Nationality German | Name Ulrich Ruckriem | |
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Born 30 September 1938 ( 1938-09-30 ) Dusseldorf, Germany Known for Stone sculpture, drawing Movement Process art, Minimalism Awards (among others) 1985: Arnold-Bode-Award of the city of the documenta, Kassel
1998: Piepenbrock Award for Sculpture, Berlin | ||
ulrich ruckriem
Ulrich Ruckriem (30 September 1938) is a German sculptor notable for his monumental stone sculptures. He lives and works in Cologne and London. His abstract works of art are often assigned to the style of minimalism and process art.
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Life and Work
Born in Dusseldorf, Ruckriem apprenticed as a stonecutter in Duren, then worked as a journeyman at the Dombauhutte workshops of Cologne Cathedral. Later, due to his tight association with Gallery Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, he came into contact with artists and colleagues like Carl Andre, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt, Royden Rabinovich. From 1963 on, he worked as a free-lance artist.
For a few years he shared a studio with Blinky Palermo, before he started his academic career, at Hochschule fur bildende Kunste Hamburg (starting from 1974), from 1984 on at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, and finally at Stadelschule,
In the 1960s and 1070s, Ruckriem worked in the quarry of Dolomite at Anldorf, museum Stadel in Frankfurt am Main, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin followed. Ruckriem was invited to participate at the documenta i.
Many of the works of art of Ruckriem are accessible to the public as public art, mostly in Germany, but also in Spain, France, England, Ireland and others. A particularly impressive one of these is Siglo XX (1995), an installation in the open fields close to the locality of Abiego (Spain). It consists of 20 steles of granite from O Porrino, arranged in a manner analogous to the eight queens puzzle.
A permanent installation of about 100 sculptures by Ruckriemt is at Sculpture Halls Ulrich Ruckriem in Sinsteden, near Cologne. The halls and presentation were devised by the artist himself.