Harald Toppel

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Oscer Pioppi with traghetto model

Harald Oskar Wilhelm Toppel (born November 20, 1949 in Berlin-Johannisthal ) is a German painter, graphic artist, collagist and draftsman. He uses the pseudonym Oscer Pioppi , previously HOW Art Toppel and H.Toppl . Toppel was one of the younger protagonists of East Berlin's lyrical abstraction in the mid-1980s and during the 1990s .

Life

After attending Ingeborg Hunzinger's ceramics workshop and drawing courses with Dieter Goltzsche in the Fine Art Studio in Berlin-Köpenick , he studied from 1973 to 1978 at the Dresden Art Academy with professors Gerhard Kettner and Christian Hasse, among others . Toppel has been working as a freelance painter and graphic artist since 1979. In 1993 he received a working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation, Berlin, and in 1994 the Berlin Art Prize . Harald Toppel lives mainly in Berlin and works in the surrounding area, including in Bernd Hornung's third floor printing workshop in Zehdenick . Long study trips take him to Italy and Switzerland again and again.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989: Rotunda Gallery, State Art Dealership in the Altes Museum, Berlin
  • 1996: New Berlin Art Association , Berlin-Mitte
  • 1998: Derrière les Jardins / kitchen pictures ; Brecht House Gallery, Berlin-Weißensee
  • 2003: Workshop 3rd floor - etchings h. & T. printed ; Gallery in the tower, Berlin
  • 2004: Giuseppes Gardens - Temperamalreih'n & Tuschen a'Papier at DAZ Diktiertechnik, Berlin
  • 2005: chrysanthemum marmot manifestation ; Gallery Burg Klempenow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • 2005/2006: Decor Mumure ; gallery parterre, Berlin
  • 2010: Oscer Pioppi / pictures ; Gallery at Savignyplatz, Berlin
  • 2011: grafiche e disegni sovrapposti ; Terme del Tufaro, Contursi (SA), Italy
  • 2012: giardini peppes - tuschen & collages ; Frebel Gallery, Westerland
  • 2013: PIOPPISTOPOLATOPPELSPIOPPI / painting, graphics ; Zehdenick monastery gallery.
  • 2015: Oscer Pioppi, Hans Scheib at Deutsche Wohnen AG; GEHAG FORUM, Berlin

Public collections

Some of his works can be seen in public collections:

Literature (selection)

  • Catalog Berlin-Berlin / 17 artists ; Texts by Renate Lepsius and Uwe Kolbe ; Weinheim: Art Association, 1989
  • H.Toppl - works on cardboard and paper ; Foreword by Roland März ; Pano-Pono-Verlag, 1992
  • Harald Toppl. An artist book on the occasion of the exhibition New Works from May 17 to 26, 1996 at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein ; Berlin: New Berlin Art Association, 1996
  • Klaus Hammer: Kitchen Pictures ; in: Der Tagesspiegel, edition of January 18, 1999
  • Catalog Art in the GDR ; Accompanying text by Eugen Blume; Berlin: New National Gallery, 2003
  • Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder (Eds.): Limited - excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961–1989 ; Studies by the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000; ISBN 3-05-003348-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Untitled, 1994 from the exhibition of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
  2. ↑ Reading selection from Restricted - excluded from Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Toppel, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toppel, Harald Oskar Wilhelm (full name); Art Toppel (pseudonym); tOpPL (pseudonym); Pioppi, OV (pseudonym); HOWart (pseudonym); Toppl, Harald (pseudonym); dai Pioppi, Oscer Vilelmo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Johannisthal