New Leipzig School

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The controversial term New Leipzig School denotes a trend in modern painting . It is particularly important as a label and marketing tool on the art market . The artists themselves usually refuse to belong. The Art Science avoids the term because of its largely blur.

history

The name refers to the “old” Leipzig School , an art journalistic term that was established around 1977 with the participation of Werner Tübke , Wolfgang Mattheuer and Bernhard Heisig at documenta 6 . Their students, including Sighard Gille and Arno Rink , can be seen as the second generation of the "Leipzig School". The term New Leipzig School , which is closely associated with the College of Graphics and Book Art , refers to their third generation students and their situation after the political change . Rolf Kuhrt or Heisig and Tübke are also seen less often as their representatives. The works are often characterized by a combination of figurative and abstract elements. Clear messages that were characteristic of the Leipzig School can no longer be found. “Although the pictures are largely formulated in representational form, the innermost core that holds them together remains abstract. … They are mood pictures that show a melancholy serenity in the status quo ”.

The local center of many painters and their gallery owners has been the Leipzig cotton spinning mill in Lindenau since 2005 after the music district .

The largest art collection of the Leipzig and New Leipzig Schools is located in the Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof in the Neustadt district of Leipzig.

Representative

The “New Leipzig School” includes Neo Rauch , Hans Aichinger , Tilo Baumgärtel , Tim Eitel , Bruno Griesel , Paule Hammer , Katrin Heichel , Axel Krause , Kathrin Landa , Tom Fabritius , Rosa Loy , Christoph Ruckhäberle , David Schnell , Miriam Vlaming , Matthias Weischer , Aris Kalaizis and Michael Triegel counted, although the affiliation is not seen uniformly.

The gallery owner Judy Lybke (Eigen + Art, Leipzig-Berlin), who has made Neo Rauch's works known on the American art market since the 1990s, played a significant role in the success of the “New Leipzig School” . As a result, other Leipzig artists gradually gained international recognition. The successes show parallels to the Young British Artists . Another important factor for the success of the Leipzig painters was the talent search of the gallery owner Matthias Kleindienst, who heads the woodcut printing workshop at the College of Graphics and Book Art and paved the way for many Leipzig artists. Matthias Weischer and David Schnell, among others, benefited from this. Substantial share of the market success of the "New Leipzig School" had the Produzentengalerie "LIGA" that in spring 2002 under the direction of Christian Ehrentraut, a former employee of looking Judy Lübke, in Berlin-Mitte started work.

Literature and Sources

  • Josef Filipp; Hans-Werner Schmidt: painting seven times. Exhibition catalog Museum of Fine Arts. Kerber, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 978-3-936646-19-1 .
  • Christiane Lange ; Florian Matzner (ed.): Contemporary painting. Back to the figure. Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3694-7 .
  • Claus Baumann: Once upon a time ... From the myth of the Leipzig School. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-95537-115-9 .
  • Hans-Werner Schmidt: Painting from Leipzig , In: Catalog for the exhibition “made in Leipzig” April 5 - October 31, 2007, Hartenfels Castle in Torgau, Klosterneuburg 2006.
  • Leipzig shines. Leipzig special. In: Art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 12, December 2004, pp. 18–89.
  • Leipzig - the gateway to painting? In: Kunstforum International , Volume 176, June – August 2005, pp. 147 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Hanno Rauterberg: Borrowed life . The new Leipzig school is famous. Now the myth is dissolving. In: The time . July 13, 2006, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  2. a b c d Stephan Berg: The discomfort with the New Leipzig School. In: Welt am Sonntag. www.welt.de, March 2, 2008, accessed on March 4, 2017 .
  3. a b c d e f g h Christian Schüle: New Leipzig School . The silent revolt. In: The time . No. 30 , July 21, 2005, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  4. ^ A b Doris Kothe: New Leipzig School . Career engine or obstacle to creativity? In: Deutschlandfunk . April 14, 2007 ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  5. ^ Hans-Werner Schmidt: Painting from Leipzig , In: Catalog for the exhibition "made in Leipzig" April 5 - October 31, 2007, Hartenfels Castle in Torgau, Klosterneuburg 2006.
  6. Claus Baumann: The Leipzig School - a look into the collection / 6. Saxon artwork, 2005, ISBN 3-9809160-4-9