Month: May 2011

Markus Lüpertz (*1941)

 

Markus Lüpertz was born 1941 in Liberec, Bohemia. From 1956—1963 he studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and the Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, where he was director from 1988 to 2009. Markus Lüpertz works as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, poet and set designer and is considered to be one of the most influential of Germany’s contemporary artists. He works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence.

 

Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)

 

2009
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

 

2005
Erection of Mozart sculpture in Salzburg

 

2003—2005
Completion of stained glass window in parish church, Cologne

 

2003
Julio-Gonzáles-Prize of the Valencia Monarchy

 

1991
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

 

1990
Lovis-Corinth-Prize of the Esslingen art-guild

 

1983
Musée d’art Moderne, Straßburg

 

1982
Documenta 7, Kassel

 

1981
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

 

1977
Kunsthalle Hamburg; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle Bern

 

1976
Professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts

 

1973
First individual museum exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

 

1970
Villa Romana Prize, Florence

 

1962
Founding of self-help gallery Großgörschen 35, with Bernd Koberling and Karl Horst Hödike

 

Literature (Selection)

 

Markus Lüpertz—Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Bilder und Skulpturen1963—2009, ed. by Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2009

 

Markus Lüpertz, Siegfried Gohr, Cologne, 2002

 

Markus Lüpertz—Druckgraphik.Werkverzeichnis 1960—1990, ed. by James Hofmaier, Stuttgart, 1991

 

Markus Lüpertz—Bilder Gouachen und Zeichnungen 1967—1973, Siegfried Gohr, Berlin, 1986

 

Markus Lüpertz—Bilder 1970—1983, ed. by Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 1983
 
 

Per Kirkeby (1939 – 2018)

 

Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments has exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. “A structure-less painting is, to me, a painting that does not matter. Structure mirrors your degree of responsibility toward the work”, he said of making art. “You can’t just let it float around in pretty colours. It needs a kind of core. But this is an inner structure”. Born on September 1, 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kirkeby studied geology at the University of Copenhagen, but continued to pursue his art practice, producing paintings, sculptures, film and prints. During the 1960s, Kirkeby’s performance art led him to collaborations with Conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, and Charlotte Moorman. From 1978-88 he held a chair for painting at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, from 1979-2000 at Städelschule Frankfurt/Main.
 
Kirkeby lived and worked between Copenhagen, Læsø, and Arnasco. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denkmark, among others.
 
He died on May 9th 2018 at the age of 79.

 

Exhibitions (Selection)

 
2022
“Per Kirkeby”, Charlottenborg Foundation, Denmark
 
2019
“Per Kirkeby. Bau und Bild”, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Germany
 
2018

“Per Kirkeby. Machines for Light ans Shadow”, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark

“Per Kirkeby. Matter is Light”, Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France

“Per Kirkeby”, Kunsthalle Krems, Stein, Germany

“Per Kirkeby. Aus der Natur”, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Schloss Gottorf, Germany

 
2017

“Per Kirkeby – Torso-Ast”, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany “Per Kirkeby. Brick Sculpture (1966 – 2016)”, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

 
2016

“Per Kirkeby. The Blue of the Avant-Garde”, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Kopenhagen, Denmark

“Per Kirkeby. Werke aus dem Louisiana Museum of Modern Art”, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

“Per Kirkeby. Il luoghi dell ́anima del grande maestro scandinavo”, Museo d ́arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland

 
2015

“Per Kirkeby. Komplet”, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark “Per Kirkeby”, Herning Center of the Arts, Herning, Denmark

“Per Kirkeby. Echo of the Light”, The Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2014 “Per Kirkeby”, Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, Germany

“Per Kirkeby. Bronze, Kaltnadel, Holz”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

 
2013

“Strukturen der Natur: Franz Marc und Per Kirkeby – Druckgraphik”, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany

“Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture 1964-2010”, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA

 
2012

“Per Kirkeby and The ‘Forbidden Paintings’ of Kurt Schwitters”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

“Per Kirkeby. Maler – Forscher – Bildhauer – Poet”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany

“Per Kirkeby. Epiphany”, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Kopenhagen, Denmark

 
2009—2010
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

2008—2009
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek

 

2003
Herbert-Boeckl-Prize for his life work Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek. Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

1999
Tate Gallery, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

 

1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation. Henrik Steffens Award by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg

 

1995
Haus der Kunst, Munich. Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes

 

1990
Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nord LB Art Prize

 

1987
Thorvalsden Medal. Ludwig Museum, Cologne

 

1982
DAAD scholarship for Berlin. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

 

1980
Danish Pavilion at Venice Biennale. Participation in A new Spirit in Painting,

 

1978—1989
Professorship at the Cologne Academy of Arts

 

1979
Kunsthalle Bern Museum

 

1977
Folkwang, Essen

 

 

Literature (Selection)

 

Per Kirkeby—Paintings 1957-77. Catalogue Raisonné, ed. by Ane Hejlskov Larson, Cologne, 2003

 

Per Kirkeby—Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings, ed. by Troels Andersen, Bern Berlin, 2002

 

Per Kirkeby—Louisiana 2008, ed. by Michael Juul Holm, Louisiana, 2008

 

Per Kirkeby—Die Welt ist Material, ed. by Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2010

Anselm Kiefer (*1945)

 

Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945 and has lived and worked in France since 1993. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at MoMA, New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1998); Fort Worth Museum of Art (2005); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); Mass MoCA, Massachusetts; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Grand Palais, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2010); the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2011), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011) and The Royal Academy, London (2014).
 
In 2007 Kiefer became the first artist to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre, Paris since Georges Braque some 50 years earlier. In 2009 he created an opera, Am Anfang, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Opéra National de Paris. The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris staged major solo presentations of his work in 2015.
 
His work critically engages with myth and memory, referencing totems of German culture and collective history. “Germans want to forget [the past] and start a new thing all the time, but only by going into the past can you go into the future,” he says. Revealing the influence of his tutelage under Joseph Beuys, Kiefer‘s epic-scaled, dense sculptures and paintings are often exposed to elements like acid and fire, and incorporate materials such as lead, burned books, concrete, thorny branches, ashes, and clothing; famed critic and historian Simon Schama has described his work as “heavy-load maximalism.” Kiefer’s vast-ranging references have included the Black Forest, Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and Caspar David Friedrich’s Romantic landscapes, as well as Kabbalah mysticism, Cold War politics, National Socialist architecture, and German poetry by Celan, Rilke and others. “Art is difficult,” he says. “It’s not entertainment.”

 

Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)

 
2022
Anselm Kiefer, Grand Palais Ephémère Paris, France
 

2021
Anselm Kiefer, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
 

2019
Anselm Kiefer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
 

2017
Anselm Kiefer, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
 

2015
Paintings, Sculpture & Installations, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami L‘alchimie du Livre, Nationale Bibliotheque, Paris, France.
 
2014
Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Art, London St. John’s Eve, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany
 
2013
Walther von der Vogelweide für Lia, Galeria Lia Rumma, Naples Beyond Landscape, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts Un Maestro de la Pintura, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruña
 
2012
Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer: Drawings, Gouaches, Books, MKM Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art, Duisburg Am Anfang, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn  Works from the Essl Collection’, Essl Museum, Vienna
 
2011
Anselm Kiefer: Shevirat Ha-Kelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ausgewahlte Arbeiten aus der Sammluing Grothe, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Salt of the Earth, Fondazione Vedova, Venice Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

 
 

Literature (Selection)
 
Anselm Kiefer—Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, ed. by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2009
 
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher, ed. by Heiner Bastian, Munich, 2008
 
Anselm Kiefer—Wege der Weltweisheit/ Die Frauen der Revolution, ed. by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2007
 
Anselm Kiefer, ed. by Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, 2004
 
Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse, London, 2001
 
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher 1969-90, ed. by Götz Adriani, Stuttgart, 1990

 
 

 

Dinos Chapman was born in London 1962, Jake Chapman in 1966 in Cheltenham. Dinos studied painting, Jake sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London. They have exhibited wordwide and live and work in London.

 

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

 

2010
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

 

2009
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings

 

2008
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

 

2007
Tate Britain, London

 

2006
Tate Liverpool

 

2005
Kunsthaus Bregenz

 

2004
Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen. Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg

 

2003
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

 

2002
Travelling exhibition at Groninger Museum, Groningen and Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

2000
P1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Kunst Werke, Berlin

 

1999
Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

 

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

 

2009—2010
Barock, Madre Museum, Naples

 

2009
Mapping the Studio, Punta della Dogana, Venice

 

2007
Summer Exhibition, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London

 

2006
Ars, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki

 

2003
Tate Britain, London (Nomination for Turner Prize 2003)

 

 

Literature (Selection)

 

Jake & Dinos Chapman—Memento Moronika, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 2008

 

Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eckhard Schneider, ed. by Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2005

 

Jake & Dinos Chapman—The Rape of Creativity, ed. by Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 2003

 

Jake Chapman—Metaphysics, London, 2003

 

Jake & Dinos Chapman—Enjoy more, ed. by Museum Groningen and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2002/2003

 

Jake and Dinos Chapman—Works from the Chapman Family Collection, ed. by White Cube, London, 2002

 

Unholy Bible—Six Feet Under, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1997

 

Georg Baselitz (*1938)

Born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938, Georg Baselitz grew up in Saxony, an area that later became the GDR. He studied painting at the Academy of Art in East Berlin (1956) but he was expelled after two terms for ‘political immaturity’. He then applied to study at the Academy in West Berlin and moved there in 1957, completing his studies in 1962. During this period he adopted the surname Baselitz, refl ecting his birthplace Deutschbaselitz.
 
In searching for alternatives to the strongly narrative art of Social Realism and abstract painting, he became interested in art considered to be outside of the mainstream of Modernism and in imagery that was rooted in the Art Brut. He was also inspired by Existentialist art and literature, by Dada and Surrealism.
In 1963 Baselitz’s fi rst solo exhibition at Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, caused a public scandal and two paintings were confi scated by the German authorities who claimed that they were publicly indecent.
 
After a scholarship in Florence in 1965, Baselitz embarked on a series of paintings depicting monumental male figures, which he described as Rebels, Shepherds or ‘New Types’. Viewed within the Romantic tradition, they are often regarded as outsiders associated with the fi gure of the artist. These paintings are often referred to as the ‘Hero’ series. Baselitz depicted his fi gures within mythical, ruined landscapes, each with symbolic attributes to identify their individual characters, often with exaggerated and exposed sexual organs. The lone fi gure as a prophet or saint also alludes to soldiers returning home from WWII.
 
The ‘Fracture’ paintings of the late 1960s revealed Baselitz’s keen interest in forests, rural landscapes, woodsmen and hunters. The works were divided into segments so that the imagery could be reorganised pictorially. In 1969, he decided to create and display work upside down in order to re-focus the viewer on the painterly merits of the pictures.
 
By attempting to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work, this also enabled him to emphasise the abstract qualities of the composition.
Since the early 1980s he has made monumental sculptures of fi gures and heads with rudimentary and deliberately irregular forms. He uses wood because “it enables avoidance of any attractiveness of form, any craft or elegance … objects in wood are unique, simple, unpretentious”. Having spent most of the early 1970s apparently working outside the mainstream, by the 1980s he had established an international reputation (cemented by exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale in 1980 and ‘A New Spirit in Painting’ in 1981). During the 1980s and early 1990s, the canvases became denser and more heavily worked, and subject matter returned to play a greater role. He began introducing motifs from Slavic folk art, sometimes combining motifs with figures of family members taken from old photographs. The subjects of German Romanticism and Socialist Realism inspired his more recent work.
 
In 2005 Baselitz introduced the ‘Remix’ in his work, in which he has returned to key phases of his own art history and made new versions of his work, which have allowed him to revisit and excavate the past, pushing his own painterly vocabulary to create original new works.
 
He lives and works in Germany and Italy.

 

 

Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)

 
2021
“Baselitz – The retrospective”, Centre Pomidou, Paris, France

 
2019
“Baselitz – Academy”, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy

 
2018
“BASELITZ: SIX DECADES”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA
 
“Georg Baselitz: Works on Paper”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 
“Georg Baselitz”, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
 
“Georg Baselitz, The Prints 1997-2017”, Musée des Beaux-Arts le Locle, Switzerland
 
“Corpus Baselitz”, Musée Uniterlinden, Colmar, France

 
2017
“Georg Baselitz, Preview with Review”, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
 
“Georg Baselitz, The Heroes”, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
 
“Georg Baselitz: Gli Eroi”, Palazzo delle Expozioni, Rome, Italy

 
2016
“The Heroes”, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (traveling exhibition)
 
“Georg Baselitz”: Die Helden, Städel-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz: Mit Richard unterwegs”, Druckgrafik 1996-2016, Schloss Dachau, Dachau,
Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Emilio Vedova”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
 
“Experiment and Renewal”, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
 
“Georg Baselitz: Malelade”, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, Switzerland

 
2015
“Georg Baselitz: How it began. Paintings and graphical works of the last twenty years”, Marble Palace, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
“Works from the Collection Frieder Burda, Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany

 
2014
“Artist Rooms: Georg Baselitz”, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
 
“Georg Baselitz – Damals, dazwischen und heute / Back then, in between and today”, Haus der
Kunst, Munich, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Straßenbild”, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
 

2013
“BDM Gruppe”, Victoria and Albert Museum, John Madjeski Garden, London, UK
 
“Georg Baselitz – Aus der Sammlung”, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Besuch bei Ernst Ludwig”, Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
 
“Georg Baselitz – Werke von 1968 bis 2012”, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
 
“Georg Baselitz – Hintergrundgeschichten”, SMD Schloß, Dresden, Germany
 
“Baselitz – Tier, Landschaft, Ort”, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz, Albertina | Schausammlung”, Vienna, Austria
 
“Georg Baselitz – Graphik”, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Remix”, Galleria Bellinzona, Milan / Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio,
Italy

 

2012
“Romantiker kaputt”, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Berliner Jahre”, Bilder aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam,
Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz – Das Naturmotiv”, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany
 
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Prinzenpalais, Oldenburg, Germany
 

 

2011
“Georg Baselitz – Le Monde à l’envers, tel qu’il est”, Cabinet des Estampes, Liege, Belgium
 
“Baselitz – Sculpteur”, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MAM/ARC, Paris, France
 
“Georg Baselitz / Arnulf Rainer – Lustspiel, Neues aus dem Atelier”, Arnulf Rainer Museum,
Baden, Austria
 
“Georg Baselitz – A la pointe du trait”, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
 
“Georg Baselitz – Remix”, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
“Folk Thing Zero”, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
 

 

2010
“Skulpturen”, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
 
“Remix”, Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland
 
“50 Jahre Malerei”, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz : Pinturas Recentes”, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
 
“Georg Baselitz – Ausstellung im Labyrinth”, Kreissparkasse, Munich, Germany
 
2009
“Baselitz – 50 Years of Painting / 30 Years of Sculpture”, Museum Frieder Burda, Staatliche
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
 
“Georg Baselitz, Dresdner Frauen”, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany

 
2007
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch-Hall
 

2003
Praemium Imperiale Tokyo. Retrospective at Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic Germany, Bonn. Laureate of the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence

 

2000
Lower-Saxon State Award. Large exhibition at the Albertina,Vienna

 

1999
Honorary academian at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow

 

1996
Honorary professorship at Royal Academy of Arts in London Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

1995
Large Retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculptures Garden, Washington and at Nationalgalerie, Berlin

 

1990
Retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

 

1986
Awarded Kaiserring (Emperor’s Ring) by the city of Goslar. Art Prize of the Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover

 

1983—1988
(also from 1992-2003) professorship at the Berlin Academy of Arts

 

1980
Shows his first sculpture at the German Pavillon of the Venice Biennale

 

1978
Professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe

 

1976
Retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Bern, the Staatsgalerie of Modern Art in Munich and the Kunsthalle Köln

 

1970
First museum exhibition in the Kupferstichkabinett, Museum of Arts, Basel

 

1969
First motif reversal with Der Wald auf dem Kopf (The wood on its head)

 

1963
First exhibition in Werner & Katz gallery, Berlin and confiscation of his work Die große Nacht im Eimer (the big night down the drain) by the public prosecutor’s office, on grounds of sexual lewdness

 

 

Literature (Selection)

 

Baselitz Remix, ed. by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2006

 

Georg Baselitz—Paintings 1962-2001, ed. by Detlev Gretenkort, Milan, 2002

 

Georg Baselitz, Manifeste und Texte zur Kunst 1966—2000, Bern 2001

 

Georg Baselitz, ed. by Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1992

 

Georg Baselitz, Andreas Frantzke, München, 1988

 

Baselitz—Peintre-Graveur, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Fred Jahn, Johannes Gachnang,Vol. I: 1963—1974,Vol. 2: 1974—1982, Basel, Berlin 1983, 1987