BIOGRAPHY
Full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg (A)
Publicly sworn committee member of the Council of the City of Duisburg, Germany
WORKS IN MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
(A SELECTION)
B'nai B'rith Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
Art Collection of the City of Cologne, Germany
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Mainz, Germany
Spendhaus Reutlingen, Germany
Kunsthalle Emden, Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation, Germany
Almsik Collection, Gronau, Germany
City Museum Düsseldorf, Germany
State Collection of Prints and Drawings, Munich, Germany
Private collection Dr. Doris König, Duisburg, Germany
Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe, Germany
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Evangelical Church Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Old Post Office, Germany
VITA
Born in 1970.
From 1976 to 1995 schooling and studies
1987/88 Lectureship at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg for experimental print graphics
Freelance since 1995
Various studios in Mainz, Dornum, Esens, Kalkar, Neulouisendorf, Duisburg and Düsseldorf
1990 First bronzes, Guß Schmäcke Düsseldorf - Man and woman go through the cancer barrack ("Mann und Frau gehen durch die Krebsbarrake")
1995 Publication of the first comprehensive biography on Otto Pankok - Cyrus Overbeck/ Oliver Müller: Otto Pankok. Painter, Graphic Artist, Sculptor. A Biography, Düsseldorf 1995
1998 "Hungerkrippe" - for the Obere Lichtenplatz Chapel in Wuppertal Oberbarmen
1998 the Stock Museum in Düsseldorf dedicates a room in the permanent exhibition to it
2000 Woodcut cycle - River of Ashes Transformation of the poetry of Paul Celan
2003 Lithographic cycle Saxa Loquuntur
2003 Lithographic cycle - A Passion
From 2003 to 2006 teacher of evangelic religion history, art and German Sek I/II
2018 Pulpit speech in the ecumenical general service for Reformation Day in the Esens St. Magnus Church about the threat to the free democratic FRG by National Socialist continuities after the NS tyranny 1933 - 45 and the gas chambers of Auschwitz. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsWDWSF1Lbs)
2023 All Germany hears the Fuehrer - Exhibition in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia with a democratic greeting by State Parliament member Frank Börner (SPD) and an introduction by modern historian and anti-Semitism expert Dr. habil. Ludger Heid.
Narrative realist
Work in cycles in the Duisburg studio - identification building monument bread factory Overbeck of 1904 on Arnold-Overbeck-Str in Duisburg Beek and in the Düsseldorf studio on Herrmannstr. in Flingern, Germany.
Works in Museums and Collections: A Selection
Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Old Post Office
B'nai B'rith Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
Art Collection of the City of Cologne
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz
Spendhaus Reutlingen
Kunsthalle Emden, Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation
Collection of Almsik, Gronau
City Museum Düsseldorf
State Graphic Collection Munich
Private Collection Dr. Doris König, Duisburg
Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Protestant Church Wuppertal-Barmen
Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf
Gutenberg-Museum Mainz (Link to the press release)
For more information please contact the Blomenkamp & Reysen Gallery in Germany.