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Ulrich Rückriem
Rückriem in 2013
Born30 September 1938 (1938-09-30)
Düsseldorf, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forStone sculpture, drawing
MovementProcess art, Minimalism
Awards(among others) 1985: Arnold-Bode-Award of the city of the documenta, Kassel[1]
1998: Piepenbrock Award for Sculpture, Berlin

Ulrich Rückriem (30 September 1938) is a German sculptor notable for his monumental stone sculptures. He lives and works in Cologne and London.[2] His abstract works of art are often assigned to the style of minimalism[3][4] and process art.[5]

Life and Work

Born in Düsseldorf, Rückriem spent his years of apprenticeship as a stonecutter in Düren, followed by employment as a journeyman at the Dombauhütte workshops of Cologne Cathedral. Later on, due to his tight association with Gallery Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, he got in contact with artists and colleagues like Carl Andre, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt y Royden Rabinovich. From 1963 on, he worked as a free-lance artist. For a couple of years, he shared a studio with Blinky Palermo, before he started his academic career, firstly, at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (starting from 1974), from 1984 on at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and, finally, at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (starting from 1988).

In the 1960s and 1070s, Rückriem worked in the quarry of Dolomite at Anröchte, culminating in a show of his work at the Venice Biennale in 1978. In the years that followed, he concentrated his efforts and worked at the quarries of granite in the vicinity of Vire, Normandy, in order to prepare his first grand solo show at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Solo shows at, among others, the Art Collection of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, museum Städel in Frankfurt am Main, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin followed. Apart from that, Rückriem was invited to participate at the documenta in 1972, 1982 and 1992.

Many of the works of art of Rückriem are accessible to the public as public art, mostly in Germany, but also in Spain, France, England, Ireland and others. A particularly impressive one of these is Siglo XX (1995), an installation in the open fields close to the locality of Abiego (Spain). It consists of 20 steles of granite from O Porriño, arranged in manner analogously to the eight queens puzzle.[6]

At Sculpture Halls Ulrich Rückriem in Sinsteden, in the vicinity of the city of Cologne, a permanent installation of about 100 sculptures by Ulrich Rückriem is to be seen. The halls as well as the presentation were devised by the artist himself.

References

  1. ^ documenta Archive Retrieved on 16 August 2013.
  2. ^ Ulrich Rückriem: Sockel – Passepartout – Kleiner Kosmos. Kunstverein Lippstadt e.V. Retrieved on 16 August 2013. (in German)
  3. ^ Aktive Besucher gefragt. Retrieved on 16 August 2013. (in German)
  4. ^ Stille - Skulpturen-Hallen Ulrich Rückriem. Retrieved on 16 August 2013. (in German)
  5. ^ Ulrich Rückriem - artist biography, Tate Gallery. Retrieved on 16 August 2013.
  6. ^ ULRICH RÜCKRIEM: Siglo XX, 1995. Centro de Arte y Naturaleza Fundación Beulas. Retrieved on 16 August 2013.

Bibliography

  • Ulrich Rückriem: Arbeiten, Editor: Heinrich Erhardt, Oktagon, 1994. ISBN 3-927-78933-x (in German)
  • Jürgen Hohmeyer: Ulrich Rückriem, Verlag Silke Schreiber, 1988. ISBN 3-88960-013-1 (in German)
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