Dieter Ladewig

Dieter Ladewig (born November 1, 1953 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

From 1960 to 1968 attended the Rübeland Polytechnic High School in the Harz Mountains, then until 1970 the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg (Thuringia). At the age of 16, Ladewig applied to study art. From 1970 to 1972 he was a painting room intern at the Theater der Stadt Cottbus (today Staatstheater Cottbus ) and completed an evening course at the branch of the Dresden University of Fine Arts . He met Hans Scheuerecker , with whom he had been an artist friend since those years. Together with the painter Klaus-Dieter Gerlach and the writer Cordula Gast they founded the artist group Steg. The one in Cottbus at that timeliving painter Stefan Plenkers later became a mentor for Ladewig and Scheuerecker when he joined the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR . Through him close contacts were established with the circle around Plenkers, with Rainer Zille , Veit Hofmann , Joachim Böttcher and later Eckhard Schwandt. From 1974 to 1977 he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, specializing in theater painting, and then returned to Cottbus as a theater painter for two years. In 1978 the artist became a member of the artists' association in Magdeburg and in 1979 moved to Schönebeck (Elbe) , where he lived until 1993. He has been based in Magdeburg since 1999. Scholarships led Ladewig to the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in 1998 , and the Tessenow Garage Drei atelier in Magdeburg was freely available to him from 1999–2009 . The artist went on study trips to Paris in 2000 and to Israel in 2008 .

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Even the works of the late 1970s are entirely determined by an expressive gesture that uses the human figure as a sign of existence. The 1980s in particular were characterized by very different artistic experiments. In addition to paintings such as “Tierschädel” (1979), there is work with screen printing and etching . These techniques are used to create some self-published artist books and contributions to original graphic magazines of the “other culture” in the GDR. He has also been involved in sculptural work since 1980, which ranges from self-cast metal sculptures, wood and sandstone to objects made of sanitary ceramics . Since that time he has repeatedly participated in wood carving and other symposia. In the early 1980s, Ladewig tried an extension of the panel painting with paintings on pleated blinds, which he is considered to have discovered. In combination with his paintings, entire installations are created, such as “Desastres de la Guerra” for the exhibition “Processes I” in 1984 in Magdeburg. At the end of the 1980s, a wall relief made of colored wood was created in Schönebeck Town Hall.

After 1990 the representational allusions in his pictures dissolve more and more. What is initially expressed as an existential intensification, as in the work “Selbstgericht” (1992), gradually leads to a liberating gestural momentum. The artist is increasingly looking for certainty in the color itself; psychological color spaces emerge through settlements and gradients: atmospheric images such as “On the matter” (2014). Ladewig works in oil, egg tempera and recently also with acrylic.

Works are in public ownership, including a. in the art museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg, in the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus , in the Saxon State Library Dresden , the Stadtsparkasse Magdeburg, the district office Magdeburg, the public insurance companies Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg and the Stadtsparkasse Schönebeck.

Dieter Ladewig participated several times in exhibitions, u. a. "Intermedia", Coswig near Dresden (1985), 1st International Triennale, Hanoi (1987), "The Other Germany Outside the Wall", Paris, La Villette (1990), "ABEL" Magdeburg, Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen (1995 ), "Ikaros - East / West 2003", Erfurt.

Works (selection)

• 1979 animal skull. Oil on canvas
• 1985 Masked. Latex, gouache on folding paper blind (Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus)
• 1987 antenna figures. metal
• Arrested in 1987 . written by kelso. drawn by malwig. Screen printing, artist book
• 1991 Foolish Virgin. Oil on canvas (District Museum Schönebeck)
• 1998 ticket. Oil on hardboard
• 2009 by the river. Oil on canvas
• 2013 limit. Oil on canvas

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1982 Magdeburg, Club of the Kulturbund
• 1983 Halberstadt, Galerie St. Florian (with Sabine Linge)
• 1986 Leipzig, Eigen + Art (roller blinds)
• 1990 Braunschweig, Torhausgalerie
• 1992 Magdeburg, Galerie Himmelreich
• 1995 Hanover, BDK Gallery in the Künstlerhaus
• 1996 Magdeburg, MDR-Landesfunkhaus
• 2007 Hildesheim, gallery in the Stammelbachspeicher
• 2013 Hanover, gallery per-seh
• 2014 Cottbus, Vattenfall

literature

• Dieter Ladewig, Jörg Sperling u. a. (Texts): Rollo. Art as decoration? Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus 1991.
• Dieter Ladewig. Painting, graphics, plastic objects. Museum of the district of Schönebeck 1992.
• Uwe Jens Gellner, Ludwig Schumann (texts): ABEL Peter Adler, Anne Rose Bekker, Jens Elgner, Dieter Ladewig. Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg 1997, ISBN 3-930030-32-2
• Christoph Tannert (text): Dieter Ladewig. Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf 1999.
• Jörg Heiko Bruns, Christoph Tannert, Bernd Goetz (texts): Still-Stand. Dieter Ladewig, Winni Schaak. Galerie per-seh, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-940576-60-6
• Christoph Tannert (text): Dieter Ladewig. Are located. Vattenfall, Cottbus 2014.

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tannert. Cottbus 2014, no p.
2. ^ Tannert. Cottbus 2014, no p.
3. ↑ Christoph Tannert: Trim and trample paths of a nomad. In: Ladewig, Sperling u. a. Roller blind. 1991, pp. 85-88
4. ↑ Ladewig et al. Cottbus 1991, p. 88
5. ↑ Ladewig. Schönebeck 1992, no p.
6. ^ Tannert. Cottbus 2014, no p.
7. ^ Tannert. Cottbus 2014, no p.