Peter Möbus
Peter Möbus (* 1954 in Cologne ) is a German painter .
Peter Möbus studied from 1972 to 1980 at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and completed his studies as a master class student with Karl Marx . He taught as a lecturer at the Cologne Werkkunstschule , where he also held the office of dean.
Möbus is a landscape painter and orientates himself on the art of the 19th century, in particular Turner , and he cultivates the open air painting .
As early as 1980, the art collection of the German Bundestag bought two of these early works by Möbus.
More recent work deals with the experience of violence and death during the First World War .
Through the use of contemporary documentary recordings from the battlefields in Western Europe in connection with the overpainting technique of tempera / oil on canvas printed with photos, impressions of violence and war were created. These pictures were shown in his exhibition in the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst: "Imprints of War" .
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| SURNAME | Möbus, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |