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Dieter Krieg (born May 21, 1937 in Lindau ; † November 26, 2005 in Quadrath-Ichendorf ) was a German painter.

life and work

Krieg studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as a student of HAP Grieshaber and Herbert Kitzel . He belonged to a group of painters with independent, individual profiles. Here are Heinz Schanz , Hans Baschang , Walter Stöhrer and Antes Horst to call. The influence of these teachers on this group was of great importance. From 1971, Krieg received teaching positions at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1978 Krieg became a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Dieter Krieg was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lived and worked in Quadrath-Ichendorf, a district of Bergheim . Krieg is one of the most important painters of the second half of the 20th century.

Curtain, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 375 × 345 cm

Dieter Krieg already caused a sensation in the early 1960s with the radical gesture of his painting. Together with the artists mentioned above, Krieg is one of the representatives of the New Figuration , which opposed the primacy of abstraction prevailing at the time with the representation of the human figure. Each did this in his own way; there was no schooling. In 1966, Dieter Krieg received the German Youth Prize in Baden-Baden for his body depictions, which were tied and bandaged beyond recognition. He was one of the strongest and most idiosyncratic painters of his generation.

Carried by a constantly renewing impetus and with a willingness to take risks from all sides, a work was created in the following four decades whose position repeatedly startled, disturbed and met with not only unanimous approval in art criticism. It stirred minds and provoked a wide variety of reactions. But the success and the high reputation that Krieg experienced over the years could not only be seen in the numerous national and international exhibitions, but also in the teaching post as professor at the traditional art academy in Düsseldorf. His almost twenty-five years of teaching has resulted in numerous students with great international careers.

War always got to the bottom of things. Caring for the content was crucial. Initially the works were conceptually oriented, such as the "Malsch - Wannen" from 1970, the "4-Watt Lamps" from 1972, the "Tännchen" from 1972/73, or "Hope, Love, Treue, Envy, Innocence" from 1974, or the tape recording "Thank you all painters": Here he read all the artist names listed in the 36 volumes of Thieme Becker between 1975 and 1976.

untitled, 2004, charcoal, acrylic, paper, canvas, 100 × 70 cm

At the end of the 1970s, Krieg broke the strict, reduced form of his painting and transferred it to a world of painterly words and objects. He was now pushing the painterly form of things to a limit: the familiar and the mundane turned into alienation and discomfort. The dissolution of the motif was of major importance. One could also speak of paradoxes . The objects were driven into the monumental and placed in an image space in whose emotionally and psychologically charged force field they received a new existence. The visual sensation of the pictures can hardly be put into words. The human body could become the object of the picture, things that are related to it, things that the human being needed, and the changed states of which symbolized life, illness or death. This pictorial vocabulary, which included sticks, candles, thermometers, heads of lettuce, pieces of meat, flowers, crosses, fried eggs, buckets, books, letters, cotton wool, lettering and much more, was retained, expanded and reworked again and again by Krieg over decades.

The grandiose representation of objects distinguished the intellectual and painterly achievement of the war. Two other facts that convey this impression should be emphasized here. A great force field of inspiration was literature. For him it was not an additional authority, but individual words and passages from texts by Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Jean-Paul Sartre , Arno Schmidt and other authors could nevertheless become the matrix of his multi-layered painting. His erudition suited him here. The experiment with the possibilities of the large format should also be mentioned. It was not about being overwhelmed, but about dealing with reality in the sense of an artistic parallel enterprise: the large format became a necessity for him. The ambiguity and vitality of the individual objects was not always immediately recognizable.

War exhibited early on in galleries, museums and major events of modern art: in 1978 for example (together with Ulrich Rückriem ) in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (curator Klaus Gallwitz ). Numerous catalogs and book publications have been published on his work. In recent years, the things of life and death have come more and more into focus. One can speak of a late work.

Some of his works can be found in the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne , Kolumba , such as his 6-part cycle In der Leere ist nothing , 1998 (acrylic and acrylic glass on canvas).

In 2004 he and his wife Irene († 2004) founded the Dieter Krieg Foundation , which preserves the artistic work; Publications and exhibitions are central concerns.

Prices

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1966: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
  • 1967: (several times until 2008) Galerie Der Spiegel , Cologne
  • 1970: Dieter Krieg: Eight Malsch tubs , Lauter Gallery, Mannheim, April 4th. - May 27, 1970
  • 1970: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 1972: Kunsthalle Darmstadt - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster - Kunsthalle Bielefeld - Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 1976: (several times until 1981) Galerie am Promenadeplatz, Munich
  • 1978: German Pavilion, Venice Biennale (with Ulrich Rückriem )
  • 1983: Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • 1984: Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe - Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
  • 1987: Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn - Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen
  • 1987: (several times until 2002) Galerie Timm Gierig - Canvas House, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1988: Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
  • 1988: (several times until 2005) Galerie Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
  • 1988: (several times until 2006) Galerie manus presse, Stuttgart
  • 1989: Friedrichshafen Art Association
  • 1991: Art Museum Düsseldorf and Marburg University Museum, Marburg
  • 1993: Municipal Gallery Reutlingen - Hans Thoma Art Museum , Bernau / Baden - Forum Art Rottweil
  • 1996: Kunstverein Augsburg - Landesgirokasse Stuttgart - Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
  • 1997: Orangery Herrenhausen, Hanover - Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin - Städtische Galerie Ravensburg
  • 1997: Alfred Knecht Gallery, Karlsruhe
  • 1998: Kunstverein Krefeld - Kornhaus culture group, Weingarten
  • 1999: Municipal Gallery of the City of Stuttgart - State Art Gallery Baden-Baden - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal - Bielefelder Kunstverein
  • 2000: Trinity Church, Cologne
  • 2002: German Society for Christian Art , Munich
  • 2003: Kunstverein Augsburg
  • 2004: Kunsthalle Rostock - Alte Spinnerei / Forum Kunst, Rottweil
  • 2005: (several times until 2007) Gierig Frankfurt Art Projects, Deutsche Bundesbank, Baker & McKenzie, Galerie Ardizon (Bregenz)
  • 2006: Museum Bochum - Art Museum Bonn - Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
  • 2008: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (retrospective)
  • 2008: Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
  • 2012: Kunstmuseum Celle , "Magnificent pieces on a stretcher" showcase for the 75th birthday
  • 2013: Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
  • 2014: "Dieter Krieg - There is nothing in the void", Kunstsaele Berlin
  • 2015: Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

Quotes

  • "I saw reproductions of new pictures by the 30-year-old Karlsruhe artist Dieter Krieg in the magazine" Daskunst ", which struck me as very strange. They could not be assigned to any of the now fashionable painting styles, nor did they remind of any of the past, were unrealistic without being fantastic, magical, without being surrealistic ... " ( Marie Luise Kaschnitz in her book" Tage, Tage, Jahre ", 1966)
  • "The mastery of the picture triumphs over the depicted stunting, just as with Beckett the mastery of the word triumphs over his amputated, bound figures." (Peter Dittmar)
  • "Better to iron your laundry than paint" (Dieter Krieg on a drawing)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PRIZE WINNER 2010 - International Eckart Witzigmann Prize. Retrieved December 18, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ 2008 | War ›Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese. July 15, 2008, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 2013 | War ›Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese. February 10, 2013, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 2015 | War ›Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese. July 12, 2015, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  5. ^ Nuremberg - drawing. The German Association of Artists in Nuremberg 1996. 44th annual exhibition. In: www.künstlerbund.de. Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche: Magic of Color - Impasto painting (color matter, color bodies, color spaces). In: kulturpur.de. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .

literature

  • Dieter war. Fries and diamonds. Stuttgart Art Museum. With contributions by Daniel Spanke, Simone Schimpf and Klaus-Gerrit Friese. Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-158-0 .
  • Rolf Gunther Dienst / Dieter Krieg: Literal painting. Art Museum Bonn. 108 pages. With contributions by Dieter Ronte, Eduard Beaucamp and texts by Samuel Beckett and Hermann Melville. 2006
  • Dieter war. Never mind. Drawn pictures. 2 volumes. Portrait format 80 pages, landscape format 96 pages. With texts by Volker Adolphs, Klaus Gerrit Friese, Hans Günther Golinski, Johann-Karl Schmidt and Dirk Teuber. Publication by the Dieter Krieg Foundation. 2006
  • Dieter Krieg, Andreas Kühne, Beatrice Lavarini, Jürgen Lenssen : "Dieter Krieg, Crosses and Flowers" , Schnell & Steiner 2002, ISBN 3795415039
  • Dieter war. Art is the purpose of art . Published for the exhibition in the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart (1999), in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (1999) and in the Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal (1999) with texts by Johann-Karl Schmidt (ed.), Lutz Casper, Klaus Gallwitz , Klaus Gerrit Friese u. a. 2 volumes.
  • Andreas Beaugrand, Klaus Gerrit Friese: "Dieter Krieg, Etchings" , 1999
  • Klaus Gerrit Friese: "Dieter Krieg, Drawings" , 1999
  • Dieter war. Works 1965–1993 . 2 volumes. Texts by Klaus Gallwitz, Klaus Gerrit Friese, Dieter Krieg and Jens C. Jensen, Galerie manus presse Stuttgart 1993.
  • Dieter war. Pictures 1986–1990. Texts by Volker Adolphs a. a., edited by Wolfgang Gmyrek, published for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof Düsseldorf in 1991.
  • Matthias Kußmann (Ed.): German depth. Poems and pictures. Otto Jägersberg and Dieter Krieg. Stieber, Karlsruhe 2002, ISBN 3-9802029-7-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME War, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2005
Place of death Bergheim , Rhein-Erft district