Fritz Schwegler
Fritz Schwegler ( * 1935 in Breech in Göppingen) is a visual artist, painter, draftsman, sculptor, writer and musician.
Life and work
After training as a carpenter, he traveled from 1954 to 1958 as a journeyman Europe, Asia Minor and Africa. He trained as a master, then he began studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and London. Since 1962 he has been a freelance sculptor. Studies and work stays led him to Paris, Rome, Cairo, New York and Tokyo. Since the 1970s, he fixed his ideas on plans, the so-called Effeschiaden, a comic-like image sequence with lyrics that were accompanied by flute, Schwegler whistle and bell, and since 1973 from films and photo series.
From 1973 he was a lecturer and then to 2001 professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Students of this period were, inter alia, Alice Creischer, Thomas Demand, Stefan Demary, Katharina Fritsch, Jean -François Guiton, Martin Honert, Thomas Huber, Jan Schüler, Judith seeds and Nele Waldert.
He only created collages and word performances, after an extraordinary and extensive work of small sculptures. He puts in his work the terminology of the things in question, its simple image objects differ in the way successively on the reals that can be understood as a possibility or supplement to already Gewusstem this yet. The details of his work are the result of the most precise observation and study of the everyday. The combination of different media - language, music, image - challenges the viewer to constantly think about.
Schwegler is the author of many books, which he endows with idiosyncratic coinages and pictures. The reader experiences a Janus game of cheerfulness and deep, unconscious and acumen, writes the writer and publicist George Jappe.
Fritz Schwegler lives and works both in Breech in Göppingen and in Dusseldorf.
In his will, Fritz Schwegler has indicated its willingness to be buried in the Kassel artist Necropolis.