Matthias Hickel

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Matthias Hickel in front of the painting Roof Landscapes, 2016

Matthias Hickel-Lopez (born November 25, 1947 in Marburg / Lahn ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

After completing secondary school, Matthias Hickel-Lopez completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter . In addition to this apprenticeship, the artist attended evening courses with the artist Theo Meier-Lippe. In 1969 he enrolled at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design in Cologne, the later Cologne International School of Design , where he studied with Hans Rolf Maria Koller . He completed his studies in printmaking, nude drawing and painting in 1974 with a diploma. Hickel-Lopez spent the semester break several times at the Summer Academy in Salzburg , where he was taught by the painter and graphic artist Georg Eisler .

In 1975 Hickel-Lopez went on a six-month trip to South America. Above all, the early cultures of the Inca, Aztec and Maya left lasting impressions on him, which he processed in large-format drawings, paintings and etchings. These works were shown in the AAAntiken Galerie in Munich. Munich became the artist's new place of residence and work. It was there that Hickel-Lopez found new formative inspirations, such as Matthias Grünewald's painting “ The Mocking of Christ ”, which he studied in the Alte Pinakothek for six weeks. The artist then began to copy works by Old Masters .

Copy to Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady (around 1455), by Matthias Hickel-Lopez

On behalf of the Heimatverein Tauberbischofsheim he made copies of Grünewald's altar panels “Crucifixion” and “Carrying the Cross” in the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in 1985 - Grünewald had originally painted the panels for the parish church of Tauberbischofsheim . He also copied a Jesus head by the painter Vincenzo Foppa on site, in the Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan, in great detail. In the Augustinermuseum Freiburg, on the other hand, a copy of the right wing of Grünewald's Maria-Schnee triptych was made for the parish church of the Coronation of Mary in Stuppach .

From 1989 Hickel-Lopez worked for the Peter Pracher workshop in Würzburg, which among other things restored the wallpapers of the Schwetzingen Palace . A particularly intensive cooperation and friendship results with the Bad Krozingen engineer Claus Hofman, for whom Hickel-Lopez restored old buildings in terms of monument protection. He documented the changes in large-format watercolors of the restored buildings, such as the Eschbacher Castell, a manor house from the 14th century. He also worked as a portrait painter, so he painted a. a. a picture of the former Federal President Walter Scheel .

In 2015 Matthias Hickel-Lopez received an order from the Bosporus University in Istanbul to preserve and archive the oeuvre of around 250 paintings and 6000 drawings by the Romance studies professor Traugott Fuchs . He also took on restoration jobs for private individuals and auction houses, including the painting “Der Strickende Vorposten” by Carl Spitzweg .

Parallel to the commissioned work, he is also always active as a freelance artist. Solo and group exhibitions have shown his works a. a. in the Haus der Kunst in Munich or the Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan. The main theme of the painter and draftsman is female eroticism. Hickel-Lopez primarily deals intensively with sensual phenomena. He sees his work as a "homage to beauty". Hickel-Lopez finds further motifs in the dynamics and rhythm of dances, especially flamenco and tango. He lives with his wife Katja Cyliax in Wilhelmsfeld , near Heidelberg .

Exhibitions

Matthias Hickel Lopez, “Fire, 2 Segments”, oil on wood, 1999 and “The Opposite”, acrylic on canvas, 2014

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1967 Gallery AA Antiken, Munich; Gallery House Seel, Siegen
  • 1985 Kurmainzisches Schloss, Tauberbischofsheim
  • 2001 Gallery German-Chilean Federation , Santiago de Chile
  • 2002 Citi Bank, Freiburg, Freiburg - motifs
  • 2005 Martinsheim Staufen, retrospective 20 years
  • 2006 Galerie Hofmann, Bad Krozingen, complete works retrospective
  • 2011 Badischer Winzerkeller, Breisach
  • 2011 Exhibition in the New Atelier Wilhelmsfeld / Heidelberg
  • 2012 District Court of Heidelberg
  • 2013 Art gallery at the castle, Bad Bergzabern

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1977 Art Salon, House of Art, Munich
  • 1994 7th International Art Exhibition, Freiburg
  • 1998 Salon d`art Bonneville, France
  • 2000 Galleria A. Battaglia Arte Contemporanea, Milan
  • 2002 Kunstforum International, CH Meisterschwanden; Galerie Kass, ART Innsbruck and ART Vienna
  • 2009 German-French exhibition, Freiburg
  • 2009 La Salon de la Peinture Montmartre, Paris
  • 2010 Regio Galerie, Freiburg
  • 2011 Kunsthalle MH Lopez, Eschbach, New Works
  • 2011 Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel
  • 2011 Kunstkontor, Werner Baumstark Gallery, Wiesbaden
  • 2014 Mixed Art, Basel
  • 2016 Gallery in the Welkerhaus, Heidelberg
  • 2017 Galerie Kunstkontor, Wiesbaden
  • 2017 Museo Tattile, Lake Maggiore

literature

  • Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, exhibition catalog. Water, fantasy and reality . Figure: “Dream, Blue Vision”, p. 29.
  • Art Prize Kunstverein Wesseling. Exhibition catalog Europe boundless , 1994, p. 20
  • Pan, Nov. 20, 1984, “Look around. Grünewald returns ”, p. 66
  • 6th International Art Exhibition Freiburg, Exhibition Catalog Art, The Bridge Between People , 1993, p. 23
  • Brochure Das Kurmainzische Schloss Tauberbischofsheim , 3/87
  • Badische Zeitung / Issue. Südlicher Breisgau, March 3, 2010: pupils with Walter Scheel. Walter Scheel - Ambassador for Freedom

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hickel-Lopez, Matthias . Art office. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Matthias Hickel-Lopez, biography
  3. ^ NN: pupil with Walter Scheel . Ed .: Badische Zeitung. 2010.


personal data
SURNAME Hickel, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hickel-Lopez, Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg / Lahn