Jakob Mattner
Jakob Mattner (born February 1, 1946 in Lübeck ) is a German painter and sculptor .
Life
Jakob Mattner studied from 1967 to 1972 at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1973 he received a scholarship from the DAAD for a year studying in Rome ; and in 1974 a one-year scholarship from the Federal Minister of the Interior for a study visit to the Cité des Arts, Paris . In 1977 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize , which enabled him to stay at the "Villa Romana" in Florence. In 1981 he received a work grant from the Art Fund Foundation. In 1994 he received the Heitland Foundation Art Prize. In 2005 he was able to take advantage of project funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF. In 2012 he received a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry for Science and Art at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg. In 2012 he received further project funding from the Art Fund Foundation.
From his first marriage to Verena von Hugo, he has a daughter. His second marriage was to the architect and designer Nana von Hugo .
Jakob Mattner is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives and works in Berlin .
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Mattner sees his artistic interest in the metamorphosis of light between darkness and brightness, the twilight , as one of his work series is called.
His work is shown in numerous solo exhibitions, including in 2018 the exhibition "Membrane" in the Center of Contemporary Art Torun, 2015 in the exhibition "Spiegelungen" in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 2009 in the exhibition " ohne Mimesis " in the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg , in the Kestner Society in Hanover (1988), the Berlin Academy of the Arts (2001), the National Gallery Berlin in the Kunstforum in the Grundkreditbank (1987) as well as in well-known galleries in Berlin, New York, Paris, Moscow, Geneva, Barcelona and London. He has been designing the stage of the Berlin International Literature Festival since 2001 and the stage of the Erlangen Poet Festival since 2013.
From 2003 to 2005 Mattner worked on the initiative of the curator Anna Maigler for two years with the astrophysicists of the Einstein Tower solar observatory in Potsdam on the common theme of the sun , the source of light and vision.
Exhibitions
- The results of this productive exchange between art and science could be seen in the exhibition "The view into the sun. Jakob Mattner and solar researcher of the Einstein Tower" in the Berlinische Galerie , in the Museum Wiesbaden in the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen and in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . (cf. Bildwelten des Wissens, Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik, Humboldt University Berlin, Volume 5.2, (Ed) Horst Bredekamp, Matthias Bruhn and Gabriele Werner, Berlin 2007, p. 90, Interview Franziska Brons (among others) "I am the camera . A conversation with Jakob Mattner ").
- Jakob Mattner's latest works were shown in Mexico City (2014 "on what there might not be", Galeria Marso), at the Center for Art and Media ZKM Karlsruhe (2019 "Negative Space" and 2009 "Notation") or as part of collections ( 2016 "Chinese Whispers, Peter Rauhe Collection, Haus am Waldsee Berlin / 2004 The Pontus Hultén Collection, Moderna Museet Stockholm".
- Jakob Mattner exhibition 2012 in the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn
- In 2013 his works were shown together with works by Mary Bauermeister in the double exhibition Resonanzen at Galerie 401contemporary, Berlin.
Awards
- 1977: Villa Romana Prize , Florence
- 1981: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
- 1994: Art Prize of the Heitland Foundation , Celle
- 2019: 1st prize winner of the Volker Skulima Art Foundation , Berlin
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Mattner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Jakob Mattner
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "M" / Jakob Mattner (accessed on November 12, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mattner, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |