Gerhard Opitz (painter)

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Gerhard Opitz (born April 14, 1942 in Hochdonn ( Holstein ); † June 29, 1999 in Tuttlingen ) was a German painter and object artist.

Life

Opitz grew up in Dithmarschen and Hamburg . He initially trained as a decorator at Karstadt AG in Hamburg and then turned to freelance artistic activities. In 1970 he moved to Stuttgart , where he worked as an employee at the Rosenthal company , and had his first solo exhibition. From 1972 he worked in Tuttlingen as a freelance artist. Numerous exhibitions and participation in exhibitions followed from 1977.

In 1983, after a competition, he received the order for the artistic design of the foyer in the new building of the town hall of Tuttlingen (creation of the mural "Layers" as well as a large abstract sculpture made of iron and stainless steel).

Other works are in public ownership ( State Gallery Stuttgart , District Office Tuttlingen, Ministry for Science, Research and Art Stuttgart, Regional Council Freiburg , City of Bex , City Art Collection Gelsenkirchen ). Opitz stayed in Liguria for a long time . He was a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg.

Opitz married in 1969 and had a son and a daughter who died in an accident in 1979.

Gerhard Opitz succumbed to cancer in 1999.

plant

The entire work shows a wide variety of designs, mainly experimental works with different, unusual materials and techniques; It is dominated by his models such as Beuys, Tapiès, Rauschenberg, Zangs, the groups “Fluxus” and “Zéro”, but also the Italian trend of “arte povera”, but impresses with genuine, idiosyncratic and innovative work designs. The oeuvre includes hundreds of large-format cloth objects, material images, metal sculptures, paintings, drawings and collages. On the occasion of the Opitz memorial exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Tuttlingen in January 2001, the mayor of the city praised the artistic commitment and work with the following words: "The influx of visitors shows the great appreciation that the people of Tuttlingen have for the artist, who died in 1999," said Koloczek. The city also owes a lot to Gerhard Opitz. He helped shape and shape the regional art scene. At the beginning of the 1970s, Opitz was one of the engines that made modern art even noticed and exhibited in Tuttlingen. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1980: Art Association Gelsenkirchen
  • 1981: Kunstverein Stuttgart
  • 1988: Tuttlingen Art District, Municipal Gallery (catalog)
  • 1991: Arte Coppo, Verviers (Belgium)
  • 1992: VHS gallery, Bad Oeynhausen
  • 1993: Municipal gallery in the tower, Donaueschingen
  • 1995: "Old School", Sigmaringen
  • 1995: Art Association Radolfzell "Villa Bosch"
  • 1998: Spaichingen town hall
  • 2001: (posthumously) Städtische Galerie Tuttlingen (comprehensive commemorative exhibition "Retrospective" with catalog)
  • 2015: (posthumously) Tabak Gallery in the Bürgerhaus, Renquishausen

Holdings

  • 1977: Rottweil art space
  • 1977: State Pavilion Stuttgart Artists Association of Baden-Württemberg, Esslingen
  • 1978: Large art exhibition, Munich
  • 1978: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 1979: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
  • 1979: German Association of Artists, Stuttgart
  • 1980: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim
  • 1980: German Association of Artists, Hanover
  • 1981: Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Esslingen
  • 1981: German Association of Artists, Nuremberg
  • 1981: Art Association, Pforzheim
  • 1982: Municipal Gallery Tuttlingen
  • 1982: Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 1982: Fornaci Ibis di Cunardo, Varese (Italy)
  • 1988: Traveling exhibition "Kreuzwege", Osnabrück, Nordhorn, Schwäbisch Hall, Stuttgart
  • 1988: Traveling exhibition "Risse", Aalen, Biberach, Sindelfingen
  • 1988: "Selestat 88", Selestat (France)
  • 1989: BBK Südbaden, Freiburg
  • 1989: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt / M.
  • 1990: Black Monastery, Freiburg 1991 ICIT, Imperia (Italy)
  • 1990: Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1994: Art Association, Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 1995: Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen
  • 1995: Art Association, Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 1996: Art Association, Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 1997 Municipal Gallery, Bühl
  • 1997: Maison de la Bellone, Brussels (Belgium)
  • 1998: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Verviers (Belgium)

literature

  • Günther Wirth : Art in the German Southwest: from 1945 to the present , Stuttgart 1982
  • Gerhard Opitz: Cloth objects-tearing objects-material pictures , gallery of the city of Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen 1988
  • Isabel Grüner: Gerhard Opitz: From picture to object - from object to picture. Works on felt board, paper and fabric. Tettnang 1998
  • Gerhard Opitz (1942–1999): Pictures, Objects . Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen 2001
  • Riewert Ehrich: Gerhard Opitz through his pictures . In: Gerhard Opitz (1942–1999): Pictures, Objects . Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen 2001, pp. 12–24.
  • Stefan Simon: As if several artists were at work - the Opitz retrospective brought the gallery a record number of visitors at the opening yesterday . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 15, 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Simon: As if several artists were at work - Opitz retrospective brought the gallery a record number of visitors at the opening yesterday. Ed .: In: Schwäbische Zeitung from January 15, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochdonn ( Holstein )
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1999
Place of death Tuttlingen