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The painting and sculptural work of architect Erich Reusch is as diverse as it is compelling: the main theme of Reusch’s work is space, as he searches constantly for the particular tension that intensifies between the differing points of view, specific experiences of movement and the experience of transitions, leaps and transformations.

Nothing that the viewer looks at can be viewed quietly, his or her gaze moves between the colours and shapes that invariably demand quite different ways of looking. The eye loses its fixed hold on the work and is led from the simple, holistically accessible form to the open space. Erich Reusch’s art exists in that which opens up between the visible and extends across what can be seen. Above all, it addresses the space that originates from what can be seen in the viewer himself or herself.

biography

1925 born in Wittenberg

1947–1953 studies at Hochschule der bildenden Künste Berlin

1956–1964 work as freelance architect in Düsseldorf

1975–1990 professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, „Integration Bildende Kunst und Architektur (Integration of Fine Art and Architecture)

2006 Konrad-von-Soest Award of Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe

lives in Neuenrade