Harald Metzkes (German, born )

Timeline

1929
Born in Bautzen to Dr. Walter Metzkes and his wife Margot, Germany
1945
Conscripted into the Wehrmacht, brief period as American prisoner of war
1945–1946
Secondary school in Bautzen and school-leaving examination
1946
Began to study painting with Alfred Herzog
1947–1949
Apprenticeship as a stonemason with Max Rothe
1949–1953
Studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, under Wilhelm Lachnit and Rudolf Bergander
1953
Married Elrid Fiebig, textile designer. Their children Robert, Verena and Walter are born in 1954, 1955, 1956
1953–1955
Freelance artist in Bautzen
1957
Study trip to China with John Heartfield and Werner Stötzer
1955–1958
Meisterschüler at the Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, under Otto Nagel
Close cooperation with Manfred Böttcher, Ernst Schroeder and Werner Stötzer, who are also Meisterschüler. This group of artists is later described as the “Berlin School”. Harald Metzkes becomes the group’s most important member.
1959
Move to Berlin
1963
First solo exhibition at the Institut für Lehrerweiterbildung, Berlin-Weißensee
1976
Receives Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Akademie der Künste zu Berlin
1977
Receives National Award by the DDR for Illustration and Graphic
1986–1991
Full member of the Akademie der Künste
1993
Move to Brandenburg
2000
Harald Metzkes “Ich und Herr H.” (“Mr H. and I”): writings, speeches, notes, prose
2007
Hannah-Höch Prize from the Federal State of Berlin
Numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad since 1963.

Exhibitions

2010
Olaf-Gulbranson-Museum, Tegernsee (solo)
2009
Galerie Leo.Coppi (solo)
2009
Grassi-Museum, Leipzig (solo)
2009
Stadtmuseum Bautzen (solo)
2008
Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde (solo)
2008
Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Kunstverein Soest (with Elrid and Robert Metzkes) (solo)
2007
Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Ephraim-Palais (solo)
2007
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Bilder aus 50 Jahren (50 Years of Painting) (solo)
2006
Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (solo)
2006
Deutsche Bilder aus der Sammlung Ludwig (German Art from the Ludwig Collection), Schloss Oberhausen
2004
Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2003
Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1999–2000
Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, (The XXth Century. A Century of Art in Germany) Altes Museum, Berlin
1999
Stadtmuseum Bautzen (solo)
1999
Kunstsammlung Lausitz, Senftenber (solo)
1997–1998
Deutschlandbilder - Kunst aus einem geteilten Land, (German Art from Beckmann to Richter: Images of a Divided Country), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1997
Ostwind, Fünf deutsche Maler aus der Sammlung der Grundkreditbank (G. Altenbourg, B. Heisig, W. Mattheuer, H. Metzkes, W. Tübke)
(East Wind, five German painters from the Grundkreditbank’s collection)
1990
Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (solo)
1989
Akademie der Künste der DDR, Berlin (solo)
1988
Zeitvergleich, (Comparing Times) Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin
1988
Biennale, Venice, Italy
1984
Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Nationalgalerie, Berlin (East) (solo)
English (US)

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