Manfred Stumpf

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Manfred Stumpf
Born 1957
Alsfeld, Germany
Nationality German
Field Sculpture, Drawing
Training Städelschule
Movement Contemporary art
Works Entry into Jerusalem, 1986

Manfred Stumpf (born 1957 in Alsfeld) is a German draftsman, sculptor, and digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städel in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany.

In 1995 Stumpf became professor for figure drawing and conceptual drawing in the faculty for Visual Communication and is leading interdisciplinary projects with Prof. Dieter Mankau at the HfG Offenbach.

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[edit] Works

Mosaic at Habsburgerallee (Underground station), Frankfurt am Main, 1992
Mosaic at Habsburgerallee (Underground station), Frankfurt am Main, 1992
Mosaic at Habsburgerallee (Underground station), Frankfurt am Main, 1992
Mosaic at Habsburgerallee (Underground station), Frankfurt am Main, 1992

"Searching for a mandatory, symbolic visual depiction, Stumpf discovered early Christianity and the Byzantine Art. He uses these conventionalized symbols for his art and fills them with actual topics."[1]

Stumpf's developed icon "Entry into Jerusalem" (1986) emerged from here and has been sent – during the project "Contempler" – in a container around the world and is still varied by him until today.

Right from the start, Stumpf used the technical pen Rotring to work on his clear, flawless and filigree A-4-drawings.[2] As to develop new visual depictions, he used a computer later as well – i. e. the screensaver Angeline (1994/96) – and so moved into a "spiritual/virtual" world.

“ If the drawing isn't proper, you can forget everything else.

(Wenn die Zeichnung nicht stimmt, kannst Du alles andere vergessen)
Manfred Stumpf [3]

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In 1987 he dissolved the element of the palm leaf from his icon and transferred it onto wooden objects, covered them with red paint and placed them in his hometown Alsfeld on an acre, near the Autobahn A5 as hieratic signs.

The donkey from "Entry into Jerusalem" lives an independent life as a motif as well, for example on the huge mosaic at the underground station Habsburgerallee in Frankfurt am Main, where he carries a clock, a computer display or a atomic nucleus.[4] The mosaic has been created in 1992 and displays 66 donkeys on a ca. 7874 inches wall area.[5]

There is a long tradition to the usage of the line. We can track it from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs with its clear and sharp outlines to Middle Age Paintings, along drawings of Romanticism, the Pop Art, until today.

[edit] Scholarships

  • Stipendium für junge Bildende Künstler, Alsfeld
  • Villa Massimo, Rome
  • Artists in Residence, Tokyo

[edit] Exhibitions (Selection)

  • 1983 Galerie ak, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984 Von Hier Aus, Düsseldorf
  • 1985 Galerie Stampa, Basel
  • 1986 Schirn, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1987 Galerie Acinci, Amsterdam
  • 1988 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1989 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • 1990 Galerie Unac, Tokyo
  • 1991 Witte de Witt, Rotterdam
  • 1992 Museum of Art, Yokohama
  • 1993 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995 Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
  • 1996 Whitney Museum, New York
  • 1997 MMK, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2000 Dreamcity, München
  • 2001 Super Rio, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006 "Der goldene Schritt", Kunsthalle Gießen / Popstei Oberhessen, Gießen / Neuer Kunstverein, Gießen
  • 2007 "NAHES IM FERNROHR", together with Laura Baginski, Galerie Sima, Nürnberg
  • 2008 "Zeit zum Palmen", Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main

[edit] Collections (Selection)

[edit] Bibliography

  • Manfred Stumpf, Jean-Christoph Amman (Hrsg.), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, "Sketchbook for the icon 'Entry into Jerusalem'", Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1996, ISBN 3-89322-856-X
  • Manfred Stumpf, "OKTOGON", Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 1987
  • Manfred Stumpf; Thomas Trescher, "Palm", Edition Wilk, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
  • Manfred Stumpf, "Manfred Stumpf, Der heilige Kosmonaut, Zeichnungen", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 1985?
  • Manfred Stumpf, "Der heilige Kosmonaut, Zeichnungen", Edition Wilk, Frankfurt am Main, 1984
  • Domenig, Krüger, Sanovec, Sommer, Stumpf, "Domenig, Krüger, Sanovec, Sommer, Stumpf: Malerei, Zeichnung, Film", Galerie Ak, Frankfurt am Main, 1983
  • Hendricks, Deren, Stumpf, "Zeichnungen von Hendricks, Deren, Stumpf", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1985

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ismail, Nadia, "Entry into Jerusalem", Artothek im Bonner Kunstverein Bestandskatalog, 8/2002
  2. ^ Growe, Bernd, "Manfred Stumpf", Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Catalog Pg. 211, September 1986
  3. ^ Grether, Reinhold, "Ungesäuerte Brote – New Signs from Frankfurt?", Wolkenkratzer Art Journal, No. 6, Pg. 20-33, 1987
  4. ^ Hohmann, Silke, "Loaded with material and plight of everyday life", Frankfurter Rundschau / Kulturspiegel, 2000-08-07
  5. ^ "31st of May: 15 years ago the Underground section Zoo - Enkheim has been inaugurated", vgf-ffm.de, 2007-05-30

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