Max Uhlig

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Max Uhlig (born June 23, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German painter who is particularly dedicated to portraits, everyday and landscape motifs. He was a professor of painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Career

From 1955 to 1960 Uhlig studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Hans Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer .

From 1961 to 1963 he was a master student at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin with Hans Theo Richter. He then worked as a freelancer until 1995. In 1968 he worked with Carlfriedrich Claus on the creation of his first prints (lithographs); later prints were also made for Charlotte E. Pauly , Dieter Goltzsche , Willy Wolff , Otto Niemeyer-Holstein , Heinrich Ehmsen , Hans Theo Richter and Wilhelm Höpfner . Until the early 1970s, the artist emerged exclusively as a graphic artist. In 1978 Max Uhlig also presented his characteristic paintings for the first time in the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett .

"Black and white or in color, lines in the expressive rhythm of their superimposition draw the image mode and the conciseness of an extensive, unmistakable work that is a discovery. Today Max Uhlig is one of the last representatives of the era of open-air painting in modern art that began 150 years ago, yes his work elevates this to the height of our time. " His late work received significant impulses from annual stays in Faucon (southern France) from 1991 to 2010.

In June 2013, Uhlig's designs for the design of the glass windows for the Gothic St. John's Church in Magdeburg , rebuilt from 1994 to 1999, were accepted. The artist himself has been painting directly on glass in the Derix workshops in Taunusstein since spring 2014. From July to October 2014, the drafts and the first work results were on display in the exhibition "Max Uhlig. Grown before nature. Painting and graphics" in the art museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg .

Max Uhlig has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1990 and a founding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts . From 1995 to 2002 he was professor for painting and graphics at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden.

As a Dresden painter, Uhlig had become known before 1989 through participation in exhibitions in Western Europe outside the borders of the GDR . He has been awarded several national and international prizes, including the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR in 1987 , the 2nd prize at the 21st International Biennale of São Paulo in 1991 and the gold medal at the 10th Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Biennale Fredrikstad, 1998 the Hans-Theo-Richter-Preis and the Saxon Order of Merit , 2003 the Art Prize of the State Capital Dresden and the Art Prize of the Artists on the occasion of the Great Art Exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf 2006

Max Uhlig has been married to Angela Simon since 1999, and now lives and works in the Helfenberg district of Dresden on the site of a former chemical factory .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 "Grown before nature", Art Museum Magdeburg Monastery of Our Dear Women
  • 2013 "People, Scenes, Landscapes", Gallery Klose, Essen
  • 2013 "Man and Landscape", Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Cologne
  • 2012 "Druck", Kupferstichkabinett , Dresden
  • 2012 "Painting and Works on Paper", Kunstverein Die Wassermühle eV , Lohne
  • 2012 "Works on Paper", Palais Leopold, Munich
  • 2012 "Waiting and Passers-by", Beeskow Castle , Beeskow
  • 2011 "Watercolors and colored drawings from three decades", Galerie Döbele, Dresden
  • 2011 "Max Uhlig, Claus Weidensdorfer Works on Paper", Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus
  • 2011 "Max Uhlig - Black - from the graphic work", Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg
  • 2010 "Art in GDR Times: Three Nonconforms", Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2009 "In Dialogue with Nature", Gallery Klose, Essen
  • 2008 "Artist of the gallery: Angelika Bartholl, Max Uhlig", Gallery von Loeper, Hamburg
  • 2007 Gallery above , Chemnitz
  • 2007 "Drawings", Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo (China) and Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
  • 2007 "Landscapes", Heck Art Gallery, Chemnitz
  • 2007 "Retrospective on the 70th", Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 2006 "Here Byoung", San Xiang Art Space, Shanghai
  • 2006 Gallery Dr. Lehr, Berlin
  • 2006 "Symbol Wuyi", San Shang-Art, Beijing and Shanghai Art Museum
  • 2005 "Head. Figure. Landscape", Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2004 "Works from 50 Years", Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2004 "Change of Seasons", Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück
  • 2004 Aalen Art Association , Aalen
  • 2003 "Portraits and Landscapes", Gallery Klose, Essen
  • 2002 German Society for Christian Art , Munich
  • 2001 Saxon Academy of the Arts, Dresden
  • 2001 "Early Works 1960-1980", Galerie Oben, Chemnitz
  • 2000 "Head Studies + Landscape", Scheffel Gallery, Bad Homburg
  • 1999 "Pictures and works on paper 1970 to 1999", Galerie von Loeper, Hamburg
  • 1999 "Portraits", Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne and Galería Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
  • 1998 Municipal Gallery, Schwäbisch Hall
  • 1998 Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1997 Döbele Gallery, Dresden
  • 1997 Gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1996 "Paysage De La Provence. New Portraits", Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1996 "Discovered in the studio - pictures never shown", Galerie Beethovenstraße, Düsseldorf
  • 1995 "For 40 years", Museum Schloss Morsbroich , Leverkusen
  • 1995 "Insights", ifa ( Institute for Foreign Relations ), Berlin
  • 1995 "On Paper - Art of the 20th Century at Deutsche Bank", Kunsthalle Schirn , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1994 Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège
  • 1994 Art Museum in the Ehrenhof , Düsseldorf
  • 1994 "Am Mont Ventoux", Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
  • 1994 "German Painters after 1945", Busch-Reisinger Museum , Cambridge
  • 1993 "Retrospective", Albertinum , Dresden
  • 1993 "Head and Figure", Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1992 "Pictures, Watercolors and Drawings", Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1993 "Head and Figure", Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1991 "Paintings and watercolors, drawings and graphics", Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 1991 "Nordic Plenary - Impressions of a Landscape", Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1991 "Blickwechsel", Gallery von Oppenheim, Cologne
  • 1990 Galerie Brusberg Berlin (exhibition with Ernst Marow )
  • 1990 Museum Waldhof , Bielefeld
  • 1990 "Pictures from Germany", Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle , Cologne
  • 1989 "13 painters from the GDR", Kunsthalle Emden
  • 1988 Gallery of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • 1987 Gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1986 "From Beuys to Stella - International Graphics", Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin
  • 1985 "Dresden today - painting and graphics after 1945", Döbele Gallery, Ravensburg
  • 1984 "Max Uhlig - A Painter from Dresden", Brusberg Gallery, Berlin / Hanover
  • 1981 "Painting and Graphics of the GDR", Musée d'art modern de la Ville de Paris
  • 1980 "Painting and Graphics", Central Institute for Nuclear Research, Rossendorf near Dresden
  • 1980 Alvensleben Gallery, Munich
  • 1979 Gallery Arkade, Berlin
  • 1978 Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
  • 1978 Mouffe Gallery, Paris
  • 1977 "Selected watercolors by GDR artists", Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Dresden
  • 1976 North Gallery, Dresden
  • 1974 "25 Years of Graphics in the GDR", Altes Museum , Berlin
  • 1974 "Drawings in the Art of the GDR", Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
  • 1972 "Contemporary Art of the GDR", Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
  • 1971 Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 1967 State Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
  • 1964 "8 young artists", Centralne Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw
  • 1963 Humboldt University , Berlin

Works in museums and public property

literature

  • Francisco Tanzer, Max Uhlig: characters and lines. Poems and pictures. Rimbaud, Aachen 1999. ISBN 3-89086-826-6
  • Renate Wiehager; Christian Gögger; Galerie Döbele GmbH, Dresden (ed.): Max Uhlig: Watercolors and colored drawings from three decades . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-47-5
  • Agnes Matthias; Bernhard Maaz; Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden (ed.): Max Uhlig. Pressure . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-95498-006-2

Exhibition catalogs

  • Max Uhlig - works on paper. Städtische Galerie Albstadt, February 4 to March 17, 1996. Albstadt 1996. ISBN 3-923644-68-X
  • Max Uhlig - On Mont Ventoux. Pictures from southern France 1991 to 1993. Villa Merkel, Gallery of the City of Esslingen am Neckar, January 16–13. February 1994. Cantz, Ostfildern 1994. ISBN 3-89322-609-5
  • Max Uhlig - paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics, sketchbooks. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, December 5, 1993–13. February 1994. Dresden 1993.
  • Lothar Lang: Max Uhlig, street scenes. Drawings 1984–1987. Exhibition from April 7th to June 17th 1990. State Museum Schloss Burgk, Neue Galerie. Burgk (Saale) 1990. ISBN 3-86103-011-X
  • Max Uhlig (* 1937), Man and Landscape , January 17 to March 17, 2013, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne

Work example

Wikiversity: Max Uhlig: "Red Autumn Bouquet" (1992/93)  - course materials

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annegret Laabs, in: Max Uhlig. Grown before nature , exhibition catalog Magdeburg, Hirmer-Verlag, Munich, 2014, blurb.
  2. ^ Exhibition Kunstmuseum Magdeburg , archive 2014
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "U" / Max Uhlig (accessed on May 20, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden