Max Uhlig

Max Uhlig ( born June 23, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German painter, particularly the portrait, everyday and landscape motifs dedicated to. He was professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

Career

From 1955 to 1960 Uhlig studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Hans Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer. In the years 1961-1963 he is a master student at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin with Hans Theo Richter. With Carl Friedrich Claus 1968 he works in the creation of its first printing graphic prints (lithographs ) together; later also arise prints for Charlotte E. Pauly, Dieter Goltzsche, Willy Wolff, Otto Niemeyer -Holstein, Henry Ehmsen, Hans Theo Richter and William Hoepfner. In 1987 him the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR Berlin, 1998, the Hans -Theo -Richter Prize and the Saxon Order of Merit is awarded. In 2003, he received the Art Prize of the City of Dresden. Uhlig was a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts.

The Dresden painter Max Uhlig is known to the Western audience through his regular attendance at the West German survey shows the art of the GDR. Until the mid- 1970s, the artist has emerged solely as a graphic designer. For the first time in 1978 in the Print Room Dresden, Max Uhlig presented his characteristic paintings. The expression Determination - Uhlig's sense of the symbolism of temporary and certain life rhythms of existence - is to be the example discussed recently, incurred in Southern France image groups and related to the artistic innovations of French artists such as Cézanne, Matisse and Monet.

In June 2013 Uhlig's design for the design of three Gothic stained glass window in St. John's church was presented in Magdeburg. An execution by the company Derix in Taunus stone must be approved by the city yet.

Max Uhlig lives and works in the Dresden district Help Mountain on the site of the former chemical factory.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2013 " people, scenes, Spot ", Gallery Klose, Essen
• 2013 "Man and the landscape," Käthe- Kollwitz- Museum, Cologne
• 2012 " pressure ", Print Room, Dresden
• 2012 " Works on Paper ", Palais Leopold, Munich
• 2012 " Waiting and Temporary ", Burg Beeskow Beeskow
• 2011 " watercolors and colored drawings of three decades," Döbele Gallery, Dresden
• 2011 " Max Uhlig, Claus Weidensdorfer Works on Paper ", Art Collections Brandenburg, Cottbus
• 2011 " Max Uhlig - Black - out of the graphic work ", Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg
• 2010 "Art in GDR times: Three Non-conforming ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 2009 " Dialogue with Nature ", Galerie Klose, Essen
• 2008 " Gallery Artists: Angelika Bartholl, Max Uhlig ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 2007 Gallery Top, Chemnitz
• 2007 "Drawings", Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo ( China) and Leonhard Museum, Dresden
• 2007 " Landscapes ", rear -art gallery, Chemnitz
• 2007 " Retrospective on the 70th ," Gallery at Saxony, Leipzig
• 2006 " Here Byoung ", San Xiang Art Space, Shanghai
• 2006 Gallery Dr Lehr, Berlin
• 2006 " symbol Wuyi ", San Shang Art, Beijing Art Museum, Shanghai
• 2005 ' head. Figure. Landscape ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 2004 " work of 50 years," Beethoven Street Gallery, Dusseldorf
• 2004 " change of season ", Kunsthalle Dominican church, Osnabrück
• 2003 " Portraits and Landscapes ", Gallery Klose, Essen
• 2002 German Society for Christian Art, Munich
• 2001 Saxon Academy of the Arts, Dresden
• 2001 " Early Works 1960-1980 ", Gallery Top, Chemnitz
• 2000 " head studies landscape ", Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg
• 1999 " images and works on paper from 1970 to 1999 ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 1999 "Portraits ", Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne and Galería Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
• 1998 Municipal Gallery, Schwäbisch Hall
• 1998 Beethoven Street Gallery, Dusseldorf
• 1997 Gallery Döbele, Dresden
• 1997 Gallery at Saxony, Leipzig
• 1996 " Paysage De La Provence. 's New portraits ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 1996 "discovered in the studio - images never shown before ," Upload Beethoven Street, Dusseldorf
• 1995 "For 40 years," Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• 1995 "Insights ", IFA- Institut, Berlin
• 1995 " On paper - 20th century art in the Deutsche Bank ", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
• 1994 Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporaine, Liege
• 1994 Art Museum in the main courtyard, Dusseldorf
• 1994 " On Mont Ventoux ", Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
• 1994 " German Painters after 1945", Bush - Reisinger Museum, Cambridge
• 1993 " Retrospective", Albertinum Dresden, Dresden
• 1993 "Head and Figure ", Gallery Beethoven Street, Dusseldorf
• 1992 " paintings, watercolors and drawings ", Gallery of Loeper, Hamburg
• 1993 "Head and Figure ", Gallery Beethoven Street, Dusseldorf
• 1991 ' paintings and watercolors, drawings and graphics ", Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• 1991 "Nordic Plenair - Impressions of a Landscape", Beethoven Street Gallery, Dusseldorf
• 1991 " change of perspective ", Gallery of Oppenheim, Cologne
• 1990 Museum Waldhof in Bielefeld
• 1990 "Images of Germany ", Josef- Haubrich - Kunsthalle Cologne
• 1989 " 13 painters from the GDR ", Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
• 1988 Gallery of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• 1987 Gallery at Saxony, Leipzig
• 1986 " From Beuys to Stella - International Graphics ", Prints and Drawings, Berlin
• 1985 " Dresden today - painting and graphic art after 1945 ", Gallery Döbele, Ravensburg
• 1984 "Max Uhlig - A painter from Dresden " Brusberg Gallery, Berlin / Hannover
• 1981 " Painting and Graphics of the GDR", Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville, Paris
• 1980 Gallery Alvensleben, Munich
• 1979 Arcade Gallery, Berlin
• 1978 Print Room, Dresden
• 1978 Galerie Mouffe, Paris
• 1977 " Selected watercolors by artists of the GDR", Gallery at Saxony, Dresden
• 1976 Gallery North, Dresden
• 1974 "25 Years of graphic of the GDR", Altes Museum, Berlin
• 1974 "Drawings in the art of the GDR", Print Room, Dresden
• 1972 " Contemporary art of the GDR", Seibu Museum, Tokyo
• 1971 Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
• 1967 State Lindenau - Museum, Altenburg
• 1964 " 8 Young Artists", Cent Raine Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw
• 1963 Humboldt University, Berlin

Work in museums and public collections

• Aachen, Ludwig Forum for International Art
• Albstadt, Municipal Gallery
• Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau - Museum
• Ann Arbor, Michigan University - Art Gallery
• Basel, Academy of the Arts
• Berlin Academy of Arts, New National Gallery Prints and Drawings, East German Savings Bank Foundation, Maerkisches Museum, Institute for Foreign Relations, Grundkreditbank, German Bundestag, the Federal Government Art Collection Jakob- Kaiser-Haus
• Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum
• Bremen, Kunsthalle
• Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Museum ( graphic collection )
• Cambridge, Bush - Reisinger Museum ( Harvard University Art Museum )
• Coburg, Coburg Municipal Art Collection
• Dresden State Art Collections, New Masters Gallery, Prints and Drawings, Municipal Gallery, Academy of Sciences, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden Bank Free State of Saxony ( Art Fund ), Sparkasse Dresden, German Bank, Volksbank
• Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum in the courtyard, provincial insurance
• Emden, Kunsthalle
• Erfurt, Anger Museum
• Esslingen, Villa Merkel ( Municipal Gallery ), savings Esslingen
• Frankfurt / Main, German Bank, Telecom, Museum of Communication
• Frankfurt / Oder, Young Art Gallery
• Gera, Art Gallery Orangerie
• Halle, Moritzburg National Gallery ( graphic collection )
• Hamburg, Kunsthalle ( graphic collection ), art collection KIND, Protestant Academy
• Hannover, Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation, Lower Saxony Staatskanzelei, Preussen -Elektra, Sprengel Museum, collection of Norddeutsche Landesbank
• Jena, Museum Romantikerhaus, Jena optics
• Kaunas, Ciurlionismuseum
• Kiel, Kunsthalle, Ministry of Education of the State of Schleswig -Holstein
• Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, Painting & Graphic Arts Cabinet collection, telecom
• Leverkusen, Museum Schloß Morsbroich
• Lodz, Museum Sztuky
• Mainz, ZDF - Art Collection
• Magdeburg, Monastery of Our Lady
• Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, State Gallery of Modern Art ( graphic collection ), Dresdner Bank
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art ( graphic collection ), McCrory Corporation
• Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
• Oberhausen, Städtische Galerie Oberhausen
• Osnabrück Felix-Nussbaum - Museum
• Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
• Regensburg, East German museum galleries
• Rostock, Kunsthalle
• Schleswig, Gottorp Castle Museum
• Schwerin, State Museum
• St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum
• Stuttgart State Gallery ( graphic collection ), IBM Collection
• Stettin, Muzeum Narodowe
• Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe ( graphic collection )
• Washington, The Library of Congress ( graphic collection )
• Weimar, National Art Collection
• Vienna, Albertina ( graphic collection )
• Wiesbaden, Museum Wiesbaden
• Würzburg, Diocesan Museum