Moritz Gotze

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Moritz Götze (second from left) 2018 at the Faust cultural center in Hanover ;
with Harro Schmidt (left), a friend and Rüdiger Giebler

Moritz Götze (born July 26, 1964 in Halle (Saale) ) is a contemporary German painter , graphic artist , enamel and object artist .

Life

Moritz Götze was born as the son of Wasja and Inge Götze and completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker from 1981 to 1983 , before becoming a guitarist and singer in bands such as “Megalomania” (1981–1985) and organizing opposition punk festivals.

From 1985 to 1995 he ran a graphics workshop, in which numerous posters and screen prints were created based on his own and other people's designs. He experienced the turning point of 1989 as “a witness and medium of a historical process ... For Moritz Götze, however, life as a professional artist began with all the moments of happiness of unleashed freedom ...” (Paul Kaiser). From 1991 to 1994 Götze took on a teaching position for serigraphy (screen printing) at the Art Academy Burg Giebichenstein and in 1994 a visiting professorship at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris .

Götze founded Hasenverlag with Peter Gerlach in Halle in 2006 , which deals with regional and cultural-historical topics.

Moritz Götze is married to Grita Götze .

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Moritz Götze is an artist of stories and myths. His repertoire is extraordinarily rich. The autodidact drew attention to himself early on with surreally entangled prints and pictures. Scraps of words and awkward punk figures enlivened fictional spaces, landscapes of longing and maritime motifs.

In the years from 1990 to 1994, influences from Pop Art , comics and medieval book illustration were reflected in the screen-printed portfolios. In addition, the artist devoted himself to drawing and painting . The primary colors used, the clear compositions and the statuesque-appellative formal language suggest simplicity, but sophisticated chains of associations and refined codes simultaneously create pronounced complexity and depth.

Collage , assemblage , enamel and ceramics enriched Götze's possibilities of expression. Since 1990 the formats of the works have grown, the screen prints have become multi-part ( The little Dog ). In 1995 he painted three prism walls with large-format changing pictures ( It's a new day ). In 1994–95 the ceramic mosaics running around five floors were created in the atrium of the Leipzig exhibition center "Speck's Hof".

In the years that followed, up to around 2000, Götze turned to everyday and political issues. He created enamel billboards for fictitious, non-existent products ( Orlando , Mono , seawater can ) and also used the material for large-scale wall designs in the Berlin Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and in the employment office in Halle. His series "re: realismus" deals with socialist realism and the phenomenon of "Ostalgie" ( At the switchboard. After Willi Sitte , party discussion. After Willi Neubert ). The large-format works Where the sun rises and The march are historical events from the time of the unification of the empire and the status of German society. The painting Rococo lets a supersonic fighter break into an icy idyll and in the room a group of Europeans in colonial dress desperately defend one last bastion.

Moritz Gotze

In 2006/07 Götze designed a panorama of modernity with the enamel composition Victoria, which consists of around 700 parts , interspersed with historical events and visions of future events. As part of the exhibition on the 200th anniversary of Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz's death , three large sculptures by the artist based on motifs by Johann Gottfried Schadow were placed in front of Charlottenburg Palace .

Selection of works

Large format works, mosaic, email

Design of books

  • 1999: Manfred Krug : 66 poems - what's the point , design and illustrations, Econ, Cologne, ISBN 3-43015731-5 .
  • 1999: Halle around the turn of the century - photographs by Fritz Möller , Gestaltung, Schmiedicke, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-7492-0260-5 .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1994 Transit Gallery, Leuven
  • 1995 C'est moi . State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle (catalog)
  • 1995 Kunstverein Würzburg
  • 1995 Sandmann + Haak Gallery, Hanover
  • 1996 State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
  • 1997 German Consulate General, New York
  • 1997 Kunsthalle, Luckenwalde
  • 1998 City Museum Siegburg
  • 1998 Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
  • 1999 City Museum Dresden
  • 1999 Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
  • 1999 Mercedes-Benz Manhattan, New York  
  • 2002 Art Gallery Osnabrück
  • 2002 mad room . Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 2002 Friedrichshafen Art Association
  • 2003 Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt
  • 2004 Picture Hall of German History . Art Museum, Magdeburg
  • 2005 The Prince Robbery . Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
  • 2007 men and deeds . Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken (catalog)
  • 2009 Nordico . Museum of the City of Linz
  • 2009 men and deeds . New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz (catalog)
  • 2009 The ink throw on the Wartburg . With Bazon Brock. Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin (catalog)
  • 2009 Scapa Flow . Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation (catalog)
  • 2009 men and deeds . Museum of Young Art, Frankfurt / Oder (catalog)
  • 2010 infinity machine . Art Association Wetzlar
  • 2011 Mikado of Events . Cloppenburg Art Gallery
  • 2012 German art . Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt (catalog)
  • 2012 My field is the world . Rostock Art Association
  • 2013 beauty and ruin . Ostholstein Museum, Eutin (catalog)
  • 2014 Götzes Pop . Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale)
  • 2014 German Art . German Consulate General, New York (catalog)
  • 2015 Art Museum Jena, Jena
  • 2015 Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Dessau
  • 2015 Branitz Castle Museum, Cottbus
  • 2015 Art Association Freiberg, Freiberg 
  • 2016 PASSION. Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest
  • 2017 black red gold . Municipal gallery, Offenburg

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997 bohemian and dictatorship . German Historical Museum, Berlin
  • 2002 art from the new federal states . Federal Chancellery, Berlin
  • 2002 mad room . Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 2002 Art and Culture of the 80s in Germany . Art Association Rügen, Puttbus
  • 2002 Due to the occasion . Sprengelmuseum, Hanover
  • 2003 New Illustration . New York University
  • 2003 mad room. Art and culture of the 80s in Germany . Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 2006 What is German? Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (catalog)
  • 2008 Märkischer Sand . Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus (catalog)
  • 2010 Luise - Life and Myth . Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
  • 2010 The Saxons and the Sea . Art collection Gera
  • 2011 Matthias Baader Holst . Rote Fabrik Zurich (catalog)
  • 2011 Matthias Baader Holst . Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalog)
  • 2012 table talk with Luther . Angermuseum, Erfurt (catalog)
  • 2012 creative dreams . Art collection Gera
  • 2014 Pictures go to school . Kunsthalle Rostock (catalog)
  • 2016 Lady Hamilton . Moritz Götze and Grita Götze. Wörlitz Castle Museum
  • 2016 passion. Fan behavior and art . City Gallery Kiel, Kiel
  • 2017 The fight . Rothamel Gallery, Frankfurt

Awards

  • 1996: Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt

Literature (selection)

  • Moritz Götze - German art , catalog for the exhibition Neue Welten in the Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt and in the Rourke Art Gallery Museum, Moorhead, USA, Halle / Saale: Hasenverlag GmbH 2012. ISBN 978-3-939468-66-0
  • Moritz Götze - Beauty and Downfall , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Ostholstein Museum, the German Consulate General in New York and the Rothamel Gallery, Halle / Saale: Hasenverlag GmbH 2013. ISBN 978-3-939468-97-4
  • Moritz Götze - Works on paper, catalog for the exhibition Moritz Götze - Walks in the Kulturkirche Neuruppin, Halle / Saale: Hasenverlag GmbH 2014. ISBN 978-3-939468-82-0

Web links

Commons : Moritz Götze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiversity: work example Moritz Götze  - course materials

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website halle-liest.de
  2. ↑ cf. Hoge, Kristina: The story (s) narrator, in: Moritz Götze - Deutsche Kunst, catalog for the exhibition Neue Welten in the Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt and in the Rourke Art Gallery Museum, Moorhead, USA, Halle / Saale: Hasenverlag GmbH 2012, p. 5-50.
  3. ↑ Rothamel, Jörk: Moritz Götze - Walks, in: Moritz Götze - Works on Paper, catalog for the exhibition Moritz Götze - Walks in the Kulturkirche Neuruppin, Halle / Saale: Hasenverlag GmbH 2014, pp. 7–19, pp. 14–15 .
  4. ↑ cf. Freitag, Michael: Entewigen or no gray shades at all, in: Moritz Götze - Deutsche Kunst, pp. 53–93.
  5. ↑ Rothamel, Jörk: Weltall Erde Mensch, in: Moritz Götze - Deutsche Kunst, pp. 95–135, p. 99.
  6. ↑ website kunstblogbuch.de
  7. ^ Profile Moritz Götze. In: artfacts. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
  8. ^ Profile Moritz Götze. In: artfacts. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gotze, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, enamel and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)