Thomas Gatzemeier

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Thomas Gatzemeier (born December 21, 1954 in Döbeln ) is a German author , sculptor and painter .

Thomas Gatzemeier 2010
  • Work examples

  • Le Ciel , 2007, oil on canvas, 180 × 160 cm

  • The Birds , 2008, oil on canvas, 110 × 130 cm

  • Last Peace , 2006/2007, oil on canvas, 260 × 300 cm

  • Resurrection , 2002, oil on canvas, 714 × 850 cm, altarpiece of the Marienkirche

  • Thomas Gatzemeier 17 sculptures 1993

  • The Hitler come and go but the German people remain (Stalin) , 1980, oil on canvas, 170 × 238 cm

Life

Thomas Gatzemeier is the youngest of four children and grew up in Döbeln . His father, Dr. phil. Dr. med. Karl Gatzemeier, received his doctorate in classical philology and theology in Münster in 1935 . Then he studied medicine in Leipzig . His mother, Eva Gatzemeier geb. Overmann, was trained as a ceramist by Kurt Feuerriegel at the Leipzig trade school in the early 1930s . In 1971 Thomas Gatzemeier finished the Polytechnische Oberschule in Döbeln with the secondary school leaving certificate and was trained as a script and poster painter. He then did his military service in the NVA and was released early for health reasons. After a brief employment as a stonemason assistant, he began studying painting and graphics at the College of Graphics and Book Art in 1975 . His teachers were Arno Rink and Volker Stelzmann . As a diploma thesis he created a large format painting of a funeral and the picture “The Hitler come and go” ( Josef Stalin ). He wrote a thesis entitled "Essays on Death".

From 1980 to 1986 Gatzemeier worked in Döbeln and took on government contracts. He painted four large-format pictures for the Club of Working People in Döbeln: Judgment of Paris, Summer Day and two landscapes. The pictures can be seen today in the town hall , the grammar school and the theater in Döbeln .

After his brother and sister-in-law were arrested for political reasons in 1984, Gatzemeier applied to leave the country and was banned from exhibiting. In 1986 he was expatriated, moved to Karlsruhe and works there as a freelance artist. From 2006 to 2015 he ran another studio in Leipzig .

In 1987 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galerie Paepke Karlsruhe, in 1988 in the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe and in the Galerie Koppelmann Cologne. In the same year he received a grant from Art Cologne . Numerous exhibitions in galleries and art associations followed.

In 1989 he showed the project “In Spirit of Rubens”, created with his colleague Paul-Uwe Dietsch, at Art Cologne . In 1991 the project was shown at the Kunstverein Siegen.

In the years 1992–93 Gatzemeier worked on the sculpture project “17 sculptures”. The work, which referred to violence in the broadest sense and to the right-wing extremist murders in Germany in 1992, was shown for the first time in 1994 in the Berlin Reichstag building .

In 2002 Gatzemeier received the order for a 60 m² mural for the Marienkirche near Crailsheim .

From 1983 to 2010 Gatzemeier worked on his novel “The Secretary”. The novel “Tomorrow, tomorrow everything will come to a happy end” and some stories were written by 2012.

Work and reception

Gatzemeier is characterized by training at the College of Graphics and Book Art . This school taught the craft of painting in the old academic tradition and focused on the human figure.

After a while, his figure pictures dissolved into the abstract and later slowly found their way back to the object. Today the clearly drawn, almost classicist act is the focus of his work.

Eduard Beaucamp , who wrote several times about Thomas Gatzemeier's work, described the variety of his expressions: “His work does not determine stylistic coherence, but rather vitalistic rhythms. Like satyr games, lightly flowing ink drawings with light watercolors flank the heavy-blooded painting. They pay homage to the bucolic and surrealist Picasso of the twenties. Gatzemeier surprises with leaps and bounds and sudden turns. "

Novels, short stories, art books

  • The Secretary. Novel. Debit and credit publishing house, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813423-0-7 .
  • The stupid one. Stories. Debit and credit publishing house, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813423-1-4 .
  • Tomorrow, tomorrow everything will end well! Novel. Debit and credit publishing house, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813423-3-8 .
  • Tomorrow everything will end well. Novel. Revised new edition as paperback. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-326-6 .
  • Horst Kistner Lichtspiele illustrated book. Editor and texts Thomas Gatzemeier. Debit and credit publishing house, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9813423-4-5
  • The mystical carrot A picture and story book. Debit and credit publishing house, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813423-5-2

Solo exhibitions

  • 1987 Gallery Paepke Karlsruhe
  • 1988 Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1988 Koppelmann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1988 Steinbrecher Gallery in Bremen
  • 1988 Galerie Rieker Heilbronn
  • 1988 Art Cologne funding booth
  • 1989 Art Cologne solo exhibition
  • 1989 Galerie Ressel Wiesbaden
  • 1990 Koppelmann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1990 Ursula Blickle Kraichtal Foundation
  • 1990 Panetta Mannheim Gallery
  • 1991 Kunstverein Siegen
  • 1991 Galerie Rieker Heilbronn
  • 1991 Galerie Ressel Wiesbaden
  • 1991 Baumann & Stromer Gallery, Zurich
  • 1992 Galerie Rössler Munich
  • 1993 Panetta Mannheim Gallery
  • 1994 Reichstag Berlin
  • 1994 Galerie Ressel Wiesbaden
  • 1997 Mannheim Art Association
  • 1997 BW-Bank Karlsruhe-Heilbronn
  • 1997 Steiger Gallery Lübeck
  • 1997 Project “17 Sculptures” Lübeck
  • 1998 City Gallery Zwickau
  • 1998 Chapel Art Center Hamburg
  • 1998 Chapel Art Center Cologne
  • 1998 Mannheim Art Association
  • 1998 Tempelhoff Karlsruhe gallery
  • 1998 City Gallery Zwickau
  • 1998 Hospitalhof Stuttgart
  • 1999 Municipal Gallery Döbeln
  • 1999 Galerie Rieker Heilbronn
  • 2000 Art Gallery Giessen
  • 2000 Gallery Döbele Dresden
  • 2000 Falzone Mannheim Gallery
  • 2000 Fox Gallery, Essen
  • 2001 Gallery Schrade Karlsruhe
  • 2001 Kunstverein Lippstadt
  • 2002 Resurrection Project | Marienkirche Onolzheim
  • 2003 Fox Gallery in Essen
  • 2003 Wartberg Church Heilbronn
  • 2003 Gallery Rieker Heilbronn
  • 2005 University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  • 2005 Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe
  • 2005 Gallery at Sachsenplatz Leipzig
  • 2006 Döbeln City Museum
  • 2006 Art Foundation ben zi bena Merseburg
  • 2008 Leipzig School Leipzig Gallery
  • 2009 ArtFuhrmann Rostock
  • 2010 Artwork Nippes Cologne
  • 2013 Gallery Rieker Heilbronn
  • 2013 artwork Nippes Cologne
  • 2014 Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
  • 2015 Art Association Glauchau
  • 2015 Kunstverein Turmgalerie Augustusburg
  • 2015 Galerie Rieker Heilbronn (with Horst Kistner)
  • 2015 Galerie Ricarda Fox Mülheim (with Horst Kistner)
  • 2016 Galerie Elzenheimer Schwalbach (with Horst Kistner)
  • 2016 Municipal Gallery Döbeln
  • 2016 Kunstverein Siegen
  • 2016 Galerie Koppelmann - Artwork Nippes, Cologne
  • 2017 Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
  • 2018 City Gallery Bad Soden am Taunus
  • 2019 Michaela Helfrich Gallery MIX (with Horst Kistner)
  • 2019 Gallery AURIGA Home-Story Rostock
  • 2019 Municipal Gallery Markkleeberg Studio
  • 2019 Gallery Hospitalhof Stuttgart Leibhaft (with Saskia Schultz)

Working in collections

literature

Individual evidence

  • Expatriated - Artists from the GDR 1949 - 1989 State Art Collection Dresden. Argon Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87024-160-8 , pp. 23-24 / XXV / 101.
  • Acquisitions from the municipal gallery in Karlsruhe 1981 - 1991. 1992, ISBN 3-923344-23-6 , pp. 204, 205, 397, fig. 346.
  • Art of the nineties / current art in Karlsruhe and Baden. Badischer Kunstverein, 1993, ISBN 3-89309-060-6 , pp. 52-53.
  • The restlessness and satisfaction. Badischer Kunstverein, 1998, ISBN 3-89309-084-3 , pp. 96–97, 254–255.
  • Sculpture museum in the municipal museums Heilbronn Small sculpture - Bozetti - heads. 1999, ISBN 3-930811-75-8 , pp. 53-54 Kab. 1.10
  • Art on prescription. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89770-143-X , pp. 122–123, 365, 369, 374,
  • Art in our rooms. BW-Bank, 2001, ISBN 3-935293-27-5 , pp. 46-47, 166.
  • Art in the center. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2006, ISBN 3-923704-56-9 , pp. 35-37.
  • New artist ceramics from the Karlsruhe majolica manufactory. Badisches Landesmuseum, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937345-21-5 , p. 26.
  • Dance with the dance of death. Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89770-276-9 , pp. 36-38.
  • 175 years of the Mannheimer Kunstverein. 2008, OCLC 316280007 , p. 105.
  • Projects / art spaces. 2008, Church and Art Foundation, ISBN 3-9810574-2-2 , pp. 20–23.

Magazine:

  • Leipzig sheets. 3/83, 1980.
  • art - the art magazine. 8/90, pp. 10-11.
  • Division of labor in Rubens' mind . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1991, pp. 219 ( Online - Jan. 28, 1991 ).
  • art - the art magazine. 2/1991, pp. 104-105.
  • art - the art magazine. 1/1994, p. 7.
  • art - the art magazine. 6/1994, p. 119.
  • ART Profil - magazine for contemporary art. 11/2005, pp. 56-57.

Films about Gatzemeier

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SURNAME Gatzemeier, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub