Otfried Narewski - Curriculum Vitae
 

 

 

1933:

 


Born in Tilsit/Ostpreußen, Germany;
died on 5th of April 2008 in Munich, Germany

 

1947:

Emigration to Ruhpolding in Bavaria, Germany

 

1953:

After school (O-levels), practical training in the office of architect Plenk, Ruhpolding, as well as on building-site aspreparation for planned architecture-studies

 

1954 - 1956:

Apprenticeship as a stone-sculptor and stonemason; certificate as a
stone-sculptor and stonemason; move to Munich

1956 - 1961:

Study of sculpturing at the Acadamy of Arts, Munich; master-scholar of
Prof. J. Henselmann

 

1959 - 1973:

Creating and execution of projects for the Roman Catholic Church:altars, tabernacles, baptisteries, Madonnas, portals, etc.

 

1962 - 1967:

Participation in several exhibitions of the "Herbstsalon" in Haus der Kunst, Munich

 

1962 - 1973:

Free creation and experiments with full-sculptures; coloured labyrinth sculptures of wood and iron; kinetic art and light/sound dramaturgy (light collages)

 

1968:

First kinetic environment at the"Sub-Art", Munich, underground station "Giselastrasze"

 

1969 - 1972:

Presentation of light-collages with electronic music (light/sound dramaturgy)

TV-film "Sound and Vision", German contribution of the television channel ARD to the Prix Jeuness; presentation in the Haus der Kunst, Munich;
Modern Music Weeks of the Saarländischer Rundfunk (broadcasting channel) (Electronic music of the above presentations by Eberhard Schöner)

 

1972:

Performances in the Mechanic Theatre "Spieldose", Künstlerhaus München, based on the aspect of multimedia

Same in Cunardo and Soncino, Italy (electronic sound by A.S. Stadler)

 

1973:

First experiments of converting compressed experiences with light collages in paintings

 

1974 - 1984:

Building models for Dornier and other companies

 

1974:

Panorama model (800 m2 - at a scale of 1:10) for the special show
"Modern Wood Harvesting Methods - 1974" at the fair "Interforst"

 

1979:

Design and construction of the "Ochsenbrater" (facade of the Ochsenbraterei on the Octoberfest, Munich)

 

1985/1986:

3-month-stay in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.; development of the "Californian Squares"

 

1989:

Execution of a portrait in bronze of "Prof. Dr. Schreiber";
Ass. General Director of the University Clinic Eppendorf, Hamburg

 

1989/1990:

Creative contribution to a project on Tenerife:
re-designing of the pedestrian zone of the harbour promenade in Santa Cruz, Tenerife;
by order of architect: Ricardo Armbruster, Santa Cruz, Tenerife

 

1990 ff:

Creation of the "Space-Line" ("Raumlinie"); objects, paintings, drawings, water-colours, collages, etc. of same


Execution of a portrait in bronze of "Dr. Ing. e.h. E. Sick - scientist in the field of photo-electronic; founder of the Optik & Elektronik GmbH, Waldkirch;
by order of the widow: Mrs. Gisela Sick

 

1992:

Creation of the "Space Operators" ("Getüme"); execution in art, based on fractals of the chaos-science

 

1993:

Exhibition of oil paintings, drawings, water-colours and collages concerning the subject: "Space-Line" and "Space Operators" in the office of Schmitt & Stumpf Co., Munich, Germany

 

1993 ff.:

Paintings, collages, drawings, water-colours, worked-over-copies;
creation of new logical steps in the direction of "galactic space";

Attempts of making multidimensional imagination and realities visible that can not be perceived: "tracks into space" etc.

 

1999:

Creation and control of construction of the "Space-Line" as a sculpture seeming to be floating 2.5 m above the ground;
material: steel (3.8 m wide - weight: 2.5 tons; material: IPE-200); location of installation: on the schoolyard of a secondary school in Arico, Tenerife;
by order of architect Ricardo Armbruster, Sta. Cruz, Tenerife

 

2000:

Installation of "Space-Line" on Tenerife in January

 

2000 - 2004:

Exhibition of oil paintings, water-colour paintings, ink-drawings and collages in the office building of RWB, RenditeWerteBeteiligungen GmbH, Oberhaching, Germany; (long-term exhibition on leasing base)

 

2003 - 2004:

Exhibition of oil paintings, water colour paintings, ink-drawings and collages in the branch office Poing of PC-Ware-Information-Technologies AG, Leipzig, Germany

 

2004:

Design of a gate for a secondary school in San Micuel de Abona, Tenerife, with the island Tenerife as the 'golden-cut' in the triangle, and the city San Miguel on the outlines of the island, as well as the Teide;
by order of architect Ricardo Armbruster, Sta. Cruz, Tenerife

 

2004 - 2005:

Exhibition of oil paintings in Bad Homburg in an establishment of PC-Ware-Information-Technologies, AG, Leipzig, Germany

 

2005 – 2008:

Participating with several designs in the project of a holiday site on the golf-course of Amarilla/Tenerife, as well as a design for a Windtree"("Windbaum"); by order of architect Ricardo Armbruster, Sta. Cruz, Tenerife

 

Free painting

 

2007 – 2008:

Creation and design of a rotatable "Lifetree" for the primary school with Kindergarten in Guargacho/San Miguel de Abona; Tenerife; height: 9 m;
by order of architect Ricardo Armbruster; Sta. Cruz, Tenerife

 

2009 ~:

Installation of the "Lifetree" as a posthumous work; (colouring according to Otfried Narewski with help of daughter Rafaela Narewski)

 

  Ottfried Narewski †