René Acht

René Eight ( born March 24, 1920 in Basel, Switzerland, † 3 May 1998 in Herbolzheim at Freiburg im Breisgau (Baden- Württemberg), Germany ), was a Swiss painter and sculptor.

Life

René eight studied from 1936-1940 at the Arts and Crafts School in Basel painting and sculpture. 1941-1943 he was awarded a scholarship for his artistic work first as a private scholarship from an art dealer. In 1945, he moved to Stockholm, where he worked as a volunteer - stage at the Royal Opera House. From 1947 to 1948 he lived in Helsinki, held in 1948 some time in Italy, especially in Rome, and returned again in 1950 back to Finland, Lapland.

Since 1950, taught at the school Migros Club in Basel. In 1953 he received a grant from the pine - Halblitzel Foundation, 1954, the scholarship of the His- Stiftung, Basel and undertook a study tour of Spain and North Africa. There followed in 1955 a renewed scholarship from the city of Basel and a period of study in Rome. Between 1958-1960, he received grants from the Swiss Confederation and became a life member of the FIAL (International Institute of art and letters ) selected. 1963-1965 he taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since 1965 he was a member of GSMBA, Basel and St. Luke Society, Switzerland. From 1965-1966 he taught as Head of the painting class at the Arts and Crafts School, Basel.

René Eight moved in 1972 to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he met his wife, married in 1978 Bärbel Eight (b. Geigele ). In 1974 he undertook a study tour to Japan and in the same year a member of the Professional Association of South Baden. In 1976 he founded the "ART- CLUB Art Forum " in Freiburg. In 1978 he undertook a study trip to the Ivory Coast and became a member of the Artists Association of Baden Wuerttemberg. Between 1980-1988 was followed by a teaching career as a lecturer in the subject COLOR at the University of Education in Freiburg. In 1982 he undertook a study tour to China. In 1997 he was awarded the European Culture Award, Adolf Unmüssig regional awards presented.

A first international breakthrough came in the 1950s by the Informal Invitation to the second Documenta in Kassel and the 5th Biennial of São Paulo. Lived and worked until his death in 1989 René Eight alternately in Freiburg and Vaudrémont, Champagne.

Work

The artistic works of René eight spans a period of some sixty years, at the beginning there was the academic artistic training of sixteen, whose eligible talent certainly in the artistic career of his father, a wood and stone sculptor, was rooted. The extensive early work from this period of study testifies to the intense artistic confrontation with the then recent art history but also the old masters.

From 1949 the turn to non-representational world is emerging in his work, which is noticeable in the previous employment with Cubism and the settling takes place in the vicinity of the concrete art. In the early 1950s, the informal painting articulates a new desire for freedom of expression, is one of the most important Swiss René Eight representatives of this style. Following this new freedom reüssiert Eight internationally with a painting in favor of a structured orientation and formal composure of the " soul " is never quite the impulsive gestural and uncontrolled chaotic prescribe until he Formulating the Informal than the right one for him way in 1962 first doubts question arises and 1965 clearly defined the first time the image metaphor " character building ".

The house as a synonym for the habitation of the soul and of the people is the central theme of philosophical and psychological substrate of his other work. Its already far-flung, mysticism, alchemy, astrology and astronomy comprehensive artistic thinking is committed to the Christian Western heritage and spirituality of Zen and Confucianism in balance from west to east. The repeatedly targeted reduction of means - not forgetting the color - culminates with René night in a 30-year artistic preoccupation with the silhouette. This intimate genre in itself is increased at night René was monumental. But above all it is the development of a visual language that reduces the use of basic geometric shapes and their emblems bears an almost " cautionary symbolism " in itself.

Collections

His work has been presented in more than 100 solo and 200 group exhibitions in Europe, USA and Asia and is represented in major collections. (including Prints and Drawings, Basel, CH, Kunstmuseum, Basel, CH; Art Museum Lausanne, CH; Museum All Saints, Schaffhausen, CH, Kunsthaus, Zurich, CH, Musée d'art, Nantes, F, Contemporary Museum, Vienna, A; Foundation Museum Schloß Moyland collection van der Grinten, D; Museum, Nijmegen, NL; Museum Ulm, D; Augustiner Museum, Freiburg, D;. Museum of Contemporary Art, Freiburg, D;. State Gallery, Stuttgart, D; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA; Carnegie Pittsburgh, USA; Modern Art Museum, New York, USA; Museum Peggy Guggenheim, New York, USA; Museum Chicago, USA; collection White, Chicago USA; Ströher Collection, Darmstadt, D; collection German Bank, Frankfurt, D; collection Peltzer, Aachen, D; collection Faber Castell, D; collection Thompson, Pittsburgh, USA; collection Gallery B. Schaefer, New York, USA; collection Alix de Rothschild, Paris, F, collection Elie de Rothschild, Paris, F; collection Facchetti, Paris, F; collection Tapié, Paris, F; collection Alfred Lichtwark, CH; collection Robert Hess, Basel, CH; Collection Richard dryfus, CH; Urban collection Innsbruck, A; Collection Arp - Hagenbach, Meudon, F; Tunnard Gallery collection. Mac Roberts, London, GB; Collection Rolof Beny, Toronto, Canada; Swiss Confederation, CH; Kunstkredit, Basel, CH; Agency for Cultural Affairs of Baden- Württemberg, Stuttgart, D; Regional Council, Freiburg and Tübingen, D; Marli Hoppe-Ritter, D; Aargau Kunsthaus, CH).

Literature (selection )

  • Exhibition catalog for Documenta II ( 1959) in Kassel: II.documenta '59. Art after 1945 Catalogue: Volume 1: Painting; . Volume 2: sculpture; Volume 3: Prints; Text band. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • René Eight silhouettes 1968-1983. Text Post v. Francis Joseph Van der Grinten. Edited Museum Nijmegen and Kunstverein Ulm, 1983
  • Way to figure house. Graphic selection from 1939 to 1969. Drawings, shearing cuts. Text Post v. Dieter Hofmann Gallery Regio. Lörrach 1969
  • . Scherenschnitte 1968 - 1998 Editor: Freiburg City Museums / Museum of Contemporary Art. Textbeitr. v. Jochen Ludwig, Isabel Herda, Peter Mayr, Peter Staechelin, René night. Freiburg 2003
  • Exhibition catalog. ( Informal ) Galerie Paul Facchetti. Paris 1959
  • Monograph and catalog raisonné. Textbeitr. by Hans H. Hofstätter and Jochen Ludwig. Exhibition catalog Augustiner Museum, Freiburg and Museum All Saints, Schaffhausen. Freiburg 1980. Edited by Hans H. Hofstätter
  • Works from six Jahrzehnten.Hrsg. Moyland Castle Museum Collection Van der Grinten. Texts by Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Hans van der Grinten, Hans H. Hofstätter, Rolf Wedewer, Remy Zaug, René night. Bielefeld 2004
  • Knaurs lexicon Abstract painting. Textbetr. Seuphor Michael. From the double transfer v. Alfred P. Zeller. German edition Munich 1957
  • Dictionary. Art Abstrait. Paris 1957
  • Darmstadt Artists' Encyclopedia, 1958
  • Art of the Young Generation, America Memorial Library, the Berlin central library in 1968, 1970, 1972
  • Dictionary of International Biography, London 1968
  • Guida all European Arte, Roma 1969
  • DuMont Art Dictionary - From 1945 to the present. Cologne 1976
  • New Church Art in Switzerland. Sacred Art Vol 11 Published by: Swiss St. Luke Society. Zurich 1976
  • Thieme Becker lexicon. Leipzig 1977
  • Encyclopedia of contemporary Swiss artists.. Zurich 1981 Published by: Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich
  • Artist Index of Baden- Württemberg. V.Hrsg Vol. Künstlerbund Baden Württemberg, GEDOK, National Association forming Performer Baden- Württemberg. Freiburg 1981/82
  • Encyclopedia of the Arts. Herder Verlag 1987
  • DuMont Art Encyclopedia of the 20th century - artists, styles and concepts. Edited by Karin Thomas. Cologne 2000

Music to the work

  • Andreas H.H. Suberg: HOUSE music. Hörkaleidoskop for 12 speakers, piano and electroacoustic sounds by and with selected texts, inter alia, by René night, Gaston Bachelard, Henri Bosco, Joe Bosquet, Vilém Flusser and Henry David Thoreau. 2003/04. Commissioned by the Museum Schloß Moyland occasion of an exhibition of René night. Production: Sound Art Studio Freiburg, studio technology: AHH Suberg. UA March 13, 2004 Moyland Castle Museum, Kleve, Paulo Alvares - piano. House Music. CD with booklet, text contribution v. A.H.H. Suberg. Edited Sound Art Studio Freiburg. 2004 Freiburg
  • Andreas H.H. Suberg: TOWER music. Hörkaleidoskop for 8 speakers, a trumpeter and electroacoustic sounds by and with texts by Gaston Bachelard, Joe Bousquet, Henri Bosco and Carl Gustav Jung. 2008/09. Commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition installation- tower -door dialogue with tower - houses of René Eight Kulturwerk T66, Freiburg. Production: Sound Art Studio Freiburg, studio technology: AHH. Suberg 2009 UA 24 April 2009 Kulturwerk T66, Freiburg, Steffen Baral - trumpet. Tower Music. CD with booklet, text contribution v. A.H.H. Suberg. Edited Sound Art Studio Freiburg. 2004 Freiburg
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