Konrad Knebel (painter)
Konrad Knebel (born February 24, 1932 in Leipzig ) is a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
After the major air raids on Leipzig in December 1943, Konrad Knebel's family moved to Marienberg in the Ore Mountains. His parents were musicians . Knebel attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . After passing high school in 1951 and completing his studies from 1951 to 1957 with Kurt Robbel , Arno Mohr , Bert Heller and Toni Mau at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee , he has been working as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Berlin since 1957 . In addition, he worked as a freelance lecturer at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee in 1965/66 and headed a painting group at VEB Tiefbau Berlin. Since 1965 Knebel began to paint on paper with egg tempera. In addition to the oil painting, a new group of works was created, the tempera leaves. Study trips and exhibitions took him to Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Burma, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Italy, Norway, Vietnam and the USA. From 1989 to 1990 he was a member of the round table in the building ministry. He is a member of the Künstleronderbund in Germany .
In his pictures he repeatedly deals with the city theme as a symbol of being and human perishing: borders, decay, vacancy, traffic and demolition. In 1982 his work was featured in the DEFA documentary City Landscapes . In 2012 it was reported that Knebel had to leave his studio in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , where he had worked for 38 years, because the gentrification that was taking place there was due to be converted into an open-plan office.
Works (selection)
- 1958: way to work , oil
- 1976: Street with high-rise , oil
- 1978: Pfarrstrasse , Berlin, tempera / oil
- 1981: Landscape in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde , tempera
- 1986: Between firewalls , oil
- 1995: Billboard at Ostbahnhof, Berlin , oil
- 2006: street corner with posters , oil
- 2010: Gable on the S-Bahn with workshop , oil
Awards
- 1959 Second prize in the art competition of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
- 1977 Berlin Prize
- 1980 National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature, III. class
- 1986 Art Prize of the FDGB
- 1990 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
- 1994 Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
- 2009 Hannah Höch Prize from the State of Berlin
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1962: Leipzig, word and work
- 1963: Berlin, Institute for Teacher Training
- 1967: Weimar, Kunstantiquariat Katharina Becker
- 1972: Rangoon (Burma), Museum
- 1975: Berlin, Galerie am Prater
- 1980: Berlin, Galerie Arkade
- 2009: Berlin, Ephraimpalais
- 2013: Berlin, Galerie Forum Amalienpark (with Anna Franziska Schwarzbach )
Works in public collections (selection)
- Berlin: National Gallery (including suburban landscape; oil; 1976)
- Dresden: Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (shaft in the Erzgebirge; oil, 1959)
- Gera, Art Collection Gera, Otto-Dix-Haus (including a factory near the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station in Berlin; graphite drawing on paper; 1982)
literature
- Literature by and about Konrad Knebel in the catalog of the German National Library
- 1968 Günter Meier: Konrad Knebel (World of Art)
- Lothar Lang - Fragment of Konrad Knebel , Berlin 1980 (Galerie Arkade, State Art Dealership of the GDR)
- Exhibition catalog Galerie Rähnitzgasse Dresden 1986
- Konrad Knebel - Stadtlandschaften , Berlin 1989 (published for the exhibition in the Ephraim-Palais)
- Konrad Knebel - Käthe Kollwitz Prize Winner 1990 , Berlin 1991 (Academy of the Arts Berlin)
- Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation (ed.): Hannah Höch Prize 2009 Konrad Knebel. The language of the stones
- Knut Elstermann : The Canaletto from Prenzlauer Berg. The painter Konrad Knebel , Be.bra-Verlag, Berlin, 2020; ISBN 978-3-89809-174-9
Web links
- Konrad Knebel in the joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
- The faces of the houses , article by Astrid Volpert in the Berliner Zeitung on December 14, 1995
- Old houses and the marks on their faces , article in the Berliner Zeitung of June 7, 2007 about an exhibition in the Parterre Gallery
- Die Steine unterm Himmel von Berlin , article by Ingeborg Ruthe on the award of the Hannah Höch Prize in the Berliner Zeitung on November 12, 2009
- Cold stones , article by Annett Gröschner about Konrad Knebel and gentrification in the Bötzowviertel in Die Welt from April 28, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annett Gröschner: The fine old building districts are there for everyone! Article from June 4, 2012 in the welt.de portal , accessed on August 14, 2015
- ↑ Konrad Knebel. The language of the stones. Pirckheimer blog, November 12, 2009
- ↑ a b c Image index of art & architecture
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knebel, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |