Leipzig school (painting)

The Leipzig School is a movement of modern painting from the 1970s to 1980s, which was founded and shaped by painters who predominantly lived and worked in Leipzig.

History[]

The first origins of the Leipzig School are rooted in the city's art scene in the 1960s. The preparers and teachers are Walter Arnold, Harald Hellmich, Gerhard Kurt Müller, Elisabeth Voigt, Ernst Hassebrauk, Max Schwimmer and Klaus Weber. Hans Mayer-Foreyt, Bernhard Heisig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Werner Tübke and Gerhard Kurt Müller are among the founders. All of them studied at the Leipzig Art Academy, today's (HGB), where they later worked as professors. Their idiosyncratic imagery made Leipzig a respected center of fine arts in the GDR and thus laid the foundation for the international reputation of the so-called New Leipzig School since 2004.^[1]

From 1960 to 1965 Lutz Ketscher studied at the Leipzig School and was a student of Heisig. Nowadays Lutz Ketscher, Neo Rauch and Gerhard Richter are representatives of the Leipzig School.^[2]

See also[]

• New Leipzig School

Further reading[]

• Catalog of the exhibition “made in Leipzig” April 5 - October 31, 2007 Hartenfels Castle, Torgau / Saxony (D). Curator: Hans-Werner Schmidt
• Claus Baumann, Es war einmal ... On the myth of the Leipzig School. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3955371159.
• Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, Die Umerziehung der Vögel. A painter's life. mdv, hall 2008.
• Eduard Beaucamp, Im Spiegel der Geschichte. The Leipzig School of Painting. Wallstein, Göttingen 2017.
• Klaus Eberhard: Visiting Mattheuer and Rauch - Diary of a Leipzig Art Collector, E.A. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86502-292-9

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