Michael Morgner

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Michael Morgner: Striding ( Theaterplatz , Chemnitz)
Michael Morgner: Resurrecting and Falling , 2003 (Kiliansplatz, Würzburg )
Michael Morgner

Michael Morgner (born April 6, 1942 in Chemnitz ) is a German freelance artist .

life and work

1960-1976

After graduating from high school (1960), Morgner studied from 1961 to 1966 at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig . In 1967 he married Dörte Block. In 1970 the daughter Friederike was born. In 1972 Morgner dealt with antiquity and switched to stylized body shapes in figure drawings, creating artist and group pictures. The result is the graphic portfolio Ovid Metamorphoses . In 1973 Morgner was involved in founding the Galerie Oben in Karl-Marx-Stadt and worked on its artistic advisory board. In 1974 he met Gunar Barthel, who from 1979 to 1987 ran the "Galerie above". In the same year he moves to Einsiedel and travels with an artist delegation to Irkutsk . 1974 son Maximilian is born. Morgner travels to Leningrad and visits the Hermitage. In 1975 he took part in the pleinairs in Ahrenshoop and on Hiddensee . An 8-mm camera film is made together with Thomas Ranft and the photographer Ralf-Rainer Wasse .

In 1976 he took part in a plein-air event on the Ostrauer disc in Bad Schandau , Ostrava district , and traveled to Krakow. Morgner begins work on the exterior mural casting process - the working person in our company for the Rudolf-Harlaß foundry in Wittgensdorf , which he completed in 1980.

1977-1989

In 1977, together with Carlfriedrich Claus , Thomas Ranft , Dagmar Ranft-Schinke and Gregor-Thorsten Schade, based on Ranft's idea, he founded the artist group and producer gallery Clara Mosch (1977–1982) in Adelsberg , a district of Karl-Marx-Stadt. Morgner turned more to printmaking and drawing, the first abstract drawings and the first lavages emerged. The Land Art campaign Leussow recycling at the Pleinair in Leussow is documented photographically by Wasse. A suitcase with graphics and objects is issued in an edition of 15 copies, and an 8-mm camera film is also being made together with Ranft and Wasse.

In 1979 he took part in a plein air in Gager on Rügen. His action to lay a cross takes place in the flint fields near Mukran . In 1980 Morgner created the environment Die Nacht in the Staatstheater Dresden for a play by Fugard. In the same year he travels to Krakow and visits the Goya exhibition in Hamburg. He met Prof. Carl Vogel , the rector of the Hamburg University of Art, who became one of his most important collectors and patrons. In 1981 the first serial pictures ( striding ) were created for the exhibition in the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden. At the plein air in Gallentin , the action (and first video performance ) M. crosses the lake at Gallenthin takes place. The graphic portfolios Death Room and Près du Golgotha ​​are created . In 1982 Morgner traveled to Georgia and Armenia. He works for the evangelical Bonhoeffer community center in Karl-Marx-Stadt. The enamel entrance door and its contributions to the interior design were completed in 1984.

1983 took place at the plein air in Gager the action border situation , at the plein air in Tabarz the action Great Thuringian Cross took place. Morgner works on large-format latex pictures for the FDGB-Heim Schöneck / Vogtl. Morgner completed the graphic portfolios Strand and M. Crossing the Lake near Gallenthin in 1983, the portfolios Jahreszeiten - Tageszeiten (1982–1984) and Ecce Homo in 1984. 1984 is cancer diagnosed in his wife Dorte. Morgner resigns from the district board of the Association of Visual Artists . In 1986 Morgner's wife Dörte died in Einsiedel. Morgner continues the Ecce Homo cycle in the dance of death drawings and begins the Einsiedel cycle . The graphic portfolio Ecce Homo appears.

In 1988 Morgner received the main prize for painting at the Triennale Sofia . Working with Bonhoeffer (since 1982) gave rise to the idea of ​​the German Requiem and the Jewish Requiem (drawings and picture cycles). Morgner refuses to take part in the GDR's 10th art exhibition and withdraws from the artist association. The cycle times of day / seasons is created .

In 1989 Morgner married Anke Roßner. Shortly afterwards, daughter Charlotte is born. Large-format pictures are created (mixed media technique of embossing, lavage, collage / decollage) that summarize the themes of recent years ( Ecce Homo cycle in large panel paintings, crucifixion, ascending / falling; series of images of the great striding ).

1990 – today

Der Schreitende, 2016, Munich

In 1990, Morgner offered the civil rights association “ Neues Forum ” the figuration of the strider as a signet, but this was rejected. Werner Schmidt acquires the painting Großer Strreitender for the Dresden State Art Collections . There are etchings on the topic of thaw.

In 1991 Morgner received the graphics prize from the Griffelkunst members in Hamburg . He is traveling for the first all-German contribution (together with Hartmut Neumann ) to the New Delhi Triennial (complex »Resurrection«). Morgner is a founding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts Dresden and the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig . In 1992 he received the artist's art award on the occasion of the great art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf . The Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) Stuttgart-Berlin has acquired a representative cross-section from the most important work phases of Morgner (1993: first exhibition in Berlin). In 1993 the first steel sculptures and the six-part picture cycle Kalvarienberg , which is exhibited for the first time in the cathedral in Schwerin and in the Saarland Museum . After the large-format pictures were taken outdoors, the first studio in Einsiedel has now been completed.

In 1994 the etching portfolio Ecce Homo with poems by Harald Gerlach was published . Morgner travels to Tuscany, where the picture cycle Fresco with the "plastic pictures" is created. In 1995 Morgner completed the etching cycle “Reliquie Mensch” and the cassette “Reliquie Mensch”. The first three-dimensional designs and the first wooden double cross sculptures are made and Morgner travels to the USA . In 1996, the first large-scale steel sculpture Reliquie Mensch was made . In 1997 he created colored works on paper as well as the first dialogic sculptures (positive-negative principle of floor slab and erect sculpture) and also the first designs for the Frauenkirche in Dresden . In 1998 he travels to Copenhagen. Morgner wins the competition for the new Kemberger altar. Since the winning design was rejected by the local council, it was implemented in the Diocesan Museum in Würzburg . In 1999 he traveled to Mexico City and visited the Mayan temple ruins on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula . The Palenque portfolios are created. In 2000 the figure striding was made in steel for the first time.

In 2001 he set up the large steel sculpture Reliquie Mensch (lying) on the Schaumainkai in Frankfurt am Main and produced the sculpture Tension for the square in front of the main building of Envia Mitteldeutsche Energie Chemnitz. In 2003 Morgner erected the steel sculpture resurrecting and falling on the newly designed Kiliansplatz at Würzburg Cathedral and won the “Art in (New) Building” competition of the SIB and the University of Leipzig , whereupon he erected a steel sculpture in front of the biotechnological center. In 2003 he was also a visiting professor at the Summer Academy in Salzburg. In 2004 he completed the graphic cycle Scars .

From 2008 to 2016 the work Codex Morgner 14 Stations of Being was created - a way of the cross of the 20th century . There are 14 pictures in the format 3 m × 5 m that were given to the collectors Ulrike and Stefan Behrens. The works were exhibited for the first time publicly in the garden of the Villa am See on July 15, 2017 in the Villa am See, German Art of the 20th Century in Premnitz . It is an installation of seven glazed, double-sided frames. Two works are in dialogue in a frame.

Michael Morgner is a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig and the German Association of Artists . He still lives in Einsiedel near Chemnitz to this day .

In 2002 Morgner turned 60 and his son Mathias Michael was born. In 2008 Morgner designed the windows of the Josefskirche in the Dresden district of Pieschen .

Awards

Exhibitions

From 1990 to 2005 represented at international art fairs, a. a. ART BASEL, ARCO MADRID, ART COLOGNE through the Barthel + Tetzner Gallery, Cologne, Chemnitz, Berlin

literature

  • Michael Morgner. Drawings , exhibition catalog Sprengel Museum Hannover, with texts by Karin Ochard and Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne 2012.
  • Short biography for:  Morgner, Michael . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Gunar Barthel Gallery, Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Frank Hänel Gallery, Oben Gallery and Chemnitz Municipal Art Collections (ed.), Michael Morgner: Overview of works 1972–1991, Berlin 1992.
  • Güse, Ernst-Gerhard (ed.), Michael Morgner: German Requiem: Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, October 3 - November 21, 1993, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Lindenau-Museum Altenburg (Ed.), Michael Morgner: Texts and Photo Documentations, Volume I and Volume II, Altenburg 2012.
  • Schmidt-Rottluff Art Prize Foundation (publisher), Schmidt-Rottluff Art Prize 2018: Michael Morgner, Chemnitz 2018.

Web links

Commons : Michael Morgner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Hammerschmidt: The light is black ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , In: Freie Presse , April 5, 2012, p. A1.
  2. ^ Villa on the lake in Premnitz
  3. ↑ MAZ contribution to the exhibition opening
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "M" / Michael Morgner (accessed on January 20, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Morgner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz