CYRUS OVERBECK

​1990: First bronzes dedicated to Gottfried Benn, "Man and Woman Walking Through the Cancer Barracks", cast by Schmäcke, Düsseldorf 1997: "Blood Cloth" and "Large Wound Cloth", Lehmbruck Gallery District Library Duisburg-Rheinhausen. 1998: Social sculpture "The Everyday Life of Jewish Children During the Holocaust - 60 Years Living with the Reich Pogrom" (in cooperation with Yad Vashem). 1999: Exhibition marking the start of the Second World War 60 years ago at the Gallery of the Hamborn Town Hall - including the large-scale oil paintings "Listen to Our Dead" and "War or the Question of What is Right" and the peace-visionary color linocuts "Primordial Form" and "Street". 1999: Crib (three wooden sculptures) for the Lichtenplatzer Chapel in Wuppertal. 2000: Printing of the woodcut cycle "River of Ashes" by Konrad Stüven (printer of Joseph Beuys, Goch). 2000: A Passion, large-format lithography cycle. 2000: Creation of the lithographic cycle Saxa Loquuntur; printed in the workshop of Jürgen Zeidler and Angela Schröder in Bergsdorf. 2002: Naked Women and Dogs, bronzes; cast by Schmäcke, Düsseldorf. 2002: Do You Want Total War Again?, exhibition at Galerie Siegfried Blau, Palma. 2008: Portrait of Jackie Kennedy with sprayed butterflies, oil on canvas. 2010: House Without a Guardian, oil and acrylic on canvas. 2011: Social sculpture "April 9, 1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer". 2011: Gutenberg's Dream (etching 60 × 80 cm). 2012: Implementation of the Guardian theme in the cycle Women, Dogs and Ornaments; creation of pencil drawings, scraped aquatint etchings, woodcuts, watercolors, oil paintings, and bronzes in the Duisburg and North German studio. 2012: Transformation of the landscape of Hodler, engagement with the color and form of the landscape (oil paintings and etchings). 2013: Continuation of the Hodler reception, further engagement with the ornament in art, artistic implementation in etching, lithography, woodcut, bronze, and oil. Integrated into the research focus on media convergence at the University of Mainz (C.-F. Vahl). 2013: Bronzes on the theme of archetypal emotional reception in space (cast by Schmäcke and Ara Cast), also artistic engagement: man in the ornamental space, dialogue of environment in relation to the transformation of the individual in a culturally divergent society, the merging ornament as an expression of assimilation, integration, and irritation. 2013: Large-format etching. 2013: Implementation of the ornament in lithography, Bergsdorf (Saalpresse, Angela Schröder, Jürgen Zeidler). The Hermaphrodite (large-format bronze), integration, rejection, and acceptance, in artistic engagement with sexual deviation from the norm, as a representative of cultural divergence. 2015: Continuation of the "Rose Cycle" - Heinrich Heine as woodcut, etching, and sculpture. 2016: The Transformation of Heinrich Heine into Reality (exhibition at the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf). 2017: The Wingbeat of a Butterfly. New bronzes and woodcuts. Broadcast on SWR on January 21, 2018. 2017: Woodcut "Helmut Schmidt the State is Not Extortable". 2017: Homage to Fritz the Cat. 2017: Woodcut Herbert Bonewitz (Mainz Media Award 2017). One of ten copies was included in the catalog of the Mainz Gutenberg Museum. Ongoing project since 2018: Album of Memory, engagement with integration, irritation, and assimilation through portraits of Germans with and without migration background combined with Arabic script. 2018: Cyrus Overbeck: The von-Eucken Project and the Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel. "The von-Eucken Project and the Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel Etude No. 1", Grupello Publishing, Düsseldorf 2018. "The von-Eucken Project and the Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel Etude No. 3 · Mathilde von Eucken", Grupello Publishing, Düsseldorf 2018. "The von-Eucken Project and the Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel Etude No. 4 · Mathilde and Georg von Eucken", Grupello Publishing, Düsseldorf 2018. "The von-Eucken Project and the Sielhof in Neuharlingersiel Etude No. 7 · Water Emergency and Child Death", Grupello Publishing, Düsseldorf 2018. 2018: Portrait of Jürgen Klopp in eleven variants (Media Award of the City of Mainz). ​ 2019: Woodcut portrait Bernhard Dietz. ​ 2019: Woodcut portrait Felix Nussbaum (exhibition "Album of Memory" cubus art hall). ​ 2019: "Stauffenberg Portrait", acrylic on canvas, 290 × 190 cm. ​ 2019: Graphic installation "The War" in the Old Bread Factory Beeck in Duisburg. Transformation of the liberation idea with the end of World War II in visual arts. ​ 2020: Graphic cycle "Heimatmuseum: Album of Memory". Transformation of National Socialist continuities through portraits into contemporary art. 2021: Portrait of Prof. Dr. Irmgard Hantsche for her 85th birthday: "All Quiet on the Western Front". 2021: Work cycle "Frozen Ground" with print graphics, photographs, paintings, woodcuts, and sculptures. 2021: Portrait of Giora Feidman, oil on canvas and as woodcut. 2022: THE WAR II - Walk-through room installation with woodcuts, historical labyrinth, the impact of nationalism after 1945 on the lives of people today. 2023: All of Germany Listens to the Führer - The Hares Chase the Hunters exhibition in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.