›Der Deutsche soll alle Sprachen lernen…‹ - Poesia typographica + typefaces by Josua Reichert

The exhibition shows 64 works by the artist Josua Reichert. With his powerful, colorful typefaces Reichert spans a wide range of script cultures, world literature and times. He prints with Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic scripts; his canon of texts ranges from antiquity to the present. In Josua Reichert we meet a printer who set out to measure the typographic world. Reichert's work, as unique as it is innovative, which has been produced over five decades, is impressive for its inner coherence and extreme consistency.

Josua Reichert was born in Stuttgart in 1937. He completed his studies with HAP Grieshaber at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In the works of the printer, who received decisive impulses from HAP Grieshaber and Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, type and image, text and typography merge into a unity and lead into a new aesthetic dimension. In addition to over 200 solo exhibitions at home and abroad, he participated in documenta 3 and 4 in Kassel. Reichert has been honoured with several awards, in 2000 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, in 2003 the title of professor of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

The exhibition will be guided by former Ministerialdirigent Wolfgang Glöckner (Bonn) . Wolfgang Glöckner has given numerous lectures on various aspects of the works of HAP Grieshaber and Josua Reichert and has curated several exhibitions. He is the author of the publication 'Wiederholte Spiegelungen.

Opening hours:

25 January 2017 until 21 April 2017

Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free

 

The Academy is proud to present the exhibition ›Wälder und verwunschene Orte‹ (Forests and Enchanted Places) by the artist Susanne Janssen in the foyer in cooperation with the Essenheimer Kunstverein.

»The most important book of my childhood was a volume of Grimmscher Märchen (Grimms' Tales), bound in dark blue leather and trimmed in gold. I often lost myself in this magical world, in forests and enchanted places and thus escaped for a while from the grey world of the Ruhr area where I grew up. The book had no pictures. The pictures arose in me and my imagination and perhaps it was the longing for these pictures that drives me to this day to see them before me and to ›create‹ them«.

The artist Susanne Janssen, born 1965 in Aachen, studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Düsseldorf. Since 1992 she has worked as a freelance book illustrator and painter in Germany and France. The picture books she has illustrated have been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, Brazilian and Korean. In 2008 she turned to free painting, which can be admired on large canvases or as free collages. For her work Susanne Jannssen has been awarded the German Youth Literature Prize, the Biennale Grandprix for Illustration ›Illustrate‹ and the Troisdorf Picture Book Prize.

Opening hours:

4 May 2017 until 4 August 2017

Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free

 

The Academy is delighted to present the exhibition ›Ice - Time - Space‹ by Lutz Fritsch as part of the Science Year 2016*17. On display are works from the Arctic and Antarctic, which Fritsch produced during expeditions with scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). There the artist studied the natural environment and ice conditions with pencil and camera.

»I was fascinated by the vastness, the scalelessness of the natural space, the aesthetics of the forces inherent in the ice as well as the contrast between the speed of civilisation and the slowness and apparent space-timelessness of this natural space at the end of the world«, says Fritsch.

Lutz Fritsch was the first artist to take part in an expedition to Antarctica in 1994/95 together with scientists from the AWI. To continue the dialogue between art and science, Lutz Fritsch developed the idea for the site-specific sculpture ›Library in Ice‹ as early as 1995, which was realized in 2005: At Lutz Fritsch's request, artists and scientists from all disciplines donated a book which they believe those who have overwintered in the eternal ice should have read.

Lutz Fritsch was born in Cologne in 1955. He studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, Department Münster. In addition to various scholarships, he has held a teaching position and a guest lectureship at the Kunstakademie Münster. Fritsch is known for his site-specific large-scale sculptures »Rheinorange« (1992) at the Rhine-Ruhr estuary in Duisburg, the »Library in Ice« (2005) in Antarctica or his two-part sculpture »Standortmitte« (2008) at the beginning and end of the motorway between Cologne and Bonn.

Opening hours:

18 August to 22 December

Mon-Thu 9am - 4pm | Fri 9am - 1pm

Admission free