Rolf Biebl

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Rolf Biebl during an exhibition opening in January 2008

Rolf Biebl (born December 6, 1951 in Klingenthal / Sa. ) Is a contemporary German sculptor and painter . Many of his works can also be found in public spaces.

Life

After graduating from KJS Dynamo Klingenthal, Rolf Biebl studied sculpture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Werner Stötzer from 1973 to 1978 and then worked there as an aspirant. In 1979/1980 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest . Back in the GDR , he was a master class student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR with Ludwig Engelhardt from 1980 to 1983 . In 1981 Rolf Biebl founded the artist group NEON REAL together with his painter friends Clemens Gröszer and Harald K. Schulze .

Adam
Eve

After working as an assistant at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Jo Jastram from 1985 to 1986, lectureships at various Berlin art schools followed. Rolf Biebl has been working freelance in Berlin since then .

In 1987/1988 he was represented at the Xth art exhibition with the terracotta sculpture The Boxer . In the last DEFA film "The Architects", sculptural works by Rolf Biebl are shown and he himself appears in a supporting role as a sculptor in his studio. Since the late nineties he has also dealt with the medium of painting. During the retrospective Art in the GDR in 2003 in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin , his bronze standing female figure was exhibited.

The focus of his work is the human body as a vehicle for expressing zeitgeist. Suddenly you come across Biebl's figures in places where you wouldn't expect them. He wants to make people, who otherwise have no contact with culture, experienceable and tangible.

His works in public spaces can be found in Berlin , Rostock , Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus .

Quote

“Born in Vogtland, he loads his sculptures, including the painted and drawn body portraits, with all the deformations that can happen to you in life. And so it is not an ideal of the human being that he places in the room - in painted wood or in white, fragmentary marble. His figures are an expression of the zeitgeist, of adaptation, but also resistance, of the imperfect against the ubiquitous suggested perfect externality. These beings seem deformed by the burdens of the past and the present, of compulsion and resignation or aggressive anger. But quite a few also appear liberated. For example the new head studies, provided with painted marble eyes, almost like ancient Egyptian statues - or aliens. ”(Ingeborg Ruthe, 2013)

Awards

Well of the Generations
Rosa Luxemburg sculpture

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2004 Havanna Graphic Show, Bonn - Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic, Art in the GDR a retrospective of the National Gallery Berlin
  • 2005 Wiligrad - Kunstverein with Karin Zimmermann, Berlin - monastery ruins
  • 2006 Berlin - Galerie M, picture of the woman, Klempenow - Burg
  • 2007 Monastery ruins, Berlin, "Herberge"
  • 2008 Kunstverein Wiligrad, Lübstorf, "The Color Black"
  • 2009 Museum Association Pankow, Bad Mergentheim, "Art in the GDR"
  • 2010 Gallery in the town hall Lichtenberg, Berlin, "Embassies"
  • 2011 Museum Association Pankow, Berlin, "Embodiment"
  • 2012 Sepp Meier's 2-room apartment, Berlin, "People in Space"

Works (selection)

literature

  • 1988 Idea sculpture, The Studio 42 (National Gallery Berlin)
  • 1988 Human-Figure-Space (State Museums Berlin, National Gallery)
  • 1990 Neon Real. Rolf Biebl, Clemens Gröszer, Harald Schulze (Brandenburg Art Collections, ISBN 3928696165 )
  • 2000 figurative positions. Sculpture in Prenzlauer Berg (publication by the Prenzlauer Berg district office for the exhibition of the same name)
  • 2006 German Pictures (Ludwig Collection, Oberhausen)

Web links

Commons : Rolf Biebl  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Noisy silence. The sculptor Rolf Biebl and the painter Kedron Barrett meet in the Ei gallery in Prenzlauer Berg ”in: Berliner Zeitung of January 31, 2013, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Biebl, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Klingenthal