Marwan Kassab-Bachi

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Marwan Kassab-Bachi ( Arabic مروان قصاب باشي, DMG Marwān Qaṣṣāb Bāšī ; called Marwan ; * January 31, 1934 in Damascus , Syria ; † October 22, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German painter of Syrian origin.

Live and act

Marwan Kassab-Bachi studied Arabic literature at Damascus University from 1955 to 1957 . In 1957 he came to Berlin and studied painting with Hann Trier at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts .

From 1963 he worked as a freelance painter in Berlin and belonged to the circle around Georg Baselitz and Eugen Schönebeck . From 1977 to 1979 he was visiting professor for painting at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he was appointed full professor for painting in 1980 and taught until 2002. From 1992 to 2000 he was a member of the jury for the Fred Thieler Prize of the Berlinische Galerie . His students include Monica Bonvicini , Karolin Hägele , Robert Lucander , Christin Lutze , Salah Saouli and Osama Said .

From 1999 to 2003 Marwan directed the Darat al Funun Summer Academy in Jordan, in which more than 60 young artists from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq took part.

Marwan created cover illustrations for some books by the writer Abd ar-Rahman Munif , who also wrote the Marwan biography Rahlat al-Fan wa al-Hayat ("The Journey of Art and Life").

Marwan was married and lived in Berlin .

reception

The art scholar Matthias Flügge says of Marwan's work:

“Marwan has been painting heads for years: faces with no recognizable physiognomy, with mouths, eyes and cheeks made of layers, features and balls of warm, saturated colors. But when Marwan paints faces, he also paints the painting. "

The art historian Jörn Merkert wrote about Marwan:

“In Paris, London, Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Ramallah and above all in Berlin, Marwan is associated with a world of images which, in all its painterly diversity, has for decades been almost exclusively about the human face, the 'head', in never ending Variations and with surprising picture finds circles. ... Because the color is able to touch all the senses, evokes memories of the past, is interwoven with soft sounds, bewitching smells and fleeting associations. "

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Marwan's work has been shown in over 80 solo exhibitions, including

Working in public space

Around 25 of his works are in public buildings such as galleries, museums and collections. In Europe, these include the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the Bundeskunstsammlung in Bonn, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich , the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, the Center Georges Pompidou and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. In the Middle East, his work can be found at the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Amman , Bir Zait University , the Damascus National Museum and the Khalil al-Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh , United States.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Akademie der Künste mourns the loss of Marwan Kassab-Bachi on the website of the Akademie der Künste, October 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ Darat al Funun - 2019 Summer Academy on universes.art, accessed on June 3, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Iskandar Habash: Unpublished Munif Interview: Crisis in the Arab World - Oil, Political Islam, and Dictatorship on aljadid.com, accessed June 3, 2019 (English)
  4. ↑ Marwan on lot-tissimo.com
  5. ↑ Jörn Merkert: Marwan's unknown early work on marwan-art.com, accessed on June 3, 2019
  6. ↑ Biography on hasencleverart.com
  7. ↑ Marwan: Primeiras obras 1962–1972 on serralves.pt
  8. ^ Not Towards Home, But The Horizon on mosaicrooms.org
  9. ↑ 57th Venice Biennale: the Central Pavilion on frieze.com, accessed on June 3, 2019 (English)
  10. ↑ a b Marwan on the website of the Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to this source , he died on October 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kassab-Bachi, Marwan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of Syrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2016
Place of death Berlin