artist/ Wendels
Allemagne
Franziskus Wendel is a German artist born in Daun in 1960. With multiple degrees in visual arts, theology, philosophy and history of art, he has won numerous artistic prizes: in 1989 he won 1st prize, art and artists from Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1990 he was awarded the Emmy Roeder Prize, in 1991 he was awarded the Berlin Scholarship of the Berlin Senate, in 2000 he was awarded 1st prize, art prize of Sport Toto GmbH Rhineland-Palatinate Palatinate, in 2001 he went to stay at the Villa Romana in Florence, in 2014 he won the Kaiser Lothar Prize from the European Association of Visual Artists of the Eifel and the Ardennes…
His works have been the subject of numerous individual and group exhibitions: in 1988 in Brussels, EC Council Secretariat – Art for Europe, in 1989 in New York, Frank Bustamante Gallery, in 1990 in Cologne, Johannes Schilling Gallery , in 1991 in Paris, Grand Palais “Découvertes”, in 1992 in Saarbrücken, City Gallery, in 1993 in Belfast, Galerie Fenderesky, in 1994 in Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, in 1995 Ludwigshafen, Galerie Rudolph-Scharpf of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , in 1996 in Berlin, Eva Poll Gallery, in 1997 Mainz, state parliament, in Berlin, Guardini Foundation, in Siegburg, Siegburg City Museum, in 1998 in Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, in 1999 in Zurich, Zurich Art, in 2000 in Frankfurt, Galerie Schuster, in 2001 at the Gelsenkirchen Museum, in 2002 in Cologne, Galerie Boisserée and in Frankfurt, Galerie Markus Nohn, in 2003 in Berlin, Galerie Sondage, in 2005 at the Küppersmühle Museum Frankfurt, and at the Cathedral Museum , in 2006 in Koblenz, Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus Cologne, in 2007 in Düsseldorf, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and in Paris Galerie Flora Jansem, in 2008 in Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, in 2009 in Bamberg, Internationales Künstlerhaus, Villa Concordia, in 2010 and 2011 in Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, in 2012 in Berlin, Galerie Brennecke, in 2014 in Paris, Galerie Flora Jansem, in 2015 at the Osthaus Hagen Museum, in 2017 at the Augsbourg Museum H2 Contemporary Art Center of Augsburg, in 2020 at the Ludwig Museum at the Deutschherrenhaus Koblenz and at the Gelsenkirchen Art Museum…
His works have been acquired by numerous museums, foundations and collections:
Mainz State Museum, Ludwig Foundation Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Contemporary History Museum Nanterre, Ulster Museum Belfast, Cologne City Museum
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Berlin,
Deutsche Bank (DBIM) Luxembourg, Collection of the German Clearing Bank Bonn, Collection Bayer Leverkusen, Collection Giroverband Rhineland-Palatinate, Collection of Deutsche Telekom AG, Collection of AXA Assurance Cologne, Collection Germany Radio Berlin, Collection Allianz Assurance (Cultural Alliance ) Cologne…
In a play of perspective respecting great geometric rigor, Franziskus Wendels paints the luminous radiance of different projections from an urban environment.
Its palette, essentially composed of shades of gray, makes us evolve within a nocturnal universe while directing our gaze towards the radiance of a resolutely ephemeral light source. Franziskus Wendels crystallizes this furtive temporality in his work.
