Robert Kessler

Robert Kessler was born in1956 in Nürnberg. He grew up in Erlangen and Munich. At present, he lives and works in Munich (and surrounding area).

Career
Study of history of art - LMU Munich University
Study of visual art and object art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with the professors Gerd Winner, Fridhelm Klein, Robin Page; pupil in a master class; Diploma 1986
Education and further education within the ranges of restaurateur, carpenter, ship builder, construction of architectural models, layout and digital picture design, photography, Multimedia, cultural management.
Musical training on the piano, drums and vibraphone.

Educational activities to date
Educationalist for art at the Girls High School in Schlehdorf, project-coaching and co-operation in the context of “transform2community”, an in-service training course for the teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Lectures and workshops
Among other things relating to the topics: „The world of the personal creation“, „Public death", „The art of mourning“, „Rituals“, „Application and communication for artists“, „Extension of the personal liberty of pupils and teachers“, among others for: The Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Siemens Forum in Munich, Adult Education Center, Educational Institution of Regensburg, MRS Schlehdorf and Montessori School

Commission work and purchases
Public and private customers: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Allianz Group, BMW, Bayerische Landesbank, Bayerische Hausbau, the city of Munich, the city of Augsburg, and many more.

References
Allianz Group, BMW, Bayerische Landesbank, Chronoswiss, RTL (German Television Channel), Second German Television Channel, Deutsches Museum, Stadtmuseum in Munich, the city of Beilngries, the city of Munich, the city of Nördlingen, architect's office Koch & Partner, the Munich Fashion Fair, the Hauner university clinic of Munich, the Municipality of Eschede, Radio Lora, and many more.

Publications
„Acting and structuring in the public area“, Auerverlag Donauwörth, 2005
ISBN 3-403-04520,

„Warm breath melts the ice“, art catalogue, publisher R. Kessler, 1999
ISBN 3-00-004306-3,

Illustration of the book “Narrations”, Franz Xaver Haertle, CAN Publishing House Munich, 1992
ISDN 3-9802813-0-2

 

 

 

 

The basic creative and conceptional idea:

Robert Kessler deals with the socially relevant phenomena of our past, present and future.

He makes these phenomena visible and understandable in his art. Among others, his topics are: The public and private space of the individual, communication and contact, love and sexuality, life and death, violence and terrorism.

It is his intention to make the split in our private, social and public lives visible, not only in our lives but also in art and religion. Through this process he offers the observer impulses for inspiration for self-realization and surmounting and also for synthesis and reconciliation.

Robert Kessler has an unusually wide range of choices for his topics. This impressive range shows itself in the professional realization of his creative ideas and concepts.

To date, his works have covered a large number of mechanical and mobile pieces of art, mechanical portraits of humans, sculptures, designs, objects, installation art as well as performance and visual art.

Art in public and private places, in buildings and memorials plays an important role in the work of Robert Kessler.

His partly mechanical objects and installation art offer the observer various possibilities to interact with his pieces of art, sometimes in a playful way. The message of each individual work of art unfolds itself when being touched or moved by the observer.