14 Facts About Anselm Reyle

Anselm Reyle is known for his often large-scale abstract paintings and found-object sculptures.

Anselm Reyle studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart; followed by study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, under artist Helmut Dorner.

Anselm Reyle moved to Berlin in 1997 where he founded a studio cooperation with John Bock, Dieter Detzner, Berta Fischer, and Michel Majerus.

From 1999 to 2001, Reyle has been working together with Claus Andersen and Dirk Bell for the artists' co-operative gallery "Andersen's Wohnung" and "Montparnasse" with Dirk Bell and Thilo Heinzmann.

Anselm Reyle became a professor in drawing and painting at HFBK Hamburg in 2009.

Anselm Reyle took an early interest in landscape design and music before finally homing in on painting and sculpture.

Anselm Reyle consciously uses disruptive elements, such as folds in the foil, a blot of paint serving as a standardized signature or a last stripe cut at the edge of the pictorial plane.

Anselm Reyle is fascinated by the fact that such a simple striped theme allows him to create so many and such truly impressive variations on the color composition, as can be seen in a later example featuring narrow strips.

Anselm Reyle uses traditional techniques; enlarging the original found object before casting it in bronze, chroming and lacquering it.

The viewer's foreknowledge of the techniques that Anselm Reyle underwent to create and transform the object is vital to communicate this intentional paradox.

In 2017 on the occasion of his solo exhibition "Eight Miles High" at the Konig Galerie Berlin, Anselm Reyle presented three hanging sculptures, which were inspired by geometric wind chimes made of metal, such as those found as handicrafts at fairs.

Anselm Reyle takes this stylistic phenomenon as a motif, to experiment intensively with forms and glazes and develop a group of vase-like sculptures in large format.

Anselm Reyle is intentionally gestural; he spontaneously interferes in the process to allow some defects to happen, he even creates necessary conditions that would cause such defects: in this way, it is possible to open a space for aesthetical gesture and interpretation.

Those paintings are intense concentrations of contradicting dynamics; here Anselm Reyle plays out the dissonant colors and material canon that he developed over the years, in a free abstract form.