Leander Mergener

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Leander Mergener (* 1965 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) is a German painter, draftsman and printmaker.

Career

Mergener spent his school days and youth in Düsseldorf and Munich.

After graduating from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich in 1985 , Mergener became a student of the painter, sculptor and graphic artist Hansjörg Wagner in 1987 . Mergener learned the artistic gravure printing techniques as part of a traineeship in Lothar Becker's copper printing works, Ottobrunn.

After moving to Essen in 1990, an intensive occupation with the industrial world of work and things developed as an artistic theme. In exhibitions in the following years, industrial subjects were regularly related to other subject areas. Industrial phenomena, landscape, still life, interior, animal drawings, illustration for literature and impressions from trips make up the spectrum of topics of Mergener. The clarity of the picture is its yardstick. The artist opens up his subjects through sketches and studies directly in front of nature.

Mergener has lived in Krefeld since 2003 .

Quote

“My artistic work has its origin in what my eye conveys to me. My work draws its themes from what seeing conveys to me, what becomes experience. The design of my topics finds its support in close observation of visible reality. "

Exhibitions (selection)

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  • 1988 Exhibition with colleagues in the studio community at Blumenstrasse 43, Munich
  • 1990 Volksbank Rosenheim "Leander Mergener: painter - graphic artist"
  • 1991 Central library in the Gildehof, Essen
  • 1992 Bamberg, Palais Schrottenberg Schleswig , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf, presentation of the German Dostojewskij Society, portfolio of FM Dostojewskij , "The Idiot"
  • 1993 Wildthurn Castle, Landau / Isar, "Prints by the Brücke Expressionists from the Serge Sabarsky collection and prints by Leander Mergener" Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle , presentation of the German Dostojewskij Society, graphics on works by FMDostojewskij
  • 1994 Mayor's House in Essen-Werden
  • 1995 Munich, Zoological State Collection , participation in the exhibition, "Young artists see nature"
  • 1997 Düsseldorf , Industrie-Club eV
  • 1999 Düsseldorf , RWI house "Leander Mergener: Landscape, Still Life, Industry"
  • 2000 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , St.Augustin, “Leander Mergener: Working World - Lifetime”, catalog
  • 2004 Emslandmuseum Schloß Clemenswerth , Sögel, "Leander Mergener: Landscapes, Still Life"
  • 2006 District Neuss , District Museum Zons , participation in the exhibition, "The Tulip: Myth, Shape, Symbol"
  • 2008 House Opherdicke, Unna district , "Leander Mergener: Painting, drawing, graphics"
  • 2012 Kepía, House for Music and Philosophy, Oberhausen / Rh ., "Leander Mergener: Time and Seasons"
  • 2013 Meerbusch , Altes Küsterhaus St. Mauritius, "Leander Mergener: The Park of Haus Meer and other landscapes"
  • 2015 Clörather Mühle Summer Gallery, Viersen District , "Leander Mergener: Painting and Printmaking"
  • 2019 Leander Mergener FOUR CORNERS - THAT IS: THE EXHIBITION ROOM ON THE NET

Awards

  • 2000 One-year work grant from the Else Heiliger Fund of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Publicly owned work

literature

  • Leander Mergener: Working World - Lifetime. Cat., Ed. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV, KAS, Sankt Augustin 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

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  • “New press prints and limited editions”, ILLUSTRATION 63 1/1991, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen
  • “Feinsinniger Handwerker”, Franconian Day, May 8, 1991
  • “The idiot ties the draftsman”, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, October 28, 1992
  • “Wedding between paper and color”, Landauer Zeitung, August 2, 1993
  • "Etchings by Leander Mergener" GRAPHISCHE KUNST issue 41/1993, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen,
  • “Don't be afraid of art in the Künstlerhaus”, Augsburger Zeitung, March 16, 1994
  • "Coal in Coal", HARD COAL 1/1999
  • "Pictures from the world of work and life", Sankt Augustiner Stadtzeitung, Sept./Oct. 2000
  • “The heavy hues of the world of work and life”, General-Anzeiger, Bonn, September 1, 2000
  • “From a conversation in my workshop”, GRAPHISCHE KUNST issue 58/2002, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen
  • “Leander Mergener”, EMSLANDMUSEUM SCHLOSS CLEMENSWERTH, 2004
  • "Tulips. Myth, Symbol, Shape ”, cat., Rheinkreis Neuss, District Museum Zons 2006
  • Art of etching in the work of contemporary artists in Northern Germany, cat., Emslandmuseum, Sögel 2006
  • “Propeller and anchor - tulip and prince” GRAPHISCHE KUNST issue 1/2012, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen
  • “Artist Mergener exhibits pictures from the park of the Haus Meer”, Rheinische Post, March 1, 2013
  • "Floating stones, gnarled willows", Westdeutsche Zeitung, August 26, 2015
  • “A question of gravity”, Rheinische Post, August 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Mergener, Leander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal - Elberfeld