Dietmar Brixy

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Dietmar Brixy

Dietmar Brixy (* 1961 in Mannheim ) is a German painter and sculptor .

biography

Life

Dietmar Brixy was born the son of a bricklayer in Mannheim (in the Rheinau district ) in 1961 . From 1985 to 1991 Brixy studied in the class for sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . His interest turned to painting in the course of his studies. However, the affinity for sculptural design emerged as a significant characteristic of his painting. His professors in Karlsruhe were Wilhelm Loth , Michael Sandle , Harald Klingelhöller , Katharina Fritsch , Werner Pokorny and Elisabeth Wagner. Since 1991 he has been working as a freelance artist in Mannheim.

Dietmar Brixy has been exhibiting in galleries, museums and art associations since 1991. He is regularly represented at international art fairs through his galleries. Dietmar Brixy received the following prizes and grants: 1988 annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (1st prize), 1989 grant from the City of Mannheim (stay in Poland, Krakow), 1998 advancement award from the Ludwig Roos Fund, in 2008 and 2014 “WELDE Art Prize “(Winner Audience Award). He went on painting trips to other European countries as well as u. a. also to Malaysia, Mexico and Bali as well as to the Seychelles and the USA. Since 2001 he has been traveling regularly to the Canary Island of La Palma, where his works on paper for the "Eden" series are being created and continued.

Artist house

The pumping station in Mannheim-Neckarau, August 2004

In 2001, Brixy acquired the Alte Pumpwerk Neckarau , a neo-Gothic industrial building that was originally designed and built in 1903 according to plans by Richard Perrey , Mannheim's city planning director . From 2001 to 2003, the artist had the old pumping station renovated as the client and received various monument protection prizes for the renovation of the neo-Gothic clinker building into a modern artist's house with residential wing, studio and exhibition platform. In addition to being named Monument of the Month (Baden-Württemberg) in February 2004 by the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation, the artist won the Monument Protection Prize from Württemberg Hypo, the Swabian Heimatbund and the Badische Heimat association. In 2015 he also received the Mannheim Cityscape Prize (Monument Protection Prize). Since 2004 there have been annual, temporary exhibitions of Dietmar Brixy's own work, including a. 2004 “Grape Harvest”, 2005 “Roots”, 2006 “All Round”, 2007 “Grow”, 2008 “Beyond”, 2009 “Eden”, 2010 “Seven”, 2012 “Discover - Painting and special guest: Herbert Mehler / Galerie Tammen & Partner ”, 2013“ Attention Brixy - New Paintings and special guests: Marion Eichmann and Lothar Seruset / Galerie Tammen & Partner ”, 2014“ TEN - Ten Years of Art in the Old Pump Station ”, 2015“ Surprise ”, 2016“ Tomorrow ”, 2017 "ROOM", 2018 "Brixy 18", 2019 "Brixy Passion - 15 years of art in the pumping station".

Artistic creation

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During his studies, Dietmar Brixy's interest increasingly shifted from the plastic to the painterly. His acquaintance with American action painting and the technique of dripping should have a lasting impact on his art. Brixy developed an unmistakably unique style of oil painting. He became known for his pastose material pictures, which are always based on an action painting surface. By means of layered painting with brushes and hands and a lot of peeling off with painting knives or spatulas, he creates an impasto image world that extends into space, which represents a tightrope walk between informal art , expressive painting and figuration.

The starting point of his visual world of haptic quality is nature, the view of plants and flowers, e.g. B. on iris flowers, olive trees and palm trees, ginkgo trees and bamboo bushes, fig and citrus trees. Brixy's focal point in the formal discussion is the handling of color, its materiality and aesthetic effect. The color application varies from dense-opaque to delicately-transparent.

"Occasionally the color folds up in bulges to form haptic islands of color. Sometimes branches seem to protrude into the picture and form leaves, then again the delicate outlines of flowers protrude from the mist of color. Picture elements like these cross the fine line from abstraction to figuration, then Forms emerge from the energy of an originally shapeless color material - sometimes still fleeting, sometimes already clearly recognizable. " - Anita Brockmann

Catalogs

The following catalog books have been published to accompany Dietmar Brixy's exhibitions:

  • 1991 "Dietmar Brixy", text by Ursula Pawlak, Mannheim 1991
  • 1993 "Dietmar Brixy - Pictures from the" Malaysia Cycle "". Text by Dr. Christel Heybrock, Mannheim 1993
  • 1999 "Dietmar Brixy". On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Angelo Falzone Gallery, February 6 to March 31, 1999, text by Dr. Martin Stather, Ludwigshafen 1999
  • 2006 “Dietmar Brixy. Painting and installations. 2004 to 2006 ". On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Heufelder - Koos, texts by Dr. Christel Heybrook, Dr. Annuschka Koos, Dr. Martin Stather
  • 2010 "Dietmar Brixy - Ripe & Juicy". On the occasion of the exhibitions of the same name at the Kunstverein Schwetzingen - Orangery Schloss, May 1 to June 6, 2010, and at the Kunstverein Worms, May 2 to June 6, 2010, text by Dr. Dietmar Schuth, Heidelberg 2010
  • 2011 "Dietmar Brixy - Eden". On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Sparkasse Heidelberg, May 25 to August 26, 2011, text by Dr. Dietmar Schuth, Heidelberg 2011
  • 2011 “Dietmar Brixy - New Works”. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Ludwigshafen Clinic, October 26 to December 6, 2011, text by Dr. Reinhard Spieler, Ludwigshafen 2011
  • 2012 "Dietmar Brixy - Discover". New work. On the occasion of the exhibition "Dietmar Brixy. Discover - new works and special guest: Galerie Tammen & Partner (Berlin) with Herbert Mehler - steel sculptures" in the old pump station Neckarau, September 28th to October 20th, 2012, text by Dr. Melanie Klier, Mannheim 2012
  • 2013 “Attention Brixy. New Paintings and special guest ". On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name with Galerie Tammen & Partner (Berlin) with Marion Eichmann (installation / collage) and Lothar Seruset (sculpture / wall relief) in the old pumping station Neckarau, October 4th to 26th, 2013, text by Dr. Melanie Klier, Mannheim 2013
  • 2014 “Discover Brixy”. The catalog was published on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition "TEN-Ten Years of Art in the Old Pump Station" in the Old Neckarau Pump Station in Mannheim from September 26 to October 18, 2014, text by Dr. Melanie Klier, Mannheim 2014
  • 2016 "Brixy Surprise". On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Coburg, September 3 to October 3, 016, Galerie Tammen & Partner / Kunstverein Coburg 2016

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MRN Newsletter 6/2008, page 11  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mrn.com
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Collin Klostermeier: A clean affair. Conversion of the old pumping and lifting works in Mannheim Neckarau. In: Bauhandwerk, trade journal for cross-trade construction in new buildings and renovation, 27th year 2005, issue 1, pp. 24–32 (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / six4.bauverlag.de
  3. ↑ [1] , Monument Protection Prize Baden-Württemberg 2004
  4. ↑ Reinhard Spieler: Brixy in the Paradise Laboratory . In: Jürgen Klier (Ed.): Discover Brixy . Braus, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86228-109-1 , pp. 144-146 .
  5. ^ Anita Brockmann: artist portrait Dietmar Brixy . In: ART & material . Sept / Oct 2015. boesner GmbH, p. 4-13 .
personal data
SURNAME Brixy, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim