Reinhard Minkewitz

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Reinhard Minkewitz (born December 18, 1957 in Magdeburg ) is a German draftsman , painter and graphic artist . He lives and works in Leipzig .

Life

Reinhard Minkewitz spent his childhood and school days up to high school in Berlin . From 1979 to 1984 he completed his studies at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig , which he graduated with a diploma. From 1984 to 1986 he received a grant from the Städtische Bühnen Leipzig, from 1987 to 1989 he attended Gerhard Kettner's school in Dresden , of which he was a master student . In 1986 and 1989 Reinhard Minkewitz was the winner of the “100 selected graphics”.

From 1990 to 1996 he took on a teaching position for figurative and nudes in the painting / graphics department at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, which he interrupted in 1994 by working at the Goethe-Institut Manchester and the University of Lancaster ("German Artist in Residence") . In 1996 he received the Dresdner Bank graphics prize at the “100 Saxon Graphics” in Chemnitz .

Reinhard Minkewitz has been working as a freelance artist in Leipzig since 1997 .

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Reinhard Minkewitz sees himself as a figurative draftsman. From this basic attitude he cultivates the tradition of artistic printmaking , but also large-format painting. In addition, book objects, sculptures, ceramics and also porcelain (e.g. for the porcelain manufacturer Meißen , Pfeiffer 2000) are produced again and again .

Stand upright

In 2007 Minkewitz started the picture project standing upright on behalf of the writer Erich Loest . The work is intended by Erich Loest as an answer to Werner Tübke's picture of working class and intelligence . Standing upright reminds people whose z. Some fateful lives marked by political repression were linked with the University of Leipzig from 1946 to the early 1960s: Herbert Belter, Siegfried Schmutzler, Werner Ihmels, Wolfgang Natonek, Ernst Bloch, Hans Mayer and Erich Loest. For Reinhard Minkewitz as a descendant, the liberal-democratic basic values ​​of these men form the intellectual background for his painting.

The first intermediate draft to stand upright was presented in May 2007 in the Galerie Hotel Leipziger Hof . Since 2011 it has been on display in the exhibition in Erich Loest's former home in Mittweida . A second, larger draft was handed over to the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig in September 2010 ; this draft is now on the Leipzig Media Campus . Both designs are preliminary studies.

The third version, the actual painting, more than nine meters wide and 2.60 meters high, was unveiled on March 30, 2015 in the lecture hall building of the university. It is on loan from the Peaceful Revolution Foundation .

Factory locations

Minkewitz's works, drawings and graphics are represented in numerous museums in Germany and abroad, including:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minkewitz, Unique Items - Pfeiffer 2000 - "Getting to the Point"
  2. ↑ Georg-Siegfried Schmutzler was sentenced to five years in prison in 1957 under this name . For the name variants see also Art. Georg-Siegfried Schmutzler .
  3. ↑ Ralph Giordano et al., Bert Sander (Red.): Erich Loest - A German Biography (= Leipziger Blätter. Special issue ). Ed. V. Kulturstiftung Leipzig , Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938543-33-7 .
  4. ↑ The matter of standing upright , Berliner Zeitung, May 12, 2007.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Minkewitz: Stand upright . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-938543-82-5 .
  6. ↑ Jens Bisky : On the stage of the times. As of today, the painting “Stand upright” by Reinhard Minkewitz can be seen at the University of Leipzig . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 30, 2015, p. 11.
  7. ^ Exhibition in the Leipziger Kroch-Haus
personal data
SURNAME Minkewitz, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg