Matthias Gangkofner

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Matthias Gangkofner

Matthias Gangkofner (born May 8, 1959 in Munich ) is a German painter , draftsman and sculptor .

Life

After his school days in Marquartstein , Gangkofner completed an apprenticeship as a ceramicist with Franz Eska at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1978 to 1981 . At the same time he worked there in the glass class of his father, Aloys F. Gangkofner (1920–2003), as well as in Priska's studios run by Martin and Toni Stadler junior , one of Aristide Maillol's last students . From 1981 to 1987 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Hans Ladner. The stays in the house of his grandparents Ellen and Walther Bernt shaped his tense relationship between art-learned knowledge and artistic creation. In 1985 Gangkofner set up his first studio in Schlossgut Haimhausen, then several studios in Hamburg and Munich , as well as in his great-grandfather's house in Barlt on the North Sea. Since 2002 he has headed, among other things, the Münchner Künstlerhaus-Verein am Lenbachplatz and has also been a board member of the Theresienthal Foundation since October 2013 . Gangkofner lives and works today in Munich and on the Boschhof near Beuerberg , in the Upper Bavarian Alpine Foreland.

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Gangkofner's work begins with drawing . Fantastic landscapes and brilliantly expressive light and water reflections are his subjects in painting . Technoid elements, fallen horses in a living objectivity, or sculptures made of steel split into multi-part units in sculpture . The human portrait appears in almost all areas of his artistic work and especially as a program in the group Twenty Ten , of which he is a founding member. Gangkofner created the busts of the painter Franz von Lenbach and the mathematician Emmy Noether in the Munich Hall of Fame . Gangkofner's visual language in painting and sculpture describes a path from baroque joie de vivre to the essential reduction to pure form. His work also leads on to the total work of art, from the craft draft to the design , for example as an artist and designer for the Theresienthal glass factory . He also publishes books again and again. Their topics include book illumination , caricature-like humoresques about contemporary life, but also morphographies, such as the book 'Benediktenwand / 09', with the text 'Gute Berge, böse Berge', by Lukas Hammerstein , which was published by Reiterverlag in 2012.

Collections

  • BMW-group Munich
  • Building Department City of Munich
  • German Museum Munich
  • German Hop Museum Wolnzach
  • The new collection - the international design museum munich - Pinakothek der Moderne
  • EADS - MBDA Schrobenhausen
  • Eres Foundation Munich
  • Munich Airport GmbH
  • Theresienthal Glass Museum
  • Military History Museum Dresden
  • Munich Künstlerhaus Foundation on Lenbachplatz
  • Bolzano Natural History Museum
  • Hall of Fame Munich, - the busts of Franz von Lenbach and Emmy Noether
  • Association for shipbuilding and marine technology Berlin
  • Wacker-Chemie GmbH

literature

  • Art and Chemistry - a Dialogue . Wacker-Chemie GmbH Publ., Peter M. Bode 1989
  • 110 years of the Munich Künstlerhaus . Münchner Künstlerhausstiftung, Publ. 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-00-030727-0 )
  • At night all cows are black - wisdom, truth, foolishness . drawn by Matthias Gangkofner, with a foreword by Verena Ebner von Eschenbach; Grubbe Media GmbH Munich 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-942194-00-6 )
  • Benediktenwand / 09 - One year, one hundred drawings . Good mountains, bad mountains / Lukas Hammerstein. Reiterverlag 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-9814528-2-2 )

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personal data
SURNAME Gangkofner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich