Max G. Kaminski
Max Gerd Kaminski (born May 9, 1938 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † January 20, 2019 ) was a German painter .
life and work
Max Kaminski studied painting together with Gerd van Dülmen at the Berlin University of the Arts . He was a student of Hans Jaenisch and Peter Janssen . After a two-year stay in Latin America, he continued his studies with Wolf Hoffmann . In 1964 he married Marianne Hönow, and in 1966 they had a child. In 1966 Max Kaminski became a master student with Hann Trier .
After visiting professorships in Berlin and Karlsruhe, he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1980 .
Max G. Kaminski was a member of the German Association of Artists . Between 1967 and 1977 he took part in the DKB annual exhibitions a total of nine times. Kaminski lived in Germany and France. He made extensive trips to Yugoslavia, Central and South America and Italy.
Characteristic for Max Kaminski's very personal style are figurative, expressive forms, strong contrasts and intense colors.
"Kaminski paints bodies between the state of life and death and thus creates a tension that does not arise from the passing of life or the onset of a tragic event, but from the disappearance itself."
Exhibitions
- 1999: Museo de Arte Moderno , Mexico City
- 1998: Pelaires, Center Cultural Contemporani Palma de Mallorca
- 1994: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
- 1993: Studio Lisenberg Buenos Aires
- 1991: Kunstverein Augsburg
- 1990: Ancienne douane de Strasbourg
- 1989: Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg
- 1984: Maison de la Culture Saint-Etienne
- 1979: Galerie Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zurich, Kunsthalle Darmstadt , Darmstadt
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1977: New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
Awards
- 1977: Wilhelm Loth Prize
- 1974: Bremen Art Prize
- 1972: Villa Romana Prize , Florence
- 1968: Scholarship for the German Academic Exchange Service , stay in Paris
literature
- Fabrice Hergott : Max Kaminski. Wienand, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-87909-6-367 .
- Christof Trepesch (Ed.): Max Kaminski meets Guglielmi . A pastel chalk cycle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-42207-1-056 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Krebs: Obituary: Max Kaminski between life dance and dance of death. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Galerie Schrade Biographie - Max Kaminski ( Memento from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 14, 2015
- ^ Raab Galerie Max Kaminski , accessed on January 14, 2015
- ^ Kuenstlerbund.de: Current membership directory ( Kaminski, Max G. ) (accessed on May 10, 2016)
- ^ Art report. nineteen three nineteen ninety five. An overview of the German Association of Artists , DKB Berlin, special edition winter 1994/1995. Page 115
- ^ Art portal Baden-Württemberg Max Kaminski. The Destruction of Sodom , accessed January 14, 2015
- ↑ Kunstraum Max Kaminski: “Rue Paradis”, accessed on October 31, 2016
- ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 95
- ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books. Kassel 1977, p. 224, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaminski, Max G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaminski, Max Gerd (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th January 2019 |