Manfred Zoller

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Manfred Zoller

Manfred Zoller (born July 8, 1947 in Zeitz ) is a German painter , sculptor and anatomist .

Life

Manfred Zoller grew up in Zeitz. From 1963 he attended a drawing circle in Zeitz with the painter and sculptor Joachim Hering . From 1969 to 1979 he studied medicine at the University of Rostock and then worked at the Rostock Anatomical Institute. Zoller received his doctorate in 1977, became a specialist in 1978 and qualified as a professor in 1991.

After completing the physics course, Zoller began to draw and paint intensively again. 1971 began a long-term joint artistic collaboration with Hanns Schimansky . From 1972 he worked in the drawing circle of the University of Rostock with Johannes Müller . In the next few years, Zoller obtained important suggestions from Johannes Müller (1935–2012), which later became a lasting friendship: In addition to the artistic exchange, also reflections on Zoller's teaching in the subject of morphology and anatomy .

Since 1973 he has completed corrections and discussions with Gerhard Kettner at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . From 1980 to 1983 Zoller was a master student at Kettner and in 1979 became a member of the GDR's Association of Fine Artists and Freelance Painters. Through an exhibition in the Galerie Mitte Berlin with Hanns Schimansky, he met colleagues from Berlin and Dresden. This was the beginning of friendships with Manfred Böttcher and Joachim Böttcher , Dieter Goltzsche , Berndt Wilde, Rainer Zille and Stefan Plenkers, among others .

In 1985 he began teaching at the Dresden University of Fine Arts as head of the department for artist anatomy. In 1989 he moved his studio to Parkstrasse 31 in Berlin-Pankow . In 1990 Zoller moved to the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art and took part in the first joint symposium of all German art universities in Hamburg. From 1990 to 1992 Zoller gave lectures on anthropological topics under the heading "Warmth disappears from things" ( Walter Benjamin ) at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee and the University of Fine Arts Dresden. In 1993 he was appointed professor for morphology / anatomy at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.

In 2008/2009 he held two visiting professorships at the German University of Cairo (GUC). In 2009 he was visiting professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geijutsu Daigaku). In 2010 the "Society for Anatomy and Fine Arts" was founded with artists and medical professionals. Zoller's works have been shown in numerous galleries and exhibitions. Sculptures by Zoller can also be found in the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg .

Zoller lives in the Hohen Neuendorfer district of Bergfelde near Berlin .

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"In the years when Manfred Zoller painted and drew as an autodidact in Rostock, he worked as an artist on a foundation that - despite all changes - has proven to be stable and sustainable up to the present day." (Johannes Müller, in: Katrin Arrieta: Manfred Zoller - Painting-Sculpture-Objects, MCM ART Verlag 2010) In particular, his feeling for color promoted his artistic development. His pictures - formerly representationally visible in cityscapes, still lifes and portraits - since the late 1980s in free, more abstract pictorial compositions - are committed to classic modernism.

Starting from collages , he began to realize spatial works as objects and sculptures with different materials in the early 80s.

These studies of his own were of benefit to him later in his teaching. At the art college, Zoller repeatedly referred to the stimulating, holistic contexts of the medical studies he completed. The independence of the students through their own acquired education and developed feelings were important to him.

Drawings (selection)

Paintings (selection)

  • Even with a doll , 1979, oil on cardboard 42 × 29.5 cm
  • Dissecting room , 1982/83, oil on hardboard 90 × 135 cm, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • Rosa Netz , 2013, oil on canvas 80 × 100 cm

Sculptures (selection)

  • Small animal , 1985, wire, rubber, wood 25 × 38 × 7 cm ( Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg Foundation )
  • Connected columns , 1994/2000, plaster, wood, rubber, cardboard 77 × 34 × 18 cm
  • Light rungs , exhibition in the gallery in the tower, Berlin 2003.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1979 Berlin, Galerie Mitte, with Hanns Schimansky
  • 1983 Rostock, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • 1990 Bielefeld, Gallery Samuelis Baumgarte
  • 1994 Berlin, gallery ground floor
  • 2000, 2002 and 2005 Tokyo, MMG Gallery
  • 2006 Potsdam, Ruhnke Gallery
  • 2007 Halle / Salle, art association
  • 2009 Art Association Rostock
  • 2009 Berlin, Galerie Anke Zeisler
  • 2010 Rostock, Museum of Cultural History
  • 2012 Bernau Gallery
  • 2013 Berlin, Gallery 100
  • 2014 Greifswald, New Griffin Gallery
  • 2014 Zeitz, Moritzburg Castle Museum

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980 Rijeka, 8th International Exhibition of Hand Drawings
  • 1982/83 Dresden, IX. Art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1987/88 Dresden, X art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1988 Vienna, teacher at the HfBk Dresden, Art Academy Vienna
  • 1990 Hamburg, Hamburg art fair
  • 1990 Berlin, two-stroke, exhibition center at the television tower
  • 1991 Berlin, second corn salon
  • 1992 Berlin, Festival of Painting, Marstall
  • 1995 Berlin, Canon, Galerie Inga Kondeyne
  • 1999 Weimar, "Gerhard Kettner and Students", Galerie Hebecker
  • 2000 Tokyo, Berlin artist, MMG gallery
  • 2005 Berlin, 15 years Galerie Vagt
  • 2009 Berlin, Das Tier im Bild, Galerie Pohl
  • 2010 New York, Gray Art Gallery, New York University
  • 2013 Berlin, self-portraits, Gallery Forum Amalienpark
  • 2014 Berlin, drawings, gallery in the tower

Works in museums and collections (selection)

Works can be found in numerous private and public collections:

Publications (selection)

  • Painting sculptures objects. MCM ART Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811946-8-5 .
  • Sculptures. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01453-9 .
  • als (Ed.): The view of anatomy, shape and body through art. Symposium at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee and the Society for Anatomy and Fine Arts 2012.
  • Shape and Anatomy - A Guide to the Artistic Path. 2nd extension Ed. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2012.

Literature (selection)

  • Klaus Tiedemann: Text in the flyer for the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Rostock, 1983.
  • Inga Kerkin: Text in the catalog "Joachim Böttcher, Hanns Schimansky, Manfred Zoller", Galerie am Boulevard, Rostock 1984.
  • Wulff Sailer: Text in the catalog for the exhibition "Manfred Zoller - Painting and Graphics", Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld
  • Matthias Flügge: "A speech for Manfred Zoller", catalog for the exhibition "Manfred Zoller", Refugium Gallery, Neustrelitz 1993.
  • Michael Freitag: Text in: "Weekly market and bone money", Lukas Verlag 2006.
  • Ingeborg Ruthe: "A poetically ordered world", Berliner Zeitung, December 4th 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See the entry of Manfred Zoller's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. manfredzoller.de