Werner Maier (painter)

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Werner Maier (* 1956 in Munich ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After studying painting and art education from 1981 to 1987 with Horst Sauerbruch , Rudi Tröger and Friedhelm Klein at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , Werner Maier worked as a design therapist. In 1988 he stayed for study purposes in Vienna and in a coal mine near Prague. From 1991 he taught at the German Master School for Fashion Nude and Figural Drawing, received a teaching position for etching from 1992–93 and one for life drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1998–2001 . In 1999 he received the Bremervörde town painting grant. Since 1999 he has been teaching at private academies (including the Bad Reichenhall summer academy, Hohenaschau, Neuburg), holding painting courses in the studio community with Ekkehardt Hofmann and working as a freelance artist in the field of painting and graphics . He is a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft.

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Werner Maier's work initially comprised primarily graphic works, drawings and etchings. He dealt with the representation of movement and time in the medium of drawing, which is already expressed in the titles of a series from 1996/1997 ( e.g. three minutes , thirteen seconds ). He is interested in reduction and abstraction processes (e.g. the Köpf series , 1998) and the spatial effect of lines in interaction with the drawing surface. "Werner Maier is interested in the perception of space, which opens up from two-dimensionality through the power of drawing. Freed from everything epic, he plumbs with a pencil to what extent the reduction can be carried out". The various drawing materials and etching techniques (e.g. aquatint) play a role here. Since the 2000s, Maier has increasingly turned to painting, initially to watercolors, in two-dimensional, abstract color surfaces, whereby the overlapping of the surfaces also resulted in linear-graphic zones.

Werner Maier's pictures and graphics have been exhibited since 1985. a. in the Albertina in Vienna and the graphic collection in Munich.

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Publications

  • The Art Academy The fascination of life drawing. English publisher (Christopherus Verlag), 2007, ISBN 978-3-8241-1382-8
  • The Art Academy The fascination of portrait drawing: impulses for artistic creation. English publisher (Christophorus Verlag), 2008, ISBN 978-3-8241-1402-3
  • The art academy: from image to abstraction. English publisher (Christophorus Verlag), 2011, ISBN 978-3-8623-0155-3
  • Flowers in the light: the artistic watercolor. English publisher (Christopherus Verlag), 2012, ISBN 978-3-8623-0105-8
  • Werner Maier: watercolors . Catalog for the exhibition Farbräume , Galerie des Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich, 2003
  • Bernhard Schaub (Ed.): Werner Maier: 40 drawings. Collection Dr. Bernhard Schaub . Text: Anne Erfle, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-00-007061-3
  • Melanie von Mendel (Ed.): Werner Maier: Drawings 1985-1997 . Texts: Karl Bohrmann , Andreas Kühne , Johannes Muggenthaler , Felix Weinold. Anderland Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-926220-71-6
  • Werner Maier, Felix Weinold: Spanish Sketches / Esbozos Espanoles / Etchings and Pencil Drawings / Summer 1985 / Grabados y dibujos a lápiz / Verano del 1985, Spanisches Kulturinstitut, Munich 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Maier: Drawings 1985-1997 . Ed .: Melanie von Mendel. Anderland, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-926220-71-6 .
  2. ^ Anne Erfle, in: Werner Maier, 40 drawings: [Collection Bernhard Schaub] . Ed .: Bernhard Schaub. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-00-007061-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich