Axel Möckel
Axel Möckel (* 1949 in Timmendorfer Strand , † 1999 in Berlin ) was a German painter .
Live and act
Möckel studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Kuhn and Ulrich Knispel and was there from 1975 master class with Karl Horst Hödicke .
From 1979, his works were shown in solo and group exhibitions. From 1987 he took part in numerous film and video festivals and received awards there. Möckel's last work, shortly before his death in 1999, was shown in the exhibition Worlds - Building Blocks of Reality in the Siegburg City Museum .
As a freelance artist, he found his own way and style, drawing on German Neo-Expressionism as well as important representatives of the so-called Neue Wilde and - alongside Georg Baselitz , Jörg Immendorff , Markus Lüpertz , Bernd Koberling and AR Penck - important representatives of the New Figuration .
His works include a. in the collections of the Foundation Bayer USA, Pittsburg; Albertina , Vienna; Modern Museum, Linz; Institut d`Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne ; Hamburg Cultural Foundation ; National Museum (Wroclaw) ; Upper Hessian Museum Gießen; Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin.
literature
- Axel Möckel, Ariadne Gallery . Exhibition catalog, Vienna 1983, OCLC 74614288
- Axel Möckel, Worlds - Building Blocks of Reality / Book . Conference proceedings, Rheinlandia-Verl. 1999, OCLC 313532772
Web links
- Speech manuscript for the exhibition opening of Worlds - Building Blocks of Reality in the Siegburg City Museum
- Literature by and about Axel Möckel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möckel, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Timmendorfer beach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1999 |
| Place of death | Berlin |