Michael Waitz

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Michael Waitz (* 1964 in Coburg ) is a contemporary German painter and draftsman. He lives and works in Berlin.

biography

Michael Waitz studied painting from 1989 to 1996 at the Berlin University of the Arts with Hirsig and Klaus Fußmann . In 1996 he was appointed master student of Klaus Fußmann. In the same year he worked as an artistic assistant at the Dresden University of Fine Arts .

In 1997 a longer stay in Tanzania (East Africa) followed, which thematically influenced the artistic work. Michael Waitz has been working freelance in Berlin since 1998, and has been a member of the Munich Secession since 2003 .

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In his figurative, mostly medium-sized paintings, Michael Waitz designs a world, the basic ingredients of which are current processes and more general relationships of the surrounding circumstances. In the painterly experiment, the important elements of which are the ironic and sometimes the grotesque, Michael Waitz develops his own quintessence of the world. It is less committed to surrealism than to the tragic-grotesque hyperrealism of Hieronymus Bosch and the political-tragic sarcasm of Francisco de Goya and George Grosz . In the drawings, and especially in the series that have been created using the medium of etching since 1994 , the grotesque and sarcastic also come close to caricatures.

Exhibitions and collections

Works by Michael Waitz have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries, institutions and at art fairs in Germany and abroad and are represented in important private and public collections.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Waitz Moritaten der Moderne: Skyscrapers well up from mouth and ears
personal data
SURNAME Waitz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg