Guido Sieber

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Guido Sieber (* 1963 in Karlsruhe ) is a German painter , graphic artist and former comic artist .

Life

Guido Sieber was born in Karlsruhe. At the age of ten, in 1973, he moved the family to West Berlin and became part of the Berlin subculture in the 1980s . At first he was mainly interested in the city's club and music scene, through which he came to illustration and painting. His illustrations appeared in the magazines Tip , Zitty , Ticket, Eulenspiegel , as well as in Spiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Zeit , Geo and Rolling Stone . He also made a name for himself as a comic artist. Albums with his short stories were released by the publishers Carlsen Comics , Achterbahn and Semmel-Verlach . At the turn of the millennium he gave up illustration entirely in favor of painting. Occasionally he still designed record covers, e.g. B. for the Berlin label Oriente Musik . Guido Sieber is represented by Alexander Friedmann-Hahn's gallery in Berlin.

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Sieber's themes as a comic artist in the 1990s were the “quirks of decadent petty bourgeoisie”, which were published in several albums.

In painting, Sieber prefers to work in acrylic and groups the resulting paintings into series. You are witnesses of his examination of the world of music in all its facets, ups and downs and all of its human abysses. The topos of the deconstructed pop idol runs like a leitmotif through his work Rock `n Roll Fever, which the artist implemented together with the writer Franz Dobler . Iconographic reminiscences of the music of the 30s to 70s, sketch a panorama of lived and painted music history. He chooses extraordinary types and characters as his models. Portraits of the better society as well as eccentric personalities of the bohemian or the typical Berlin milieu are created. Dealing with, literally, the material “human”, revealing breaks and dissonances are the new ingredients of his portraits of society.

The Berliner Zeitung described his style as figurative realism in the style of Otto Dix , George Grosz and Christian Schad .

reception

“Like Otto Dix in the Weimar Republic, Sieber portrays the ugly grimace of the society in which he lives. He relentlessly shows varicose veins, wrinkles, pimples and hairy warts. It shows the real, everyday abysses of ugliness, brutality and transience and is therefore perhaps more cruel than Janssen and Giger put together. After all, the most terrible abyss is always within oneself. "

- Jacek Slaski on the exhibition Abfalls with HR Giger, Horst Janssen and Guido Sieber : Berliner Zeitung from July 22, 2008

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2006: Stuffed olives in blue bongo nights , Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
  • 2004: Guido Sieber , Krüger Museum , Bad Rehburg
  • 2003: Moving Moments , Moritzbastei , Leipzig
  • 1999: Guido Sieber , Galerie am Chamissoplatz, Berlin
  • 1999: Guido Sieber , Galerie Kramer, Hamburg
  • 1997/1998: Guido Sieber , Private Art Museum, Hamburg
  • 1996: Guido Sieber , Visual Blues & Jazz Gallery, Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • 2018: Salon exhibition , Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
  • 2017: Art Essences XIV , Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
  • 2017: Caricatura , Kassel
  • 2016: Group exhibition , Galerie Richter, Lütjenburg
  • 2015: 8th Caricature Triennial , Greiz
  • 2014: Art Essences IX , Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
  • 2013: Group exhibition , Hospital Museum / Gallery in the Park (Bremen)
  • 2012: Kunstessenzen III , Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
  • 2011: Caricatura , Kassel
  • 2009: 6th Caricature Triennial , Greiz
  • 2007: Caricatura , Kassel
  • 2006: 5th Triennial of Caricature , Greiz
  • 2003: 4th Triennial of Caricature , Greiz
  • 2000: Beautifully terrible , Galerie Kramer, Hamburg
  • 1999/2000: Eating and Gluttony , Ricarda Fox Gallery, Essen
  • 1997: Jazz in contemporary art , Vizz Galerie, Berlin
  • 1995: Jesses,… Christo , Galerie am Chamissoplatz (Berlin) 1995
  • 1994: 1st Caricature Triennial , Greiz
  • 1993: Salon International de la Bande Dessinee , Angouleme
  • 1992–1995: La revanche de Revanche , Goethe-Institut (traveling exhibition with other locations: Paris , Bordeaux , Toulouse , Nancy , Karlsruhe , Düsseldorf , Stuttgart , Mainz , Rio de Janeiro )

Works in museums

Works

literature

Lexicons

  • Patrick Gaumer: Guido Sieber. In: Dictionnaire mondial de la BD, Paris: Larousse , 2010, pp. 778-779

Monographs

  • Alexander Friedmann-Hahn: Guido Sieber. Strange Adventures . Berlin: Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, 2015

Magazines

  • Vincent Echenique: Comical in tragedy. Satiric revelation of Illusion ... Guido Sieber's Work! Published in: CHROM Art Magazine , September 10, 2018 Article online
  • Kathi Lambrecht: Berlin still life with orange peel. the painter Guido Sieber shows his mercilessly honest society portraits in the Friedmann-Hahn gallery. Published in: Berliner Zeitung , on March 20, 2016, p. 14
  • Julia Marre: The hearty perspective. Guido Sieber sees people as unpretentious. Published in: Deister- und Weserzeitung , on August 28, 2011 Article online
  • Kathi Lambrecht: The colorful gloom of rock'n'roll. In: Berliner Zeitung , on July 28, 2011, p. 26
  • Jan Küveler: "Blowjobs on the house". Guido Sieber and Franz Dobler paint and tell the story of rock'n'roll. Published in: Die Welt , on December 30, 2010 Article Online
  • Christof Meueler: Shifting the rocks. A book by Guido Sieber (pictures) and Franz Dobler (text) saves the term rock'n'roll. In: Junge Welt , on December 16, 2010, p. 13
  • Ambros Waibel : Star cuts. Rock'n'Roll. Franz Dobler and Guido Sieber in the Caricatura Museum in Frankfurt am Main. In: Taz , December 16, 2010, p. 16
  • Christian Riethmüller: The Caricatura Museum for Komische Kunst is showing “Guido Sieber - Rock'n'Roll Fever”. Star cuts of a different kind. Published in: Offenbach-Post , on October 29, 2010 Article online
  • Michael Hierholzer: The ugly in fellow human beings as a concert goer. Guido Sieber and Franz Dobler tell the story of rock'n'roll in the Museum of Comical Art in Frankfurt . Published in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on September 29, 2010 (print) and September 28 online
  • Dirk Krampitz: Dit Milljöh from the new Zille. Guido Sieber paints Berliners like Brush-Heinrich and shows them in a gallery "of today and holds a dialogue with Zille. Published in: Berliner Zeitung , on September 11, 2009
  • Ingeborg Ruthe: Urban designs are not beautiful, but rare. Guido Sieber paints “Milljöhs” of today and holds a dialogue with Zille. Published in: Berliner Zeitung , on September 10, 2009
  • Jacek Slaski: HR Giger, Horst Janssen, Guido Sieber. The citadel shows three artists and their abysses. Dark dreams, real warts . Published in: Berliner Zeitung , on July 22, 2008 Article online
  • Kito Nedo: gangster ballads. The bad and the ugly, but fine, please: Guido Sieber delights in crime. Published in: Berliner Zeitung , April 1st, 2008
  • Irmgard Hochreither: Guido Sieber. Painter . Published in: Stern in the report In search of lost happiness , No. 1/2002, p. 94
  • Jürgen Pander, Philip Wesselhöft: Deutscher Strich makes a career . In: Stern , No. 2/1993, p. 94

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comics. From mass paper to multimedia adventure, Berlin: Rowohlt Verlag , p. 308
  2. ↑ Kito Nedo: The bad and the ugly, but fine, please: Guido Sieber delights in crime . Berliner Zeitung , April 1, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic author, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe