Christoph Meyer (painter)

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Christoph Meyer (born December 31, 1954 in Greifswald ) is a German draftsman, graphic artist and book artist.

Life

Born in Greifswald, he attended the ten-grade secondary school (POS) there. After graduating from high school in 1972, he trained as a system fitter in Nauen until 1975. From 1975 to 1977 he did an 18-month military service with the NVA and then from 1977 to 1978 worked in the theater workshops in East Berlin as a paint driver; at the same time, he attended evening school with Wolfgang Leber in East Berlin.

Between 1978 and 1981 Meyer studied exhibition design at the technical college for advertising and design in Berlin-Oberschöneweide . From 1981 to 1982 he worked in Klaus Wilfert's lithography workshop (Berlin / Prenzlauerberg). In 1982 he started working as a freelancer. A first personal exhibition followed in 1983 at Aufbau Verlag. He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

1992 first book projects with drawings by Christoph Meyer and with texts by Eugen Blume, "'About the waters" - to a poem by Nelly Sachs ", printing of graphics by Jörg Lehmann, start of collaboration with printer and artist Jörg Lehmann from Berlin-Pankow intensive occupation with the copper gravure printing. 1994, founding of the LABOR gallery in Berlin-Weißensee on Borodinstrasse (Christoph Meyer is a founding member with Nikola Müller and Martin Colden). 1995 Receipt of the scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts in the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano.

1995 Foundation of the Alligatorpress label, first edition of artist books by the authors Paul Celan , Nelly Sachs , Heiner Müller , Bert Brecht , Johannes Bobrowski , Bert Papenfuß , Durs Grünbein , Friedrich Nietzsche , Uwe Kolbe , James Joyce , Simone Meyer , Tom Waits , Ingeborg Bachmann , Peter Rühmkorf , Friedrich Hölderlin , Bob Dylan and Edgar Allan Poe .

He lives in Berlin and has been married to the author Simone Meyer since 2005 .

criticism

Matthias Flügge writes about Meyer in the exhibition catalog from May 1989, on the exhibition in the “Studio Bildende Kunst” Baumschulenstrasse 78: “Christoph Meyer works on the pictures for a long time and reduces the motif to pure emotional communication in a process of self-exploration. Different suggestions meet here. The living senses of perception lead art and reality to a synthesis. Musical principles, adaptations of foreign artificial languages ​​and the helpful coincidences of design go into the conception of form. The decisive remainder is the desire to work. "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1983: Aufbau-Verlag, drawings and pictures, Berlin
  • 1989: Studio of fine arts, painting and drawing, Berlin
  • 1993: Galerie Berlin, painting and drawings, Berlin
  • 1995: Galerie Labor, über den wassern (a room made of iron) artist's book on Nelly Sachs, Berlin
  • 1995: Scholarship exhibition, Villa de Pisa, Olevano Romano
  • 1996: Galerie im Turm, “Reisen ein Ring” drawings, Berlin
  • 1997: Weisser Elephant Gallery “you are what you are”, drawings and photos, Berlin
  • 1998: Katzow Art Barn (Western Pomerania)
  • 1999: "in summo diskrimine (est)", Brechthaus Weissensee, Berlin
  • 2000: "bubbles", gallery laboratory, Berlin
  • 2001: "Blue White Kiss - Yours tears kill me", Galerie labor, Berlin
  • 2003: "Erdung (a room for hannah arendt)", Galerie im Turm Berlin
  • 2009: "On the way to Guarda", Galerie Brotfabrik, Berlin
  • 2009: “the measured paradise”, Berchthaus literature forum, Berlin
  • 2010: “A room for Bartleby, the Scrivener”, school and prayer house, Altlangsow
  • 2011, 2012, 2013: Book Fair, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1988, 1989, 1990: Galerie im Prater , Berlin
  • 1989: Bad Doberan
  • 2015: Gallery F92 , Berlin
Participation in exhibitions
  • 1984, 1986, 1989: BKA Berlin
  • 1986: Berlin Young Artists, Berlin
  • 1986: The woodcut, Berlin
  • 1986: Woodcut Biennale, Banská Bystrica
  • 1989: Berliner Junge Künstler 2, Berlin
  • 1990: Berlin, Zwei Takt, joint exhibition by the East and West Berlin artist associations
  • 1992: Nancy, (F) Goethe Institute, five painters from East Berlin
  • 1996: Trento (I) Studio D Arte, drawings, bronze figures
  • 1997: Berlin, Altes Stadtbad / Oderbergerstrasse AB
  • 2003: Berlin, “Contemporary Art”, at the headquarters of the KPM
  • 2005: New York, USA lobby of the German House
  • 2007: Shanghai, Sh Contemporary, Gallery Beijing Art Now
  • 2008: Beijing Art Nov Gallery, Beijing, China
  • 2013: Arte Postale, Academy of the Arts, Berlin

Collections

  • Berlin, Collection of the Academy of Arts
  • Berlin, Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage
  • Berlin, Jewish Museum
  • Berlin, Art Library, State Museums in Berlin
  • Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
  • Berlin, Berlinische Galerie
  • Potsdam, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
  • Marbach, German Literature Archive
  • Düsseldorf, Achenbach Collection
  • Nancy, City Collection
  • Weimar, Anna Amalia Library
  • Yale, Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library
  • Basel, university library
  • Frankfurt am Main, State Library
  • Leipzig, German Writing Museum
  • Altenburg, Lindenau Museum
  • Dublin, National Library
  • Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library
  • Munich, Wolfgang Spraul Collection
  • Bonn, Dr. Gessler
  • Luxembourg, Bibliotheque National
  • Munich, Bavarian State Library
  • Boston, Library, Harvard University
  • Zurich, Keonders Collection
  • Augsburg, State Library
  • New York, The New York Public Library
  • Florida, Atlantic University Libraries
  • Zurich, ETA Collection, University of the Arts
  • Beijing, Huang Liaoyuan Collection (Beijing Art Now Gallery)
  • Davos, Kistler Collection

literature

  • Meyer, Christoph. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 598.
  • Christoph Meyer / Drawings and Painting / in Berlin GDR, on the exhibition Studio Fine Art Berlin-Baumschulenweg, from May 4 to June 2, 1989, text and speech by Matthias Flügge
  • Michael Freitag, In: Exhibition catalog “Malergrafik”, Berlin 1990
  • Christoph Tannert, In: Bildende Kunst, 1 - 90, that's how I see the “for the Young Art exhibition,” the exhibition center at the television tower
  • Christoph Meyer, exhibition at Insel Galerie Berlin, Alt-Treptow, title "Reflessioni" (June 17-26, 1992), catalog text Mattias Flügge "the draftsman Christoph Meyer"
  • Eugen Blume, Christoph Meyer, in the exhibition catalog, solo exhibition in the Galerie Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 58 from June 3 to July 17, 1993
  • Annette Dorgerloh in the exhibition catalog: Christoph Meyer / a room made of iron / in the Galerie Labor, Berlin 1995
  • Annette Dorgerloh, At Knifes Edge, in the exhibition catalog for the exhibition Drawings 1998–1999, in the Brecht-Haus Weißensee, Berlin (February 17 - March 21, 1999)
  • Matthias Flügge, "Memory has its own vocabulary", on the exhibition in the Brecht-Haus Weißensee On the drawings by Christoph Meyer, Berlin (February 17 - March 21, 1999)
  • CHRISTOPH MEYER "Grounding" a space for Hannah Arendt2003, Berlin, Galerie im Turm Frankfurter Tor 1, D-10243 Berlin, Verlag Refugium, ISBN 3-932153-13-8 , text by Christoph Tannert, duration of the exhibition: August 7 to August 5. September 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, graphic artist and book artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald