Emil Schult

Emil Schult ( born October 10, 1946 in Dessau, Germany ) is a German painter, poet and musician. He was known especially for his work with the band Kraftwerk.

Life

Emil Schult in 1965 gained the Diploma of High School in Crystal Lake ( Illinois). During his artistic training and studies in languages ​​, philosophy and art history, he was a student of Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, and Dieter Roth. In 1969 he was a member of the State Art Academy in Dusseldorf. In the same year, especially drawings were exhibited by him in Berlin, Paris, Reykjavik and Cologne. Schult has taken during his work as a painter, later mainly of glass painting.

Interaction with the band Kraftwerk

In 1973, Schult was a guitarist in performances of the band Kraftwerk. In the same year he left the band and was replaced by Klaus Roeder. For the album Highway, which was published in 1974, he designed the cover art, which originated from the time of the German economic miracle in the style of the illustrations. Since the work on the album Radio - Activity, he also wrote song lyrics, such as Trans- Europe Express ( album cover art and lyrics by Hall of Mirrors and Trans Europe Express) 1976-1977, The Man-Machine ( text of the model ) 1977-1978 computer world (text by computer world, calculators and computers Love) 1980-1981 and Electric Café (Text Techno Pop ) 1982 until 1983.

Further work

Between 1982 and 1991, Schult often held in the Bahamas on, lived there and became a citizen of the island state. He also worked together with various artists. Since 1992 he has devoted himself in Dusseldorf various projects of painting and film and media arts.

Along with Karl Bartos, he worked for his Elektric Music Music Project on the album Esperanto between 1992 and 1993 as a copywriter and illustrator. He also contributed with the also former Kraftwerk musician Wolfgang Fluer in the creation of the song lyrics for the album Time Pie. This was recorded for the music project Yamo and published in 1996.

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