Michael Engelhardt (painter)

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Michael Engelhardt (born October 16, 1952 in Erlangen ) is a German painter .

biography

At the age of 12, Michael Engelhardt created his first independent oil paintings. After graduating from the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Erlangen, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg in 1973 in the classes of Clemens Fischer and Günter Voglsamer . Between 1974 and 1980 he had annual study visits with Matthijs Röling in Ezinge , Netherlands , professor at the Academie Minerva in Groningen . From 1978 to 1980 he was a member of Rudolf Hausner's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Michael Engelhardt has been working as a freelance artist since 1980, and in 1989 as an assistant to Rudolf Hausner. From 1991 to 2018 he was a member of the Künstleronderbund in Deutschland eV Realism of the Present . From 1993 to 2005 he was Sociétaire of the Association du Salon d'Automne in Paris .

By 2019 Engelhardt had created a work of over 500 paintings in the tradition of magical realism . In 2015 he created a portrait of Karl-Dieter Grüske , the former President of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , which is now hanging in the stairwell of the university.

“For around 50 years now, Rudolf Hausner's former master class student [...] has been exploring the real and the unreal, his painting oscillates between the sensually representational and the visually imagined. The technical perfection with which this very personal imagery is created with a high power of suggestion and pulls the viewer under its spell is fascinating. "

- Museums of the city of Aschaffenburg

The art historian Joachim Stark wrote about Engelhardt's art in 2009: “At a second and third glance, the viewer of Engelhardt's pictures becomes aware of phenomena in the objects and surfaces shown, which reveal the solidity of the objects shown as an illusion. The objects, landscapes and figures seem to conceal a secret that is suggested to the attentive observer. Engelhardt's credo could rather stem from Leonardo da Vinci's successor: to make the invisible visible as the most distinguished task of painting. "

From October 2019 to March 2020, 89 works by Michael Engelhardt are exhibited under the title Miracle Life in the Aschaffenburg Castle Museum.

Honors

In 1976 Engelhardt received the city of Erlangen's cultural promotion award and in 1997 the Nürnberger Nachrichten award . In 2001 he received the Recherche de la Qualité , an award from the Ordre de Saint Fortunat and in 2011 the Audience Award of the Dornum Culture Prize. In 2018 his life's work was honored with the Erlangen Cultural Foundation Prize.

Private

Michael Engelhardt has been married to Ilse Fath since 1987. He calls her "the woman with the three M's": muse, model and manager.

Exhibitions (selection)

1975

1978, 1985, 1988 and 1993

1988

1990

1994

  • Hauser's panel gallery, Erlangen

1998

2000

  • Michael Engelhardt and Peter König - Two tendencies in realistic painting, Kunsthaus Nürnberg

2002

2005

  • Michael Engelhardt - Oil paintings and drawings, Akum Gallery, Vienna

2010

2011

2012

2017

  • Poetic realism & sculpture. Michael Engelhardt & Kuno Vollet, Galerie Jacobsa, Nuremberg

2019/20

  • Living miracles - Michael Engelhardt, Aschaffenburg Castle Museum

as well as participation in numerous group exhibitions

Literature (selection)

  • Martin Monestier: Trompe-l'oeil contemporain, Les maîtres du réalisme, . Mengés, Paris 1993.
  • Jean Monneret: Le Triomphe du Trompe-l'oeil . Mengés, Paris 1993.
  • Medicine + Art (Ed.): Painting today . Munich 1994.
  • City Museum Erlangen (ed.): Realism today . Erlangen 1994.
  • Christine Ivanovic / Markus May / Thomas Engelhardt: Fantastic at the end of time . City Museum Erlangen, 2000, ISBN 978-3-930035-03-8 .
  • Michael Engelhardt: Poiesis. Dreams, travels, worlds of images. Painting and drawings . Erlangen 2012.
  • Joachim Stark: Making the invisible visible - the painter Michael Engelhardt . - Essay from 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grüske has a new place in Erlangen Castle. In: Campus Blog. May 28, 2015, accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Laudation by Georg Graf von Matuschka (pdf). Retrieved December 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH gain