Focus Albertinum: 鈥淒ivided Head鈥� 鈥� Works by Hubertus Giebe from the Collection
The exhibition series Focus Albertinum presents works by Hubertus Giebe (* 1953) from the museum鈥檚 collection 鈥� including very recent donations from the artist. The painter and graphic designer Giebe can look back on a diverse oeuvre. He is best known for his large-scale and multi-figured paintings, which are populated by mannequins, angels, mythic heroes, and other figures, often inspired by literature, in an expressive painting style.
After the artist discontinued his studies at the Hochschule f眉r Bildende K眉nste Dresden in 1976, his paintings developed away from a glazed painting technique into a freer, impasto application of color. The work shown in the exhibition, 鈥淎launplatz II鈥� from 1973, is an example of his early painting style, which was oriented towards New Objectivity.
Hubertus Giebe also found inspiration from the Old Masters and the artists of the classical modern like Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, or Otto Dix. Schooled in Western, European art history, Giebe developed his own forms of expression. His 鈥渉istorical pictures,鈥� as he called them, are central to this.
In 2013, the artist noted:
鈥淢y historical pictures, as I understand them, negate the exceptional moment. Unlike history painting, they don鈥檛 focus on events, significant incidents. [鈥 In complex constellations, they show the unnavoidable pull of becoming and passing away. They probe the particular shape of history and measure its forms and know of the complicity of all. Through the figures鈥� hallucinatory stretching and shrinking, they form and mirror the human-shadow-space, giving a clear view of the personnel and the torture implements [鈥.鈥�
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The exhibition series Focus Albertinum presents works by Hubertus Giebe (* 1953) from the museum鈥檚 collection 鈥� including very recent donations from the artist. The painter and graphic designer Giebe can look back on a diverse oeuvre. He is best known for his large-scale and multi-figured paintings, which are populated by mannequins, angels, mythic heroes, and other figures, often inspired by literature, in an expressive painting style.
After the artist discontinued his studies at the Hochschule f眉r Bildende K眉nste Dresden in 1976, his paintings developed away from a glazed painting technique into a freer, impasto application of color. The work shown in the exhibition, 鈥淎launplatz II鈥� from 1973, is an example of his early painting style, which was oriented towards New Objectivity.
Hubertus Giebe also found inspiration from the Old Masters and the artists of the classical modern like Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, or Otto Dix. Schooled in Western, European art history, Giebe developed his own forms of expression. His 鈥渉istorical pictures,鈥� as he called them, are central to this.
In 2013, the artist noted:
鈥淢y historical pictures, as I understand them, negate the exceptional moment. Unlike history painting, they don鈥檛 focus on events, significant incidents. [鈥 In complex constellations, they show the unnavoidable pull of becoming and passing away. They probe the particular shape of history and measure its forms and know of the complicity of all. Through the figures鈥� hallucinatory stretching and shrinking, they form and mirror the human-shadow-space, giving a clear view of the personnel and the torture implements [鈥.鈥�
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