Rainer Fetting

Rainer Fetting ( born December 31, 1949 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German painter and sculptor.

Rainer Fetting was the late 1970s, co-founder and protagonist of the Gallery at Moritz Platz in Berlin, a cooperative gallery, which was founded by a group of young artists, mostly painters, the first from the class Karl Horst Hödicke at the former Berlin University of the Arts today University of the Arts, were written and the New then the term Wilde, " Young and Wild " or " Moritzboys " were known. This group included, for example, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer and Helmut Middendorf.

  • 5.1 Australia
  • 5.2 Germany
  • 5.3 France
  • 5.4 Canada
  • 5.5 Switzerland

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and an internship at the stage at the State Theatre of Lower Saxony North in Wilhelmshaven Fetting studied from 1972 to 1978 with Hans Jaenisch at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Even as a master student he founded in 1977 with Anne Jud, Helmut Middendorf, Berthold Schepers, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer Gallery at the Moritz place as " Artists self-help project ." From the Gallery of the so-called " Moritzboys " They essentially produce the " New Wild " (or " Junge Wilde " ), a term which rejected Fetting, because he felt as defamatory. Fetting focused at this time on the Berlin city scenarios, portraits and figurative and sat in images with glowing color with the Berlin wall apart. In 1980 he participated in the exhibition " Violent painting" Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, part, 1981, participate in organized by Christos M. Joachimides Showcase New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1982 he participated in the Zeitgeist exhibition in Berlin's Martin -Gropius -Bau. This was followed by annual solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries in Europe and in the United States, for example, Bruno Bischofberger, Mary Boone and Anthony d' Offay. Early 1983 showed the Musée d' Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, an exhibition with collaborative works by Luciano Castelli, Fetting and Salomé, which also in Bordeaux and Paris Concert » Opéra par hasard " aufführten ( Fetting on drums ). In 1984 he participated in the exhibition From here - Two months new German art in Dusseldorf part. From 1983 to 1994 Fetting lived temporarily in New York, where he had already spent a year in 1978 with a DAAD scholarship. Thematically, Fetting still devoted city motifs, from 1984 Fetting experimented with assemblages of driftwood, which he mounted on the canvas and painted over. Since 1986, Fetting also dealt with bronze works.

2003/2004 he was with Obsessive Painting - represented A Review of the New Wild. Particular highlights of the last time were the exhibitions in 2008, " Return of the Giants. Rainer Fetting sculptures " in Bremer Gerhard- Marcks-Haus and" Mans Landscapes " in 2010 in the Tübingen Kunsthalle.

Fetting lives in Berlin and Sylt.

Works

In addition to expressive, intensely colored paintings of all genres Rainer Fetting has created an extensive sculptural works mainly in bronze. The 3.40 meter high and 500 -pound Willy-Brandt- statue in the Atrium of the Willy -Brandt -Haus in Berlin and the Henri Nannen Prize are among his best known works. Less well known are his photographic works since the 1970s and its art films. For the Willy -Brandt- Park in Stockholm Fetting made ​​a smaller copy of the Berlin Willy Brandt statue.

Painting

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Public collections

Australia

Germany

  • Ludwig Museum, Aachen
  • Art Museum Walther, Augsburg
  • Berlin Gallery, Berlin
  • Recommended institution Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • National Gallery in Berlin
  • Berlin City Museum Foundation
  • Federal Chancellery, Berlin
  • German Bundestag, Berlin
  • Collection SPD, Berlin
  • House of History in Bonn
  • Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
  • Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt
  • Kunsthalle in Emden
  • Städel Museum in Frankfurt / Main
  • Gera Art Collection
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM Karlsruhe
  • Kunsthalle Kiel
  • Museum Würth, Künzelsau
  • Museum Ludwigsburg
  • Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
  • Foundation of Weimar Classics
  • Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • Museum am Dom, Würzburg

France

  • Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
  • Fund Régional d' Art Contemporain ( FRAC Collection) Auvergne

Canada

Switzerland

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel
  • Le Musée Cantonal des Beaux- Arts de Lausanne

Bibliography

  • Self- Portraits 1973-1998. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1999, ISBN 3-87584-886-1.
  • Images of Men. Foundation Schleswig -Holstein Gottorp Castle National Museums, Schleswig, 2000, ISBN 3-88452-791-6.
  • Rainer Fetting - paintings and drawings. with Hermann Wiesler, Gregory Volk, Sibylle Kretschmer, Haren Berg, 2000, ISBN 3-611-00424-3.
  • Landscapes. Achim summer, brewing Edition, 2001, ISBN 3-926318-57-0.
  • Models. with a contribution by Daniel Spanke, eds: Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, ISBN 3-9808033-0-9.
  • Rainer Fetting - Los Angeles surf capes. Kerber, 2004, ISBN 3-936646-97- X.
  • Rainer Fetting meets Lovis Corinth. Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Kerber, 2005, ISBN 3-938025-38-7.
  • Waters. Kerber, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-098-9.
  • Ulrich Ott ( ed.): Helmut Schmidt. Sculptures and paintings by Rainer Fetting. Kerber, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-064-4.
  • Return of the Giants. Rainer Fetting, sculptures. Gerhard Marcks Haus Bremen. Kerber, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-231-0.
  • FETTING. With contributions by Arie Hartog and Jan Hoet and an interview by Heinz Stahlhut. Dumont Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9203-7.
  • Mans capes. Kunsthalle Tübingen, ed. of Daniel Schreiber, with contributions by Travis Jeppesen and Thomas Wagner. Publisher of Walther König, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-894-9. ( Ger. / Eng )
  • Rainer Fetting - Berlin. Berlin Gallery (ed.), with contributions by Klaus Wowereit [ greeting ], Thomas Köhler, Travis Jeppesen, Guido Fassbender, Heinz Stahlhut and Simone Wiechers. Hirmer Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4021-7.
  • Cristian Rathke, Diesja Turkina, Alexander Borovskij: Rainer Fetting and contemporaries from the Martin Sanders Collection. Palace Edition, 1995, ISBN 3-930775-12-3.
  • Viola Rühse: Rainer Fetting Photography. To market the " savages." In: ALL- OVER. Magazine of Art and Aesthetics, No. 4, Spring 2013.
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