Christiane Möbus

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Sculpture by Christiane Möbus in the art landscape project of the Art Association Springhornhof in Neuenkirchen (Lüneburg Heath)

Christiane Möbus (born April 11, 1947 in Celle ) is a German sculptor, object artist and university professor.

Life

Möbus studied from 1966 to 1970 at the State University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , among others with Emil Cimiotti . She then went to New York City for two years as a DAAD scholarship holder . After completing her training, she initially taught at a grammar school before receiving a visiting professorship at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1981 . In 1982 she was appointed professor at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. She has been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts since 1990 and is a visiting professor at the Konsthögskolan Valand at the University of Gothenburg . In the course of her work, which focuses on sculpture and object art , she has received several grants and has been awarded numerous prizes.

Empty memorial base in Göttingen

Monument "To the father of the state his Göttingen Seven"

As an ironic allusion to the slogan "To the father of his loyal people" on the base of the Ernst August monument in Hanover , the artist had the work of the father of his Göttingen seven put up in Göttingen in 2015 . This is a base identical in shape and size, but "without horse and rider", which - similar to Hanover - was set up in front of the Göttingen train station . The fact that the empty plinth bears the inscription "Dem Landesvater seine Göttinger Sieben " on the one hand , and on the other hand the names of the seven Göttingen professors, some of whom have been expelled from the country, but also those of the artist herself (in the same font and font size), met with harsh criticism and was presented as a self-presentation perceived. Three days after the monument was handed over to the public, the statement was made public that the inscription had not been faithfully copied: The year Ernst August I ascended the throne was given in Roman numerals as 1827 instead of 1837 - an X was missing. The mistake was corrected a good two weeks after the monument was unveiled.

Public collections (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Prices (selection)

Web links

Commons : Christiane Möbus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Schubert: The X is here. In: Göttinger Tageblatt online. Göttinger Tageblatt GmbH & Co. KG, December 4, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015 .
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951/1997 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 17, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ art Newsticker, Münter Prize for Christiane Möbus  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , art-magazin.de, June 23, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Möbus, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle