Emil Schult
| Emil Schult | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 October 1948 Dessau, Germany |
| Genres | |
| Instruments | Synthesizer, electric violin |
Werner Emil Schult (born 10 October 1948 in Dessau, Germany) the son of a designer and machine constructors. Emil is a German painter, visual and sonic artist, poet and musician.
He is most famous for his collaborations with the electronic music band Kraftwerk. While studying with Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, he was invited to contribute to the band’s visual and musical ideas. In 1968 he joined the Düsseldorf Art Academy studying fine arts in the class of Deiter Rot with printmaking and later painting with Gerhard Richter and Joseph Beuys. His main sources of inspiration seems mainly to have been his teacher Dieter Rot and Dorothy Iannone .
From 1970 followed his first group exhibitions, among others in the gallery Rene Block, Berlin. In addition to publishing books with drawings and writings in his own publishing house, he also published documents in Beuys' class. In 1969, Schul had exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, Cologne and Reykjavik . He lived for six months in Reykjavik along with Rot and Iannone. His production besides painting consisted largely of books as he pressed up into smaller quantities, which he began publishing in the first year at the academy. The books contain comics, drawings, collages and poetry.
In the early 1970s he works on Joseph Beuys the Free International University. In 1973 Emil Schult finished his schooling at the art academy as a master student of Richter and Beuys.
This collaboration with founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben led to Schult’s creating lyrics as well as graphic designs for their album covers (Ralf & Florian, Autobahn, Radioactivity, Trans Europe Express, and Computer World. and more) and creating images of the musical instruments and electronic sounds that were being crafted by the group for performances and recordings. He has created most of their sleeve designs since 1973. Together with Ralf and Florian, he has created the special world of images that Kraftwerk surround themselves with. He also co-wrote the lyrics to a number of Kraftwerk songs, including "Autobahn" (from the album of the same name), "Radio-Activity" (and all other songs on Radioactivity with lyrics), "The Hall Of Mirrors", "Trans-Europe Express", "The Model", "Computer Love", "Pocket Calculator" and "Techno Pop". For a short while around 1973, Schult also played guitar and violin in the group; this was to be short-lived, since Schult by his own admission is not quite good enough to be a professional musician, and since the group had started to develop its synth-based sound it no longer had any use for a guitarist or violinist.
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