Moritz Goetze

Moritz Götze (born 26 July 1964 in Halle, East Germany) is a German artist, publisher and art collector. His oeuvre comprises paintings, silkscreen prints, enamel paintings and mosaics, graphics and sculptures.

Biography

Moritz Götze is the son of Wasja and Inge Götze. His father, Wasja Götze, was one artists of the counter-culture movement in East Germany.[1][2][3] Moritz Götze grew up in Halle. In the 1980s he worked as carpenter, singer and guitar player in punk bands and organized punk festivals, as the East German authorities had blocked his development as an artist.[4][5] Between 1985 and 1995 he ran a workshop, in which he produced posters and silkscreen prints. He held an academic appointment as a lecturer at the University of Art and Design Halle in 1991-194 and was a visiting scholar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1994. Götze works with his spouse and fellow-artist Grita Goetze in Halle, where he curates exhibitions, supports young musicians and is involved in heritage conservation. Together with Peter Gerlach and Simone Trieder he founded in 2006 the publishing house Hasenverlag in Halle/Saale, which specializes in art books and the cultural history of the region.[6]

Work

Since 1990 Götze has produced large-format art works for public buildings and churches as well as sculptures. He produced multi-piece silkscreens and murals in enamel e.g. for the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour in Berlin and the employment office in Halle. In 1995 he embellished the five-storey atrium of the Leipzig trade-fair building with a series of large-format images depicting the history of the Leipzig trade-fair.

Götze’s large-format works in the artist’s hallmark pop-art style often deal with watershed moments in history, historic figures and the state of the German society.[7][8][9][10] In 2006/07 Götze produced the 700 piece enamel composition Victoria. In 2012-2016 he decorated the interior of the Baroque castle church St. Giles in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt with enamel sheet steel plates.[11][12][13][14]

Götze's art works are his take on German history and with that he follows in the tradition of Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Stuck, Jörg Immenhoff, Anselm Kiefer, – characterized by his life in two Germanys. His works are playful, ambiguous, ironic and visually narrative.[15][16][17]

Together with his fellow-artist from Halle, Rüdiger Giebler, Götze is taking his art on a tour to four continents: Giebler & Götze. Grand Tour. Made in Kaisersaschern. The title refers to a fictitious setting in the Thomas Mann novel Dr. Faustus.[18][19]

Selected works

Silkscreen print
Paintings

• 1990 : Der Stuhl, Acryl auf Leinwand • 1991 : Prinz, Acryl auf Leinwand • 1992 : Schlafende, Acryl auf Leinwand • 1992 : Eine Melodie, Buntstift auf Bütten • 1993 : 7 Pf., Buntstift auf Bütten • 1994 : a.b.c., Acryl auf Leinwand • 1994 : Ein neuer Kontinent, Buntstift auf Bütten • 1998 : Nachts, Acryl auf Leinwand • 1998 : Die Entscheidung, Acryl auf Leinwand • 1997 : Das Wochenende, Buntstift • 2002 : Wo die Sonne aufgeht, Öl auf Leinwand • 2002 : Der Durchmarsch, Öl auf Leinwand • 2002 : Am Schaltpult. Nach Willi Sitte, Öl auf Leinwand • 2003 : Parteidiskussion. Nach Willi Neubert, Öl auf Leinwand • 2005 : Im Zimmer, Öl auf Leinwand

Enamel
Large-format enamels and mosaics

• 1994 : Mosaics, Ceramics, Leipzig, Messehaus, „Speck’s Hof“. • 1995 : It’s a new day, Murals on Prisma walls • 2000 : Mural, enamel, Berlin, Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology • 2001 : Mural, enamel, Halle, Arbeitsamt • 2006 : Victoria, large-format enamel composition in 700 parts

Books and Illustrations

References

  1. ↑ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "'Buried Treasure': Rehabilitating the Scorned Legacy of East German Art". SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  2. ↑ Germany, Spiegel Online, Hamburg,. "ZEITGESCHICHTE: Sex, Salons und Stasi-Spitzel - DER SPIEGEL 35/1997". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  3. ↑ "Wasja Götze – kein Held". www.zeit-geschichten.de. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  4. ↑ Geissler, Cornelia. "Ines Geipel: "Generation Mauer": Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt". fr-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  5. ↑ "Erinnerungen in Farbe: Moritz Götze gestaltet Titelbild der Mauerfall-Sonderausgabe". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  6. ↑ "Hasenverlag Halle/Saale - Startseite". hasenverlag.de. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  7. ↑ "Moritz Götze | KUNST-KONTOR in Potsdam | Galerie, Atelier und Portraitvermittlung | Friederike Sehmsdorf". www.kunst-kontor-sehmsdorf.de. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  8. ↑ "Moritz Götze Profil". www.galerie-tammen-partner.de. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  9. ↑ "http://www.haz.de/var/storage/images/haz/nachrichten/kultur/ausstellungen/neue-arbeiten-von-moritz-goetze-im-mendini-gebaeude-zu-sehen/7721810-1-ger-DE/Neue-Arbeiten-von-Moritz-Goetze-im-Mendini-Gebaeude-zu-sehen_pdaArticleWide.jp". External link in |title= (help)
  10. ↑ "Staatsschauspiel Hannover : Moritz Götze". www.staatstheater-hannover.de. Retrieved 2016-04-26. horizontal tab character in |title= at position 27 (help)
  11. ↑ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "The Church Program | Faith Matters | DW | 04.07.15 | DW.COM". DW.COM. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  12. ↑ Bernburg, evangelische Schlosskirchengemeinde St.Aegidien. "Herzlich Willkommen!". www.schlosskirche-online.de. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  13. ↑ "Schlosskirche Bernburg: Lautstarke Kunst von Moritz Götze". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  14. ↑ "Hallescher Maler Moritz Götze: Der Heiland trägt T-Shirt". Naumburger Tageblatt/MZ (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  15. ↑ "Am Pop-Romantiker Moritz Götze kommt zurzeit niemand vorbei". www.tlz.de. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  16. ↑ "Ausstellung "Götzes Pop" in der Moritzburg - Mitteldeutsche Zeitung". www.mz-web.de. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  17. ↑ "Moritz Götze, Deutsche Kunst, 1. Dezember 2012 bis 19. Januar 2013". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  18. ↑ "Hallesche Kunst auf vier Kontinenten: Pop-Art Maler Moritz Götze geht auf Welttournee". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  19. ↑ "Maler Moritz Götze: Welt der Wunderdinge aus Halle". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
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