Sabine Moritz

Sabine Moritz (* 1969 in Quedlinburg ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Sabine Moritz was born in 1969 in Quedlinburg as the daughter of a chemist couple. She has two older twin brothers and grew up in Gatersleben. In 1973, her father had an accident at work at the Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plant Research . Then the family moved to Lobeda ( Jena ). In 1985 the mother and the children left the GDR and moved to Darmstadt .

In 1989 Moritz began studying at the Offenbach am Main Academy of Design , where she attended Adam Jankowski's painting class . In 1991 she continued her education at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , first in the class of Markus Lüpertz and from 1992 with Gerhard Richter . Moritz was the last student Richter accepted into his class because he wanted to quit teaching in 1994.

Moritz lives and works in Cologne. She has been married to Gerhard Richter since 1995. They have three children together.

Act

The group of works Lobeda was created during her studies since 1991 . It comprises more than 150 drawings in pencil and charcoal about the Jena prefabricated building satellite town Neulobeda , where Sabine Moritz lived from 1973 to 1981. The works are drawn from memory and show the everyday environment, i.e. H. Apartment, school and prefabricated housing estate from a child's perspective. Hans Ulrich Obrist , curator of the Serpentine Gallery , discovered the series in 2009 in the artist's studio and a first part was published in 2010 by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König . Moritz supplemented the series with further, partly colored (oil) works until 2004 until she was a student at the Düsseldorf Academy. She visited the Jena prefabricated housing estate again and took photographs as an aid. The drawings were shown in 2011 at the Kunsthaus Sans Titre in Potsdam and were part of the Concrete and Dust 2013/14 exhibitions of the Foundation de 11 Lijnen in Oudenburg, Belgium and 2017 in the Neuland exhibition at the Bremerhaven Kunsthalle . The second book JENA Düsseldorf appeared in 2011 with an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

In 2004 Moritz began a new group of works based on press photographs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Together with the flower still lifes that are continuously being created, they were shown in the 2006 Limbo exhibition at the Andrew Mummery Gallery in London. The Limbo catalog was published for the exhibition .

This was followed from 2009 onwards by several paintings about the German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II, which emphasize the special role of women in times of war. In 2013 she presented the Marian Goodman gallery in Paris and in 2014 they were part of the exhibition at the Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle in Wuppertal. In 2014 and 2015 she also pursued historical issues in the exhibitions Home and Harvest at the London gallery Pilar Corrias. First in Home she showed a complex of works on the death of Peter Fechtner on the Berlin Wall during the Cold War , then in Harvest Scenes of a Ukrainian Harvest, painted after 1947 photographs by Robert Capa . Parallel to thematic groups of works, Moritz works on series of motifs with charcoal, oil pastel and pastel colors on paper. Her work with roses, lilies, huts and helicopters has been summarized in several publications. The volume Roses (2010) is bracketed by two poems; the first by Adam Zagajewski and finally “The Sick Rose” by William Blake . In the illustrations, the artist uses a mixture of charcoal, pastel colors and oil pastels. In Lilies and Objects (2011) the focus is on depictions of flowers. The combination with drawings of various objects such as sculptures and artifacts was suggested by the artist herself. In addition, the motif of the helicopter was published in the books Helicopter (2014) and Sea King (2015).

Abstract works have also been created since 2015. They were shown for the first time alongside figurative works in 2016 in the Dust exhibition at the Marian Goodman gallery in Paris, and in 2017 they complemented the Neuland overview show at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven.

Sabine Moritz as a motif

Gerhard Richter has portrayed his wife and her with their first son Moritz several times. Already in 1994 Richter painted pictures of his future third wife - as always based on a photographic model. With Lesende (799-1 and 804) and Kleine Badende (815-1) they still had anonymous titles. Both motifs - as the Richter biographer Dietmar Elger pointed out - had pictorial models: the letter reader in blue by Jan Vermeer and the little bathing girl of the same name by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . In 1995 Richter painted a series of eight pictures under the title S. mit Kind (827-1 to 827-8), which Sabine Moritz showed with her infant Moritz and in which Richter used the art-historical topos Madonna and Child . "The father Gerhard Richter tries to secure this late family happiness and to hold onto it by appropriating the motifs in a slow painterly process, as if this made the situation plausible for him [...]" The works were by Uwe Schneede - still in Richter's studio - acquired for the Hamburger Kunsthalle , but shown for the first time in 1996 in the Carré d'Art in Nîmes in the south of France at the solo exhibition 100 pictures .

Richter's portrait of his wife Kopf (sketch) was auctioned by Christie's auction house in 2010 for $ 2.33 million.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2019: deeply unaware , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris; Stars and granite , Kunsthalle Rostock , Rostock
• 2018: Paintings and Drawings , Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; Eden , König Galerie, Berlin
• 2017: Age of Terror (group exhibition), Imperial War Museum , London; New territory , Kunsthalle Bremerhaven , Bremerhaven
• 2016: Flowers, masks, skulls , Galerie Haas AG, Zurich; Dawn , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
• 2015: Helicopter (book launch), Heni Publishing, London; Sea King (book launch), Serpentine Gallery , London; Ships and Water , Felix Ringel Gallery, Düsseldorf; Harvest , Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
• 2014: Home , Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; Pictures and drawings 1991–2013, Von der Heydt Kunsthalle, Wuppertal-Barmen
• 2013: Limbo 2013 , Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris; Free view / Adam Jankowski and artists from his painting class at the HfG Offenbach (group exhibition), Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden; Concrete and Dust , Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
• 2012: International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing 2012 (group exhibition), Neues Museum - Staatl. Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg; Pictures , Felix Ringel Gallery, Düsseldorf; Jena-Düsseldorf , artroom goldensquare, London
• 2011: Lobeda , Kunsthaus sans titre, Potsdam; Jena-Düsseldorf (book presentation), Walther König bookstore , Cologne; Lilies and Objects , artroom goldensquare, London
• 2010: Lobeda (book presentation), Walther König bookstore , Berlin / Cologne; The Good, The Bad & the Ugly (group exhibition), Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
• 2006: Limbo. Paintings from 2005 , Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

literature

• deeply unaware , Marian Goodman Galerie, Paris, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2019, ISBN 978-0-944219-45-4 .
• Neuland , Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-215-9 .
• Dawn / Storm , Marian Goodman Galerie, Paris, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-96098-038-4 .
• Recollections / Memoirs , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86335-899-0 .
• Flowers, masks, skulls , Galerie Haas AG, Zurich, 2016.
• Ships and water , Felix Ringel Gallery, Düsseldorf, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049828-2 .
• Sea King , Heni Publishing, London, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9930103-0-9 .
• Helicopter. Heni Publishing, London, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9930103-0-9 .
• Lobeda-Ost 1981 (Edition of 100), Nieves, Zurich, 2014.
• Pictures and drawings 1991–2013 , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-531-9 .
• Concrete and Dust , Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenberg (Belgium), 2014, ISBN 978-90-79881-28-4 .
• Limbo 2013. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (Paris), 2013, ISBN 978-0-944219-21-8 .
• Faber Castell International Drawing Award 2012, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-365-0 .
• Lilies and Objects. Heni Publishing, London, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9564041-6-9 .
• Jena Düsseldorf. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-033-8 .
• Lobeda. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-734-8 .
• Roses. Heni Publishing, London, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9564041-2-1 .
• Limbo: Paintings from 2005. Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, 2006.

Web links

• Sabine Moritz Homepage
• Speech at the opening of the JENA Düsseldorf exhibition by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Exhibition review . In: Artinfo from November 7, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrike Knöfel: Images of women. In: Der Spiegel , issue 4/2017 of January 21, 2017, pp. 118–121, here p. 121.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Sabine Moritz ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 9 kB) at sans-titre.de, accessed on March 1, 2012. 
3. ^ Dietmar Elger: Gerhard Richter, painter. Dumont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-5848-0 , p. 360.
4. ^ Speech at the opening of JENA Düsseldorf in London by Hans-Ulrich Obrist , YouTube.
5. ↑ Lobeda . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-734-8 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} foreword & interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Sabine Moritz. JENA Düsseldorf . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-033-8 , p. 176 .
7. ^ Preface by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an introduction by Matt Price and an essay by Chris Dercon: Sabine Moritz. Concrete and Dust . Ed .: Foundation De 11 Lijnen. Oudenberg 2014, ISBN 978-90-79881-28-4 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} Steffen Haug & Kai Kähler: Sabine Moritz. New territory . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-96098-215-9 .
9. ^ Andrew Mummery Gallery (Ed.): Sabine Moritz. Limbo . London 2006.
10. ^ B. Dessent: Sabine Moritz at Marian Goodman Gallery. (PDF) In: Art Observer. May 4, 2013, accessed April 3, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Stefanie Stadel: When the idyll overturns. In: Welt am Sonntag. March 23, 2014, accessed April 3, 2018 . 
12. ^ Karen Wright: Sabine Moritz. (PDF) In: The Independent. November 2015, accessed April 3, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Michael Barnett: Endless Skies. (PDF) In: State Magazin. January 2016, accessed April 3, 2018 . 
14. ^ Sabine Moritz. Memories / memoirs . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86335-899-0 .
15. ↑ Roses . 2010, Heni Publishing, London ISBN 978-0-9564041-2-1 .
16. ^ Adam Zagajewski, Hans Ulrich Obrist: Sabine Moritz. Helicopter . Heni Publishing, London 2014, ISBN 978-0-9930103-0-9 .
17. ↑ Joe Hage (Ed.): Sabine Moritz. Sea King . HENI Publishing, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-9930103-8-5 .
18. ^ Elisa Schaar: Sabine Moritz. (PDF) In: Art Forum. January 2017, accessed April 3, 2018 . 
19. ↑ The work numbers refer to the catalog raisonné of the pictures on the website Gerhard-Richter.com
20. ^ Dietmar Elger: Gerhard Richter, painter. Dumont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-5848-0 , p. 363 f.
21. ↑ Jürgen Hohmeyer: Self-exposure in enamel and anger. In: Der Spiegel from March 25, 1996.
22. ↑ Masters of Contemporary Figuration at christies.com, accessed March 1, 2012.
23. ↑ Homepage of Heydt Kunsthalle Wuppertal-Barmen Sabine Moritz , accessed on March 12, 2014
24. ↑ Free view / Adam Jankowski and artist from his painting class at the HfG Offenbach 1987–2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.