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Norbert Wagenbrett (2006)

Norbert Wagenbrett (born November 7, 1954 in Leipzig ) is a German painter and graphic artist in the tradition of veristic human images .

Life

Norbert Wagenbrett was born in 1954 as the second child of the engineer Gerhard Wagenbrett and his wife Annemarie Wagenbrett, nee. Graichen, born. He grew up with his sister Ute in Leipzig.

From 1970 to 1972 he completed an apprenticeship as an offset retoucher at the Leipziger Druckhaus. After military service, he worked as a production technologist and photo operator in Leipzig printing works and as a lighting technician at the Leipzig Opera.

After attending the evening academy at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig from 1970 , he studied there from 1977 with Arno Rink , Wolfgang Peuker , Volker Stelzmann and Sighard Gille, and in 1982 earned his diploma in painting with distinction. He then worked as a freelancer in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig. From 1986 to 1988 he was a master class student with Willi Sitte .

Study trips took him to Siberia in the 1980s, and later to Italy and Greece .

Norbert Wagenbrett has three children. He lives and works in Leipzig.

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Since the 1980s, the painter Norbert Wagenbrett has focused almost exclusively on the human image. In the face of his models he looks for the unmistakable, the unique and comes very close to his counterpart with his graphic conciseness. His verism shows the natural imperfection of the contemporaries portrayed and does not rule out exaggeration.

About his work as a painter, as a “people seeker”, Norbert Wagenbrett himself says:
“I go to people and look for their dreams and find their fears, find levels of commonality, find pictures, they are pictures of these people, infinitely unique, with no one Object comparable in the world, and yet, in everyday, public life, the faces seem to be similar, to become the same and to merge, like the thoughts that are no longer one's own. "

Norbert Wagenbrett looks for the unmistakable and unique in the face of his models, what he captures in the portrait. He himself prefers to call his works portraits, because they go beyond portraiture and reflect more than just what is visible. The painted picture does not mean a reproduction of the human being in another material, but shows a new being, "the other self", to which part of him has also passed through the creation process through the painter's emotion, imagination, creativity and technique.

Norbert Wagenbrett: “The face of society is not the face of the individual. Those who don't want to be who they are are looking for community. Nobody knows the face under the mask. When the being penetrates through the mask and appears like a warming light from within, infinity becomes visible in reality. "

Art fairs

Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad

Works (selection)

Award

membership

Publications (selection)

  • Jürgen Krieger (Ed.): Norbert Wagenbrett. The living mirror. Portraits 1982–2012. JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-204-7 . In it: Richard Hüttel: "The individual cannot be grasped", Hans-Georg Sehrt: "Portrait painting in the 21st century?".
  • Ralph Grüneberger : The portraitist Norbert Wagenbrett. Insights into life and work . Society for contemporary poetry eV , Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-937264-63-9
  • Norbert Wagenbrett (Ed.): The other mirror. Portraits . Exhibition catalog. Leipzig, 1999. In it: Rainer Behrends: You could almost say that your hands can speak! To understand Norbert Wagenbrett's picture. ISBN 3-00-004472-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Galerie Koenitz Leipzig, exhibition Norbert Wagenbrett: The White City, 2011. Accessed on January 11, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerie-koenitz.de
  2. ↑ Rainer Behrends: “'You could almost say that your hands can speak!' On the image of Norbert Wagenbrett ”. In: Norbert Wagenbrett (Ed.): “The other mirror. Portraits ”. Exhibition catalog. Leipzig 1999. p. 5.
  3. ^ [1] Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, exhibition Norbert Wagenbrett: The Other Self, 2010. Retrieved on January 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ Ada Raev : "1984. 'Construction worker'. Norbert Wagenbrett ”. In: Simone Tippach-Schneider (Ed.): “Temporary Heroes. Portraits from the Beeskow Art Archive ”. Beeskow Art Archive 2009. p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Wagon board, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig