Hans Rudolf Thull

Hans Rudolf Thull (December 6, 1945 in Bochum ) is a German artist will be working on photography, collage, sculpture and object. He was one of the first German contemporary photographic artists who have shown with solo exhibitions in German art museums.

Life

Thull grew up in a musically influenced parents' home, his father was concertmaster of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. In 1968 he began the study of visual communication / Photo Design / Artistic photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, where among other Pan Walther was his teacher; He finished his studies in 1973 with the title Diplom Designer.

After graduating, he began his freelance artistic activities. Initially, he worked almost exclusively in the photo the arts. From 1983 to 1986 he was a lecturer at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, he taught mainly experimental and artistic photography.

During a break from 1989 to 2000, he discovered for himself more artistic forms: collage, objects and sculptures. His affinity for these appeared earlier in some earlier works, around 1985 by its floor - space sculpture of the Ruhr cross project overrun.

Thull exhibited in major national and international museums, while his works were curated by prominent curators like Thomas Grochowiak and Uwe Rüth. 1979-1980 was his first exhibition reality - Unreality shown together with Rolf Meier glass in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen and at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. He was one of the earliest German contemporary photographic artists who were presented with solo exhibitions in German art museums.

Hans Rudolf Thull lives in Bochum.

Work

The central approach of his work is the examination of the various phenomena of duality and interaction.

In his photographic work Thull dualities generated by solving objects or situations of everyday life from their originality and places them in a different context by unusual cropping and camera techniques to camera shake and pivoting movements. Through these interactions traditional viewing habits are broken, the contents get a new identity and dualities are visible. So " are for the viewer offers and options included, to wake by his own reflection and action, imagination and enable creative impulses. " Therefore His image series can be assigned to the Experimental Photography, and some of the Subjective Photography. Thull works primarily in color, both analog medium format as well as digitally in small picture format.

The duality media consumer is at the center of his collages. Through various cutting, tearing and gluing techniques and conflicting assignments in rows, accumulation and reduction, primarily with print media, it generates sense irritation - oktroyierte perceptual processes are questioned: "The signs of everyday life in a sense a realism to have conquered. "

Its mostly walk- tubes and sheet steel sculptures address the dualities eyepoint perception and surface area; they generate interactions of form, material, light, viewer and environment. "Through exchange of viewpoints or perspectives is visually cross-border created a communicating variable entirety. " The basis of his works form planar geometric steel sheets, which it collects through cuts, bevels, compressions and mappings of the plane into space, or steel tubes, which he puts together in serial or geometric systems.

Exhibitions ( selection)

1979 Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen (E) and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (E)

1981 Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

1983 Osthaus Museum Hagen

1984 Goethe House New York (E)

1985 Art Association in the area, eating / Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen / sculptures museum showcase Marl

1985 sculpture museum showcase Marl

1985 Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

1989 Olympus Gallery, Hamburg ( D )

2009 Artist Unser Fritz 2/3, Herne

2009 sculpture museum showcase Marl

(E) = solo exhibition

Public sculpture

2002 square Thürmer-Saal/Volksbank Bochum