Matthias Koeppel

Matthias Koeppel (2014)

Matthias Koeppel (born August 22, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German painter and poet .

Life

The co-founder of the Schule der neue Splächtigkeit (1973) became known to a larger audience primarily through his poems in Starckdeutsch (first published in 1976) (self-termed "language artist"). Since 1975 Koeppel has also been writing the lyrics for the men's vocal ensemble Berliner Hymnentafel .

From 1981 to 2003 Koeppel was professor of free painting and drawing at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Berlin . During this time he supported the Ullstein Verlag in recruiting artists for the Buddy Bear Berlin Show . He himself took part with two bears he designed, which were later auctioned to support “children in need”.

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in several major annual exhibitions of the DKB between 1972 and 1985. In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Künstleronderbund in Germany (KSB) . He is also an honorary member of the Berlin Artists Association .

Koeppel has been painting the Berlin Wall continuously since the 1970s and can be described as the history painter of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In numerous works between 1990 and 2008, he reviewed the night of November 9-10, 1989. In 1997 Koeppel completed the triptych The Opening of the Berlin Wall for the Prussian State Parliament, Berlin .

... and everything will be fine. October 3rd, 1990 in front of the Neue Wache
Matthias Koeppel , 1991
Oil on canvas
German Historical Museum , Berlin Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

In addition to his concentration on Berlin, Koeppel is known for his large skies over Berlin, under which German contemporary history takes place, and his realism . Since the mid-2010s he has been developing a new style, neocubism.

As a language artist, Koeppel also published shaking rhymes and sonnets .

Private

Koeppel has been married to the Korean-German painter Youn-Sook Hong, known as Sooki , since 1995 . They have a daughter, Mi-Youn Mathilde. He is a cousin of the composer Peter Ronnefeld .

Publications

• Beyond Duden: An interactive dictionary of the newly weak High German language . Libelli-Ars, Fuldatal 2003, ISBN 3-936744-06-8 .
• Painted on Spiekeroog . Edition Walfisch, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938737-20-0 .
• About the sausage. Sonnets on the situation. Tenzone & Coda . Wohlleben, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88159-066-8 (with Klaus M. Rarisch ).
• Shaking rhymes - shaking rhymes. Drawn, found and invented by Matthias Koeppel . B & S Siebenhaar, Berlin / Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-943132-12-0 .

Awards

• 1960: Prize of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition
• 1961: Prize for painting from the Karl Hofer Society
• 1969: Heinrich-Zille-Gesellschaft sponsorship award for socially critical graphics
• 1998: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon
• 2013: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) - together with his wife
• 2014: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1972: Prisma '72 , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , 20th exhibition of the German Association of Artists
• 1978/79: Berliner Realisten , Kunsthalle Rostock and Moscow
• 1985: Prisma '85 , Sprengel Museum and others, 33rd annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists in Hanover
• 1990: Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (paintings and drawings)
• 2002/03: Haus am Waldsee , Berlin: Matthias Koeppel: "Berlin is always becoming ..." Painting becomes contemporary history. Works from three decades
• 2012: 2012 annual exhibition of the Künstleronderbund , UferHallen, Berlin
• 2014: Foundation City Museum Berlin : Matthias Koeppel - Heaven, Berlin! March 21 - September 28, 2014, Ephraim-Palais , Berlin

Web links

Commons : Matthias Koeppel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Matthias Koeppel in the catalog of the German National Library
• matthiaskoeppel.de
• Press release on the exhibition "Matthias Koeppel - Himmel Berlin!" In the Ephraim-Palais 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin hymn table 1975
2. ^ Eva and Klaus Herlitz : Buddy Bär Berlin Show , Neptun Verlag AG, CH-8280 Kreuzlingen, ISBN 3-85820-152-9 .
3. ^ Artists of the Berlin Artists Association, accessed on November 2, 2017
4. ↑ Anke Kuhrmann: At the border. Artists from East and West see the Berlin Wall . In: Foundation Berlin Wall , Monument Preservation of the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (Ed.): The Berlin Wall in Art. Fine arts, literature and film . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-652-9 , Between jubilation, skepticism and memory - wall pictures and wall art after 1989, p. 172 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Dominik Bartmann , Franziska Nentwig: Matthias Koeppel: Heaven, Berlin! Exhibition catalog. Ed .: City Museum Berlin Foundation. Nicolai, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89479-854-3 , pp. 169-171 .
6. ^ Matthias Koeppel. Heaven, Berlin! In: Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin . Retrieved March 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Martina Kaden: Small style change. Matthias Koeppel can also be different. In: BZ January 12, 2017, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Matthias Wulff: Why Matthias Koeppel only needs Berlin to paint. In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 14, 2014, accessed September 6, 2019 . 
9. ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: Painter Matthias Koeppel turns 80. The splendor heaven over Berlin. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 21, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2019 . 
10. ↑ artist website
11. ^ Vita Matthias Koeppel
12. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel, March 21, 2014, p. 20: "Outrage from love"
13. ↑ Rotes Rathaus: Wowereit awards Berlin state medals . Press release of September 29, 2014. Accessed October 1, 2014.
14. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Archive since 1950: 20th exhibition Bonn / list of participants ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 17, 2015)
15. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Archive since 1950: 33rd Annual Exhibition Hanover / List of Participants ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 17, 2015)
16. ↑ kuenstlersonderbund.de: NACHT - exhibition of realistic art in the UferHallen, Berlin-Wedding (accessed on September 17, 2015)