Pit Morell

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Pit Morell also Jean Pit Morell (born January 4, 1939 in Kassel ) is a German painter , graphic artist , etcher , draftsman , illustrator , sculptor , poet and narrator of Fantastic Realism .

Huguenot ancestors

Since the 17th century, the Huguenot ancestors of Pit Morell settled in Hümme, in today 's Kelze district of Hofgeismar .

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Pit Morell was born in Kassel in 1939 and, after the destruction of the city of Kassel in 1943 during the Second World War , lived with his aunt in Reinhardswald until the end of the war . In 1946 he moved to Hohenkirchen .

In 1951 he lived in Sielen and then grew up in what is now the Hofgeismar district of Hümme (HUMI). There he received drawing lessons from teacher Hinze and suggestions from the painter and sculptor Wilhelm Hugues . The childhood memories of the village of Hümme determine numerous works by the fantastic, realistic artist. From 1954 to 1957 Morell completed a commercial apprenticeship in Kassel. From 1958 Morell began studying graphics at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule with the Kleeschool Prof. Hüffner . In the same year he traveled to Paris for the first time on a bicycle . He spent the following two years alternately in Munich and Kassel. In 1960 Pit Morell married Rosmarie Ellerlage.

Morell lived in Bremen from 1960 to 1963 . In 1963 he wrote the volume of poetry "Tschikeung" in Bremen, which he also illustrated himself. In 1963 Pit Morell exhibited his pictures publicly for the first time in Berlin (West), in the Kreuzberg pub "Leierkasten" from September 3rd to October 27th. His pictures could be admired in the Berlin pub in the smoke and beer-laden air. After completing his graphic studies in Kassel, Pit Morell has been working as a freelance artist in Worpswede since 1964 . This is where his fantastic, realistic work is created, especially drawings and etchings based on rural life in the Teufelsmoor and the Worpswede artists' colony. Exhibitions of colored pencil drawings followed in 1965 in the Galerie Sydow in Frankfurt and in the Galerie Brockstedt in Hamburg . In addition, he invented his country “HUMI”, whose oddities and bizarre features he worked out artistically. In 1967 he created the volume of poetry "Signals", a book that he himself illustrated. Solo exhibitions have now been shown in the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg and the Kunstverein in Wiesbaden . In 1968 Pit Morell received a scholarship from the Aldegrever Society in Münster and the art prize of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen . In 1969 he was awarded the Lower Saxony Art Prize for Fine Arts. In 1970 he illustrated the volume of poetry Nebbich for Ben Witter and a year later in 1971 Annoyances . In 1975 he exhibited pictures and small sculptures at the Kunstverein Salzgitter. In 1976 a group of artists was published entitled Greetings to Luis Armstrong . In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in the hand drawings section in Kassel. 1979 appeared from Pit Morell's story The stairs to the shell messages from Humi and Kampen - sketches and text. Pit Morell also illustrated Sergius Golowin's The Magic of Forbidden Fairy Tales and Elisabeth Alexander's Bums in 1979 . Another stay in Paris followed in 1982, made possible by a grant from the State of Lower Saxony. In 1983 he exhibited in the Worpsweder Kunsthalle and in the Oldenburger Kunstverein. In 1986 he received a teaching position at the University of the Arts in Bremen . In 2006, a highly regarded exhibition with the title "Return to Humi" followed. Pit Morell's “Humi” is everywhere where the big can be seen in the small .

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Exhibitions

  • Big bellies and fear of death , Lich City Library 2015
  • Pit Morell , Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg October 9th - November 13th 1983
  • documenta 6 , Kassel 1977
  • Pictures and small sculptures , Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, September - November 1975
  • Five artists from Worpswede: Uwe Hässler, Friedrich Meckseper, Pit Morell, Dieter Pieper, Kurt Schönen , Museum am Dom, Worpswede December 10, 1972 - January 14, 1973

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SURNAME Morell, Pit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morell, Jean Pit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel