Michael Triegel

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Michael Triegel (right), Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy at the finissage for the Triegel exhibition “Metamorphosis of the Gods”, Leipzig 2011

Michael Triegel (born December 13, 1968 in Erfurt ) is a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist . He lives and works in Leipzig .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1987, Michael Triegel worked as a type and graphic painter. In 1990 he began studying painting and graphics with Arno Rink at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art , from which he graduated in 1995. According to his own statements, it was during this time that his artistic awakening occurred in a Roman church: “I really had my second birth there in the Goethean sense.” Regular trips to Italy, Great Britain and Switzerland shaped his landscape painting. As a state scholarship holder, he completed postgraduate studies with Ulrich Hachulla from 1995 to 1997 and received the master class diploma in 1998. In 1996 Michael Triegel received the German Art Prize of the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken and three years later the Helen-Abbott-Förderpreis , Berlin-New York for visual arts. In 1998 he received the art prize Der Mensch im Raum by Dragoco AG . In 2009, the award of the Art and Ethos Culture Prize from Schnell und Steiner followed .

With the execution of the mural in the historic town hall of Plochingen (Baden-Württemberg) in 2000, the general public also became aware of Michael Triegel. His allegory of the good government is based on the town hall paintings that were created in the early Italian Renaissance . Triegel designed a panorama of allegorical representations that create a program image of a representative city tour.

On the recommendation of Werner Tübke , Triegel received his first church commission, the redesign of the predella for the late Gothic carved altar in the small chapel in Barsinghausen - Langreder near Hanover. In 2005 he was entrusted with the execution of a winged altar by the Protestant parish of Grave in the Weserbergland, which he completed in 2006. When closed, it shows a depiction of the Last Judgment , in which Triegel has given the figure of Christ his own face. The interior view shows in the middle an adoration of the child, the left wing the baptism of Christ, the right wing a scene of the Lord's Supper . In the same year, as the winner of the competition, under the theme of God's Word, he was commissioned to redesign a burned-down side altar retable in the parish church of St. Laurentius (Ebern) in Lower Franconia . At the end of 2007 this was completed and inaugurated. The exterior view shows Abraham and Isaac , in the center of the interior view is the conversion of Pauli, on the left the stoning of Stephen is revealed , on the right the resurrection of Tabea .

The execution of a ceiling painting for the cathedral music in Würzburg 2009/2010 continues the series of church commissions. The 3.8 m by 2.3 m monumental ceiling painting entitled Harmonia Mundi can serve as an example not only of Triegel's technical virtuosity, but also as evidence of his extensive intellectual and cultural-historical education. By combining various gods, such as Pan , Apollo or Athena , he succeeded in visualizing the “Pythagorean interpretation of the world based on the order of numbers.” The portrait of Regensburg Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller , created in 2009, paved the way for Triegel to award the contract , 2010 Pope Benedict XVI. to draw. The diocese of Regensburg commissioned him with a portrait for the institute Pope Benedict XVI. It was presented to the public on November 27, 2010 together with all preparatory work and studies in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Karin Schulze wrote in the Spiegel :

“But that's not a big picture. It certainly doesn’t stand up to the comparison with Raphael’s famous, strangely barren and disturbingly unrepresentative portrait of Pope Julius II . "

Sven Behrisch wrote at the time :

“With Benedict's concentrated painting ... Triegel not only created his best work. It also gives new meaning to the genre of the Pope portrait ... Triegel not only has the Pope, he portrayed the Catholic Church: imperious and doubtful, arrogant and frail. He has achieved what the Church has not always succeeded in lately: to show itself human. "

A second version of the portrait of Benedict XVI, similar to the first, was unveiled on April 16, 2013, the 86th birthday of Benedict XVI, in the German embassy to the Holy See .

Another highlight in 2010 and proof of the widespread public recognition of his controversially discussed work was the first comprehensive retrospective Metamorphosis of the Gods in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts . Over 60 paintings allowed a representative insight into his oeuvre and gave the art public the opportunity to to trace Michael Triegel's artistic development from the mid-1990s to 2010.

At the end of 2010, Triegel received another order from the Catholic Church. For the newly renovated parish church of St. Augustine in Dettelbach (Diocese of Würzburg) he made an altarpiece with scenes from the life of St. Augustine . The winged altar was consecrated on the feast day of St. Augustine, on August 28, 2011.

The work Good Friday 1300 was the 2012th

On Easter Vigil 2014, Triegel was baptized a Catholic by Bishop Heiner Koch in the Dresden Court Church.

In the period 2014/15 Michael Triegel designed two thermal bath windows in the parish church of St. Maria Himmelfahrt in Köthen .

Michael Triegel's work so far includes paintings , watercolors , drawings and etching cycles . In addition to landscapes, still lifes and portraits, it is above all the complex artistic exploration of the ancient-mythological and Christian-salvation-historical legacy that are perceived as characteristic of his art. That is why Triegel is repeatedly moved into a tradition with renowned artists from the former GDR, above all Werner Tübke. In addition to working through biblical and mythological material and adapting it for his own present, Tübke is also linked by drawing precision and craftsmanship. This was conveyed to the Erfurt native during his studies at the College of Graphics and Book Art . Triegel's way of working is very time-consuming. The composition of the central lines and objects is recorded on an elaborately primed painting surface. Then the artist gradually works out individual parts with reduced grisaille tones. The color is finally applied in many glazes to achieve an intense and radiant color effect.

Michael Triegel's style is mainly based on the painters of the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism , such as Raphael , Leonardo , Pontormo or Bronzino . He is not interested in a mere art-historical quote, but rather in the search for “counter-models” and archetypes.

Factory locations

Art Museum Walter, Augsburg; Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen; Federal President's Office at Bellevue Palace, Berlin; Parish church "St. Augustinus", Dettelbach; Catholic Church Foundation St. Laurentius, Ebern; Angermuseum , Erfurt; Evangelical Church, Grave; Art collections of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hanover; Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig; Grassimuseum, Leipzig; Collection VNG (Verbundnetz Gas) art, Leipzig; Art Collection Galerie Leipziger Hof, Leipzig; Fritz P. Mayer Collection, Leipzig; Art Collection Dresdner Bank Naumburg; Town hall Plochingen; Cultural Office of the Prignitz District; Collection Ostdeutsche Landesbausparkasse Potsdam; Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and Family, State of Brandenburg, Potsdam; Diocese of Regensburg; Kartäusermuseum Tückelhausen ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA; Commerzbank Wittenberg Collection; Cathedral Music, Würzburg; Museum am Dom, Würzburg; Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul, Würzburg; Zittau municipal museums and numerous private collections in Germany and abroad.

The painting "Human Incarnation" from 2017 is in the Roman Catholic. Parish Church of St. Oswald (Baunach) .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995: New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz
  • 1996: Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof
  • 1996: Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
  • 1996: Art Museum, Bonn
  • 1997: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 1997: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
  • 1997: Art Association Pirmasens, Pirmasens
  • 1998: Art Show, New York
  • 1999: City Museum, Bautzen
  • 1999: Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2000: Arolsen Castle, Bad Arolsen
  • 2000: Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano
  • 2000: Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2001: Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2002: Art Cologne, Cologne
  • 2002: ARCO, Madrid
  • 2002: Jesuit Church, Aschaffenburg
  • 2002: Museum Maagdenhuis, Antwerp
  • 2003: Museum am Dom, Würzburg
  • 2003: St. Matthew Church, Berlin
  • 2003: New Museum, Güstrow
  • 2004: Museum am Dom, Würzburg
  • 2005: Schwind Gallery , Leipzig
  • 2006: Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
  • 2007: Museum Giersch , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2007: Kunstverein Südsauerland, Olpe / Biggesee
  • 2008: Museum am Dom, Würzburg
  • 2008: Gallery Schwind , Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008/2009: Leopold Museum, Vienna
  • 2009: Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands
  • 2009: Kunstverein Panitzsch near Leipzig
  • 2010: Museum St. Ulrich, Regensburg
  • 2010: Alain Blondel Gallery, Paris
  • 2010/2011: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig ( Metamorphosis of the Gods )
  • 2011: St. Matthäus Foundation , Berlin ( Per Visibilia ad Invisibilia )
  • 2011: Dommuseum Frankfurt ( Pope Benedict XVI portraits )
  • 2013: Panitzsch Church ( Borsdorf near Leipzig ): "Works on paper", etchings and lithographs, exhibition from October 13, 2013 - until the end of January 2014
  • 2014/2015: Kunsthalle Rostock ( Werner Tübke , Michael Triegel - Two Masters from Leipzig ), June 21 to September 14, 2014 and in Aschaffenburg , Jesuit Church Art Hall , January 24 to April 19, 2015
  • 2017: Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig ( logos and image ), May 11th to August 6th, 2017
  • 2018/2019: Angermuseum , Erfurt (Discordia concors), 18. November 2018 - February 17, 2019 and in the Museum de Fundatie , Zwolle from May 25 - September 1, 2019

literature

  • Juan de la Cruz, Michael Triegel: Dark Night / Etchings by Michael Triegel on a text by Juan de la Cruz. Edition Erata, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-934015-43-3 .
  • Friederike Sehmsdorf: Michael Triegel - Really - Strange. Edition St. Matthäus, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-9807912-2-X .
  • Karl Schwind (Ed.): Michael Triegel. The world in the mirror. The World in the Mirror. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-805-0 .
  • Michael Triegel: Directory of prints: 1991–2004 / Michael Triegel. Edition Galerie Schwind, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-932830-48-2 .
  • Gerd Lindner: Michael Triegel - Ars Combinatoria . Panorama-Museum, Bad Frankenhausen 2006, ISBN 3-938049-05-7 .
  • Helmut G. Schütz : The combinatorial art of Michael Triegel . In: Mattheuer, Tübke, Triegel. A Frankfurt private collection . Frankfurt am Main 2007 ( Museum Giersch ), ISBN 978-3-86568-329-8 .
  • Michael Koller, Jürgen Lenssen (ed.): Michael Triegel - Language of Things. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum am Dom Würzburg September 26th - November 30th, 2008. Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812595-0-6 .
  • Art collections of the diocese of Regensburg (ed.): Really? - Michael Triegel. Painting and works on paper. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum St. Ulrich Regensburg April 16 - June 20, 2010. Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2397-1 .
  • Richard Hüttel (Ed.): Michael Triegel: Metamorphosis of the Gods. Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig November 27, 2010 to February 6, 2011. Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-3361-5 .
  • Hermann Reidel: "Oh, so you are my Raffael." On the genesis of a portrait of the Pope by Michael Triegel. In: Greetings from the sixties . Regensburg Almanac. Edited by Konrad Maria Färber. MZ Buchverlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-934863-48-4 , pp. 104-109.
  • Richard Hüttel (ed.): Werner Tübke - Michael Triegel. Two masters from Leipzig. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Rostock from June 21 to September 14, 2014 and in the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg, from January 24 to April 19, 2015. Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774 -2286-2 .
  • Karl Schwind (Ed.): Michael Triegel. Discordia concors. Catalog for the exhibition at the Angermuseum Erfurt from November 18, 2018 to February 17, 2019 and at the Museum de Fundatie Zwolle from May 25, 2019 to September 8, 2019. Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-3219-9 .
  • Sara Tröster Klemm : Review of Michael Triegel. Discordia concors; Exhibition catalog Angermuseum , November 18, 2018 to February 17, 2019, Erfurt; Museum de Fundatie, 25.05.2019-08.09.2019, Zwolle, Netherlands, ed. by Karl Schwind, with contributions by Josef Haslinger, Matthias Bormuth, Horst Bredekamp and Kai Uwe Schierz, Munich: Hirmer 2018 . In: Journal for Art History. The international review magazine. Journal of Art History. International Periodical of Reviews, vol. 25, 4/2019. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2019, pp. 385–396. ( Journals - University of Regensburg ), ISSN 1432-9506.

Web links

Film contributions

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeit Magazin from June 9, 2011
  2. ^ Richard Hüttel: Michael Triegel's Harmonia Mundi. In: Richard Hüttel (Ed.): Michael Triegel. Transformation of the gods. 2010, p. 192.
  3. ↑ Ad-hoc-news: Leipzig artist Triegel will paint Pope
  4. ↑ Karin Schulze: Art reactionary Triegel: This is how the Pope likes to see himself. In: Spiegel Online . November 27, 2010, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sven Behrisch: Pope: The true face of the church . In: The time . No. 47/2010 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Leipzig Pope Painter baptized in Dresden. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Castle Church of St. Maria zu Köthen: Michael Triegel's designs are applauded. November 23, 2014, accessed on January 2, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Löhr: What do you see? On Michael Triegel's play with the questionable nature of the images. In: Richard Hüttel (Ed.): Michael Triegel. Transformation of the gods. 2010, p. 65.
  9. ↑ Peter Guth: Mysticism, play and divine spark. In: Karl Schwind (Ed.): Michael Triegel. The world in the mirror. 2003, p. 17.
  10. ↑ Triegel's painting Last Supper in the Museum am Dom in Würzburg
  11. ^ Exhibition of Triegel's works in the Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen (2006)
  12. ↑ Panitzsch Church - cultural events. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Triegel, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt