Michael Apitz
Michael Apitz (born July 4, 1965 in Eltville am Rhein ) is a German painter and comic artist .
Life
Michael Apitz's talent for painting and drawing was already noticed in kindergarten and elementary school. At that time he tried his hand at pencils and watercolors, especially animal motifs.
At high school he drew his first caricatures, from classmates and above all from teachers. At the same time he developed his first comic characters and stories and published for the first time in the school newspaper “Miraculum” and later in the youth magazine “Wühlmaus”.
After serving in the German Armed Forces, he invented the character " Karl the Spätlesereiter " (1988) with his friend Patrick Kunkel and his father Eberhard , which was such a success that he almost entirely focused on drawing comics. In the meantime, twelve “Karl” volumes and the motorcycle comic series “Chris & Marty” (2003) as well as the semicomic stories of the “Rheingauner” have been created. At the same time, he was doing commissioned work as a cartoonist for various magazines, companies and private individuals. His success in comics brought him a teaching position for caricature at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences in 2001 . Since 2005 Apitz has been a member of WEINELF-Germany, the football team of the German wine industry. Since 2007 Apitz has been drawing the comic series Im Adler-Olymp, which appears in the stadium booklet for every Eintracht Frankfurt home game . Each episode is one page long. Former or current players of Eintracht appear, sometimes also players and officials of the opposing club.
Cartoons and comics
Cover Karl-Comic, Vol. 1
Rheingauner with Riesling in the snow "Warm for the heart"
In the Eagle Olympus , episode 8
Caricature Johann Lafer
painting
In 2000 Michael Apitz completed his diploma with Guido Ludes at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and chose landscape painting. Several exhibitions in Eberbach Monastery , Wiesbaden , Frankfurt and Berlin followed.
In 2006 the painting World Heritage Wine Triptych was created , which was exhibited in the Eberbach Monastery and in Berlin in the garden of the Hessian State Representation . In 2008 he designed the painting series “13” in collaboration with VDP Germany. Apitz also made paintings of famous vineyards in Germany. This resulted in the art volume Colors of Wine .
In 2009 Apitz painted the painting November 9 on the theme of 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall , which is on display in the foyer of the Hessian Parliament in Wiesbaden. In 2011 the artist presented his cycle Rheinreise , an examination of the landscape of the World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
In 2013 Apitz designed a series of urban landscapes. He found his motifs in Mainz and Wiesbaden. This series is called “urban” and is a picturesque duet between the two state capitals. In 2015, in collaboration with the graphic artist Jutta Hofmann, a painting-sculpture was created from solid oak pieces on the subject of Johannes Gutenberg.
In 2017 Apitz created the monumental painting LUTHER95, a portrait of the reformer Martin Luther. It is 400 cm high and 360 cm wide and consists of 95 individual parts. On October 31, 2017, the 500th day of the Reformation, the painting LUTHER95 was exhibited in the Paulskirche Frankfurt at a prayer hour of the city of Frankfurt.
painting
World Heritage Wine Triptych , 2006
Homburger Kallmuth, Franconia, from the painting series "13"
Rüdesheim in a thunderstorm , 2005
November 9 , 2009
Painting-sculpture Gutenberg, 2015
LUTHER95, Paulskirche Frankfurt / M., October 31, 2017
Michael Apitz, Marktkirche Wiesbaden, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Apitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the artist, apitz-art.de
- Exhibited works by the painter, apitz-gallery.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Apitz, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eltville on the Rhine |