Matthias Weischer

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Matthias Weischer (born January 15, 1973 in Elte ) is a German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and set designer .

biography

Matthias Weischer was born in Elte (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1973 . In 1995 he began to study painting / graphics at the University for Graphics and Book Art Leipzig (HGB), which he graduated with a diploma in 2000. From 2000 to 2003 he was a master student with Sighard Gille . In 2002 he co-founded the Liga producer gallery in Berlin, which was supported by eleven former HGB students, including Christoph Ruckhäberle , Tim Eitel , David Schnell and Tilo Baumgärtel . As early as 2002, the press and art critics coined the term “ New Leipzig School ” for the exhibitions of this heterogeneous group of artists . The producer gallery league disbanded in 2004 after two years of existence. His studio is currently in the Leipzig cotton spinning mill .

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Weischer's pictures move in the border area between abstract and representational painting. His paintings, which were created until 2007, mostly show stage-like, deserted interiors in unusual perspectives that are alienated by abstract elements. Furniture, everyday objects and large-scale decors refer to the 1950s and 1960s in style and in their supposedly faded colors. The elements combined in a collage-like manner often have the character of quotations and enter into complex, ambiguous relationships.

Works by Matthias Weischer can be found in the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, and the Collection Susan and Michael Hort, New York.

Since his stay in Rome in 2007, Weischer has increasingly devoted himself to direct observation of nature in the medium of drawing. Since then he has been working primarily on and with paper, including various printing techniques. The constructed interiors are increasingly being replaced by an open space capture in smaller formats with lighter colors, in which natural and artificial elements, fictional and real space merge. Recent work also includes sculptural arrangements.

Matthias Weischer's works have been presented in numerous exhibitions since 2001, including in London (2003), Miami (2004) and Cleveland, Chungnam , Prague and Venice (2005), The Hague, Málaga (2008) and Ponce / Puerto Rico (2011 ).

In 2001 he received the scholarship Young Art of Rotary in the Kunsthaus Essen , in 2004 he won the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, 2005, he was awarded the art prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung and the August Macke Prize of the city of Meschede excellent. In 2007 Weischer received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome and in 2012 from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. In 2017 he received the Eduard Arnhold Scholarship for a stay in Positano , Italy.

In 2010 Matthias Weischer designed the stage sets for William Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (Theater Marl, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen ; Renaissance Theater Berlin; Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg) and for August Strindberg's Miss Julie ( Neuhardenberg Castle ) together with theater director Armin Holz .

The volume of poetry Mönchsauge by Cees Nooteboom , published in 2018, contains drawings and watercolors by Weischer.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001: Change of scene XX , Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003: seven painting , Neuer Leipziger Kunstverein in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 2004: Northern Light , Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  • 2004: Direct painting , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2005: David, Matthes and I , Kunstverein Nürnberg ; Bielefeld Art Association
  • 2006: Imagination Becomes Reality. Part V: Fantasy and Fiction , Goetz Collection , Munich
  • 2006: Artists from Leipzig , Arario Beijing
  • 2006: Netherlands v. Germany - Painting , GEM Museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague
  • 2006: German wall pieces. Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica , Museion Bozen
  • 2007: Weischer meets Beckmann , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2007: Rockers Island. Works from the Olbricht Collection , Museum Folkwang , Essen
  • 2008: interior / exterior. Living in art , Wolfsburg Art Museum
  • 2008: New Leipzig School , Cobra Museum , Amstelveen , Netherlands
  • 2008: The Leipzig Phenomenon , Műcsarnok Kunsthalle , Budapest
  • 2008: Germania contemporanea. Dipingere è narrare , MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
  • 2009: Lubok. Original graphic picture books , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 2010: 'The pictures do something to me ...'. Insights into the Collection Frieder Burda , the Museum Frieder Burda , Baden-Baden
  • 2010: Parallels: Young contemporary art from Norway and Leipzig , Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
  • 2011: See ROM and Die. Perspectives on the Eternal City. Around 1500–2011 , Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2011: LUBOK. Artist books from Leipzig , Municipal Art Museum, Spendhaus Reutlingen
  • 2012: Paintings / Pinturas. The Rubell Family Collection , Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid
  • 2012: Atelier + Kitchen - Laboratories of the Senses , Marta Herford , Herford
  • 2012: Sidetracks - Painting in the paramodern continuum , Stavanger Art Museum
  • 2013: Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain , Center Pompidou , Paris
  • 2013: Location determination - contemporary art from Saxony , Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz
  • 2013: Beautiful Landscape - Endangered Nature: Old Masters in Dialogue with Contemporary Art , Kunsthalle Osnabrück
  • 2013: The inevitable figuration , Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
  • 2013: Nightfall , Rudolfinum, Prague
  • 2015: Made in Germany , Highpoint Printmaking Center, Minneapolis
  • 2015: Camera Obscura - painting by David Schnell, Matthias Weischer and Christoph Ruckhäberle , Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen
  • 2015: Open to AEG: Graphic works , Auf AEG, Nuremberg
  • 2015: All the worlds a stage - works from the Goetz Collection , Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
  • 2016: Enlightening rooms - interior as a portrait , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 2017: Germany 8: Next Generation - Young German Art , White Box Art Center, Beijing

Scholarships and Awards

literature

  • Michael Hametner : On the stage. 15 conversations - a portrait of the painter Matthias Weischer. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-95462-643-4 .
  • Matthias Weischer. Obra nueva / New work, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico 2011, ISBN 978-0-9830208-6-8 (Spanish / English).
  • Art workshop Matthias Weischer. Prestel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-4449-2 .
  • Matthias Weischer. LAPO. Drawings until 2005. Lubok, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941601-32-1 .
  • Matthias Weischer. Room with a view, exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Mainz; Sparkasse Essen. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941185-36-4 (German / English).
  • Matthias Weischer. In the Space Between. Exhibition catalog CAC Málaga 2008, ISBN 978-84-96159-69-3 (Spanish).
  • Matthias Weischer. The garden. Works on paper / The Garden. Works on paper. Exhibition catalog Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Bentlage Abbey, Rheine. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-2042-7 (German / English).
  • Matthias Weischer. Painting. Exhibition catalog Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Gemeentemuseum The Hague. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1904-9 (German / English).
  • The triumph of painting. Matthias Weischer, Eberhard Havekost, Dexter Dalwood, Dana Schutz, Michael Raedecker, Inka Essenhigh. London 2005, ISBN 978-3-86560-015-8 (English).
  • Matthias Weischer. Exhibition catalog Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen. Seemann Henschel, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-86502-136-6 .
  • David, Matthes and me. Quickly, Weischer, Baumgärtel. Exhibition catalog Kunstverein Nürnberg; Bielefelder Kunstverein. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-936711-50-9 (German / English).
  • Matthias Weischer. Simultaneously. Exhibition catalog Künstlerhaus Bremen. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7757-1495-2 (German / English).
  • Matthias Weischer. Clearing. Painting and drawing 1997–2002. Exhibition catalog Kunsthaus Essen 2002, ISBN 978-3-931201-16-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art in Berlin Galerie LIGA closes its exhibition space , accessed on May 15, 2020
  2. ^ Civitella Ranieri Foundation
  3. ^ Eduard Arnhold scholarship
  4. ↑ Cees Nooteboom: Monk's Eye with Pictures by Matthias Weischer, Library Suhrkamp, ​​2018, ISBN 978-3-518-22505-9
personal data
SURNAME Weischer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Elte