Doris Ziegler
Doris Ziegler (born March 14, 1949 in Weimar ) is a German painter who, in her paintings at the end of the 1980s, thematized the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR .
Life
Doris Ziegler studied painting from 1969 to 1974 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer . From 1972 to 1981 she was married to the painter Thomas Ziegler . The connection resulted in a son (* 1977). In 1989 she was an assistant in the field of painting at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig. From 1993 to 2014 she held a professorship for basic studies there. Doris Ziegler lives in Leipzig.
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The first representational works were created in the 1970s in the former GDR . Ziegler mainly devoted himself to figure paintings and cityscapes. Triggered by the mother's clinical picture, between 1999 and 2005 she dealt with the situation of Alzheimer's patients who have to spend their old age in a nursing home or nursing home.
At the end of the 1980s, Ziegler's paintings of demonstrations and crowds such as Passage 1 (1988, oil on linen, 160 × 175 cm) or Aufbruch Straße (1989, oil on linen, 120 × 130 cm), which were created in times of social upheaval, the fall of the Berlin Wall . Her series of “Passagenbilder” from 1988 to 1993 deal with the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR and the upheaval of that time in the Leipzig Passagen. The picture cycle has been part of the exhibition Point of no Return. Turning and upheaval in East German art in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig has a separate room dedicated to it.
Solo exhibitions
- 1983 Doris Ziegler , Small Gallery South, Leipzig
- 1990 Doris Ziegler , Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder
- 1990 Doris Ziegler. From Leipzig to Amsterdam , Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen
- 1991 Doris Ziegler , Exhibition Center of the University of Leipzig in the Kroch House, Leipzig
- 1992 Doris Ziegler , Bayerische Vereinsbank , Munich
- 1997 Doris Ziegler , Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich
- 2000 Doris Ziegler. Still life , Panitzsch Art Association
- 2000 Doris Ziegler , Women's Museum , Bonn
- 2005 Doris Ziegler. Augenlust , Galerie Kunstantin, Herne
- 2006 Doris Ziegler , Kunstverein Südsauerland, Olpe
- 2007 Doris Ziegler , CasArte Gallery, Aschaffenburg
- 2006 Doris Ziegler , Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
- 2010 Doris Ziegler. Dry dock , Galerie Irrgang Leipzig
- 2012 Doris Ziegler. Life architecture , Burgk Castle , Saale
- 2016 Doris Ziegler. Am Kanal , Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
- 2018 Doris Ziegler. Long farewells , Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt / Oder
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 1988 Venice Biennale
- 1989 Young painting of the 80s from the GDR , Solothurn / Switzerland
- 1989 Konturen , Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin
- 1992 Between expressivity and objectivity , Women's Museum , Bonn
- 1997 Lust and burden. Leipzig Art after 1945 , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig; Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
- 2000 Gabriele Münter Prize , Women's Museum, Bonn
- 2007 Since Leipzig , Gut Conow, Wittenhagen
- 2009 Not without us. Exhibition at four locations on non-conformist art in the GDR , Dresden
- 2009 Landscape Gallery Irrgang, Leipzig
- 2010 Gender Check , Mumok , Vienna
- 2011 discovered. Rebel artists of the GDR , Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 2015 With Tübke on the beach. Leipzig painter in Ahrenshoop , Ahrenshoop Art Museum
- 2015 Object is Mediation and Poetry , Grassimuseum , Leipzig
- 2016 Palau feeling , Galerie Irrgang Berlin
- 2016 The wild 80s in German-German painting , Potsdam Museum
- 2019 point of no return. Turning point and upheaval in East German art , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
Work documentation (selection)
- Doris Ziegler. Painting, drawing , exhibition catalog, Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder 1990
- Doris Ziegler. From Leipzig to Amsterdam , Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen , Oberhausen 1990.
- Doris Ziegler. Dry dock , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2010.
- Doris Ziegler. Home! , Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2013.
Literature (selection)
- Contours. Works by GDR artists born since 1949 . Exhibition on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR. Nationalgalerie from October 5 to December 3, 1989. National Museums in Berlin, 1989.
- Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen , Frank Zöllner , a matter of opinion. Leipzig painters and their city , Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-9541-5039-7 .
- Point of no return. Turn and upheaval in East German art , ed. by Alfred Weidinger , Paul Kaiser and Christoph Tannert, Hirmer Verlag Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7774-3408-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Doris Ziegler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the artist
- Biography of Doris Ziegler at De Gruyter , accessed on August 2, 2019
- Short biography on whoswho.de
- Doris Ziegler on artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ see biography at De Gruyter , accessed on August 2, 2019
- ↑ Exhibition review by Antje Scherer on May 26, 2018 on moz.de, accessed on August 2, 2019
- ^ Exhibition review on Point of no Return on Deutschlandfunk with a picture of a painting by Doris Ziegler, accessed on August 2, 2019
- ^ Exhibition review on Point of no Return on the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk website , accessed on August 2, 2019
- ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe's exhibition review on July 25, 2019 in the Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on August 2, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziegler, Doris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |