101. HELMUT FEDERLE
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Die
Nacht der Krähe (The Night of the Crow), 2008
oil and acrylic on canvas (50 x 35 cm) |
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Blume
Des Todes III (Rotes Kreuz), 1983-1989
acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas 60.3 x 73 cm |
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Legion
XVII,
1997
acrylic and oil on canvas (48.9 x 61 cm) |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
1944, in Solothurn, Switzerland
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and
Camaiore, Italy
Studies:
In 1964, Federle studied at the School of Applied Art in
Basel.
In 1969 and 1971, he received a federal scholarship. In the
following year, Federle travelled to Tunisia and the USA.
Together with his fellow artist and friend Martin Disler he
exhibited in 1976 in the Kunstmuseum der Stadt Solothurn.
In 1979, Federle exhibited large-scaled canvases with
geometric forms in the Kunsthalle Basel.
From 1983 to 1984, Federle lived in Zürich and held a
professorship in Reykjavík.
From 1999 until 2007 he held a professorship at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, in 2008, he received the Prix Aurelie Nemours.
Themes and
style:
His
paintings elude cursory observation. Opaque, strongly minimal, spiritual, and
with a succinct style, they allude to Color Field Painting and Abstract
Expressionism while dispensing with narrative. The color palette is for the
most part limited to dark umber tones, lightened up by the nuances of
chartreuse so characteristic of his work.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings: acrylic, oil and charcoal.
Exhibitions
Go to Link: http://peterblum.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/artist/biography_file/4/Federle_5-2015.pdf
Representative
Galleries:
Peter Blum
Jensen
In
his Own words:
“(…)
my psychic condition was that I could not work anymore and that I wanted to
stop. But I could not, I was not able to stop absolutely because even if you
stop you will always be an artist somehow; you will remain an artist even if
you don’t work because I work 24 hours with my head and with my heart. I knew
that someday I would feel that I would like to do something again. So from
around 2003 on, the process of working was changing because before I was never
the guy who worked from 9 to 5 like other artists, never. I always worked only
when I wanted to work, but it was not as dominant as it is now. Now I am really
in a period where it becomes very difficult for me to work.
Interviewer:
Do you draw when you’re not painting?
Federle:
No. I read”
For
more Information:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/arts/design/helmut-federle-the-ferner-paintings.html