Matthias Kistmacher

Matthias Kistmacher (* 1963 in Guben ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Matthias Kistmacher studied painting from 1987 to 1992 at the Academy of Fine Arts under Johannes Heisig and Werner Liebmann . As a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (1992) he completed a master class with Claus Weidensdorfer and Horst Schuster until 1994. Matthias Kistmacher lives and works in Dresden and Radebeul ; he has a studio there in the Radebeul shoe factory .

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The early paintings of the late 1990s and early 2000s are characterized by an expressive, impasto and gestural style of painting. At the same time he created graphic works, especially etchings and screen prints. From around 2002 onwards, Matthias Kistmacher appeared with an increasingly objective and realistic painting. After the extensive group of works of animal pictures, the spectrum of motifs opened up. The artist staged particularly remote places and spaces, everyday things and vehicles from the cityscape into picturesque still lifes - parking garages, nocturnal streets, an abandoned sports field, a shipyard. While the preoccupation with printmaking increasingly faded into the background, Matthias Kistmacher continued to cultivate his realistic painting. Clear, strict compositions go hand in hand with a smooth, meager picture surface. Paint and brush marks are receding in favor of the representation of light and color. Matthias Kistmacher often works in thematic groups of works. Reflections, reflections of transparent and shiny surfaces as well as the effect of light in (urban) spatial situations are optical experiences and thus the cause of the painted picture. In one group of works, the painter is still committed to the world of things in terms of motifs, but shows it in a highly transformed, manipulated or even partially extracted form. Surreal pictorial spaces, structural details and colored surfaces are formed on the canvas as a reminiscence of the representational.

Solo exhibitions

• 2014 "Self-talk of Mr. Palomar", Galerie Grafikladen, Dresden
• 2013 “Shanty reloaded”, Art Association Bautzen
• 2010 “Overheated arbors”, Radebeul City Gallery
• 2009 "Paradise lost", Maurer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main (with Frank Hofmann)
• 2008 "Overnight", Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden (with Frank Hofmann)
• 2007 "Queequegs Landgang", Städtische Galerie Dresden
• 2004 "Helenes Vogel", Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden
• 2003 “Der Müllberg”, Flugzeugwerke Dresden
• 2002 "Animals and others", Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
• 2001 “The Beetle Race”, Art Association Bautzen
• 2000 “Car in front of a park landscape”, Friends of the Fine Arts, Hanover

Group exhibitions

• 2013 “30 Years of Radebeul City Gallery”, Radebeul City Gallery; “Winter 13”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden; "Location determination. Contemporary Art from Saxony ”, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz
• 2012 “New additions to the Art Fund 2011”, State Representation of Saxony at the Federal Government, Berlin; “Summer 12”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden
• 2011 “Come together” Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt am Main; "win win. The Acquisitions of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony ”, Halle 14, Leipzig; “Summer 11”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden
• 2010 “Winter 10”, Galerie Sybille Nütt, Dresden; “Summertime 2”, Maurer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 2009 “Summertime”, Maurer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main; “Summer 09”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden
• 2008 “Sixty Artists”, Radebeul City Gallery; “50 years of the Dresden graphics workshop. A universe in the Refugium “, Städtische Galerie Dresden; “Güterverkehrung”, geh8, Dresden
• 2007 "I. Self-portraits of Dresden artists of the 20th and 21st centuries ”, Galerie Sybille Nütt, Dresden;
• 2006 “Dresden Positions”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden; "Heimat", Radebeul City Gallery
• 2005 Prague Biennale

literature

• Ulrike Haßler-Schobbert (Red.), Matthias Kistmacher: Animals and others. Exhibition cat. Leonhardi Museum, Dresden 2002.

Web links

• Matthias Kistmacher with Sybille Nütt
• Homepage of the artist
• The painting "Garden 1" in the art fund, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• http://kunstmarkt.com/
• http://www.artfacts.net/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin (Gerhardt) Baum: What is hidden behind the sea ...? In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler monthly books e. V., May 2015, accessed on July 23, 2015 .