Hubertus Giebe

  • Stillleben mit Zierkürbissen
  • Melancholie
  • Norwegische Landschaft
  • Garten Herkulesstrasse
  • Waldstück
  • Weiblicher Akt
  • Frau mit Rosenkranz im Haar
  • Weiblicher Akt
  • Dangaster Wattenmeer
  • Stillleben mit Flasche und Mallappen
  • Stillleben mit Muschel und Tabakpfeife
  • Liegender Akt (von oben) III
  • Keltische Maske
  • Liliput vom Zirkus Knie
  • Herbststrauß
  • Drei Engel
  • Puppenkopf und Muschel III
  • Selbstbildnis mit verschränkten Armen
  • Meeresschnecke und Kastanie
  • Holländische Nordsee (Insel Texel im Winter)
  • Wattenmeer
  • Deichlandschaft an der holländischen Nordsee bei Harlingen
  • Mondlicht
  • Russische Taiga (Für Wenzel)
  • Sitzender Akt mit angewinkelten Beinen II
  • Stillleben mit Maske und Zierkürbis
  • Die Winterreise
  • Stillleben mit weißer Amaryllis
  • Nadja III
  • Das Gehäuse (Kleine Fassung)
  • Engelssturz
  • Liegender Rückenakt mit angewinkeltem Bein
  • Kasernenstube
  • Am Bischofsweg (Dresden-Neustadt)
  • Der Lotse
  • Mein Atelier auf der Görlitzer Straße in Dresden
  • Sitzender Akt von vorn
  • Das Andreaskreuz
  • Das Gehäuse (Große Fassung)
  • Narrenchristus
  • Grotesker Karneval
  • Zwei gekreuzte Männer
  • Garten im Mondlicht
Hubertus Giebe

curriculum vitae

1953 born in Dohna near Dresden
1969-1972 evening classes in painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (HfBK)
1972 high school graduation
1974-1976 studies painting and graphics at the HfBK Dresden
exmatriculation on request
provisional temporary work permit as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Dresden
1977 marriage to Marlies Kettner
1978 external diploma at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB)
1978-1979 master student under Bernhard Heisig at the HGB Leipzig
1979 birth of son Caspar
1979-1982 assistant for painting and graphics at the HfBK Dresden
1980 start of graphic work on Günter Grass »Die Blechtrommel« and on Heiner Müller »Die Schlacht« (on the occasion of a production at the Staatsschauspiel)
1982 graphic portfolios in small editions of modern poetry and prose
participation in the V. Triennial India, New Delhi
1982-1986 together with Johannes Heisig head of the basic artistic studies in painting and graphics at the HfBK Dresden
1985 main prize of the Triennial of Realistic Painting, Sofia
1987 Instructor for painting and graphics at the Dresden HfBK
1988-1991 management of a specialized class at the HfBK Dresden
1988 etchings for a bibliophile edition of Günter Grass »Die Blechtrommel«
1989 speech at the demonstration of the Dresden Artists' Associations for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Political Change on November 19 in Dresden
1991 termination of the apprenticeship at the HfBK Dresden and return to freelance work
travels to Basel, Paris, Rome, Venice, London, Madrid, Denmark, Norway and Greece, also in the following years
1997 first prize for graphics of »Nordwestkunst '97« Wilhelmshaven
1999 trips to San Francisco and New York, also in the following years
2000 first sculptural works in bronze
2002 inclusion of the painting »Der Widerstand – für Peter Weiss« (1986) in the permanent exhibition »XX. Jahrhundert« at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2003 work monograph by Jörg Makarinus published by Verlag der Kunst, Dresden
2004 deputy Professor of Painting at the University of Dortmund
2007 Wilhelm-Morgner-Prize for Painting of the City of Soest
2010 the volume of essays »Der geschliffene Elfenbeinturm« is published by Leipziger Literaturverlag
2012 interview portrait for MDR television (artgenossen.tv, Wilm Heinrich)
commission for the rector portrait »Prof. Hermann Kokenge« by the Technical University Dresden (TU)
transfer of diaries, sketchbooks, manuscripts/typescripts, almost all correspondence to the Archive of the Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
2020 Falkenrot-Prize, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2021 Bronze portrait in several versions of Gottfried Benn
lives and works in Dresden
Collection

Exhibition at the Galerie Himmel

Collection
Gerlint Soeder & Erhard Frommhold

23. November 2024 — 25. January 2025

Hubertus Giebe's imagery explores the depths of our humanity, unmasking and questioning our society, like pictorial warnings or lamentations. But while his painting addresses our humanity, it never lapses into rhetoric alien to art, but speaks the pure language of painting, following only its own laws and constantly measuring itself against the greatest in its field.
Michael Böhlitz
Kairos. Hubertus Giebe zum 70. Geburtstag, in: Kairos. Hubertus Giebe, Dresden: Galerie Himmel 2023, S. 7
For years, this young man has been creating drawings and paintings of elderly people, with such gentleness and harshness at the same time that the unresolved and irresolvable contradiction of life – to live and to pass away – makes one cry and smile at the same time. Giebe is imbued with this mystery of life. Practising his craft and ultimately forgetting his tools, he allows himself to be overwhelmed time and again, extracting pure substance from appearances, accumulating its light and transforming it back into another form of – inexhaustible – energy.
Eva Strittmatter
Hubertus Giebe (Porträt), in: Jörg Makarinus, Hubertus Giebe, Dresden: Philo fine arts Verlag der Kunst 2003, S. 51/52
Hubertus Giebe is a homo politicus, certainly the most significant ‘political’ painter of his generation among German artists in East and West, if one can still say so, preoccupied with fascism and Stalinism and their consequences to this day. One of his major works, »Das Lager« (The Camp), says everything about everybody.
Dieter Hofmann
Hubertus Giebe. Aufregung und Stimulanz, in: Künstler in Dresden, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst 2005
...in all these extractions of reality, a palpable counterpoint between movement and stillness dominates. At first glance, the shimmering interplay of dynamic forms and bright colours seems to flood the pictorial space, but on closer inspection, one notices a surprising stillness, refraction and an almost compulsive interconnection of the forms. The excesses of the individual forms and colours are contrasted by a fixed structure that remains in a peculiar state of immobility. Mask-like faces, internally agitated yet shockingly spellbound, bodies that break free from their anchors yet weigh heavily in space, or objects and signs that want to spread out across the surface but suddenly seem fixed in place, determine the pictorial structures of Hubertus Giebe. The contrast between diagonal traversal and rounded integration alone, which permeates Giebe's works like a supportive network, reveals the tension-filled creative conflict of his pictorial inventions, which contributes not least to their lasting, penetrating intensity.
Fritz Jacobi
Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wirklichkeit, Mythos und Groteske. Zur Kunst von Hubertus Giebe, in: Hubertus Giebe. Schein & Chock, Dresden: Sandstein Verlag 2016, S. 17-20

further exhibitions

1980 Galerie Comenius, Dresden (first important exhibition, by Diether Schmidt)
1982 New Delhi: »V. Triennale India« (participation)
1984/1985 The Barbican Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Coventry, Sheffield, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo: »Tradition and Renewal« (participation)
1986 International Contemporary Art Fair, London (participation)
1988 Galerie Brusberg, Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin, Kunsthalle Emden, Stiftung Henri und Eske Nannen: »Zeitvergleich II« (Time Comparison II) (participation)
1989 Museum moderner Kunst, Wien: »Kunst der letzten 10 Jahre« (Beteiligung)
Tokyo, Nagano, Kumamoto, Hakodate, Kamakura and Sendai in Japan: »Zeitzeichen« (Signs of the Times) (participation)
1990 44th Venice Biennale, Venice: »Geschichtsbilder« (»Images of History«) (Solo exhibition)
Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago (participation)
Raab Gallery at Millbank, London
1991 Saarlouis: »Bilanz – German Art from East and West« (Ludwig Collection, participation)
1992 Museé National d´Histoire et d´Art, Luxembourg: »Von der Teilung bis zur Wiedervereinigung – 40 Jahre Kunst in Deutschland« (Collection Ludwig) (participation)
Sunderland, Carlisle, Aberystwyth, Glasgow, and Sheffield: »Turning Points: East German Art in Revolution« (participation)
1993 Galerie Brusberg, Berlin: »Goya & Compagnie: Los Desastres de la Guerra or The Horrors of War« (participation)
1994 Galerie Brusberg, Berlin: »Hubertus Giebe – Wolfgang Petrick«
1997 Museum Ludwig, Köln: »Images from Germany – Art from the GDR« (participation)
1996 Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Galerie Oberes Belvedere, Wien, Staatliche Belinskij-Bibliothek in Jekaterinburg: »Oskar Kokoschka und Dresden« (participation)
1999 Gedenkstätte KZ Osthofen: »Geschichtsbilder. Memorial«
2000 Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg: »Ex Oriente Lux, Hommage à Otmar Franz« (with Michael Morgner and Jiri Tichý)
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, and Winckelmann-Museum, Stendal: »Antikenrezeption heute« (with Gerhard Marcks und Ernst Hassebrauk)
2003 State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg
2005 Günter-Grass-Haus, Lübeck: »Blechtrommel-Grafiken« (opened by Günther Grass)
2006 Heinrich-Heine-Institute, Düsseldorf (graphic retrospective)
2009 Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden: »Geschichtsbilder« (Katalog)
Kunsthandlung Koenitz (now GALERIE HIMMEL), Dresden: »Druckgrafik aus 30 Jahren«
2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig: »Ludwig in Leipzig II« (with Wolfgang Peuker)
2012 Kunsthandlung Koenitz (now GALERIE HIMMEL), Dresden: »Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes«
2012/2013 Retrospectives on the occasion of his 60th birthday: Raab Galerie, Berlin; Neue Saechsische Galerie Chemnitz; Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest; Staedtische Sammlungen Freital, Schloss Burgk; Ernst-Rietschel-Haus, Pulsnitz und Galerie Bruederstraße, Goerlitz
2013 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel: »Jordaens und die Moderne« (with Johannes Grützke and Rainer Mordmüller)
Städtische Sammlungen Freital, Schloss Burgk: »Dresden Neustadt. Zwischen Frühlingsstraße und Lutherkirche«
Kunsthandlung Koenitz (now GALERIE HIMMEL): »Hubertus Giebe – Handzeichnungen«
2014 Galerie Bruederstraße, Goerlitz: »Johannes Wüsten, Hubertus Giebe – Graphic Art«
Kunstkabinett Regensburg
2015 Galerie Budissin, Bautzner Kunstverein e.V., Bautzen: »Hubertus Giebe – Malerei/Grafik«
John-Heartfield-Haus, Waldsieversdorf
2016 Neue Galerie, Kassel: »Die Sprache der Malerei«
GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden: »Herkules, Maske & Meer«
2018 Wilhelm Morgner Museum, Soest: »Gezeiten. Die Dichte der Welt« (with Gerard van Smirren) (catalogue)
Städtische Galerie, Dresden: »Schein & Chock« (catalogue)
GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden: »The Language of Painting«
2019 Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig: »Point of No Return – Wende und Umbruch in der ostdeutschen Kunst« (participation)
Rosemarie Bassi Gallery, Remagen: »Abendland«
Ostsächsische Kunsthalle, Pulsnitz
2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin: »Falkenrot-Preis 2020«
2021 GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden: »Winterreise«
2023 Museum No Hero, Delden, Netherlands: »The Surprise. Sixty Works by East German Artists Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall« (participation)
Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: »Geteilter Kopf. Werke von Hubertus Giebe aus dem Bestand«
GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden: »Kairos« (Katalog)
Galerie Raab, Berlin: »Eyes Full of Dreams«