Werner Liebmann, Large German Neo Figuarist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Werner Liebmann, c.1980s-1990's

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WERNER LIEBMANN (German b. 1951) "Elf Köpfe Bei Nacht," Oil on canvas, signed L/R, "Liebmann;" 29 1/4'' x 35 1/2'', … Read more WERNER LIEBMANN (German b. 1951) "Elf Köpfe Bei Nacht," Oil on canvas, signed L/R, "Liebmann;" 29 1/4'' x 35 1/2'', framed 31'' x 37''. Werner Liebmann (born 1951) is a German painter and graphic artist . Werner Liebmann was born in Königsthal in Thuringia. Born in Königsthal from 1969 to 1973 he studied chemistry at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) . From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a project engineer. He was active as a chemist until he opted for an artistic career and studied painting at the University of Art and Design in Halle. A master student of Bernhard Heisig, he graduated at the College of Fine Arts Leipzig. Since then, he has been a freelance artist, as well as a professor at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden and currently at the Art school Berlin – Weissensee. His works were represented at numerous group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in Halle, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and further cities, mostly in Germany. Influenced by the Neo Figuraist artists of the Junge Wilde painters. In 1978, the Junge Wilde painting style arose in the German-speaking world in opposition to established avant garde, minimal art and conceptual art. It was linked to the similar Transavanguardia movement in Italy, USA (neo-expressionism) and France (Figuration Libre). The Junge Wilde painted their expressive paintings in bright, intense colors and with quick, broad brushstrokes very much influenced by Professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin, Karl Horst Hödicke (b:1938). They were sometimes called the Neue Wilde. Berlin: Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Elvira Bach. Cologne: Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Düsseldorf: Jörg Immendorff, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Markus Lüpertz, Werner Buettner, Peter Angermann. The most famous are Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz. From 1976 to 1977 he began with a preliminary painting internship with Willi Neubert in Thale, where there was a branch office for the preliminary internship at Burg Giebichenstein. From 1977 to 1982 he studied painting and graphic arts at Burg Giebichenstein (now the University of Art and Design) in Halle, earning his diploma with Hannes H. Wagner as a supervisor. He then became a master student with Bernhard Heisig at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1983 to 1986. From 1986 to 1992 he became an assistant in basic studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. From 1992 to 1993 he was offered a professorship in painting at the HfBK Dresden. Since 1993 he has held a professorship for painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Even before the fall of communism in 1989, he could be seen in surveys of GDR art, e.g. B. 1988 in the exhibition "Young Art from the GDR" in the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (traveling exhibition), then in 1990 in the exhibition "New Territory: Art from East Germany" in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1990 he was also represented in the group exhibition “Ambiente Berlin” at the 44th Venice Biennale in the central pavilion. In addition to participating in many exhibitions at home and abroad, he had the following solo exhibitions: 1983: "Werner Liebmann '83", Kulturhaus Philipp Müller, Halle 1984: "Werner Liebmann personal exhibition", Kulturhaus der Unions, Halle 1986: "Werner Liebmann and Johannes Heisig : Art from the GDR", Galerie Maschmann, Hamburg 1987: "Werner Liebmann: New Pictures", gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden 1989: "New Pictures by Werner Liebmann", Galerie Maurer, Bern, Switzerland 1989: "Werner Liebmann, Painting", Gallery Pankow , Berlin 1991: "Paul plays with light", Gallery Brusberg , Berlin 1992: "Works on Paper", Galerie am Markt, Halle 1993: "Werner Liebmann: Berlin '93", Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 1994: "Werner Liebmann, new pictures", Gallery Döbele, Stuttgart 1994: "Heideröslein", Gallery of the City of Sindelfingen , Sindelfingen 1995: “Werner Liebmann: Ceramics and Painting”, Wilfriede Maass Gallery, Berlin 1995: "Liebmann: Pictures", Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin (inaugural exhibition) 1996: "It was only a moment", Galerie Brusberg, Berlin 1996: "Werner Liebmann, new pictures", Mersmann Gallery, Düsseldorf 1997: “Hidden Reality (gouaches)”, Mitte Gallery, Dresden 1997: "Hidden Reality (Painting)", Artforum , Dresden 1998: "Women's Waiting", Werner Liebmann and Bernhard Heisig , Galerie Ebert, Darmstadt 1998: "Breakfast in the open air", Gallery Berlin, Berlin 1999: "Werner Liebmann, painting, and Joachim Böttcher , sculpture", Ludwig Gallery Schloss Oberhausen , Oberhausen 2000: "The Doll", Gallery Fine Arts, Rostock 2000: "Women", Gallery Maschmann, Hamburg 2001: "Werner Liebmann", Monastery of Our Lady , Monastery Gallery, Magdeburg 2001: " Berndt Wilde and Werner Liebmann", gallery in the tithe barn, Bad Homburg 2002: "Luxembourg - Germany: Werner Liebmann", Gallery 96, Luxembourg 2006: "The River", Gallery Berlin, Berlin 2008: "The Tattooed Horse" - new paintings by Werner Liebmann , Maddox Arts, London 2010: "Cross mirror", art station Kleinsassen , Kleinsassen 2010: "New Pictures by Werner Liebmann", Gallery Litera, Prague publications Werner Liebmann, Alexander Haeder (text): Miracle of fire: pictorial world of Werner Liebmann. Edition q, Berlin 1991 Werner Liebman. 'Paul plays with light'. Images from 1988 to 1991. Edition Brusberg, Berlin, 1991 Liebmann, Werner. In: Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Encyclopedia Artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin, 2010. See less