Johannes Feige

Johannes Feige (born May 4, 1931 in Crimmitschau ) is a painter , graphic artist , wood cutter and wood sculptor who works primarily in Saxony .

biography

Johannes Feige was born on May 4th 1931 in Crimmitschau. In 1936 the family moved to Glauchau / Saxony. From 1937 to 1945 he attended elementary school there. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a carpenter , which he was unable to complete due to a serious illness; Nevertheless, he already found his close relationship with wood here and acquired extensive specialist knowledge.

In 1955 he married his wife Waltraut. With her he has the children Matthias (1956), Michael (1958), Cornelia (1959) and Anett (1964).

From 1952 onwards he worked as a commercial artist. In 1959 he moved into his first own studio in the Glauchau textile mill. From 1981 to 1991 he was able to use rooms in the "Villa Kaiser" in Glauchau as a studio . In 1991, he built an extension to his house in the Gesau district, which he then used as a studio.

Artistic development

Johannes Feige is self-taught . Among his teachers were Carl Michel, whose painting and drawing school he attended from 1962, and the Gersdorf artist Heinz Tetzner . In both of them he discovered the possibilities of expressive design that had a lasting impact on his further work. Feige maintained close artistic contacts with Hans Jüchser , Gerhard Altenbourg and Friedrich Press, among others . Since 1960 Johannes Feige has been the head of a painting and drawing circle in Glauchau. Many of his students later studied at the art college in Dresden or at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale).

In 1968 Johannes Feige was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , although he was self-taught and a professed Christian . In 1973 he had his first personal exhibition in the small gallery in Glauchau. This was followed by a long series of exhibitions of his contemporary works of art, especially in central Germany. From 1978 to 1982 he was appointed as a part-time lecturer in woodcut at the Dresden Art College.

Study trips took him to Central Asia, Siberia, Russia, Armenia, Georgia and a large number of other countries. In 1993 he traveled to Israel, where he symbolically presented works from his work in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and in the monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai . Inspired by Ernst Barlach's sketches of Russia , Johannes Feige took his sketch pad with him on all these trips. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the district of Chemnitzer Land organized an extensive exhibition of his travel sketches in the Sachsenlandhalle in Glauchau.

Exhibitions (selection)

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  1970/1976 Dresden, Galerie Kunst der Zeit
• 1973 Meerane, Small Gallery
• 1975/1981/1991 Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
• 1977 Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Small Gallery
• 1978 Quedlinburg, Kloppstock house
• 1979/1987 Schönfels, Castle Museum
• 1980 Dresden, Kirchentag
• 1981 Dresden, Kreuzkirche
• 1981 Freiberg, Cotta Club
• 1982/1992 Zwickau, Municipal Museum
• 1986 Annaberg-Buchholz, gallery on the market
• 1987 Leipzig, Kirchentag
• 1987 Erfurt, Aegidien Church
• 1990 Sinsheim, town hall
• 1992 Bonn, Bundestag
• 1993 Auerbach, Göltzschtalgalerie
• 1993 Freudenstadt, adult education center
• 1993 Glauchau, Hinterglauchau Castle
• 1993 Oberammergau, Tourist Office
• 1993 Vechta, adult education center
• 1994 Solingen, deaconess house
• 1996 Glauchau, art gluchowe gallery
• 1996 Lichtenstein, State Garden Show
• 1996 Zwickau, gallery at Domhof
• 2015 Zwickau, priest houses

Publications

• Johannes Feige / Ingrid Ebert: Woodcuts for the Bible - Poems and Meditations, Berlin 1989
• Kunstverein der Stadt Glauchau / Galerie art gluchowe: Catalog for the exhibition for the 65th birthday, Glauchau, 1995
• Johannes Feige: The woodcut, Glauchau, 1997
• Johannes Feige: Travel Sketches, Glauchau, 2001

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Feige in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Johannes Feige in the Saxon Bibliography