Thomas Mehrlaender

Thomas Mehrlaender at an exhibition in 2005

Thomas Mehrlaender (* 1954 in Schweinfurt , Bavaria ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Mehrlaender studied from 1977 to 1982 at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Würzburg and from 1982 to 1984 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin . This was followed by trips through Turkey , Persia and Syria , Southeast Asia , to the Canary Islands as well as through the USA and South America . His artist name is also due to this passion for travel.

In 1986 he took part in the exhibition "Shock and Creation - Youth Aesthetics in the 20th Century" at the Württemberg Art Association.

A wooden sculpture made with a chainsaw

In 1992 he learned to create sculptures with a chainsaw in Norway . Since then he has been performing as a chainsaw aesthetic throughout Europe .

From 1996 to 2008 the artist lived and worked on the Canary Island of El Hierro .

In 2012 he was seen as Charles Bukowski in the theater ensemble Würzburg.

Painting from the series "Grenzgänger"

Multi-country's main motifs are landscapes and human bodies. His motto is: "Life is my work of art, the works are the traces."

1984 - Performance "Flut" with Hans Jürgen Knappe (Sulzdorf)
1985 - Performance "Little Nice" (Würzburg)
1986 - Environment for the exhibition "Shock and Creation" (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Munich)
1986 - Exhibition with Frederick D. Bunsen (Galerie Jeroch und Sauer, Frankfurt am Main)
1986 - Performance "Wailing Wall" (Schweinfurt)
1990 - Performance "Die Brücke" (Schweinfurt)
1990 - Performance "The Chair" (Off-Galerie Höchberg)
1991 - Mainfranken -Messe, Würzburg
1993 - First European Painter's Square (Arneburg on the Elbe)
1995 - Exhibition and performance "Void - Fulness" (culture line of the WSB , Würzburg)
1999 - "Sculpture Street" (Zweisimmen, Switzerland)
2000 - Exhibition "Lost Horizon" with Konrad Franz (Galerie Kleinrinderfeld, Germany)
2003 - "Los Dioses tienen que ser locos", Club Prensa Canaria (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands)
2003 - Exhibitions and chainsaw performances in Switzerland and Germany
2005 - Exhibition "Casa del Hoyo" (Ayuntamiento de La Frontera, El Hierro, Canary Islands)
2005 - chainsaw vernissage and exhibition (Linz, Austria)
2006 - exhibition with Joke Volta (La Frontera)
2006 - Exhibition "Grenzgänger" (Isernhagen near Hanover)
2008 - Exhibition "Naked Bodies, Naked Heads" (Theilheim near Würzburg)

↑ Helmut Schödel: From rebellion to retouching . In: The time . No. 15/1986 ( online ).

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↑ Bukowski evening: Great and very close to the trash , Main-Post , January 23, 2012
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↑ First European Malerpleinair in Arneburg on the Elbe . - Arneburg / Elbe, 1993. - 35 pages: numerous. Ill.
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