Dietrich Maus

Dietrich Maus (born May 3, 1942 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf ) is a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

biography

Dietrich Maus was born in Bad Sooden-Allendorf in 1942 and completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter until 1962 . He then studied from 1962 to 1964 at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel and from 1964 to 1968 at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal under Rudolf Schoofs .

In 1972 he founded the AKKU group . He is a member of the West German Artists' Association and co-founder of the "360 ° Producer Gallery" and the "Kunstraum Wuppertal". With Achim Knispel he also works as a musician for a time. In 1980 he received the Von der Heydt Culture Prize from the city of Wuppertal , where he lives today. From 1984 to 2007 he worked as an art teacher at the Vohwinkel high school in Wuppertal.

Awards

• 1980 Promotion Prize of the Von der Heydt Culture Prize of the City of Wuppertal

Selected solo exhibitions

• 1971 From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
• 1972 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
• 1981 "The Freedom of the Minotaur" - 360 degrees of scope for ideas, Wuppertal
• 1983 “Indianer”, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
• Gallery Zellmayer, Berlin
• Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum , Cologne
• 1986 "Streuf, Maus und Moritz", Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
• 1993 ABDANK (The Disappearance of VI Lenin)
• Nordstadt gallery collective, Wuppertal
• 1995 Lenin Museum Tampere , Finland

literature

• AKKU group: Dietrich Maus, Wulf Nolte, Hermann S. Richter ; Municipal Museum Mülheim ad Ruhr, May 17 - June 16, 1974.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 .