Otto Möhwald

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Otto Möhwald (born January 19, 1933 in Krausebauden , Czechoslovakia ; † October 28, 2016 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Live and act

Otto Möhwald, born on January 19, 1933 in Krausebauden ( Špindlerův Mlýn / Spindlermühle) in the Bohemian Giant Mountains , came to Uftrungen in the southern Harz as part of the expulsion and resettlement in 1945 . Between 1948 and 1950 he made his first attempts as a painter together with Bernhard Langer from Stolberg . Between 1950 and 1954 he studied at the Institute for Artistic Work Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) , where he took lessons from Ulrich Knispel , Erwin Hahs , Lothar Zitzmann and Kurt Bunge , among others . In 1952 he married the ceramist and sculptor Gertraud Degen . From 1954 to 1956 he worked as a drawing teacher on a fee contract , at the same time he became friends with Herbert Kitzel . Since 1956 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists .

In the years 1956–1963 Möhwald worked as an earthworker, deruster, exhibition graphic artist and house painter because there had been protests and a hidden professional ban on the occasion of an exhibition .

Between 1963 and 1971 he carried out several building contracts for building-related art together with his wife. In 1969 Möhwald made his first attempts at lithography in Helmut Brade's printing workshop in Halle (Saale). Since 1972 he has dealt exclusively with painting and graphics and was thus able to earn his living for the first time. Since 1976 his main focus was more and more on lithography. From 1978 he ran his own printing workshop together with Uwe Pfeifer , Fotis Zaprasis and Gerd Weickardt, which existed until 1991. From 1984 to 1990 Möhwald was a member of the central graphics group in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Künstleronderbund in Germany .

Between 1991 and 1998 Möhwald was a lecturer for painting at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale). In 1995 he received the professorship for painting and was head of the painting class at Burg Giebichenstein until 1999.

In 2002, his wife died in a traffic accident. On October 28, 2016 Möhwald also died in a traffic accident in Halle (Saale).

Möhwald was the grandfather of the writer Clemens Meyer .

Works (selection)

The constantly recurring motifs of Möhwald's paintings were walls in the broadest sense, interiors and female nudes.

  • 1985: Lying, woven nude with legs drawn up
  • 1989: Cliffs of the Saale , lithograph
  • 1989: Group of houses , lithograph
  • 1989: interior , lithography
  • 1989: Nude lying on bed , lithograph
  • 1989: Nude from the back , lithograph
  • 1989: Nude from behind, going through door , lithograph
  • 1992: Group of houses with a tree
  • 1993: Sitting nude from the back
  • 1998: Houses in Halle , watercolor
  • 1998: Lying on the bed
  • 2007: The Rosenstrasse
  • 2008: hallway interior
  • 2008: row of houses
  • 2008: A look into the studio

Portfolio editions (selection)

  • 1989: 6th printing of the Berlin graphic press (ten lithographs; with a text by Fritz Rudolf Fries )

Exhibitions

In 1956 Möhwald had an exhibition in the Moritzburg . After a spontaneous protest by a group of art-savvy proletarians , this exhibition was canceled prematurely, probably because of the numerous revealing acts and "because he had not contributed anything to the glorification of socialism". As a result Möhwald had to give up his office at Giebichenstein Castle and - together with his painter colleague Albert Ebert - "live from his hands" for the following years.

From October 1998 to November 1999 the Galerie am Wasserturm on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin showed a work by Möhwald.

In the Villa Kobe in Halle, the KunstHalle association organized an exhibition with works by Otto Möhwald from October 22 to November 29, 2009, for which the artist contrasted some of his early works with those from the first years of the 21st century.

Awards

literature

  • Dorit Litt : The painter Otto Möhwald. In: Central German yearbook for culture and history. Edited by Christof Römer, Verlag Janos Stekovics, Vol. 14, 2007, pp. 125-133.
  • Otto Möhwald, Halle (Saale): watercolors and overpaintings. Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle 2007. ( Hallescher Kunstverein. 97). (On the occasion of the exhibition in the foyer gallery of the Oper Halle from December 2, 2007 to February 3, 2008, Otto Möhwald - watercolors and overpaintings and the artist's 75th birthday in January 2008). 47 pages.
  • Otto Möhwald, painting: with a catalog raisonné. Fly head publishing house, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-930195-37-2 . (Appears for the exhibition Otto Möhwald, painting; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle , Landeskunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt, June 28 to August 23, 1998. Edited by Jürgen Scharfe and Katja Schneider ). 108 pages.
  • Otto Möhwald: The lithographs. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1993, ISBN 3-86105-061-7 . (The catalog appears for the exhibition Otto Möhwald, Stadt, Akt, Interieur. Lithographs in the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle from January 19 to March 7, 1993. Concept for catalog and exhibition: Bärbel Zausch). 96 pages.
  • Detlef Färber: Painter Otto Möhwald celebrates his 80th birthday , In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (online), January 18, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Works by Otto Möhwald in the art trade ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2014 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. , accessed October 31, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthandel-karger.com
  2. ^ Homepage of Gerd Weickardt .
  3. ^ Accident in Halle: painter Otto Möhwald died . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed October 30, 2016]).
  4. ↑ a Möhwald lithograph at www.arcadja.com , accessed on October 31, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c Brief description of Otto Möhwald and the exhibition in Berlin 1998/1999 , accessed on October 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Short biography and illustration of some works on the occasion of an exhibition in 2009 ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2016 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. , accessed October 31, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / villakobe.de
  7. ↑ http://www.galerie-berliner-graphikpresse.de/berliner-graphikpresse/mappenwerke
  8. ↑ Färber: Möhwald celebrates 80th birthday (see literature , last point)
  9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Clemens Meyer gives laudatory speech for art award winner Otto Möhwald@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freipresse.de
personal data
SURNAME Möhwald, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Krausebauden
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2016
Place of death Halle (Saale)