Wolfgang Lugmair

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Wolfgang Lugmair (born July 19, 1976 in Dachau ) is a German painter .

Life and career

Wolfgang Lugmair grew up in Altomünster near Dachau as the oldest of three brothers. From 1998 to 2005 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Franz Ackermann , Horst Antes , Helmut Dorner and Corinne Wasmuht . From 2012 to 2013 he embarked on a twelve-month trip that took him to Mexico , Cuba , Costa Rica , Peru , Ecuador and Bolivia , followed by a four-month work stay in Mexico City . In 2014 he was selected by the Herrenhaus Edenkoben for the residency grant, after which the number of his exhibitions has increased.

Wolfgang Lugmair has lived in Berlin since 2006 , but still spends a lot of time in Mexico. The specific peculiarities, similarities, but also differences between Mexico and Germany serve him not only as a source of inspiration, but rather as an opportunity to decipher the respective characteristics and reinterpret them for his work.

Artistic work

The group exhibitions of the Berlin gallery Kwadrat, of which Lugmair has been a permanent artist since 2008, marked the beginning of public awareness of Lugmair's work. This was followed by exhibitions in Karlsruhe , Gera , Kaiserslautern , Mexico City and Colombia .

Lugmair's imagery is characterized by subtle tones and predominantly shows figures that radiate calm and do not push themselves into the foreground, but often appear on the edge of the picture. The oil paintings should have an impact, the foreground and background as well as the image space are designed free of slag and functionality . Lugmair likes to observe scenes from life, which he then processes in his pictures in frozen moments . Popular motifs are people in everyday life, in their environment, at work or while doing nothing. Since the 2010s, Lugmair has also increasingly devoted himself to large murals which, as part of the room in which they are exhibited, incorporate it and are therefore planned and less spontaneous.

With Martin Kwade, Lugmair unveiled a mural painting Three o'clock at night and a long time until dawn (“Three O'clock at Night and a Long Time Until Dawn”) at the Kwadrat Gallery in the course of the opening of the TagNachtLuftWind exhibition (“DayNightAirWind”) .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: ... and forget about today until tomorrow - Neocon Kaiserslautern
  • 2008: And prefer to finish in summer - FGS - Karlsruhe
  • 2009: Four degrees above zero - Kwadrat Berlin, You're soaking in it - Glinkastraße Berlin
  • 2011: What if ... - The longer the better Kaiserslautern (group exhibition)
  • 2011: KW # 6 - Artworks Berlin (group exhibition)
  • 2012: who dances with whom elsewhere - Kwadrat Berlin
  • 2014: Keep laughing and don't go back - Kwadrat Berlin Not around the world - Herrenhaus Edenkoben
  • 2015: Guerrero Negro - Espacio 201 - México DF
  • 2016: Ansbach Contemporary - Ansbach (group exhibition)
  • 2016: La naturaleza en un mundo feliz - Museo del Arte, Cali, Colombia (group exhibition)
  • 2016: Groupshow - Apartment_19, Karlsruhe (group exhibition)
  • 2016: One, two, three and a half - Apartment 19 Karlsruhe City, country and beautiful sky Kwadrat Berlin
  • 2017: On Unknown Terrain - Museum Hurrle, Durbach (group exhibition)
  • 2017: Weinosten 2 - Hilbertraum Reuterstraße, Berlin (group exhibition)
  • 2017: Everything or Always - Schaufenster Berlin, Berlin (group exhibition)
  • 2018: Wolfgang Lugmair. DayNightAirWind

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita | Wolfgang Lugmair. In: wolfganglugmair.de. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ A Stumpfenbacher finds his artist happiness in Berlin. In: Münchner Merkur. February 12, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ariel Gaba: Paint it back: A Kreuzberg neighborhood tale. In: Exberliner. July 17, 2018, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Exhibition on the Otto Dix Prize in the Gera Art Collection. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. July 20, 2012, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ artrabbit , website for the exhibition, accessed on April 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lugmair, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau