Dorél Dobocan

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Dorél Dobocan (* 1951 in Timișoara , People's Republic of Romania ) is a Romanian-German painter . He lives and works in Mainz and Paris .

Life

Dorél Dobocan grew up as a member of the Romanian German minority . From 1968 to 1973 he studied in Timișoara at the Academy of Fine Arts , where he set up his first studio in 1968, the so-called "laundry room". From 1969 to 1972 he belonged to the artist group SIGMA for experimental art .

Between 1963 and 1978 he made four attempts to escape from the People's Republic of Romania and was imprisoned several times as a political prisoner. Dobocan got on the so-called "death list" of the Romanian secret service Securitate , which in 1973 forcibly committed him to a psychiatric hospital. He was exposed to state reprisals; "Strangers" broke into his apartment, Romanian authorities tried to influence his parents to revoke their already given consent for a "foreign marriage" - Dobocan's fiancée, the psychologist Alida-Marianne Rujinschi, was with her parents in 1975 Romania legally left for the Federal Republic of Germany . The couple visited the relevant authorities sixteen times without success. In November 1977 a “special commission” ordered that Dobocan's pictures, which he wanted to show at the annual show in Timișoara, were taken down again before the exhibition opened.

In January 1978, on the occasion of his visit to Romania, the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt handed over a list of 483 cases of hardship whose marriage to German partners had not yet been approved and demanded that these cases be dealt with quickly as a precondition for negotiations to reduce the Romanian trade deficit (> 400 Million marks in 1977). Dorél Dobocan was also on this list and after further intervention by Helmut Schmidt, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and support from the American President Jimmy Carter , he was able to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany on June 12, 1978 .

In 1977 he joined the Professional Association of Visual Artists Frankfurt , to which he belonged until 1980. In 1979 he moved into the Fort Malakoff studio in Mainz and won 2nd prize at the Concorso internazionale di pittura , Italia 2000. Dobocan received the Rhineland-Palatinate award for painting in 1980. In the same year he set up a studio on the island of Ibiza with Professor Elyssey Russo. From 1980 to 1983 he was director of the drawing course at the Mainz Art Association. In 1980 he joined the Professional Association of Visual Artists Rhineland-Palatinate, of which he was a member until 1987. In 1982 he received third prize in the national Hambach Castle competition . From 1983 to 1994 he worked regularly in New York .

In 1984 he artistically designed the ship of fools for the literary Rhine journey with 70 writers and artists from Basel to Rotterdam . In 1985 he had his first major solo exhibition in New York. He met the American artists Tom Wesselmann , Paulo Buggiani , David Hecht , Naoto Nakagawa and closed his studio in Ibiza. Dobocan was involved in the Artists for Dalai Lama campaign. In 1988 he worked in Brazil , Argentina , Uruguay and Paraguay . Another followed in 1989 in Havana . In the same year he took up his second residence in Paris , set up a studio there and showed his work in exhibitions in the French capital. Between 1991 and 1993 he created 45 sculptures under the title Orchestra sans Musica . In 1993 the first major installation by the Orchestra sans Musica was shown in the Kunsthalle Schirn , Frankfurt am Main ; also in the theater on Goetheplatz, Baden-Baden . The exhibition There is music in the air followed in 1994 at the Sander Gallery , New York; an exhibition tour from New York to Germany , Belgium , France and Italy followed.

From 1995 to 1997 Dobocan worked on the world landscapes picture wall for an exhibition at the Beijing Art Museum . It was acquired by ZDF in 2000 and exhibited in the Zollernhof studio in Berlin. He gave up the Fort Malakoff studio in 1997 and moved to the Alte Patrone studio in Mainz. In 1999 he began work on a memorial in honor of Martin Luther King with research in Atlanta , where he met the civil rights activist's widow, Coretta Scott King . He worked at the sculpture ensemble In the Shadow of Power in Memoriam Martin Luther King from 1999 to 2001.

In 2004 Dobocan showed the exhibition Dialog in the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg ; it was repeated in 2004 in the Landesmuseum Koblenz on the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress .

Dobocan has been a member of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck advisory group since 2007 . In 2008 he presented the plastic violin soloist from the Orchestra sans Musica to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial during the Weimar Art Festival .

In 2008 the anniversary exhibition Frei (T) räume - 30 years of freedom in the Mainz state parliament was hosted by the guest of honor Federal Foreign Minister ret. D. Hans-Dietrich Genscher opened.

From 2014 to 2015 Dobocan worked on the exhibition project “ON THE BORDER Close-ups. Distant views ". The exhibition took place on the occasion of the anniversary celebration "25 years of reunification", which was held by the state of Hesse and as part of the "Week of Freedom", which was proclaimed by the state capital Wiesbaden.

In 2017, the Hessian State Chancellery presented Dobocan's triptych Die Kalte Demokratie , the former main work of the “Anniversary Exhibition 25 Years of German-German Reunification”, to the Point Alpha Foundation in Gaisa.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: Art in the KKM Dorél Dobocan - "KunstVisite"; Graphic Museum Bad Steben: 25 years of the Graphic Museum Foundation Schreiner - "The Collection"
  • 2018: Singulart Art Space, Paris; Mainzer Art Gallery ("Cabinet Pieces")
  • 2017: Point Alpha Foundation, Geisa ("The Cold Truth"); Centro artistico culturale "Il Leone" Roma ("La Seriegraphia"); La Maison des Arts, Paris
  • 2016: Galerie Mainzer Kunst, Mainz ("The visible silence"); Galerie Cornelissen, Wiesbaden, Minamigaoka Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan ("Contemporary graphics"); La Maison des Arts, Paris
  • 2015: Kreuzkirche Wiesbaden ("Borders made tangible in art, film and light"); Kunsthalle Wiesbaden ("AT THE BORDER close-ups. Distant views"); Graphic Museum Foundation Schreiner Bad Steben ("Feminal - The Woman in Contemporary Graphics"); La Maison des Arts, Paris
  • 2014: “Art Private” Iffland AG, Gelnhausen (Hessian companies show their art); MVB Forum Galerie, Mainz (Still! Leben !, painting and drawing); La Maison des Arts, Ville d'Antony, Paris
  • 2013: Documenta-Halle, Kassel ("Art despite (t) poverty", traveling exhibition); Akita Prefectural Art Museum, Akita, Japan (Works on Peper); Art space Toskanische Säulenhalle, Augsburg (artists help the homeless)
  • 2012: State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg; Fiac - Grand Palais , Paris; Gallery Art Mayence, Mainz ("line, drawing, image")
  • 2011: Federal Garden Show Koblenz ("Orchestra sans Musica", installation); Städtische Galerie Rosenheim (“Art despite (t) poverty”); New Justice Center, Koblenz (People - Law and Freedom); Middle Rhine Museum , Koblenz (People - Law and Freedom); Minamingoaka Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan (lovers in the graphic); Graphics Museum Foundation Schreiner, Bad Steben ("The Art Alliance")
  • 2010: Galerie Art Mayence, Mainz (artist of the gallery); Ludwig Galerie Schloß Oberhausen ("To (m) table!" Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection); Akita Prefectural Art Museum, Akita, Japan (contemporary prints)
  • 2009: Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (“Feedback”, works from the collection from Arp to Herold); Snake Bath Art Gallery (“Exposition Surprise”); Städtische Galerie Speyer, Museum of Modern Art, Passau; Rathausgalerie Mainz; Old cotton spinning mill Leipzig etc. ("Art in spite of (t) poverty" traveling exhibition)
  • 2008: Kunstfest Weimar (handover of the sculpture “Violin Soloist” from the “Orchestra sans Musica” for the art collection of the Buchenwald Memorial); Landtag Mainz ("Frei (t) räume - 30 years of freedom"); Art despite (t) poverty, traveling exhibition, etc. a. Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Hanover, Cologne, Bremen, Potsdam
  • 2007: Art in spite of (t) poverty, traveling exhibition a. a. Berlin, Hanover; Galerie Art Mayence, Mainz ("Artists of the Gallery")
  • 2006: Galerie Art Mayence, Mainz ("In the light of nostalgia"); Gallery Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
  • 2005: State Museum Koblenz ; Gallery Cornelissen, Wiesbaden
  • 2004: Marble Palace of the Russian Museum ; Höhn Gallery, Ulm
  • 2003: Alte Patrone, Mainz ("Works on paper")
  • 2002: Foreign Office / Lichthof, Berlin; New Art Gallery, London; New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz; Landesmuseum Koblenz, Koblenz (special project: Installation "Orchestra sans Musica")
  • 2001: Galerie A Part, Paris (“Oeuvres sur papier”); Gutenberg Museum Mainz, in the print shop (old buckle blankets in a new guise); New Art Gallery, London
  • 2000: ZDF Capital Studio Zollernhof , Berlin (handover of the picture wall “Paesaggio del mondo”); Romanian Cultural Institute , Berlin “In the shadow of power” in memory of Martin Luther King , Mainz (handover of the sculpture ensemble); A Part Gallery, Paris
  • 1999: Museo Palazzo Pretorio / Certaldo Alto, Firenze; * 1999: Galerie Métamorphose, Paris; Alpha Gallery, Milano
  • 1997: Academy for Chamber Music / Engers Castle, Neuwied
  • 1996: State Representation Rhineland-Palatinate, Brussels; Métamorphose Gallery, Paris; Manhattan Arts International Competition New York, New York; Gallery Alpha, Milano
  • 1995: Villa Musica , Mainz; Landesbank Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz; Sander Gallery, New York ("Artist of the Gallery")
  • 1994: Representation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bonn (“Encounter of the Arts - Poetry, Music, Painting”); Sander Gallery, New York; Künstlerhaus Edenkoben , Edenkoben / Pfalz (“Encounter of the arts - poetry, music, painting”); State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, Ludwigshafen (special project: installation “Orchestra sans Musica”); Gallery in the old prison, Baden-Baden ("Art in prison")
  • 1993: Kunsthalle Schirn , Frankfurt am Main (installation “Orchestra sans Musica”); Theater am Goetheplatz, Baden-Baden (special project: installation “Orchestra sans Musica”); Frank Pages Gallery, Baden-Baden
  • 1992: State Representation for Rhineland-Palatinate, Bonn; Le Cube Gallery, Paris; Fort Malakoff, Mainz (with Sander Gallery, New York); FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris
  • 1991: Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Edenkoben / Pfalz; Le Cube Gallery, Paris; Sander Gallery, New York ("Artist of the Gallery")
  • 1990: Galerie Hérouet, Paris; Inter-Art, Schlosswil / Bern; FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris; Gallery Holland, Grandville
  • 1989: Galerie Quincampoix, Paris; Galerie Le Cube, Paris Fort Malakoff, Mainz (with Sander Gallery, New York)
  • 1988: Sander Gallery, New York (artist of the gallery); La Maison des Arts, Paris (“Peinture sur papier”); Inter-Art, Schlosswil / Bern; Chicago International Art Expositions, Chicago
  • 1987: Producer Gallery, Zurich; Del Bello Gallery, Toronto; Fort Malakoff, Mainz (with Sander Gallery, New York); La Maison des Arts, Dreux (Le Bleu du ciel)
  • 1986: Municipal gallery “ Villa Streccius ”, Landau; Producer gallery, Zurich; Berlin innovation and start-up center, Berlin; Chicago International Art Expositions, Chicago
  • 1985: Sander Gallery, New York; Chicago International Art Expositions, Chicago
  • 1983: Sander Gallery, New York; Museo de Arta Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (“German Contemporary Art”); Institut Français, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1982: Hambacher Schloss , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • 1981: Museum of the City of Boppard, Boppard; German Parliamentary Society, Bonn; Pfalzgalerie (Sickingen Art Prize), Kaiserslautern
  • 1980: Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier ; Vanvitelli Art Association, Napoli; Jottwedee Gallery, Mainz
  • 1978: Jottwedee Gallery, Mainz; Art Association Steinernes Haus , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1977: Kunstverein Steinernes Haus , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1976: Galerie Helios, Timișoara; Museu de Arte, Timisoara
  • 1975: Bastion Gallery, Timișoara; Museu de Arte, Timisoara
  • 1974: Helios Gallery, Timișoara
  • 1973: Arta Gallery, Kronstadt; Bastion Gallery, Timișoara; Gallery in the Schiller House, Bucharest

literature

  • Dr. Linn Kroneck: Catalog for the exhibition "25 Years of the Graphic Museum Schreiner Foundation - The Collection.", P. 82 FF. 2019
  • Dr. Thomas Bellut , Prof. Dr. Achim Heintz: "Dorél Dobocan 'KunstVisite' Catalog for the exhibition at the KKM Mainz 2019". Published by Friends and Sponsors of the Catholic Hospital Mainz 2019
  • Kulturamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Dorél Dobocan. "At the border - close-ups, distant views". Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wiesbaden 2015
  • Hessian Ministry for Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development (Ed.): "FREI [T] RÄUME" by Dorél Dobocan. In: "Art Private", brochure, p. 23 f, 2014.
  • Stefanie Jung: The sculpture ensemble "In the shadow of power" by Dorél Dobocan in: "111 places in Mainz that you have to see". Ed. Emons Verlag 2012, S 182 FF
  • Graphic Museum (ed.): "The Art Alliance". Catalog for the exhibition in the Graphics Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben. Bad Steben Verlag 2011, pp. 8-11
  • Dieter Stolte: "A Romanian painter". in: My life with ZDF, history and stories. Nicolai Verlag Berlin 2012, pp. 91, 92, 127, 201
  • Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Meyer: "Freedom as a task". Catalog "Dorél Dobocan FREI [T] ROOMS". WALTER Medien Verlag 2011, p. 16 ff
  • Christian Pfarr: "Dorél Dobocan - From the fullness of the half-empty glass", catalog "Dorél Dobocan FREI [T] ROOMS". WALTER Medien Verlag 2011, p. 20 ff
  • Christine Vogt: "At (m) table!" Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection. From antiquity to Picasso, from Dürer to Demand. Kerber Art Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig and Berlin 2010, pp. 68 and 82 ff.
  • Maria Buchwald: "Dorél Dobocan - the artist who conquered hatred". Top Magazin (Mainz-Rheinhessen-Nahe), Watterich Verlag, Koblenz 2010, p. 88 ff
  • Birgit Lehr: "FREI (T) RÄUME", MAINZ - QUARTER YEARS, 2nd, year 2008, p. 86 ff.
  • Anton Uspensky: “The humanist's dialogue or crossing the stage boundary”. Dorél Dobocan in the Russian Museum, Marble Palace, Saint Petersburg The New World of Art 4/39/2004, p. 62, 2004
  • Michael Bonewitz: "From window cleaner to cultural ambassador". Dorél Dobocan in the State Russian Museum / Museum Ludwig in the Russian Museum St. Petersburg. Mainz-Vierteljahresheft, 3rd, year 2004, p. 4, ff
  • Landesmuseum Koblenz (eds.): Michail Gorbachov, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Alexander Borowsky, Joachim Haubrich, Thomas Metz, Jürgen E. Zöllner. "Dialog" Dorél Dobocan. Palace Edition Europe, Landesmuseum Koblenz, Museum Ludwig in the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, 2004, Landesmuseum Koblenz, 2005
  • Entry "Dorél Dobocan". In: Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Munich / Leipzig (KG Saur Verlag) born in 2005.
  • Irina Hermann: "A Mainz in Paris". Mainz - quarterly issue, 22nd year 2002, pp. 107–112
  • Eva Fauth: "The message of the civil rights activist". Mainz - quarterly issue, 21st year 2001
  • Dieter Stolte: "Volcanoes, clouds and seas combine to form a 'world landscape'". ZDF press special from September 1, 2000.
  • "I luoghi del cuore". Dorél Dobocan - Sabrina Taddei. Mostra di pittura Roberta Fiorini. Certaldo / Firenze Museo palazzo pretorio, 1999.
  • Dieter Stolte: "At home in a foreign country". In: "Dorél Dobocan". Exhibition catalog. Mainz 1998, pp. 8-15.
  • "Dorél Dobocan: Sound colors. Hearing and seeing are related". Catalog for the exhibition in Brussels 1996. Mainz / Amsterdam 1996
  • "The artist Dorél Dobocan". In: Yearbook Villa musica 1995–1996.
  • "Dorél Dobocan: There is music in the air". Catalog for the exhibition at Sander Gallery NY New York 1994.
  • Waltraud Borgschulze-Luschny: "Music to hear and see". In: Ministry of Education and Culture (ed.): “Kultursommer - Kaleidoskop 1994”, pp. 56–57
  • Dorél Dobocan "Paintings, watercolors and drawings". THE NEW YORKER, August 15, 1994
  • "Dorél Dobocan - Paintings Of Mysterious". New York Magazine, No. 30, Aug. 1, 1994
  • Manfred Reitz: "Artist - Dorél Dobocan: Warmth in the cold". In: Litterae. Journal of the European Academy of Science and Art, Vol. II / January 1992. Salzburg 1992, pp. 31–34.
  • Maryse Staiber: Review of the exhibition Dorél Dobocan. In: Revue Alsacienne de Littérature, No. 37/1992. Strasbourg 1992, p. 56 f.
  • Conrad Winter: "Barb sayings" With drawings by Dorel Dobocan. Landau / Pfalz (Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH / PVA) 1991.
  • Manfred Reitz: “Warmth in the cold. A portrait of contemporary artists ”. In: Collect, B5909 E, Jan. 1, 1991, Rüti / Zurich (GEMI Verlag GmbH) 1991, p. 48 ff.
  • Wolfgang Schmerfeld: "Dobocan: When the artist cooks". In: VIF Gourmet Journal, B 8181 E, Issue 12, p. 132. Munich (Atlas Verlag) December 1990.
  • Chicago International Art Exposition. Exhibition catalog, 1986.
  • "Dorél Dobocan, Pastel Paintings". In: Art Forum, International. New York, NY April 1985
  • Dorél Dobocan "Pastel Paintings of Landscapes, Interior Scenes and Still Lifes". New York Magazine, 1985. Volume 18, Nos. 14, 16, 17. Volume 27, Nos. 30,31,32
  • Gregor Laschen: "The cold script of pastels". In: Catalog for the exhibition of the Sander Gallery. New York 1985, p. 18 ff.
  • Bence Fritzsche: "Art on the sidelines. Province is a state of the person". A conversation in Atelier Dobocan, Fort Malakoff. In: Atelier, No. 7, 1983, p. 6 ff.
  • Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ed.): "Hambach 1832-1982". A political reading and picture book on the history of freedom and democracy. " Dr. Hanns Krach Verlag, 1982, Mainz 1982, p. 441.
  • Susanne Armbruster: "The Prize Winners". In: "Art in Rhineland-Palatinate - Encounters II". Landau (Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt / PVA) 1980/1981, p. 38 ff.
  • Radu Ionesco: "Dobocan". In: Catalog for the exhibition at KUNSTVEREIN MAINZ, 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Jacobs: The magic rooms of freedom. In: Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung 147/2008 of January 26, 2008.
  2. ^ A b Dieter Lang (responsible): The dream of freedom . In: State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate, The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Hrsg.): StaatsZeitung . No. 29 / 59th year. Mainz August 11, 2008, p. 4 ( edoweb-rlp.de ).
  3. ↑ a b Departure: Tied up again. In: Der Spiegel from April 10, 1978.
  4. ↑ Artwork donated by Dorél Dobocan. Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Marble Palace - Russian Museum ( Memento from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dobocan, Dorel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobocan, Dorel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , People's Republic of Romania