FOOTBALL DRAWINGS LIVE
Series and catalogs
2 drawings from the series EURO 2004:
(France vs. Croatia) and (Czech Republic vs. Germany), each 44cm x 62cm
EURO 2004 - series of 34 drawings (Exibition at Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim 2006)
Football Drawings
The Football Drawings show the ball movements during a soccer game as viewed from above.
The first Football Drawings were produced in 1982. Since 1984 they were shown in several exhibitions concerning Art and Football / Art and Soccer.
Each work is an individual "portrait" of a specific game: for instance the final match of the FIFA Worldcup 1986 Argentina versus Germany. Like a seismographical sketch, the ball movements are drawn simultaneously to the action on the field: individual movements, corners and goals can be recognized as well as the strategy and the relation of strength between the competing teams.
At the same time these graphic series are a work of abstract art. Each one displays an aesthetic network of lines, the density of which increases with the energy of the game. This happens in a strict concept of time (90 minutes) and form (football field).
".. As correctly noticed by Andreas Rossmann of the FAZ, Susken Rosenthal as the only woman in the exhibition dares to move out the furthest into the field of abstraction..."
(Barbara Foerster about the exhibition "FootballArt - ArtFootball", Olympia Museum Cologne, art magazin Kunstforum International, 2000
List of Football Drawings
1982
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"Welle auf Welle", "Ohne Wenn und Aber" (2 drawings 86 x 124 cm)
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1984
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EM 84, European Championship France 1984 (complete series of all games, 17 pencil drawings, 44 x 62 cm)
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1986/87
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Argentina -Germany, final game, Football Worldcup 1986
(diptychon each 180 x 90 cm, engraving on tarpaper and particle board)
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2004
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EURO 2004, European Championship in Portugal
(31 pencil drawings, 44 x 62 cm)
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2006
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Football Worldcup 2006 in Germany, Project 5760 Minutes
(70 pencil drawings, 44 x 62 cm)
PDF-catalog all games: Worldcup 2006: Download
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Exhibitions of Football Drawings
1984
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Fussballzeichnungen, Deutscher Sportbund, Frankfurt a.M. (E)
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1987
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Erregte Felder, Galerie Arndtstrasse, Berlin (E)
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1989
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Der Fussball in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Kaiserslautern, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren und Kunstverein Aalen
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1998
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Heimspiel, Städtisches Museum Schloss Reydt (K)
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1999
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Doppelpass, Springer-Passage, Hamburg (K)
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2000
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Kunstfussball-Fussballkunst, Deutsches Sport- und Olympiamuseum Köln (K)
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2004
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Künstler am Ball, Opel Live Center, Rüsselsheim
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2005
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Ball im Kopf, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
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2006
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Die Schönheit der Chance, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg (K)
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2006
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Geld schiesst keine Tore, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (K)
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2008
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Aesthetik und Emotion, Haus der Modernen Kunst, Staufen-Grunern
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2009
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Internal Compasses, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
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2010
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5760 Minuten, Burg Eisenhardt Belzig (E)
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2011
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Andererseits, Schwules Museum, Berlin (K)
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2013
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Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
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