Pitt Moog

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Pitt Moog (* 1932 in Kempfenbrunn im Spessart ; † June 22, 2017 in Brilon ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

life and work

Pitt Moog studied from 1952 to 1958 at the Werkakademie in Kassel with Arnold Bode and Fritz Winter . He then worked as an assistant for Arnold Bode. Arnold Bode strongly encouraged Pitt Moog to pursue the artist's profession. Moog worked as a trade fair designer and was involved in the preparations for documenta 1 and documenta 2 . He maintained close contacts with the organizers Werner Haftmann , Herbert Freiherr von Buttlar and Kurt Martin . In 1958 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. Then he worked as a freelance artist. With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, he went to Paris for a year. From 1961 to 1962 Moog had a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund and at the University of Fine Arts in Kassel . In 1962, Pitt Moog met the gallery owner and photographer Benjamin Katz and the art historian and exhibition organizer Christos Joachimides , who supported Pitt Moog's work. In 1963 he took over the management of the advertising and design department for the German Evangelical Church Congress in Dortmund. From 1966 until his retirement in 1994 he taught at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , since 1973 as a professor in the field of design theory and illustration . In 1971 he moved to the water mill in Brilon- Aamühlen. Since 1985 Pitt Moog has been a juror for the "Salon du Printemps" in Luxembourg . Typical motifs of this painting in oil, tempera and mixed media, developed out of an aesthetic backward agility, were arthropods , animals, fauns , heralds , fairy tales - and fantasy figures, often in groups in a primordial deletion with graves, caves, which oscillates between non-representational and figuration and form rocks into archaic-mythical scenes. Earthy colors in brown and olive tones dominated, some of which were placed next to and on top of each other using a wiping technique. Between 1965 and 1975, Pitt Moog shifted his focus to drawings and prints. In addition to editions and individual works, e.g. For example, the design of the anniversary font of West-German Bauvereinsbank GmbH from 1964, he used the screen printing process to create some trendy graphic series in expressive, bright colors. At the end of the 1970s he created series of small-format watercolors with erotic scenes before Pitt Moog returned to the “chthonic painting” of the early years in the 1980s. Pitt Moog also carried out wall designs for private and public clients. In 1975/76 he worked in cooperation with LTK Architects Dortmund for school centers in Düsseldorf- Lintorf, Gevelsberg and Siegen and in 1981/82 for the commercial schools in Lüdenscheid .

Study trips

Pitt Moog went on extensive study trips to Greece and western Turkey . He also traveled to other Mediterranean countries such as Egypt and Algeria . His encounters and the preoccupation with early Mediterranean cultures and prehistoric cave paintings were formative for the themes and the style of his artistic creation of "chtonic painting". His art received international attention in the 1960s. Since 1964, Moog has had over 95 solo exhibitions at home and abroad. Since 1962 he had been entrusted with the execution of 11 projects in the field of “ Art in Architecture ”. Moog was a participant in the III. Biennale de Paris and the documenta III in 1964 in Kassel and also for the III. Tokyo Biennale invited as an artist.

Pitt Moog lived in Brilon.

Important awards

In the years 1959 to 1961:

Important exhibitions

(Selection)

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Sven Claude Bettinger Eckhard Gerber, U. Jo von Goetz Pitt Moog 1986 - 1990 Hildesheimer Druck- und Verlags- GmbH
  • Literature by and about Pitt Moog in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Brilon artist Pitt Moog In: Westfalenpost , accessed on June 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Moog, Pitt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moog, Piet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempfenbrunn , Spessart
DATE OF DEATH 22nd June 2017
Place of death Brilon