Eduard Micus
Eduard Micus (born July 12, 1925 in Höxter ; † November 16, 2000 in Jesús, Ibiza ) was a German painter .
life and work
Micus came to art in 1943 and 1944 through the Marburg painter and wood cutter Reinhard Schmidhagen (1914–1945). Schmidhagen was one of the artists who maintained contacts with the German resistance against National Socialism . From 1948 to 1952 Micus studied with Willi Baumeister at the Stuttgart Art Academy . In 1952 he created his first pictures, divided by a line, and since 1962 he has divided his pictures, which he called "Coudouses", with a seam. “ The coupons are canvases divided by a central seam, the meditative left halves of the picture facing the moving, active right sides. Micus' pictorial inventions of dichotomy and polarity are exciting, sensitive works. "
In 1962 he took part in the exhibition Gesture, Space, Structure in New German Painting at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and in 1963 he took part in the exhibition Absolute Color - Avantgart 63 in the Simeonstift Museum in Trier . In 1967 he was, alongside, among others, Gerhard Richter and Günther Uecker, a German participant in the 6th San Marino Biennale . From 1965 to 1970 Eduard Micus belonged to the artist group SYN , which represented the idea of holistic art. In 1965 he took part with the group in an anti-happening that the members (including Bernd Berner , Rolf-Gunter Dienst and Klaus Jürgen-Fischer ) organized as a polemic against the “spirit of German art criticism” in front of the Baier Gallery in Mainz . From 1982 he made colored paper collages on fabric and operated the dissolution of the panel picture. Since 1989 he has been involved in woodwork and painted material pictures.
The artist has lived and worked on the Balearic island of Ibiza since 1972 . Works by the artist are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Eivissa / Ibiza. Eduard Micus was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Exhibitions
- List of solo and group exhibitions from 1947 to 2015
- Eduard Micus: Retrospective, Kunstmuseum Ahlen , 2013
- Eduard Micus retrospective 2013 in the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn
Individual evidence
- ↑ Städtische Galerie, Erlangen ( Memento from May 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dieter Honisch et al.: Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1985, p. 532, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Micus, Eduard ( Memento from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 17, 2015)
literature
- Burkhard Leismann, Sasa Hanten (eds.): Eduard Micus . Wienand, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-142-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Micus in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Micus, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Höxter |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2000 |
| Place of death | Jesús, Ibiza |