George Rickey
George Rickey ( born June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana; † July 17, 2002 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American sculptor.
Life
Rickey grew up in Helensburgh, Scotland, on and attended Glenalmond College. At Oxford he studied history. He traveled through Europe and studied art in Paris. After Rickey returned to the U.S. and was a teacher there. His focus was painting. He drew portraits. 1942 Rickey joined the U.S. Army and worked as an engineer. After his discharge from the army, he studied art at New York University, New York Institute of Fine Arts and finally in Chicago at the Chicago Institute of Design. Then George Rickey taught at various colleges. He went to Indiana University, where he met David Smith, whose work influenced him.
Inspired by objects created by Alexander Calder, 1945, the first mobile by George Rickey and the beginning of the 1950s he turned finally to sculpture. He became one of the most important representatives of kinetic art. It arose from his metal sculptures with elements that have been set in motion by low air flows.
Most of the works were completed in his New York studio. 1968 and 1969 was Rickey scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) in Berlin, which is why several of his works are on view in Berlin. The public outcry in 1973 when the city of Münster Rickey sculpture wanted to buy three rotating squares for 130,000 DM, was one reason for the later curators, 1977 to call the exhibition Skulptur.Projekte to life. The 1975 acquired by Westdeutsche Landesbank and Münster donated sculpture stands there today.
He took part in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and also at the documenta 4 in 1968 and the documenta 6 (1977 ) as an artist.
His last years were spent George Rickey in California near Santa Barbara and Saint Paul ( Minnesota). 2002 Art Prize was posthumously awarded him Finkenwerder.
Works
- "Four squares in a square ", 1969, terrace of the New National Gallery, Berlin
- Two oblique lines, 1970, DAAD, Bonn (formerly Kennedy Avenue, since 2010 Ahrstraße )
- Three Lines Diagonal Jointed, 1984, broadcasting studio of the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main
- Conversation, 1999 Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- Four Rectangles Oblique IV, 1984, Bockenheim Campus of the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe- University Frankfurt