Michael Langer (artist)

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Michael Langer (born August 24, 1929 in Zittau ) is a German painter , draftsman and art theorist .

Career

Langer attended the State Art School in Hamburg from 1948–49 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Franz Xaver Fuhr from 1949–52 . He then learned from 1952–53 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and began training as an art teacher in 1954. 1957-75 he worked as a teacher for technical drawing and art education at various Munich schools, then from 1975 to 1992 as a lecturer for art education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Langer received the Munich Autumn Salon Art Prize in 1962. He worked on experimental films from 1969–72 . Today he lives in Munich-Schwabing.

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Between 1963 and 1969, around 200 paintings, drawings and gouaches were created in a completely unique visual language. These include the "speech bubble images" and "distorted images". In the field of tension between the abstraction that prevailed after 1945 and the newly burgeoning Pop Art , these show the human figure distorted and deformed in various ways. Similar to his friend, the painter Uwe Lausen , the bright colors are related to the visual aesthetics of comics . After 1969 he made experimental films, after which he wrote books on art theory. Langer did not begin to paint again until the 1990s. Here he extends the expressive objectivity from the figure to the object and chooses a more reserved color scheme. The importance of his work, especially the completed early phase, is increasingly appreciated and shown more frequently from 1989 onwards. In 2014 Langer was presented with several pictures in the Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt as part of the exhibition "German Pop".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1963/68 Galerie Casa, Munich
  • 1989 Otto Galerie, Munich
  • 1990–95 Galerie Klewan (several times)
  • 1991 One man show, Art Karlsruhe art fair
  • 1995 Small Art Palace, Merano
  • 1998 University Gallery, Innsbruck
  • 2005 City Hall Gallery Munich / Otto Gallery, Munich / Gallery in the Taubenturm Diessen, Ammersee
  • 2006 Andy Warhol & Michael Langer - Pop Art, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin
  • 2009 Zerrbilder 1965-68, Galerie im Prediger , Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • 2012 painting 1965–2000, Karl & Faber, Munich
  • 2012 Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart: "Michael Langer. Speech bubbles and distorted images"
  • 2014 Otto Gallery, Munich: "A look back at the 85th"
  • 2014 Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe: "Michael Langer. Distorted images 1965-69 and 1990-2006"
  • 2015 Hammer Gallery, Regensburg
  • 2016 Gallery Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe: "Anamorphoses: Images of the 1960s"

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, "German Pop"
  • 2016 Schaezlerpalais Augsburg, "Rendezvous of the artists, masterpieces from the Helmut Klewan collection"

Experimental films

  • 1969 Yin (predicate "valuable")
  • 1971 Sigma
  • 1972 mutations

Publications

literature

  • Michael Langer: Speech bubbles and distorted images 1965-1968 , Galerie Klewan, 1990
  • German Pop , Schirn-Kunsthalle , Frankfurt 2014
  • Rendezvous of the artists, masterpieces from the Helmut Klewan collection , Schaezlerpalais , Augsburg 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Langer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau