Heiko Pippig

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Heiko Pippig (* 1951 in Mosbach , Germany ) is a German painter .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1971, Pippig studied graphics and design at the Werkkunstschule (now Mannheim University of Applied Sciences ) in Mannheim . From 1973 to 1978 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Hans Baschang , Peter Ackermann and Markus Lüpertz . In 1988 he received the one-year scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation. From 1988 to 1989 he completed a study visit with Bernhard Heisig at the Leipzig University of Art and Graphics on a working scholarship .

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General

The artist's work has its central core in large-format acrylic and oil paintings on canvas , which show a pictorial, figurative “world theater”. Drawings , still lifes and portrait painting have supplemented the oeuvre in recent years . The actress and patron Marianne Sägebrecht and the actor and collector Helmut Berger were portrayed by him. There is a permanent exhibition of the artist in the luxury hotel Victoria in Bad Mergentheim . He has also furnished eight suites with murals and original works. Works by the artist are in the Würth Collection , Künzelsau, in the Bayerischer Hof Munich, in the Otto Geisel Collection and in the possession of the city of Mosbach (historic town hall).

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Stylistically, the work can be divided into three phases:

1st phase: end of the 70s / mid 80s: The pictures are shaped by gestural expressionism. From the mid-1980s onwards, abstraction became more geometric, and figurative abbreviations appeared. The artist is concerned with the subject of "king" and "servant", he creates his motifs and the like. a. from legends and fairy tales. They reflect generally applicable social hierarchies. The color palette is often monochrome or limited to a few contrasting, mostly muted colors; quartz pigments are mixed into the color material.

2nd phase: mid-80s / early 2000s: Pippig turned to figurative painting. His large-format pictures show individual figures, couples, portraits and nudes. As commissioned work z. B. Portraits of the actor Helmut Berger, the art dealer Axel Benz, the hotelier Otto Geisel or the ARD director Fritz Raff. The portraits of people are designed as character portraits that reflect a type, a certain feeling or a way of feeling. Thematic associations from art history resonate in figure and nude painting: z. B. Vanitas motif, beauty ideal, the body as a mirror of the soul. In terms of posture and expressive gestures, Pippig often refers to classical pictorial inventions from antiquity, renaissance and baroque, which he interprets in an expressionistically free style. The style of the lines and the modeling of the forms is impulsive and generous. The color space is designed uniformly, the coloristic impulse is co-determined by the color of the background.

3rd phase: From the mid-2000s: Abstract elements increasingly penetrate the figurative paintings. In addition to the human portraits, there are their own cycles of motifs: African skirts, masks, still lifes. The artist deals with religious topics, some of which he encodes symbolically, and he reflects on the position of the artist in society. The figurative motifs dissolve into outlines and become part of an abstraction given with furious brushstrokes. The colors become stronger and more contrasting, the brushstroke and composition are expressively free, the paint is applied in opaque layers, sometimes in relief-like layers. Heiko Pippig's main topic is people. This theme is often varied in terms of motifs and played out in different styles. In the early and again in the late work, the figures are supplemented by symbolic, sometimes ambiguous attributes or placed in a narrative context.

Exhibitions

  • 1983 State Academy of Fine Arts , Karlsruhe
  • 1986 Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Mosbach, town hall
  • 1987 Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden (with Karin Hochapfel, Jorn Kausch, Jeanette Oellers)
  • 1993 "Human portraits - painting", culture area Sulzfeld
  • 1994 Galerie von Abercron, Munich in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art Munich
  • 1994 New York, Art Fair (with Rainer Fetting and Salomé)
  • 1996 Saarländischer Rundfunk, Halberg Castle, Saarbrücken
  • 1997 Bayerischer Hof, Munich
  • 2002 Fine Art Gallery, former Munich Palace Theater
  • 2008 Langensteinbach Art Association
  • 2009 Art Association Neckar-Odenwald, Mosbach
  • 2010 Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald and Kunstverein Oberlausitz, Görlitz
  • 2010 Move It, Cologne, Altes Pfandhaus and Wallfraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
  • 2011 "The Karlsruhe Years", Abercron Gallery, Munich
  • 2012 "Blue Machine", Galerie Antik Mosbach 2017 Opening of the official Heiko Pippig House, Mosbach, Schlossgasse 5

literature

  • Andreas Franzke (Ed.): Heiko Pippig: Painting, Graphics; Exhibition in the atrium d. State Akad. D. Fine Arts Karlsruhe, from November 15 to December 9, 1983, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe: Vereinigung d. Friends d. Art Academy Karlsruhe, 1983
  • Karin Hochapfel, Jørn Kausch, Jeanette Oellers, Heiko Pippig, exhibition catalog of the Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden 1986
  • Walter Jung and Heiko Pippig: Exhibition by the Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1985
  • Edward Lucie-Smith: Adam. The male body in art, Munich 1999
  • Move it! Catalog for the exhibition in Cologne, Altes Pfandhaus and Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne 2010
  • Heiko Pippig: Painting, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, exhibition catalog 1986
  • Heiko Pippig: Exhibition catalog of the Irene Maeder Gallery. With a foreword by Wolfgang Hartmann, Karlsruhe 1988
  • Heiko Pippig: Cain and the Sleepers, Munich, Edition Galerie 54, 1992
  • Heiko Pippig: Contemporary Expressionism. Catalog for the exhibition of the Galerie von Abercron and the Museum of Modern Art, Munich 1994
  • Heiko Pippig: pictures of kings, mythical creatures, myths, Munich 1997
  • Heiko Pippig: staging and reflection. The self-portraits. Catalog of the gallery of Abercron, Munich 2009
  • Heiko Pippig: athletes. Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the exhibition "Move It" in Cologne, Galerie von Abercron, Munich 2010
  • Heiko Pippig: Passionate painting. Expressionism of the present, Munich 2011
  • Gundula Schneidewind (Ed.): Heiko Pippig - Painting. Catalog for the exhibition of the Neckar-Odenwald Art Association, Mosbach 1986

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  1. ↑ [1] Kunststiftung BW (accessed October 4, 2008)
  2. ↑ A description of Helmut Berger's encounter with Heiko Pippig can be found in: Helmut Berger: Ich. The Autobiography, Berlin 1998, 2nd edition, p. 169 f.
  3. ^ GaultMillau Germany 2005, Christian Verlag, Munich ISBN 3-88472-639-0
  4. ↑ Insight, outlook, overview. Würth Collection, Swiridoff-Verlag, Künzelsau, 2001, Volume 2., p. 1192
  5. ↑ Münchner Merkur: "Nobel suites in Munich: A fitted kitchen for Mick Jagger", article published on September 19, 2009
  6. ↑ Heiko Pippig: King pictures, mythical creatures, myths. The Pictures of the Karlsruhe Years, Galerie von Abercron, Munich 1997, pp. 4–7
  7. ↑ For the motifs from sagas and antiquity s. Wolfgang Hartmann in: Heiko Pippig, exhibition catalog of the Irene Maeder Gallery, Munich 1988, p. 4
  8. ^ "Sculpture with color", lecture given on February 21, 2008 on the occasion of the exhibition Heiko Pippig, Karlsbad / Langensteinbach, typescript
  9. ↑ On the change in subject cf. the self-statement of the artist, in: Heiko Pippig. The painter's book. Reflections and reports from Unterwegs, 2009, typescript
  10. ↑ An overview in: Heiko Pippig, Passionate Painting, Munich 2011
  11. ↑ A report on the exhibition and Markus Lüpertz's visit in: Saarbrücker Zeitung, 1996, No. 66, from March 18, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Pippig, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosbach