GL Gabriel-Thieler

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GL Gabriel-Thieler (* 1958 in Munich as Gabriele Lina Henriette Thieler) is a German painter .

life and work

Gabriel-Thieler is the daughter of the painter Fred Thieler . In 1959 she moved to Berlin. In 1976 she began studying with Karl Horst Hödicke at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1981 she was a master class student with Karl Horst Hödicke. In 1982 she received a scholarship and stay in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). In 1984 she received a work grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation for a project by the Goethe Institute in London. Gabriel-Thieler was a member of the jury of the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting from 1994 to 1999 . She traveled to Europe, North and South America and Japan.

In 1979, GL Gabriel was the youngest co-founder of the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin, a self-help gallery that was founded by a group of young artists, mainly painters, who initially came from Karl Horst Hödicke's class at the Berlin University of the Arts and who then became part of the The term Neue Wilde or "Junge Wilde" became known. This group also included Rainer Fetting , Salomé , Bernd Zimmer , Anne Jud and Helmut Middendorf . At that time Gabriel was still studying at the art college. Her works are not about expressively expressing the moment, on the contrary, her pictures “appear as movement stopped for the eye”. This is expressed painterly in the choice of colors that create an atmospheric light, as if they wanted to enchant and enchant the object. Gabriel-Thieler took up the Nordic tradition and developed a style of painting that explored romanticism in the modern era with a new painting technique, differentiated use of color and restrained formal language. Wolf Singer saw it "as the most important concern [of the artist] to imitate exactly those patterns in their pictures that are produced by the imagined world on the retina, then the brain reconstructs exactly this invented reality from them".

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2006: Berlin Potsdam Berlin - painting, drawings, graphics , Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam
  • 2008: Landscape painting , AfIB Academy for International Education Berlin
  • 2009: Berlin - At the Wall , Dietz-Space, New-York
  • 2010: Berlin - At the Wall , Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany New York

Group exhibitions

As a member of the New Group and the German Association of Artists , GL Gabriel participated in almost all of the major annual exhibitions of these two artists' associations between 1978 and 1988.

  • 1978: Great Munich Art Exhibition, New Group
  • 1982: Feeling and Toughness, New Art from Berlin , Kulturhuset , Stockholm, and Kunstverein Munich
  • 1985: Once artistas de Berlin , Centro Cultural, Madrid; Moritzplatz - From the workshop of violent painting , Kunstraum Bonn and Kunstraum Hamburg; Art Berlin 1985 , Peat Marwick, Frankfurt / Main; Young West Art Prize , Recklinghausen Art Gallery ; Berlin Airport , Airport Gallery, Berlin-Tegel
  • 1987: New York in the eyes of Berlin artists , Goethe House, New York; Art LA , Los Angeles; Cityscapes - Pictures in Painting from the 17th Century to the Present , Berlin Museum , Berlin
  • 1988: 36th annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists, Stuttgart
  • 1989: New Generation from Berlin , Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan; In honor of Eberhard Roters. Donations of works on paper , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
  • 1990: Berliner KUNSTstücke , the collection of the Berlinische Galerie as guest in the Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig, and in the Neue Galerie in the Altes Museum Berlin; Art scene Berlin (West) 86-89. Acquisitions by the Senate of Berlin , Berlinische Galerie
  • 1992: Gallery Lebendiges Museum, Berlin
  • 1999: Selected (works on paper from the collection of the German Bundestag), Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic, Bonn
  • 2006: Berlin in picture painting since 1945 from the Stadtmuseum Berlin
  • 2009: FALLMAUERFALL Crossing borders and border experiences in the mirror of art , Stadtmuseum Berlin / Ephraim-Palais
  • 2011: Working since the 70s until today; 1974 - 2011 [on the exhibition Thomas Lange, works since the 70s until today from May 28th - July 30th 2011 in the gallery Poll], curated by Davide Sarchioni [translated by Elisabeth Giansiracusa ...], Poll, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931759-29-2 (illustrated by Thomas Lange, Eva Poll, Lothar C. Poll, Dimitri Angelini, Francesco Biganzoli, Jochen Littkemann).
  • 2012: Metropolis , Kunstverein Kunstliefde Utrecht (Netherlands)
  • 2015: The wild 80s , Städelmuseum Frankfurt am Main
  • 2018/19: The Invention of the New Wild - Painting and Subculture around 1980 , Ludwig Forum , Aachen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Wiesler, Bilderwelten, p. 277 on Fred Thieler.
  2. ↑ First comes the thinking, then comes the art . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , AZ September 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel-Thieler, GL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thieler, Gabriele Lina Henriette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich