Matthias Steier
Matthias Steier (born January 6, 1959 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman .
Life
Matthias Steier was born in Leipzig in 1959 . After graduating from high school, he completed an apprenticeship as a repro technician (helio operator) from 1975 and worked in this profession until 1978. This was followed from 1978 to 1983 by studying at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig. He received his special training from Wolfgang Peuker , Dietrich Burger and Arno Rink . In 1983 he graduated as a painter. Immediately thereafter, until the end of 1985, he worked as a fee-based employee in the creation of Werner Tübke's monumental peasant war panorama in Bad Frankenhausen , which was completed on October 16, 1987 by signature with the name Werner Tübke .
Tübke, Peuker and Rink are well-known representatives of the Leipzig School , and Steier is their successor as their academic student and as a two-year employee at the main Tübke plant.
As a figurative-representational painter, Steier moves in his imagery in the context of contradictions between appearance and being, reality and illusion. Stylistically, his pictures occupy a position between magical realism and surrealism . The influences on his works are manifold, come from literature and travel impressions in Mediterranean and South American regions. Steier's landscapes are filled with oversized apples, matadors, bulls and dancers - symbols of the eternal struggle of humans with wild nature, the battle of the sexes.
Matthias Steier has been working as a freelance artist in Eisenhüttenstadt since 1987 . In 1994 he was a city painter in Waltrop / North Rhine-Westphalia . Steier went on study trips to Italy , Spain , Chile and Argentina , which are reflected in many ways in his works. In addition, he has been teaching various courses on the basics of visual design through to oil painting at the Volkshochschule Eisenhüttenstadt for years. Steier maintains contacts with artist colleagues such as the painters Sandra Rienäcker , Sabine Naumann and the metal sculptor Eckard Herrmann . Matthias Steier works and lives in Eisenhüttenstadt.
Works (selection)
Until 2000 (selection)
- 1996: Outback Puzzle (Oil)
- 1996: Pierrot - Briefly on top (oil)
- 1996: diagonal staggering (oil)
- 1999: Georgs Round Table (oil)
- 2000: Pierrot with sponsor (oil)
2001 to 2004 (selection)
- 2001: Applegate (oil)
- 2002: Medea and the Archangel Gabriel in Caracena (oil)
- 2003: Girl with a bull IV (oil)
- 2003: Florale Reconquista (oil)
- 2004: Spanish encounter or twisted infanta with entourage (oil)
2005 to 2008 (selection)
- 2005: El Toro (Oil)
- 2006: Homo sapiens and the past , gable wall with Eckard Herrmann
- 2006: Flora in the fountain (ink, paper)
- 2006: Cancer Woman III (oil)
- 2008: La Rena del Viento (oil)
2009 to 2012 (selection)
- 2009: Coronare Corrida (watercolor)
- 2010: collateral damage (oil)
- 2011: Viva Patagonia (mixed media)
- 2011: Girl with Bull 18 (mixed media)
- 2012: Daydreamer in Soria (mixed media)
2013 to 2016 (selection)
- 2013: Italian encounters (mixed media)
- 2013: Water features (mixed media)
- 2014: Passers-by (mixed media)
- 2015: Girl with a bull (mixed media)
- 2015: Krebsfrau XXI (mixed media )
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1991: Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis
- 1994: Hermann Grochtmann Museum, Datteln
- 1994: Gallery in Drübbelken, Recklinghausen
- 1996: Municipal Museum, Eisenhüttenstadt
- 1996: Gallery "The White House", Waltrop
- 1997: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale)
- 1998: Galerie Witzleben, Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2000: Small gallery, Eberswalde
- 2003: Municipal Museum, Eisenhüttenstadt
- 2004: "urpresse" gallery, Styrian trilogy, Schwerin
- 2005: Gallery in the Prater "Apple on tour", Berlin
- 2006: Beeskow Castle "Die Arche Steier", Beeskow
- 2008: Small gallery, Eberswalde
- 2009: Municipal Gallery, Eisenhüttenstadt
- 2009: First floor, Berlin
- 2010: Galerie Koenitz "Away Games", Leipzig
- 2010: Galerie Wollhalle "Canitos" with Ulf H. Rickmann, Güstrow
- 2012: Galerie Koenitz "Field Research", Leipzig
- 2013: Landgalerie Mark Brandenburg "Terra incognita", Petersdorf
- 2014: Kunsthalle "Geschichtierte passion" with Detlef Lieffertz, Arnstadt
- 2014: Schleswig-Holstein House "Zwischenwelten" with Ulf H. Rickmann, Schwerin
- 2015: Art gallery "Earthly and entranced II", Teterow (Rostock district)
- 2016: Spectrumhaus, Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2016: White House "Zwischenwelten", Markkleeberg near Leipzig
- 2017/18: Kloster Stift Neuzelle Project "Theatrum Sacrum - The Last Judgment - Fortress Europe" with Hans-Georg Wagner, Kloster Neuzelle
- 2018: City Museum Eisenhüttenstadt "Schauplätze" with Ingo Duderstedt Leipzig
- 2019: "Miradores", NEW GALLERY of the Teltow-Fläming district, Wünsdorf-Waldstadt, Zossen near Berlin.
Participation in exhibitions
- 1984: Altes Museum Junge Künstler , Berlin
- 1993: Brandenburg Art Collection Neue Konturen , Cottbus
- 1999: "Project Freiraum", Waltrop
- 2001: Städtische Galerie Kunstfenster with Harald Schulze, Eisenhüttenstadt
- 2002: Gallery at the New Palace Animal - Human , Potsdam
- 2004: Beeskow Castle Open Depot II , Beeskow
- 2009/10: Brandenburg Art Prize from MOZ, Neuhardenberg / Schloss
- 2012: Panorama Museum 25th anniversary, Bad Frankenhausen
- 2014: Arnstadt Art Gallery, Arnstadt
- 2014: Schleswig-Holstein-Haus Zwischenwelten , Schwerin
- 2019: acanthus / gallery im westwerk, Leipzig.
Works by Matthias Steier can be found in public collections such as the City Museum Eisenhüttenstadt, as well as in private collections in Germany , Norway , Austria and Poland .
Awards / prizes (selection)
- 1994: City painter in Waltrop / NRW
- 2015: Art Prize of the LOSCON-KULTURSTIFTUNG
literature
- Hubertus Rößler: The Oder landscape is your favorite motif. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from July 30, 2016.
- Janet Neiser: Color palettes followed records. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) of December 10, 2016.
- Stefan Lötsch: A lake on the central square. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from July 5, 2016.
- Stefan Lötsch: Ideas for the central square. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from July 5, 2016.
- Summer school: students explore the planned city. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from July 4, 2016.
- Stefan Lötsch: Students explore art. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from July 4, 2016.
- Janet Neiser: The last judgment with scars. From Friday the "Heavenly Theater" in Kloster Neuzelle will show contemporary stage theater . (Matthias Steier, Hans-Georg Wagner: Last Judgment - Fortress Europe. ). In: Märkische Oderzeitung / Kultur from May 18, 2018.
- Sylke Wunderlich: Scenes - Drawings & Painting by Matthias Steier. In: Catalog for the 60th birthday on the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Eisenhüttenstadt 2018/19.
- Neuzelle Abbey Foundation (Ed.): Judgment Day Fortress Europe. Matthias Steier and Hans-Georg Wagner at Theatrum Sacrum Neuzelle. Contribution to the European Heritage Year 2018. Last Judgment Fortress Europe. Matthias Steier and Hans-Georg Wagner in the Theatrum Sacrum Neuzelle. Contribution to the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018. With articles by Tilman Schladebach , Julianne Cordray and Peter Wagner . Design: Gabriela Weidner , printing: Druckzone GmbH & Co. KG, Printed in Germany 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Stiehler: "Tübke, that was craft" - Matthias Steier was 24 when he worked on one of the largest pictures in the world: the Peasant War Panorama of Bad Frankenhausen. Märkische Oderzeitung / Brandenburger Blätter from October 27, 2017, p. 14.
- ↑ Herbert Schirmer in: Catalog "matthias steier earthly and enraptured." Published by the city of Eisenhüttenstadt, 2008.
- ↑ Herbert Schirmer in: Catalog "matthias steier earthly and enraptured." Edited by the city of Eisenhüttenstadt, 2008, p. 7.
- ↑ Gallery Koenitz, Leipzig, exhibitions 2012. Matthias Steier: "field research" (June 22 to August 11, 2012).
- ↑ Ulrike Witt: Art exhibition "Zwischenwelten". Surreal real - Matthias Steier in the White House. Leipziger Volkszeitung (Markkleeberg) from October 6, 2016.
- ↑ Locations in the gallery of the municipal museum. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Lisa Mahlke: Matthias Steier excellent. In: Märkische Online Zeitung (MOZ) from 23 August 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steier, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |