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Lebennlaufe / Schwaiger, Gernot ; Adorno T ; Artaud A ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Leger F ; Stein G ; Breton A ; Paik NJ ; Pound E ; Ranier A ; Thomas D ; Tinguely J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36403-38195

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Scope and Contents

Each page is a calligraphic portrait of a prominent person in the arts and sciences accomplished through texts that are handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image.Wikipedia: Gernot Schwaiger (24 January 1952 in Kassel ) is a German visual artist, lithographer, draftsman and sculptor. He first trained as a bookseller . Then he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel, and received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . He completed his studies with the work of art school graduating designers and art degree as a sculptor and painter. In 1983, its existing only from black and white illustrations book CVs . His work through a repeatable sequence. First, he researched the CV of mostly already deceased personality. Then he hand-written resume of the model . Finally, he writes with black color again on the resume, but changed so the font size, font width and font thickness that one out of the text, the portrait can perceive. The drawings were as lithographs limited by the WfB workshop for the disabled in Wiesbaden launched. His major works include the portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Beuys, Heinrich Boll, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vincent van Gogh, the Grimm brothers, George Frideric Handel, Johann Gottfried Herder, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marcel Proust, Friedrich Schiller and Robert Walser.Gernot Schwaiger living as a freelance artist in Kassel . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (61 pages)) ; 14.9 x 10.7 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box booklets

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Jurgen Olbrich, 2001.

General

Published: Kassel, Germany : Atelier Kramer. Nationality of creator: German. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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