easter". The colors of the window "symbolize the transition from the dark to the light in everybodys life." [6]
There is a long tradition to the usage of the line. We can track it from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs with its clear and sharp outlines to Middle Age Paintings, along drawings of Romanticism, the Pop Art, until today.
Scholarships
- 1991 Stipendium der Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho), Tokyo
- 1989 Villa Massimo, Rome
- 1985 Stipendium für junge Bildende Künstler, Alsfeld
- 1982 Jahresstipendium der Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e.V.
Awards
- 1988 Reinhold Kurt-Kunstpreis der Frankfurter Sparkasse
- 2015 Marielies Hess-Kunstpreis
Exhibitions (Selection)
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Collections (Selection)
- Artothek Nuremberg
- Sammlung Hanck, Düsseldorf
- Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main
- Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- Museum Folkwang, Essen
- Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
See also
Bibliography
- Manfred Stumpf, Jean-Christoph Amman (Hrsg.), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, "Sketchbook for the icon 'Entry into Jerusalem'", Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1996, ISBN 3-89322-856-X
- Manfred Stumpf, "OKTOGON", Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 1987
- Manfred Stumpf; Thomas Trescher, "Palm", Edition Wilk, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
- Manfred Stumpf, "Manfred Stumpf, Der heilige Kosmonaut, Zeichnungen", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 1985?
- Manfred Stumpf, "Der heilige Kosmonaut, Zeichnungen", Edition Wilk, Frankfurt am Main, 1984
- Domenig, Krüger, Sanovec, Sommer, Stumpf, "Domenig, Krüger, Sanovec, Sommer, Stumpf: Malerei, Zeichnung, Film", Galerie Ak, Frankfurt am Main, 1983
- Hendricks, Deren, Stumpf, "Zeichnungen von Hendricks, Deren, Stumpf", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1985
Notes
- ^ Ismail, Nadia, "Entry into Jerusalem", Artothek im Bonner Kunstverein Bestandskatalog, 8/2002
- ^ Growe, Bernd, "Manfred Stumpf", Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Catalog Pg. 211, September 1986
- ^ Grether, Reinhold, "Ungesäuerte Brote – New Signs from Frankfurt?", Wolkenkratzer Art Journal, No. 6, Pg. 20–33, 1987
- ^ Hohmann, Silke, "Loaded with material and plight of everyday life", Frankfurter Rundschau / Kulturspiegel, 2000-08-07
- ^ "31st of May: 15 years ago the Underground section Zoo - Enkheim has been inaugurated", vgf-ffm.de, 2007-05-30
- ^ zentrum-verkuendigung.de, "Daheim ist Daheim" Archived 2007-10-27 at archive.today, Evangelische Sonntagszeitung, 2005-05-22
External links
- Official website
- Prof. Manfred Stumpf at the HfG of Main
- "Manfred Stumpf at the Church of Christ in Bad Vilbel", Art in Churches, 2011
- Rainer Lind, Interview with Manfred Stumpf (Video in German language), August 2014
- "Manfred Stumpf Enter Jerusalem", Saint Louis University, MOCRA, September-November 1997
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