Gerd Harry Lybke

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Gerd Harry "Judy" Lybke (born March 8, 1961 in Leipzig ) is a German gallery owner. With his gallery Eigen + Art, he is one of the leading dealers for contemporary painting in Germany.

Life

Lybke grew up in Leipzig-Meusdorf . After graduating from high school, he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in the Kirow works in Leipzig-Lindenau. According to his own statements, he dreamed of becoming a cosmonaut, but hesitated to move to Moscow to study. The subsequently envisaged career as an actor was denied to him in the GDR for political reasons.

In 1983 the 22-year-old became a nude model for painters at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . In the same year he started showing art by friends in his apartment at Körnerplatz 8 in Leipzig. The first exhibition was called The New Unconcrete ; it began on April 10, 1983, marked the birth of the Eigen + Art gallery. After moving to Fritz-Austel-Straße 31 in 1985, Eigen + Art functioned as a workshop gallery. Stasi employees were always part of the audience. In the mid-1980s, Lybke discovered the later world-famous Neo Rauch .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he exhibited the artists with whom he lived and worked in an occupied house in Zentralstrasse at international art fairs. In 1992 he opened another gallery in Berlin. With the reunification he started temporary exhibitions in Tokyo (1990), Paris (1991), Berlin (1992), New York (1993) and London (1994). In 1997 he brought five of his artists to the documenta X .

Lybke represents Ákos Birkás, Birgit Brenner , Marc Desgrandchamps, Martin Eder , Tim Eitel , Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani, Stella Hamberg, Jörg Herold , Christine Hill , Uwe Kowski, Rémy Markowitsch, Maix Mayer, Ryan Mosley , Carsten Nicolai , Olaf Nicolai , Neo Rauch , Ricarda Roggan , Yehuidt Sasportas, David Schnell and Annelies Strba .

Trivia

He is often called Judy , reminiscent of a red-blonde curly head from the American TV series Dear Uncle Bill .

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Machowecz and Adina Rieckmann: "Capitalism has won". In: Zeit Online . April 18, 2013, accessed August 17, 2018 .

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