Manfred Gruber (artist)
Manfred Gruber (born January 24, 1951 in Erkshausen, a district of Rotenburg an der Fulda near Bad Hersfeld ) is a German painter , graphic artist and set designer .
Life
Gruber comes from a family that had already produced church painters and restorers . He studied painting , sculpture and stage design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel as well as at the University of Applied Sciences in Kassel (both universities are now part of the University of Kassel ) . Several study trips took him to Florence , where he fine-tuned his artistic techniques and examined the construction principles of classical buildings.
Gruber was from 1978 in the successor of Heinz Ludwig (1910–1977) at the Bad Hersfeld Festival and from 1987/1988 at the State Drama Theaters in Berlin as head of equipment and chief stage designer. He designed the interior design several times for the display of the Bad Hersfeld monastery ruins , the largest Romanesque church ruin in the world, which can accommodate 1636 visitors. Gruber stretched fluorescent Trevira threads through the ruins for the set of Shakespeare's “ The Storm ” (1985).
The German contribution to the World Expo 1992 in Seville with the experience stations “The dream of flying”, “Discoveries and inventions”, “City and urban life”, “Nature and the environment” as well as “Brandenburg Gate” and the “Carousel of fools and rogues und Adventurer ”, was created - both in the artistic implementation and in the realization - under Gruber's direction as chief set designer in the“ BerlinAtelier ”and on site in Spain. For the 1998 Expo in Lisbon, Manfred Gruber qualified as an “idea generator” in the competition for the German Pavilion. Gruber also designed the stage design for the “Africa Pavilion” for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover .
From 1992 to 2009 he was the equipment director of the Aalto Theater , the Essen opera house . As a guest stage designer, he is also engaged at numerous theaters, operas and musicals, including the Theater Basel , the Komische Oper Berlin , the Theater des Westens in Berlin, the State Theater Innsbruck and the Saarland State Theater . He worked several times with the choreographer Richard Wherlock .
Gruber also works as a painter. He has presented his oil paintings , watercolors and prints in exhibitions at home and abroad since the 1970s. In his style his style is partly based on painters from the Baroque period .
Manfred Gruber lives in Berlin.
Equipment of stage works
- King Lear (Bad Hersfeld 1981; staged by Ernst Schröder )
- The man from La Mancha (Bad Hersfeld 1982; production: Karl Vibach)
- Don Carlos (Bad Hersfeld 1983; production: Hans Gerd Kübel)
- Hamlet. Prince of Denmark (Bad Hersfeld 1984; production: Karl Vibach)
- The Storm (Bad Hersfeld 1985; production: Tom Toelle )
- Hamlet. Prince of Denmark (Bad Hersfeld 1985; production: Karl Vibach & Jochen Schmidt)
- Romeo and Juliet (Bad Hersfeld 1986; production: Karl Vibach)
- Mother Courage and her children (Bad Hersfeld 1986; production: Hannes Fischer )
- The German small townspeople (Bad Hersfeld 1986; production: Jochen Schmidt)
- What you want (Bad Hersfeld 1987; production: Christian Quadflieg )
- The visit of the old lady (Bad Hersfeld 1987; production: Günter Roth)
- The Parasite (Bad Hersfeld 1987; production: Jochen Schmidt)
- The Merchant of Venice (Bad Hersfeld 1988; production: Tom Toelle)
- Folk-Lore - Ballet - (Basel 2001; Choreography: Richard Wherlock )
- (No) Breathing Spaces - Ballet - (Basel 2001; Choreography: Richard Wherlock)
- Open letter (The Petition) (Berlin 1989; production: Holger Berg )
- Dull Voices - Bernard-Marie Koltès - The Trilogy Part II (Berlin 1994; production: Gert Hof )
- Folk-Lore - Ballet (three pieces) - (Berlin 2000; Choreography: Richard Wherlock)
- Wunderbar - Ballet (two pieces) - (Berlin 2000; Choreography: Richard Wherlock)
- My name is White - an evening with drama and dance - (Berlin 2001; staging: Janusz Cichocki , choreography: Barbora Kryslová)
- The Measure of Things - The Shape of Things (Berlin 2005; production: Janusz Cichocki)
- Cabaret (Musical) - (Bozen 2009; Staging: Paul Kribbe / James de Groot)
- Love, Death and the Devil (Düsseldorf 2003; production: Klaus Weise )
- The girl Rosemarie (Düsseldorf 2004; staging: Dirk Witthuhn)
- Lady Macbeth von Mtsensk - Opera - (Essen 1995; staging: Tom Toelle)
- Simon Boccanegra (Essen 1997; production: Tom Toelle)
- Fidelio - Opera - (Essen 1997; Scenography: Christian Tombeil)
- Bluebeard's Castle (Essen)
- The Nutcracker - Ballet - (Essen; Choreography: Stefan Lux)
- Don Quixote - Ballet - (Food)
- Carmina Burana - Ballet - (Essen 2000; Choreography: Jeremy Leslie-Spikes)
- Requiem - Ballet - (Essen 2002; Choreography: Boris Eifman )
- My Ithaca. Odysseus - Ballet - (Essen 2003; Choreography: Birgit Scherzer)
- Kiss Me, Kate (Essen 2004; staging: Wolfgang Gruber)
- As you want it - ballet - (Essen 2005 / world premiere; choreography: Robert North)
- Carmina Burana - Ballet - (Essen 2006; Choreography: Ralf Dörnen)
- Fireworks (musical comedy) - operetta - (Essen 2007; staging: James de Groot / Paul Kribbe)
- Why women are smarter and men don't want to admit it - dance piece by Birgit Scherzer, based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . (Gera 2010; Choreography: Birgit Scherzer)
- Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera / Ballet - (Innsbruck 2007; Staging / Choreography: Birgit Scherzer)
- The Black Rider (Kassel 1996; production: Jürgen Schwalbe )
- Play it again, Sam (Landshut 1987; staging: Klaus Schlette ); see. to " do it again, Sam "
- On the Spirit of Christmas (Oberhausen 2001/2003, Berlin 2002, Cologne 2002, Munich 2003; productions: Jürgen Schwalbe)
- The dragon (Rostock 1990; production: Sylvia Richter)
- Lucia di Lammermoor (Saarbrücken 2004; production: Matthias Kaiser)
- Don Giovanni - Opera - (Saarbrücken 2006; production: Matthias Kaiser)
- Hoffmanns Erzählungen - Oper - (Trier 2008; production: Birgit Scherzer).
- The love of the three oranges (Ulm 2006; production: Igor Folwill)
- Requiem for a nun (Zurich 1988)
- For the German theater prize “ Der Faust ”, which was awarded for the first time on November 24, 2006 in the Essen “Aalto Theater” , parts of Gruber's stage design for “Wie Ihr's wollt” (Essen 2004) were used.
Exhibitions
- 1983: Exhibition in the Asbach district of Bad Hersfeld
- 1989: Joint drypoint exhibition in the Berlin gallery “Bildfang” (alongside Lutz Friedel , Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , Johannes Grützke , Arno Waldschmidt and others).
- 2009: The Hersfelder Kunstverein exhibition again in the chapter hall of the Bad Hersfeld Museum (next to Werner Assenmacher and Manuela Karin Knaut)
- 2010: Portrait works in a joint exhibition with Karl-Heinz Moeller and Harald Wolff in the gallery "Art-Dego" ( Detlef Gosselck ) in Berlin
- 2015: Me and Kaminski . The pictures for the film . (Director: Wolfgang Becker ) Exhibition in Bikini-Haus , Berlin
Art for the public space
- 1978 Plastic painting for the facade of the brewery building on the Brink (formerly "Engelhardt-Haus") in Bad Hersfeld
- 1996 Stainless steel sculpture Ikarus or The Winged Man , in front of the academy building of the German Statutory Accident Insurance , Bad Hersfeld
- 1996 Winged Man , fresco in the academy building of the German Social Accident Insurance, Bad Hersfeld
Book illustrations
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob : With the zeppelin to Pernambuco - Con el zepelín a Pernambuco (Poetic aerial photos of an unusual journey - German and Spanish). Berlin-Köpenick: Katzengraben-Presse 1992. ISBN 3-910178-06-5 .
- Fritz Rudolf Fries : Don Quixote flees women or the apocryphal adventures of the knight from the sad figure . Illustrations by Manfred Gruber. Berlin-Köpenick: Katzengraben-Presse 1995. ISBN 3-910178-20-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library
- The History of World Expositions / The German Pavilion EXPO '92 Seville
- Manfred Gruber with a photo in the culture database of the "Kulturserver" foundation
- Manfred Gruber in the IMDb film database: Ich und Kaminski
- Official website of the artist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Gerd Neglein (ed.): Alemania EXPO '92 Sevilla (catalog). Bühl: Konkordia-Druck GmbH, 1992.
- ↑ Raúl Rispa et al. (Ed.): Seville World Exhibition 1992: thematic pavilion / EXPO '92 Seville (official EXPO guide). Milano: Electa-Elemond Arte, 1992. Associated publications: Seafaring ISBN 88-435-3914-0 ; Nature ISBN 88-435-3949-3 ; 15th century ISBN 88-435-3909-4 .
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SURNAME | Gruber, Manfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist (painter, graphic artist and set designer) |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erkshausen near Bad Hersfeld |