Hartwig Ebersbach
Hartwig Ebersbach (born May 17, 1940 in Zwickau ) is a German painter .
life and work
Hartwig Ebersbach grew up as the son of a teacher in Zwickau. After attending the painting and drawing school (MuZ) with Carl Michel and painting lessons with Tatjana Lietz in his hometown, he studied painting with Bernhard Heisig from 1959 to 1964 at the Leipzig Academy of Graphics and Book Art . From 1979 to 1983 he was teaching experimental art there. He was a founding member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig and a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts as well as a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
His expressive, semi-abstract and thickly applied pictures are influenced by Asger Jorn and the CoBrA group . Ebersbach became known in particular through his "Kaspar" series.
In 1985 he was awarded the Düsseldorf Art Prize for Artists . In 2006, in Reutlingen , he was awarded the Jerg Ratgeb Prize, jointly donated by the city of Reutlingen and the “Friends of HAP Grieshaber ” . This was connected with an exhibition in the municipal art museum Spendhaus Reutlingen and a catalog. In 2017 he received the Max Pechstein Prize of Honor from the City of Zwickau, combined with an exhibition in the Zwickau Art Collections - Max Pechstein Museum and a catalog.
Works by Hartwig Ebersbach are in the art collection of the German Bundestag , the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen , the State Museums in Berlin, National Gallery , the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , the Sunshang Art Collection, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou (China) , the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg (Russia) and many other museums.
Hartwig Ebersbach is the brother of Wolfram Ebersbach .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1986: Installation of his Leipzig apartment in the canvas house in Frankfurt am Main
- 1992 and 2002: Extensive exhibitions were on view in the Magdeburg Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen . Important works belong to the collection of this museum, such as Erdblitz II (2002). In the church you can also see the large Sinesise Malelei from 1998.
- 1996: Hartwig Ebersbach. Paintings, installations, sculptures. Retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
- 2006: Made in Leipzig. Pictures from a city , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2007: Passion for Art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2011: FOCUS: Abstraction - Works from the Essl Collection , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
- 2017: behind the mask. Artists in the GDR , Museum Barberini , Potsdam
Honors
- 2017: Max Pechstein Prize (Honorary Prize)
Book illustrations
- Guntram Vesper : The Sickness of Writing . Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-922510-95-7 .
- Joseph Roth : Hotel Savoy . With 8 original woodcuts by Hartwig Ebersbach. The Graphic Books, Volume 26, Faber & Faber, 2004.
Portraits
Movie:
- The painter Hartwig Ebersbach - attempt at an interpretation. Germany 2007. Director: Norbert Wartig (* 1973). Production: LNW Film.
Book:
- Norbert Wartig: Studio talks with Hartwig Ebersbach. LNW, 2009.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hartwig Ebersbach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hartwig Ebersbach's website
- Dialogue - with the Leipzig painter Hartwig Ebersbach , Kulturkurier Magdeburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition Behind the Mask. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ The 2017 Max Pechstein Prize goes to Hartwig Ebersbach. In: zwickau.de. March 30, 2017, accessed March 30, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebersbach, Hartwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |