Lutz Friedel

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Lutz Friedel (* 1948 in Leipzig ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Friedel completed an apprenticeship as a gravure etcher from 1965 to 1968 . He then began his studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . A year later Friedel moved to the University of Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig and graduated in 1973 with a diploma . In 1977 he moved to East Berlin and was a master student of Professor Bernhard Heisig at the Academy of Arts with a studio on Pariser Platz until 1980 .

The departure from the GDR in 1984 led Friedel initially to Frankfurt am Main , and a short time later to Berlin-Kreuzberg . In the early 1990s he moved into a studio apartment on Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg .

Lutz Friedel is married and lives and works in Berlin and in his studio in Havelland .

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During his student years in Leipzig, Friedel set up a studio in a demolished house and showed the pictures he created there in annual court exhibitions. On the grounds of “defacing the socialist image of man”, Werner Tübke, as rector of the College of Graphics and Book Art, had two pictures removed from Friedel's diploma exhibition in 1973.

After completing his three-year master class, the polyptichon From the collision of escalators - Carambolage together with works by Johannes Heisig , Walter Libuda and Thomas Ziegler on the XII. Biennale de Paris shown.

In 1983 Friedel's contribution to the “Berlin Art” exhibition was rejected. Functionaries of the Association of Visual Artists saw in the triptych Vom Untergang der Titanic a criticism of the conditions in the GDR - which Friedel had intended.

Shortly afterwards, Lutz Friedel applied to move to the FRG . The planes from West Germany that flew over East Berlin to supply the people in the free and walled-in West Berlin were for Friedel a suitable metaphor for the madness of the German division and inspired him to the series Aircraft over Berlin . From the exhibition Bohème und Dictatorship , the German Historical Museum acquired the painting Airplane over Kopenhagener Strasse in 1997 .

In 1990 Friedel began sculpting and the first head sculptures were created , which were later exhibited in the Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder) and in the German Bundestag , among others .

The Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation supported Friedel's work in 1994 with a one-year work grant. During this time he made several study trips to Italy . From the observations and experiences in Rome , Pompeii , Palermo and Stromboli , the painter's travel book Intermezzi - Pictures from Arcadia , a collection of Friedel's paintings, drawings and diary entries , arose in collaboration with Matthias Flügge .

The portrait of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl was created in six sessions in the studio on Kollwitzplatz in 2006 for the gallery of honorary citizens in the Berlin House of Representatives.

In 2012 Lutz Friedel received the Brandenburg Art Prize for Painting.

Out of an artistic block, a series of self-portraits emerged in 2003, which Friedel painted with oil on the remaining editions of his exhibition posters. He presented himself as different personalities of contemporary history and the present. Curator Brigitte Rieger-Jähner brought the overpaintings in 2014 as the first exhibition in the newly opened state parliament in Potsdam . There they caused a scandal, since the portraits also included dictators and terrorists. The CDU was unable to enforce its request to remove the pictures against the SPD, the Left and the Greens.

Due to Friedel's artistic examination of German history, the then President of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, opened the exhibition “Möve auf Siren - the sinking of the Titanic and others” in the German Bundestag in 2015 on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . The focus was on the artist's wooden sculptures.

In 2018, Lutz Friedel expanded the gallery of the former Bundestag presidents in the Paul Löbe House of the German Bundestag in Berlin to include a portrait of the former Bundestag President Rita Süssmuth .

Lutz Friedel's works Regentag (2018), After the Rain (2018) and 29 etchings from the series Mensch! KLINGER have been exhibited in the Fluxus Plus Museum in Potsdam since 2018 .

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Fonts

  • Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel: Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death. Texts by Sigrid Damm , Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 .
  • Kristina Volke (Ed.): Lutz Friedel: Möve auf Sirene - from the sinking of the Titanic and other things. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Wall Memorial of the German Bundestag from October 14, 2014 to February 22, 2015. German Bundestag, Secretariat of the Art Advisory Board 2014.
  • Lutz Friedel: Intermezzi - Images from Arcadia. Reison Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-929473-09-4 .n
  • Foundation St. Matthäus Berlin (ed.): Lutz Friedel: Walhall der Nichtse. Catalog with texts by Andreas Beaugrand, Mattias Flügge, Helmut Reihle and a conversation between Lutz Friedel and Michael Hametner . Gallery Berlin, 2004.
  • Lutz Friedel: self-circumnavigation. Gallery Berlin, Berlin 2004.

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  1. ↑ Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel, Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death. Texts by Sigrid Damm, Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 , pp. 174-176
  2. ^ Paul Kaiser, Lutz Friedel - The nocturnal studio , introduction to the exhibition, 2014, on the homepage of Galerie Himmel; last accessed on December 23, 2018
  3. ↑ Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel, Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death. Texts by Sigrid Damm, Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 , pp. 170f.
  4. ^ Biography Lutz Friedel , Memento at web.archive.org of the homepage of the Museum Junge Kunst from May 24, 2011, original page last accessed on December 12, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Karim Saab, “One must defend democracy” , interview with Lutz Friedel in the Märkische Allgemeine from January 15, 2014, last accessed on December 23, 2018
  6. ↑ cf. Brigitte Rieger-Jähner: “[…] Lutz Friedel is a critically thinking person. [...] That was already the case in the GDR, where between 1978 and 1983 he painted large-format multi-panel pictures such as “Thunderstorm Beach”, “Carom collision of the escalators” [...] or “The sinking of the Titanic”. A strange apocalyptic mood was not only recognizable to the viewer through the respective topic. These expressively powerfully painted pictures from a “leaden time” express themselves formally, i. H. by figure considers composition and color of a way of life that was clearly "in. Lutz Friedel: role models - afterimages - counterparts , homepage of the Landtag Brandenburg , foreword to the exhibition in 2014, last visited on 23 December, 2018
  7. ↑ Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel, Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death. Texts by Sigrid Damm, Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 , p. 172
  8. ↑ Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel, Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death. Texts by Sigrid Damm, Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 , pp. 174-176
  9. ↑ Eckhard Hollmann (Ed.): Lutz Friedel, Et in Arcadia ego - a dance of death . Texts by Sigrid Damm, Matthias Flügge and Eckhard Hollmann. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4271-6 , pp. 178 . ; a photo of the unveiling in Chancellor and the Arts , website of Monopol magazine , last accessed on December 23, 2018
  10. ^ Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis 2012 - Lutz Friedel , video film for the award, Youtube , last accessed on December 23, 2018
  11. ↑ Brigitte Rieger-Jähner, Lutz Friedel: Vorbilder - Nachbilder - Gegenbilder , Homepage of the Landtag Brandenburg , preface to the 2014 exhibition, last accessed on December 23, 2018
  12. ^ Gudrun Mallwitz, dispute in the state parliament over portraits of Hitler and Stalin , Märkische Allgemeine from January 15, 2014, last accessed on December 23, 2018
  13. ↑ Katrin Bischoff and Ingeborg Ruthe, Streit um Hitler and Goebbels , Berliner Zeitung of January 13, 2014, last accessed on December 23, 2018
  14. ^ Nobert Lammert opens Lutz Friedel exhibition , homepage of the German Bundestag on November 26, 2014, last accessed on September 20, 2019
  15. ↑ Portrait of Rita Süssmuth included in the Bundestag President's Gallery , homepage of the German Bundestag from July 2018, last accessed on December 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Friedel, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig