Wolfgang Nieblich

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Wolfgang Nieblich (born March 20, 1948 in Reutlingen ) is a German painter , graphic artist , object artist and set designer . He lives and works mainly in Berlin .

biography

Nieblich moved to Kahla (Saale) with his parents in 1954 . In Jena he passed his Abitur in 1966 and, in addition to attending school, was trained as a skilled worker for data processing and programming at Carl Zeiss Jena . He then studied mathematics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and was de-registered there in 1968 for political reasons. He then moved to East Berlin and studied painting and graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1970 to 1974 . Because of refusal to do military service and alternative service, he had to drop out of his studies. Wolfgang Nieblich moved to West Berlin in 1975 and initially worked here as a programmer , systems analyst and as an anatomical draftsman for medical publications. Since 1976 he has been working exclusively as a freelance painter and object artist. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. The focus of Nieblich's artistic activity is on the subject of books .

Wolfgang Nieblich is in a relationship with Catharine J. Nicely , who founded the PalmArtPress publishing house and publishes his books, among other things.

Works (selection)

Nieblich's previous work includes the following object and subject areas:

  • Objects and sculptures
  • Book objects
  • Kinetic work
  • Assemblages with books and book materials,
    bronzes, installations, photographic works
  • Waste and other stories,
    the desk as a picture (assemblages and photos)
  • The infinite library
  • Stage sets
  • Swatches
  • Digital media
  • Architecture projects
  • Street art

Catalogs and books

  • 1982: On dealing with books . Edition Wewerka, Berlin
  • 1985: The book as an object . Gallery Butzer, Berlin
  • 1991: Book Sculptures . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh
  • 1993: The memory of time . Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus, Reutlingen
  • 1993: supporting leg - free leg . Municipal Museum, Jena
  • 1996: only one world . Horst Dietrich Gallery, Berlin
  • 1997: Without ISBN . German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig
  • 1998: The Imaginary Library . Berlin State Library, Berlin
  • 1998: color fields . Horst Dietrich Gallery, Berlin
  • 1999: Multiples . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 1999: objects . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2000: The Black Spot (CD-ROM). German Museum of Books and Writing, Leipzig
  • 2000: Color fields II . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2000: bronzes . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2007: Book Worlds & Other Worlds . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2007–2008: Mind Worlds . Volume I-IX, Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2008: The Missed World . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2008: KunstMarktGeld . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2008: MoneyArtMarket . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2009: Maculatura . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2010: Das far so Nah or Die Currywurst . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2010: The pike in the satchel . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2011: The Infinite Library . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2012: 12 miniature books . Edition Hauser, Berlin
  • 2012: true or not true . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2013: On concrete I . PalmArtPress, Berlin
  • 2014: On concrete II . PalmArtPress, Berlin

Exhibitions

approx. 500 exhibitions worldwide

Street art

Example of a concrete block with a motto during construction work on Französische Strasse , January 2015

Nieblich brought his object art on concrete to life rather through a nuisance . The often clumsy concrete blocks used for construction sites in the Berlin cityscape were too ugly for him. Above all in front of his gallery in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf district , the concrete blocks carrying provisionally laid pipes above ground were a problem. He painted a quote from a book on the walls with black paint . The construction company liked the idea, so that Nieblich was allowed to decorate all the concrete brackets. After the pipelines were moved to the construction site at the Ministry of Defense , the blocks with the quotes moved with them. The first spontaneous action ultimately led to a collaboration with the civil engineering company that has been active on Museum Island since (summer 2014) . By mid-August 2014, 57 concrete plinths had already been labeled with substantial quotes - from all four sides and with different expressions on each. Interested parties can now also find the ephemeral works of art at Werderscher Markt and along the Kupfergraben . The following examples show the variety of statements:
“Words are loaded pistols” ( Jean-Paul Sartre ), “Money doesn't make you corrupt - no money sooner” ( Dieter Hildebrandt ), “It's not a short time that we have, but rather there is a lot of time that we do not use ”( Seneca ),“ You can never solve problems with the same way of thinking that created them ”( Albert Einstein ).

This new, content-rich street art is particularly popular with tourists. Some passers-by want a lot more from the quotes that stimulate thought and discussion.

Nieblich had all of his labeled concrete plinths captured in photographs and already published them in book form (2013). A second volume was published in autumn 2014 under the title Auf Beton II , which contains all 65 concrete blocks previously labeled.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Nieblich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anne Vorbringer: Einstein on concrete . In: Berliner Zeitung from August 19, 2014.
  2. ^ The imaginary library, exhibition catalog ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Wolfgang Nieblich, Auf Beton II. In: palmartpress.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .