Rolf Münzner

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Rolf Münzner (born January 3, 1942 in Geringswalde , Saxony ) is a German artist ( drawing , lithography , graphics , illustration ).

life and work

Rolf Münzner studied graphics and illustration from 1962 to 1967 with Gerhard Kurt Müller at the Leipzig University of Graphic and Book Art (HGB). From 1969 to 1972 he was an aspirant at the HGB Leipzig and between 1973 and 1988 he held a teaching position for life drawing and introduction to illustration at this university. In 1989 he was appointed artistic director of the lithography workshop there. From 1992 to 2005 he was professor for graphics at the HGB. Rolf Münzner lives in Geithain .

Book illustrations

  • Victor Hugo : Hernani. Drama; Insel-Verlag, Leipzig (Insel-Bücherei No. 868), 1968
  • Tomasso Landolfi : Impossible Stories ; Rütten & Loening Berlin, 1969
  • Alexander Blok : The Twelve ; Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1977 (also as a special edition with enclosed original stencil lithograph)
  • Jonathan Swift: Reflections on a Broomstick . Satires; Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin, 1984

Awards (selection)

Rolf Münzner, The Boy and Power (1991). Stencil lithograph for Simplicius Simplicissimus .
  • 1976: Intergrafik Berlin Prize
  • 1977: Jyväskylä Biennale Prize (Finland)
  • 1983: Art Prize of the GDR
  • 1984: Special Prize Biennale Bradford (Great Britain)
  • 1986: Main Prize Biennale Kraków (Poland)
  • 1990: Gold medal Biennale Frederikstad (Norway)
  • 1994: Prize Triennale Chamalières (France)
  • 1995: Hans Meid Prize

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (cabinet)
  • 1979: Galerie Arkade, Berlin (catalog)
  • 1980: Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf near Dresden
  • 1982: Galerie Oben, Karl-Marx-Stadt (catalog); Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (with M. Morgner)
  • 1987: Lindenau Museum, Altenburg (catalog and catalog raisonné)
  • 1989: Galerie Maurer, Bern
  • 1990: Galerie Nickel-Zadow, Nuremberg
  • 1992: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (catalog)
  • 1996: Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg The graphic work (catalog with catalog raisonné)
  • 1997: A. Paul Weber Museum, Ratzeburg
  • 2000: DAVIDSON-GALLERIES, Seattle (USA); Moritzburg Castle (Zeitz)
  • 2002: Galerie Jürgensen, Oetjendorf
  • 2004: Künstlerhaus Hohenossig (near Leipzig)
  • 2005: University of Tübingen; Galerie Weise, Chemnitz
  • 2006: Lippische Landesbibliothek, Detmold
  • 2007: Art Association Coburg; Gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 2008: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (with Karl-Georg Hirsch and Zettl)
  • 2011: Polsterstein Castle, Ronneburg
  • 2012: Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 2015: Gellert Museum, Hainichen

Literature (selection)

  • Rolf Münzner, printmaking - hand drawings. Old Leipzig catalogs 1, Oberursel 1993
  • Gerd Lindner (Ed.): Rolf Münzner, graphics and drawing. Bad Frankenhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938049-14-3 .
  • Short biography for:  Münzner, Rolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Kai Hohenfeld: Rolf Münzner (* 1942) - The master and Margarita , in: The dark side of the moon. Shadows from art and literature (publications by the Art Museum Albstadt, No. 181/2019), text by Kai Hohenfeld, exhib.-cat. Art Museum Albstadt 2019/20, p. 45

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personal data
SURNAME Münzner, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Geringswalde , Saxony