07 Sep The painter Norbert Nüssle
I am fascinated by outsider art, naive painting and art brut. One representative I particularly like is the painter Norbert Nüssle. Norbert Nüssle (1932 – 2012) was born in Heidelberg in 1932, but grew up in Mannheim. From 1951, he studied Romance languages and literature at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg as well as in Paris and Lille. He drew more often when he was in Paris during his studies. He lived in Mannheim from 1963 and taught Latin and French at a grammar school – for a living, so to speak, as his passion was art. Nüssle is a self-taught artist who devoted himself to Art Brut and expressive collages in his early phase. The art form Art Brut stands for the unadulterated art of the mentally ill and eccentrics, who also had no academic training. Nüssle later painted mainly in Normandy, where he spent a large part of his life.
Nüssle creates a special and unique subject with his “television corpses”. As his mobility decreases, Nüssle’s travels also decrease and he paints what he sees: Television corpses. Without any precedent in art history, the artist created this new subject, which once again displays the existentialist, multi-perspective, but also ironic attitude of his entire oeuvre.
From 1961 onwards, Nüssle exhibited regularly, including at the Kunstverein Heidelberg, the Musée de Brest, the Musée des Beaux-Arts Quimper and many other renowned German and French museums and galleries.
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