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Max Uhlig


Birthday: 1937 in Dresden
Max Uhlig
Max Uhlig, born 1937 in Dresden, was well known until the seventies of this century for his graphic works. Since then, portraits and landscapes have gotten the same relevance in his oeuvre.
 
The work of Max Uhlig is strictly consequent in his stylistic development. His pictural language is impressive and recognizable. Considering the political circumstances in East Germany, where art was abused as an ideological instrument, the firmness and perseverance of his attitude and the demonstration of his free spirit are remarkable.
 
The art of Max Uhlig can be settled in the confines between objection and abstraction. His portraits are primarily defined by the line, this most important means of expression in his entire work, in which the rhythm and the energy break through. The total abandonment of contour augments the impression of motion and results in a liberation of the objects.
 
Often the portraits of Max Uhlig have been compared to the portraits of Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti’s drawings have no contour, either, but are composed by hatchings and shaded lines in order to let the human shape appear. Giacometti also negates the possibility of a realistic portrait and realizes only a gradual approach to reality. The objects are loosing their substance and arise in a new identity. But while Giacometti develops the figures beginning in the periphery, Max Uhlig starts his conception in the center of the energetical being. While in Giacometti’s painting the figure is the maximum of spacial concentration, the energy emanating of the figure in Uhlig’s works seems to break out of the dimensions.
 
The relation between representation and recognition has been pointed out by Thomas Matuszak: "In the portraits - even in the double-portraits - the human being is understood as a part of the world, which keeps his secret. The human being remains uncertain. It is part of the difficulty and dignity of the individual to accept his double alienation, facing himself and facing the world. It is this dignity, which persists in the portraits of Max Uhlig; he does not pretend to know more about his subjects than he can fix with the brush. In this sense the painted individual is sovereign - in the uniqueness of her free existence." (in: catalog Galerie Stefan Röpke, exhibition Max Uhlig 1999)
 
In Galleries
Galerie Stefan Röpke
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Bildnis P.H.
Bildnis R.L.
frontale Halbfigur F.U.
Kleines Bildnis T.M.
Petit paysage près de Faucon
Biographie
Date Title / Description
1995 Teacher Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, Germany
1992 Gold medal - Honorary Prize X. Norsk International Print Triennial, Frederikstad, Norway
1989 Guest teacher Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg, Germany
1979 Prize-winner 6th British International Printbiennial, Bradford, Great Britain
1977 2. Criticism prize Donated by international art critics, Berlin, Germany
1961-1963 Master class of Hans Theo Richter Deutschen Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1955-1960 Studied graphics Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, Germany
1937 Born in Dresden, Germany
Exhibitions
Date Title / Description
1999 Galería Arnés y Röpke Madrid, Spain
1995 Auf Papier - Kunst des 20. Jhds in der Deutschen Bank, Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt, Germany
1995 Einblicke, IFA-Institut Berlin, Germany
1995 Seit 40 Jahren, Museum Schloß Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
1994/95 Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporaine Liège, Belgium
1994 Galerie Stefan Röpke Köln, Germany
1994 Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 German Painters after 1945, Bush-Reisinger Museum Cambridge, MA
1993 Retrospective, Albertinum Dresden, Germany
1991 Museum Schloß Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
1990 Bilder aus Deutschland, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln, Germany
1990 Kunstverein (Museum Waldhof) Bielefeld, Germany
1989 13 Maler aus der DDR, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
1988 Galerie der Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
1981 Malerei und Graphik der DDR, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville Paris, France
1972 Gegenwärtige Kunst der DDR, Tokio, Japan

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