Karlheinz Ziegler (painter)

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Karlheinz Ziegler (born September 12, 1935 in Berlin ; † August 14, 2008 Heiliger See , Potsdam ) was a German painter and co-founder of the School of New Magnificence .

life and work

Karlheinz Ziegler was born on September 12, 1935 in the Tempelhof district of Berlin as the son of the precision mechanic Karl Ziegler and his wife Sieglinde. He attended the Eckener high school in the Tempelhof district of Mariendorf and graduated there in 1956 with the Abitur. He gave up his original career aspiration as an art teacher during his school days in favor of his new goal as an artist. In 1953 he began to paint pictures, which he confidently showed. The first exhibition can be one in his school that he did together with a classmate. He attended the adult education courses of the painter Wilhelm Körber and the graphic artist Gerda Rotermund , where he developed a close relationship with Körber. In addition, he took private lessons with Erik Richter in Plön in 1953, 1956 and 1958, partly during his vacation . In addition to the works of Franz Radziwill, these two painters exerted the greatest influence on him.

At that time in Berlin-Schöneberg based Academy of Fine Arts he expected a solid education 1956th He broke it off in disappointment because it didn't meet his standards and he was accused of being old-fashioned. In 1957/58 and 1958/59 he studied painting technique with Kurt Wehlte in Stuttgart . In 1960 and 1961 he volunteered in the restoration workshops of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen . The intention behind this was to start his career as a painting restorer in the Bode Museum . He gave it up the moment the wall was erected and he should have decided to live in the GDR . Finally, a part-time job at the horticultural department of the Senate provided for his maintenance. As a result, his motifs shifted from nature studies, flower pictures, interiors , still lifes , portraits and self-portraits to “depictions of landscapes in a realistic-romantic manner”. In addition, he devoted himself artistically to the clear cutting restoration of the 1960s. Although his pictures have a photographic character, they are not based on photographs, but rather detailed collections of sketches.

In 1967 he applied in vain for admission to the Association of Berlin Artists , but in 1969 he took the step into the life of a freelance artist. The following year he had his first and only solo exhibition in Kreuzberg in September and October . In addition, the Free Berlin Art Exhibition was opened with his participation, an alternative to the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . His empathy, judgment and presentation skills were also trusted later. As a painter, he was a meticulous observer of the changes in his built environment, which he followed critically in allusions to building scandals and abuse of power, such as the demolition of the Albrechtshof and the new construction of the Steglitzer Kreisel high-rise complex in its place. Examples of this are his works "Anarchy" and "Steglitzer Wahlsonntag" from the early 1970s. He also recorded the demolition of the Görlitz train station . The painting of the same name (mixed media, 80 × 100 cm) was acquired nine years later on the initiative of the first director of the Berlinische Galerie with funds from the Senate for Culture for the State Museum . This represented the first public purchase of a Ziegler picture. The exhibition West Berlin Realists, shown in Rostock, Moscow and Berlin in 1978 and 1979 . West Berlin artists exhibited remained his only participation in a traveling exhibition . It was organized by the Association of Democratic and Socialist Artists (VDSK).

At the invitation of Matthias Koeppel , Johannes Grützke and Manfred Bluth , Ziegler took part in the founding event of the School of New Magnificence on January 24, 1973 in Grützke's studio. The association lasted until 1978. In 1990 all four members met again in the artists' association , which Ziegler, however, left in 1993 because of annoyance about the hanging and lighting of his two pictures intended for the exhibition. Ziegler also got angry about cultural-political processes and got into isolation. To make matters worse, he could not part with his pictures, asked for a sold one back in order to continue painting, which he took his time with. In this way, pastels sometimes turned into temperal pictures that took decades to create.

Karlheinz Ziegler drowned in the summer of 2008 at the age of 73 while taking a bath in the Holy See in Potsdam. There is a memorial plaque on his former home in Steglitzer Südendstrasse.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Bernd Wellmann: The painter Karlheinz Ziegler (1935–2008) . In: Diethelm Kaiser, Bénédicte Savoy with the collaboration of Manfred Giesler (ed.): The school of the new splendor. Bluth, Grützke, Koeppel, Ziegler. Paintings and documents from an artist group . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-579-5 , p. 63-77 .
  2. ↑ a b c d School of New Magnificence. Manfred Bluth, Johannes Grützke, Matthias Koeppel, Karlheinz Ziegler . An exhibition of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in the rooms of the art library September 7 - October 3, 1974. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and authors, Berlin, p. [12] (n.d. [1974]).
  3. ^ A b c d E. Tüngler: Poetischer Realist . In: Berliner Morgenpost . 7th January 1968.
  4. ^ A b Johannes Grützke: Karlheinz Ziegler. Splendor and glory . In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 12, 2008 ( online [accessed February 18, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Berlinische Galerie in cooperation with the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, catalog editors: Ursula Prinz, Christian Ahlers (ed.): Painting in Berlin. 1970 until today. Berlin theater week . May 19 - June 24, 1979, house on the Redoute , Bonn / Bad Godesberg. Berlin 1979.
  6. ^ Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and Kunsthalle Rostock, catalog editor: Norbert Stratmann (Ed.): West Berlin artists exhibit in the Kunsthalle Rostock . mediated by the association of democratic and socialist artists (painting and graphics since 68th Rostock Kunsthalle 29.11.78 - 1.1.79). Rostock 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2008
Place of death Potsdam