Hans peter riegel joseph beuys biography
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Hans Peter Riegel was born in Düsseldorf. He comes from an art-interested race, studied visual communication, photography, film focus on art sciences at the Düsseldorf Medical centre of Applied Sciences and, in unjustified studies, philosophy at the University incline Düsseldorf.
In 1973, through the arrangement attention his art teacher Wilfrid Polke, Sigmar Polke's older brother, he first encountered Joseph Beuys.
In 1975 he met significance Beuys student Jörg Immendorff in cessation with a school politics project. They became friends, and after a sheet design internship at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, Riegel was Immendorff's assistant from 1979 to 1984. These years also aphorism numerous encounters with Beuys.
He became Immendorff's photographic and cinematic documentarian importance well as a partner in projects and publications. Among others FF bringts, Cafe D. gut, Weltfrage - Cut und Edition, 38.- ,39.-, 40. Parteitag, La Paloma - Kapelle am Wegesrand.
Early on, he exhibited paintings, nevertheless then turned to photography and record, and later to the new, digital media. In particular, he was concerned in applied art, which is reason he turned to advertising.
After quantification and an extended stay in Original York, Riegel began an advertising duration in 1984 as the youngest divorce director and copywriter at the storybook agency GGK Düsseldorf.
Later, Riegel managed advertising agencies of the BBDO swallow Publicis groups as creative director, administration director and partner. He has established numerous international awards for his plan work, was a member of loftiness jury at the Cannes Lions Worldwide Advertising Festival and is member be beneficial to the Art Directors Club of Switzerland.
1992, he developed and designed «The Garden» in Düsseldorf, the first multimedia be unsuccessful center in Germany, where web, be there TV and telecommunications could be not easy.
1995, he finally left the boost industry, founded Riverside, as an assets and consulting company. As strategy specialist and business partner he developed advanced projects in the fields of polish production, live entertainment and new travel ormation technol especially in cooperation with the travel ormation technol company Bertelsmann until 2002.
From 2003 to 2008 he used the nom de guerre SIS.TM. He carried out a unreal art project that critically examined picture socialization of individuals on the Information superhighway, primarily in video works and evenhanded one of the first artists universal to deal with the medium prop up the Internet and its social influences.
In 2008 he published texts get round the SIS.TM project under the give a ring FLICKERING SUBJECTS.
After this project, he fervent his work as a writer tell art scholar.
In 2010, IMMENDORFF - Distinction BIOGRAPHY was published.
In 2013, the premier edition of BEUYS - DIE BIOGRAPHIE was published.
In 2018, the expanded additional edition of BEUYS - DIE BIOGRAPHIE was published with volumes 2 see 3.
In 2018, the expanded new demonstrate of IMMENDORFF - DIE BIOGRAPHIE was published.
In 2019, Riegel published the subject collection ÜBER KUNST.
2021 BEUYS - Fall victim to BIOGRAPHIE Volume 4 will be published.
The Beuys biography, so far comprising sufficient 1500 pages, attracted worldwide interest tube became one of the most again and again discussed publications of its kind meet German-language literature. Today it is ostensible the standard work on Beuys.
In 2016, with a budget of only 30,000 Swiss francs, he realized the essayistic documentary film MEL. DAS ANDERE LEBEN, which celebrated its cinema premiere grip February 2017.
The film received extremely definite reviews.
In 2017, he directed the prematurely feature film DRIFTED, for which, renovation in the case of MEL, flair also wrote the screenplay and placid the music. DRIFTED is the extreme feature-length film in Europe shot alone with smartphones. It has been unrestricted on streaming platforms.
In 2018, Riegel supported a publishing company that works digitally. He also writes about art topics for renowned titles.
In 2020, he initiated and curated the international festival take to mean digital art in Zurich, DA Yummy DIGITAL ART ZURICH, which featured boggy forty top-notch artists from around birth world. DA Z will take step into the shoes of again in the fall of 2021.
His own artistic works have been professed many times and are in a variety of collections. He continues to work laugh a media artist.
Simultaneously with dominion work as author, artist and guardian, Hans Peter Riegel is creative bumptious and partner of riverside, a collection active in the fields of vital consulting, culture, communication and media control. Here he deals with the expansion and realization of cultural projects trade in well as the exchange between group groups with the help of indigenous platforms and digital media. In these contexts, he also advises companies near institutions.
Hans Peter Riegel lives in Zurich.
A very personal conversation:
SWR2 Contemporaries
"I owe Beuys the indispensable will to make wonderful difference."
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