Gerhard Merz (artist)
Gerhard Merz (born May 25, 1947 in Mammendorf , Fürstenfeldbruck district ) is a German artist.
life and work
From 1969 to 1973 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and became a master student of Rudi Tröger . Between 1964 and 1969, inspired by Francis Bacon and Uwe Lausen , she created expressive pictures and, as a result, the first metal sculptures. Since the beginning of the 1970s he has been working increasingly successfully with room installations in which he made references to literary and art history as well as to political history, as well as with the development of large-format, monochrome pictures covered with lines of pencil lines. In the building of the Foreign Office in Bonn he designed a wall with a large multicolored mosaic.
Beginning in 1977, his works were represented four times in a row at the documenta in Kassel .
It was 1983, the Arnold Bode Prize of the documenta - Kassel awarded. In 1991 he received a reputation as a professor at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf . In 1998/1999 he was commissioned to design the rooms as part of the renovation of the old building of the Foreign Office in Berlin in a joint project with the architect Hans Kollhoff . In 2004 he switched to a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .
Gerhard Merz lives and works in Munich and Pescia , Italy .
Exhibitions
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1978: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich
- 1981: Westkunst , Cologne
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
- 1984: From here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
- 1986: Chambres d'Amis , Gent
- 1987: documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1989: Gallery Museum, Bozen
- 1992: documenta IX , Kassel
- 1992: Gerhard Merz - Archipitura , Deichtorhallen Hamburg
- 1997: Venice Biennale , Venice
- 1997: Art Association Bozen
- 2000: Kunstverein Hannover , Hannover
- 2002: Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- 2003: Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz
literature
- Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945 1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , (National Gallery, State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
- Markus Klammer : Gerhard Merz. Bozen-Bolzano. Kunstverein Bozen, Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 1997. ISBN 3-85256-071-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Merz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Gerhard Merz (artist) in the documenta archive
- Photo: Gerhard Merz
- Federal Office for Spatial Affairs and Building Regulations: Gerhard Merz: Foreign Office (old building) . (Two photos)
- Markus Klammer, passages. Gerhard Merz. 1998 , PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 234 .
- ↑ Exhibitions , at markusklammer.it (accessed June 15, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merz, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mammendorf near Munich |