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Maria Haase has made a film portrait of Sten Gutglück and his Flizstift pictures. These are simply born out of the moment. "Perhaps Sten Gutglück's felt-tip pen drawings seem so true to life because we all have our own experiences with such pens. But none of us has ever been able to create such works with felt-tip pens as Sten Gutglück does."

Link to the artist profile of Sten Gutglück

https://www.mariahaase.de/

https://vimeo.com/703629677

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Wolfgang Mattheuer and Markus Matthias Krüger

The Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche Aschaffenburg is showing the exhibition "Under Blue Skies" from 26.03.2022 to 10.07.2022. Over 40 works each by the Leipzig artists Wolfgang Mattheuer and Markus Matthias Krüger will be on display. In addition to private loans, exhibits from the Haus der Geschichte (Bonn), the Museum of Cultural History Magdeburg and the Moritzburg (Halle/Saale) will also be on display.

The exhibition will subsequently be shown at the Angermuseum Erfurt and the Kunshalle Rostock.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog of the same name. It comprises 192 pages with numerous illustrations and text contributions by Sarah Alberti, Eduard Beaucamp, Mark Fisbourne and Jenns Howoldt.

Further information about the exhibition in Aschaffenburg can be found here!

Link to the catalog

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On the occasion of the current events in Ukraine, cultural journalist Ingeborg Ruthe turns her attention to Wolfgang Mattheuer's 1965 work "Cain and Abel".

You can find a link to the article here.

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The birthplace of Pope Benedict XVI in Marktl/Inn is showing 11 works by Michael Triegel in a special exhibition entitled "Face to Face".

The exhibition can be seen from 24.04.2022 - 04.10.2022.

You can find more information here!

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With the TÜBKE MONUMENTAL project, the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig presents a completely new approach to one of the most important works of figurative painting of the 20th century, the panoramic painting "Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany" by Werner Tübke.

The exhibition will be on display from 11.03.2022 - 31.12.2022.

You can find more information here!

©Kunstkraftwerk 2022, photo: Luca Migliore

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The Opelvillen Rüsselsheim Art and Cultural Foundation is showing the exhibition "Daphne without Apollo" from March 13, 2022 - July 31, 2022.

The show presents works from the Klöcker collection that depict transitions from one living being or object to another. For thirty years, the married couple Maria Lucia and Ingo Klöcker from Bad Homburg have been collecting art with a personal focus: depictions of women. In the meantime, they have been able to collect a wide variety of paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs and sculptures from the post-war period to the present day, which show surprising positions and striking transformations.

Among others, works by Ulrich Hachulla, Erich Kissing, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Werner Tübke and Arno Rink will be shown.

You can find more information here!

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The Institut für Kirchenbau und kirchliche Kunst der Gegenwart in Marburg presents Sven Hoppler in its calendar and on its homepage with the painting "Der Morgen danach".

You can find more information here!

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The painting "Deus absconditus" by the painter Michael Triegel is on permanent loan to the Catholic parish church of St. Matthias in Berlin.
Find an interview with Michael Triegel in the Tagespost:

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The Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig is showing the exhibition from 10.2. - 6.6.2022 Picture cosmos Leipzig. 1905-2022. In the TAZ am Wochenende, Sarah Alberti discusses the current exhibition and the painting "Erster Rentnertag" by Ulrich Hachulla under the title: Kein Bilderstreit - Malerei in und aus Leipzig. The article can be accessed at taz.de.

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From today we welcome you to our new homepage, which we have realized together with Polygraph Design and Sebastian Vogel.

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The comprehensive retrospective "Willi Sitte - Sitte's World" at the Moritzburg Art Museum is being extended until February 6, 2020.

More information:
www.kunstmuseum-moritzburg.de

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To mark the 100th birthday of Günther Blau (1922-2007), the Marburg Art Museum is presenting a comprehensive retrospective. The exhibition "Traces of Time" will be on view in Marburg from December 10, 2021, to April 24, 2022, and features over 80 works, providing a broad overview of Günther Blau's oeuvre. An exhibition review by Stefanie Blumenbecker on hr2 can be found here

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Galerie Schwind wishes you a good start to the new year 2022

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For many decades, Rolf Händler (1938-2021) enriched painting in the German capital with his unique signature style; his paintings can be found in all major German museums, such as the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Barberini Potsdam and the Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Rolf Händler has now died in Berlin after a serious illness. He was 83 years old.

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From November 5 to December 31, 2021, the Nogueira da Silva Museum in Braga (Portugal) is exhibiting works by Ana Monteiro under the title "The Myth of Sisyphus". Ana Monteiro's paintings are executed in the finest painting style. They are full of symbols, enigmatic images whose stories remain mysterious.

"I want everything to be explained to me or nothing at all (...) The absurd arises from this confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." Albert Camus

You can find more information here!

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"Who am I?" Letters to a friend
With essays by Eduard Beaucamp and Golo Mann
Edited by Annika Michalski and Matthias Bormuth

To the store: www.wallstein-verlag.de

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More information: c-punkt MÜNSTERFORUM

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New publication to accompany the exhibition at the Bach Museum Leipzig Bach & Triegel. In dialog. Hardcover, 94 pages, with texts by Kerstin Wiese and Michael Triegel To the store: www.vkjk.de

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Over Walls. Partition, Peaceful Revolution and German Unity in the visual arts. Ed. by Bernd Lindner To the store: www.bpb.de

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The Angermuseum in Erfurt is showing the exhibition The Art of Talking to Flowers Exhibition duration: 27.06.-17.10.2021.
The exhibition explores various facets of the significance of flowers in painting.
In addition to the work Begonias by Emil Nolde, the exhibition includes paintings by our artists: Leif Borges, Günther Blau, Ulrich Hachulla, Rolf Händler, Wolfgang Mattheuer and Michael Triegel.

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From April 30 - October 31, 2021, the Bach Museum in Leipzig is showing the exhibition "Bach & Triegel. In dialog". On display are paintings, drawings and prints by the Leipzig artist, which enter into a dialog with compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Bach Museum will be open again from May 21, 2021. Please book an appointment in advance on 0341/9137 207 or . All further information about your visit to the museum can be found in the section: Your visit in times of Corona.

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The Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen is showing a cross-section of the artist's oeuvre in the exhibition "Frank Hauptvogel - In den Gärten" until June 6, 2021.

Due to the current situation, a visit is unfortunately not possible at the moment. Further information and a virtual tour of the exhibition can be found here.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with texts by Gerd Lindner, Meinhard Michael and André Schinkel.

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On March 13, 2021, the illustrator and author Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt died at the age of 94. As a freelance illustrator, she was awarded numerous prizes for her book designs. After the death of her husband Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927 - 2004), she founded the Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt and Wolfgang Mattheuer Foundation, which aims to preserve the artistic and literary work of Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt and Wolfgang Mattheuer, to accompany it academically and to present it to the public. The funeral will take place in the closest family circle. The detailed catalog " Voices. Drawings and Poems" on the work of Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt can be found in our store

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Willi Sitte would have been 100 years old on February 28, 2021. Various reports and articles look back on his life and work to mark this anniversary. The film "Between Baroque and State Power - The Painter Willi Sitte", which was broadcast on the occasion of the birthday, is available in the ARD media library. In its report, MDR Sachsenspiegel looks ahead to the exhibition of works taking place in October at Moritzburg Halle Ingeborg Ruthe writes in the Berliner Zeitung: "Willi Sitte and the rest that remains" Article in DIE ZEIT from 28.02.21  

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ZDF reports on the "Cur Deus" exhibition at the Kunsthalle Rostock and talks to Michael Triegel about his art and the relationship between man and God. The report was shown in "Art and Religion" in the ZDF on 31.01.2021 between 09:03 - 09:30. Now a detailed version is available in the ZDF Mediathek. Link to the ZDF media library

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We visited our artist Sten Gutglück in his studio. In the video, we are allowed to look over his shoulder as he creates his latest work. We learn a lot about his paintings, his still lifes and his sometimes melancholy landscape and figure paintings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEAzTDx50E&list=PL1Tb7lDRnvfn7nDHNH8aAuMhOOVRtfOYY

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With our new video, we would like to take you into the studio of Shinji Himeno. We not only gain an insight into his artistic work and the creation of the painting "Relatives of Life", but also into his life story and his pictorial ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1m7tJhvtQ8

HERE is the YouTube video

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The Kunsthalle Rostock is opening the exhibition "Michael Triegel - Cur Deus" on December 5, 2020, but only online for the time being. www.kunsthallerostock.de

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The Leipzig painter and draughtsman Günter Thiele (*1930) is 90 years old. To mark his birthday, Galerie Schwind Leipzig is holding an exhibition from 18.08. to 18.08. - 17.09.2020. The Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote: "Thiele was rightly described as the city's topographer and chronicler". You can find the whole article under the following link: www.lvz.de

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Thomas Mayer writes in the Sportbuzzer about Erich Kissing's new painting "Ein Starkes Stück" (A Strong Piece), which he dedicates to the traditional Scheibenholz racecourse in Leipzig. To the article on sportbuzzer.de

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Due to the current situation, our galleries are closed to the public. We would therefore like to give you an insight into our exhibition in short videos, presenting new works by our artists and scenes from the studios. Links to the YouTube videos: 27.03. Part 1 with a studio visit to Matthias Ludwig 09.04. Part 2 with a studio visit to Markus Matthias Krüger

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From November 3, 2019 to January 12, 2020, the Kunsthalle Rostock is showing almost 100 paintings by the Leipzig artist Ulrich Hachulla. The exhibition is accompanied by the "catalog raisonné of paintings". In addition to the exhibition of Ulrich Hachulla's work, works by his master students Matthias Ludwig and Michael Triegel will also be on display. www.kunsthallerostock.de

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The exhibition "The Leipzig Connection" opens today in Zagreb, Croatia, together with the 5th Biennial of Painting. The exhibition was curated by art historian Mark Gisbourne. Works by Christian Brandl, Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Markus Matthias Krüger, Arno Rink and Johannes Rochhausen are also on display. Opening: 2.10.2019 at 7 pm Exhibition duration: 02.10.- 08.12.2019 www.hdlu.hr/eng/

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Galerie Schwind is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1989, it has also been based in Springerstraße in Leipzig, in the former home of the artist Werner Tübke, since 2004.   To mark the anniversary, works from the gallery's long history will once again be shown in Leipzig alongside new works by the gallery artists. Opening: September 07 at 3 pm

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The Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig is dedicating the exhibition "Point of no return - Wende und Umbruch in der ostdeutschen Kunst" to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. With more than 300 works by 106 artists, it is the most comprehensive exhibition on the major political event of 1989, featuring artists such as Werner Tübke, Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Willi Sitte, Harald Metzkes, Wolfgang Peuker and Arno Rink. Exhibition duration: 23.07. - 03.11.2019 www.mdbk.de

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To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Berliner Volksbank Art Forum is showing the exhibition "ZEITWENDE - 30 Jahre Mauerfall. Works from the art collection of the Berliner Volksbank". Works by Wolfgang Mattheuer are also on display. Exhibition duration: 29.08. - 15.12.2019 www.kunstforum.berlin

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From September 5, 2019, the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf is showing the exhibition "Utopia and Downfall. Art in the GDR" with works by Wolfgang Mattheuer, Werner Tübke, Willi Sitte, Bernhard Heisig, Gerhard Altenbourg, A.R. Penck, Angela Hampel and Cornelia Schleime, among others. Exhibition duration: 05.09.2019 - 05.01.2020 www.kunstpalast.de

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From May 25, 2019, Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, Netherlands, will be showing over 40 works by the artist Michael Triegel under the title Discordia Concors. In addition to the portrait of the Pope from 2010, the museum will also be showing his works created at the beginning of this year. In the nearby Kasteel het Nijemhuis prints and watercolors will be on display. Opening: May 25, 2019 at 3 pm Exhibition duration: 25. 05. - 01.09.2019 www.museumdefundatie.nl

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A current report on his art and the current exhibition at the Angermuseum Erfurt was broadcast on 3sat Kulturzeit to mark the 50th birthday of the artist Michael Triegel. You can watch the program at the following link: www.3sat.de (from min 12:30)

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Under the title Mythos Leipziger Schule, the Museum für aktuelle Kunst - Sammlung Hurrle Durbach is showing works by the Leipzig School from 1960 to the present day from 15.11.2018 to 24.03.2019. The exhibition includes works by Michael Triegel, Erich Kissing, Frank Hauptvogel, Leif Borges, Werner Tübke, Günter Thiele, Ulrich Hachulla and many other Leipzig artists. Hurrle Collection 77770 Durrbach

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Between 11.11.2018 and 10.03.2019, the Kunsthalle Rostock will be showing around 60 paintings from the early work of Halle artist Willi Sitte, which will enter into a dialog with over 60 works by Berlin sculptor Fritz Cremer. Kunsthalle Rostock | Motiv Mensch New catalog: Fritz Cremer (published on the occasion of the exhibition)

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From September 9, 2017 to December 3, 2017, the Bad Arolsen Museum is showing a retrospective of works by Günther Blau under the title "Stille Welt" (Silent World). With Günther Blau, everything becomes a still life. With around 140 paintings, gouaches, collages and small sculptures on display, the exhibition provides an insight into the artist's extensive oeuvre and documented reality. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog.

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From May 14 to June 4, 2017, the Kulturkreis Sulzfeld is showing the exhibition "Mitten im Mai" with paintings by Matthias Ludwig, among others.

Further information can be found on the homepage of the Kulturkreis Sulzfeld

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Freddy Langer writes about the exhibition at Galerie Schwind in Frankfurt under the title "Paintings by Johannes Grützke: He is closest to himself". To the article

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