Moritz Reichelt

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Moritz Reichelt alias Moritz R®. (Born October 8, 1955 in Halle / Saale) is a German painter and musician. He is the son of the painter Tom Reichelt and his second wife Fe Reichelt . His representational and narrative painting shows stylistic influences from Expressionism and Cubism to the American illustration art of the 1950s and combines humor with abysmal sarcasm. Reichelt is a member of Der Plan and co-founder of the German record label Ata Tak .

Professional background

In 1968 Reichelt was represented with a picture at Documenta 4 in Kassel. In 1978 he and Frank Fenstermacher founded the world's first new wave gallery called “Art Attack” in Wuppertal, from which the label Ata Tak later emerged.

Reichelt belonged to the group Normal , an artist group around the Czech painters Milan Kunc and Jan Knap , as well as the Nuremberg Peter Angermann .

Reichelt was represented in the exhibitions Treibhaus ( Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf 1982), Art Congress ( Kunstverein Hamburg 1988), Painting 2000 (Hamburg 1993), Back to Concrete ( Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2002), Pop am Rhein ( Stadtmuseum Köln 2007), Embedded Art ( Academy of Künste , Berlin 2009) and Geniale Dilletanten ( Haus der Kunst , Munich 2015). He had solo exhibitions in Germany a. a. in Tokyo, Vienna, Rotterdam and Los Angeles ( La Luz De Jesus ).

In addition to various Ata Tak records, videos and stage decorations, Reichelt also designed the covers of some of the earlier Depeche Mode singles, numerous stage sets and covers by Andreas Dorau , Sun Ra , Bugge Wesseltoft , Merricks and others. a., as well as movie posters, z. B. for Manta - The Film .

He also worked as an outfitter for film and television, u. a. for The Last Revenge , Haus Vaterland by Horst Königstein and the VOX media magazine Canale Grande . Under the pseudonym “Marie-Claire de St.Rocaille” he illustrated for six years for Tempo magazine .

Since the late 1980s, Reichelt turned to exotic art, especially from the South Seas. He was one of the founders of the Tiki Revival in Germany and internationally the first painter of this genre.

From 2006 to 2008 Moritz Reichelt designed the virtual presence of Universal Music Germany in Second Life as a 3D computer graphic artist under the pseudonyms "Mo Eriksen" and "Moni Duettmann" .

In parallel to his work as a visual artist, Moritz Reichelt was always equally active as a musician. He came to music in 1978 as a member of the group "Weltende" of the Gelsenkirchen Fluxus artist Jürgen Kramer . Then he founded his own bands, the "Karmann Ghias", "Weltaufstandsplan" and finally " Der Plan ". With this band he produced nine studio albums, five singles and film scores (including for The Last Vengeance ). The band had a large number of stage appearances at home and abroad, which Reichelt furnished with lavishly designed sets and painted masks. The plan is considered one of the pioneers of the Neue Deutsche Welle .

In addition, Reichelt was active as an author ( Popkatalog Vol.1 - Postpsychedelic Painting , The Plan - gloss and misery of the Neue Deutsche Welle ) and filmmaker ( KuK Revisited , JaPlan ). He wrote u. a. for Titanic , Telepolis and Junge Welt and Rolling Stone .

In 2005 he ran for Die PARTTEI in the constituency of Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg .

literature

  • Moritz Reichelt: The plan. Glamor and misery of the Neue Deutsche Welle. The story of a German band . Martin Schmitz Verlag, Kassel, 1993, ISBN 3-927795-08-9 .
  • Moritz Reichelt: Pop catalog 1. Post-Psychedelic Painting , Verlag Werner Pieper & The Grüne Kraft, Löhrbach, 1998, ISBN 3925817972 .
  • Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . A documentary novel about German punk and new wave. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Reichelt in CNN about "Embedded Art" ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailymotion.com
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  3. ^ Moritz Reichelt at parliamentwatch.de

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personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz ®.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle , Saale, GDR