Hubertus Giebe
Die Reise (The Journey), 1987
Öl auf Leinwand Painting 200 × 270 cm
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The painting “The Journey”, created between 1987 and 1989, is a monumental work from the period of social transformation. Through an expressive painting style, Hubertus Giebe condenses the depicted figures into a multilayered and enigmatic scene. The representation of the journey does not tell a single narrative – although some of the figures’ physiognomies may recall artists from the Dresden and Leipzig art circles – but rather develops into a symbol of human experience. The painterly language of the work reveals Giebe’s affinity with artists such as Max Beckmann and Otto Dix, while maintaining its own distinct artistic identity. The painting consists of two canvases sewn together and is in good condition.
About the Artist Hubertus Giebe
In 1976 Hubertus Giebe (b. 1953 in Dohna near Dresden) had himself struck from the rolls at his own request - "on account of too much Socialist Realism." That independence runs through his entire body of work: large-format, multi-figure history paintings in an expressive manner, peopled with shop-window mannequins, angels, mythic heroes and literary figures, with Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and Pablo Picasso as his models. He completed his studies in 1978 with an external diploma in Leipzig as a master student of Bernhard Heisig, and first drew wide notice with forty etchings for a bibliophile edition of Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum." International attention came above all with his solo exhibition "Geschichtsbilder" at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990. Giebe lives and works in Dresden and handed his archive to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2012.
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