Jörg Bach
Jörg Bach is a sculptor who has devoted himself to working with steel, a material that has gained increasing importance for the visual arts since the 19th century and is now one of the classic artistic materials of the 20th century.
He welds ground fruits and wind grains, rain cups and pearls, reflectors, ground fruits, wranglers and way-walkers, tables to high and grids. He develops large and small wall objects, floor- and free-sculptures made of corten steel sheet, bans frottages and sketches on paper and canvas. For the most part, they are intertwined and knotted, yet they also seem to dissolve again. In this way, heavy iron material becomes visually light.
In the process of creation, the randomness of the design dominates controversially to the accuracy of its construction.
"... most of the time I already have it well in mind, like the idea in the back of my head; so many an idea has come to me over breakfast, over my morning coffee..." he once recounted with a smile.
He welds ground fruits and wind grains, rain cups and pearls, reflectors, ground fruits, wranglers and way-walkers, tables to high and grids. He develops large and small wall objects, floor- and free-sculptures made of corten steel sheet, bans frottages and sketches on paper and canvas. For the most part, they are intertwined and knotted, yet they also seem to dissolve again. In this way, heavy iron material becomes visually light.
In the process of creation, the randomness of the design dominates controversially to the accuracy of its construction.
"... most of the time I already have it well in mind, like the idea in the back of my head; so many an idea has come to me over breakfast, over my morning coffee..." he once recounted with a smile.
Biografy
Date / Period | Events / highlights |
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1964 | Born at Wolgast |
1983 - 1986 | Internship with sculptor Roland Martin |
1986 - 1991 | Studies of "free sculpturing at the Academy of fine arts in Karlsruhe with Prof. Walter M. Förderer and Prof. Hiromi Akiyama |
1988 - 2001 | Art teaching at the Municipal Youth Art School Tuttlingen |
2001 - up to now | Lives and works at Mühlheim/Donau |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
Date / Period | Activities / events & highlights |
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1990 | Galerie Christophstal, Freudenstadt |
1991 | Halle 3, Sinsheim |
1994 | Kulturherbst, Hermeskeil/Trier |
1995 | Alte Schule, Sigmaringen Brötzinger Art, Pforzheim Burg Stolberg, Stolberg |
1996 | Kunstraum Neureut e.V., Karlsruhe Stresemann, Lahr Alter Wiehre-Bahnhof, Freiburg i. Br. Pagodenburg, Raststatt Langer Hans, Kunstfreunde Wildenstein |
1997 | Galerie Brückenturm, Mainz Schloßkeller, Waldshut-Tiengen Städt. Galerie, Tuttlingen |
1998 | Torschloß Galerie, Tettnang Galerie Gottschick, Tübingen Villa Barberich, Bad Säckingen |
1999 | Im Turm, Kunstverein, Heidenheim |
2000 | Galerie Contakt, Böblingen Städt. Galerie im Turm, Donaueschingen Plastiken in der Stadt, Balingen Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Weingarten Die Fähre, Städt. Galerie, Bad Saulgau |
2001 | Geisselmann, Freiburg Galerie Wohlhüter, Thalheim |
2002 | Orangerie Draenert, Immenstaad |
2004 | Objekte und Frottagen, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Wien |
2006 | Objekte und Frottagen, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Wien |
2010 | "Wolkenkratzer und Reflektoren", Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Wien |
Group exhibitions (selection since 1998)
1998 | Große Kunstausstellung im Haus der Kunst, München Bildhauer aus Baden-Württemberg Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn |
1999 | Skulpturen in der Natur, Schopflocher Alb, Landkreis Esslingen Bex & Art, Bex (CH) Kunst im Stadtbild, Pforzheim Brötzinger Art, Pforzheim Vergangenheit ist heute, Kunstverein Villingen-Schwenningen 20. Hilzinger Kunstausstellung, Hilzingen |
2000 | ROT, Galerie Wohlhüter, Thalheim Galerie Gottschick, Tübingen Galerie Wohlhüter, Thalheim Kunstverein Villingen-Schwenningen Galerie Dorn, Stuttgart Galerie Donath, Troisdorf Marchtaler Fenster, Neue Kunst 2000, Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg |
2001 | Sommerausstellung, Galerie Wohlhüter, Thalheim Strömung, Kunstverein Villingen-Schwenningen Jahresausstellung 2001, Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe |
Public purchases
Date / period | Activities / events & highlights |
1987/92/97 | Stadt Tuttlingen |
1989 | Arbeitsamt Tuttlingen |
1990 | Kunst am Bau, Deutsche Bank |
1992 | Kunst am Bau, mit Gerhard Opitz, Gesundheitsamt Rottweil |
1994 | Regierungspräsidium Tüblingen |
1996 | Kunst am Bau, Arbeitsamt, Ravensburg |
1997 | Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst |
1998 | Wandgestaltung, Sonderschulkindergarten, Tuttlingen |
1999 | Kunst am Bau, Bildungszentrum Wilhelmsdorf |
2000 | Stadt Donaueschingen |
2001 | Stadt Kißlegg Stadt Balingen Großplastik, Landratsamt Tuttlingen |