Maina-Miriam Munski ( September 24, 1943 , Wolfenbüttel , Germany - October 26, 1999 , Berlin ) - German artist, graphic artist with a sharp social orientation. She used the techniques of critical realism and photorealism , exploring in her painting a world in which the title "man" does not sound proudly.
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 Maina Miriam Munsky in front of the unfinished painting "Twins II" Photo: Peter Ruppental, 1971. | |
| Birth name | Meina munsky |
| Date of Birth | September 24, 1943 |
| Place of Birth | Wolfenbuttel , Germany |
| Date of death | October 26, 1999 (56 years old) |
| Place of death | Berlin |
| A country | |
| Genre | painter schedule |
| Style | critical realism photorealism |
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Biography
Maina Munski was born in 1943 in the family of architect Oscar Munsky (1910-1947) and photographer Gertrude Schmidt (1912-1986).
- 1960 - 1964 studied in English. State Academy of Arts , Braunschweig .
- 1964 - 1967 internship at Accademia di Belle Arti , in Florence, in the class of Hugo Capoccini. Here she changed her appearance by dyeing her blond hair black; from then until death she wore only black.
- 1967 - 1970 : creative studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in West Berlin .
- Since 1970, she was a member of the German Association of Artists. In the same year, Maina Miriam married the artist illustrator Peter Sorge ( German: Peter Sorge ). And in December 1972 they had a son, Daniel Ben.
- Since 1972, Munsky is a founding member of the Aspect art association (a group that included Hermann Albert ( German: Hermann Albert ), Hans-Jürgen Diehl ( German ), Peter Sorge and Klaus Vogelgesang ( German Klaus Vogelgesang ). The group lasted until 1978 [1] .
Creativity
Maina-Miriam Munsky turned to the study of the everyday life of surgeons, obstetricians, and orderlies in operating rooms, maternity hospitals, and homeless shelters. In Berlin, she was allowed into this closed, sterile world and allowed to photograph scenes from which we are in a hurry to look away, which are not customary to peer at. From the photographs taken, the artist made sketches, focusing on a modern approach to describing events; I tried to find a picturesque analogue to the cold-blooded, ascertaining style of medical reports. So about 200 oil paintings were created in a manner close to both photorealism and social-critical realism. The artist herself preferred the term "truth."
oil on canvas 130 × × 110 cm.
Private collection, Munich
I paint my paintings with a brush, using photographs taken by me personally. I am writing surgical interventions of doctors in the life of a woman, a child. I write operations, birth and death, critical situations in a person’s life, his helplessness, the approaching end. I paint my paintings as objectively and truthfully as possible.
- [2]
Museum Collections
- MoMA , New York
- English Kunstmuseum , Gothenburg
- Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
- Kunstpalast Museum , Dusseldorf
- English Märkisches Museum , Witten
Literature
- Schüler, Jan. Maina-Miriam Munsky . - Verlag Kettler, 2013 .-- 200 p. - ISBN 3862062929 .
- Poll, Lothar C. Maina-Miriam Munsky: Das Kaltlicht der Welt erblicken / Unfug, Ulrike; Heimbach, Birgit. - INFOPRESS, 2007. - 36 p. - ISBN 3931759075 .
- Schauer, Lucie; Roters, Eberhard; Laing, Ronald G. Maina-Miriam Munsky: Bilder und Zeichnungen. - Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1981.
- Zemter, Wolfgang; Roters, Eberhard; Schauer, Lucie. Maina-Miriam Munsky. - Witten: Märkisches Museum, 1976.
Notes
- ↑ Biography of the artist on the website of the gallery of Eva and Lothar Paul.
- ↑ Krempel, Ulrich. Man and nature in modern painting and graphics: Catalog of the exhibition of artists of Germany . - Deutsche Bank AG, 1983. - S. 56-57. - 85 p.
- ↑ Mayna-Miriam Munsky and her husband, Peter Sorge, who passed away three months later, are buried in a common grave.
Links
- In May – June 2014 , an exhibition of works by Maina-Miriam Munsky was held at the Museum of a Woman (German) in Bonn
- Artnet.com
- Munsky's works (from 1967 to 1992 ) on the site of the Berlin gallery Paul.