Jörg Madlener Explained

Jörg Madlener (1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany)[1] is a German painter, engraver and stage designer.[2]

Early life and education

Jörg Madlener was born on September 8, 1939, in Düsseldorf, Germany.[3] His father, Max Madlener, was a surgeon and disciple of Ferdinand Sauerbruch with whom he worked at the Charité Hospital in Berlin. His mother, Hildegard Pape, was an interior designer. After receiving his undergraduate diploma in architecture in Darmstadt he continued his studies in 1960 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt where he studied under professor Heinz Battke.[4] Afternoons he was auditor at lectures and seminars by Theodor Adorno[5] and Max Horkheimer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

In 1963 he was private student of Otto Dix in Hemmenhofen at the lake of Constance. Otto Dix taught Jörg Madlener the technique of egg-oil tempera and working with glazing.[6]

In 1964 Jörg Madlener moved to Belgium and continued studying art at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Jos Hendrickx.[7]

Work

Jörg Madlener's first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Galerie Le Creuset in Brussels[8] displayed a group of paintings, which were strongly influenced by the work of German painter Max Beckmann.[9]

Starting in 1975 Madlener's work was bound to large themes that he followed over years, inspired by Robert Musil, Death in Venice (Thomas Mann and Luchino Visconti), Gustav Mahler's The Song of the Earth,[10] Jackson Pollock.

Madlener's 32 portraits of Gustav Mahler are made with a wide range of visual vocabulary from a single photograph of the composer Gustav Mahler.[11]

His works can be found at museums around the globe including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Albertina in Vienna, the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich. Public and private collections in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the United States and the United Arab Emirates own his paintings.

In 2019 and 2020, his recent works about the Civil War in Syria and other war-related series will be shown at the former Royal Stables (now belonging to Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium) in Brussels, at the Energy Park Saerbeck, Germany (in a remodeled bunker of the Cold War)[12] and in Worms, Germany.[13]

Stage design

Jörg Madlener worked with many world-renowned theatre stages as a stage and set designer. He worked on following plays:[14]

Exhibitions

Notable solo exhibitions include[15] [16]

Madlener participated in several international biennales[17]

Future reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mackowiak, Erwin, fl. 1969. Madlener, Jörg, 1939- Rabus, Carl, 1898-1983.. Werke der in Belgien lebenden deutschen Maler Erwin Mackowiak, Jörg Madlener, Carl Rabus [Ausstellg] ; 1.-30. Okt. 1969 ; [Katalog]. 1969. Deutsche Bibliothek. 72300537.
  2. Book: Madlener, Jörg. 2011-10-31. Oxford University Press. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00113693.
  3. Web site: Transit: JÖRG MADLENER. www.transit.be. 2019-09-26.
  4. Book: Mackowiak, Erwin, fl. 1969. Madlener, Jörg, 1939- Rabus, Carl, 1898-1983.. Werke der in Belgien lebenden deutschen Maler Erwin Mackowiak, Jörg Madlener, Carl Rabus [Ausstellg] ; 1.-30. Okt. 1969 ; [Katalog]. 1969. Deutsche Bibliothek. 72300537.
  5. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 17. 82874449.
  6. Web site: Jörg Madlener Die Darmstädter Sezession - 1919 – 2019. www.darmstaedtersezession.de. 2019-09-26.
  7. Book: Mackowiak, Erwin, fl. 1969. Madlener, Jörg, 1939- Rabus, Carl, 1898-1983.. Werke der in Belgien lebenden deutschen Maler Erwin Mackowiak, Jörg Madlener, Carl Rabus [Ausstellg] ; 1.-30. Okt. 1969 ; [Katalog]. 1969. Deutsche Bibliothek. 72300537.
  8. Book: Mackowiak, Erwin, fl. 1969. Madlener, Jörg, 1939- Rabus, Carl, 1898-1983.. Werke der in Belgien lebenden deutschen Maler Erwin Mackowiak, Jörg Madlener, Carl Rabus [Ausstellg] ; 1.-30. Okt. 1969 ; [Katalog]. 1969. Deutsche Bibliothek. 72300537.
  9. Book: Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, Germany). Graphische Sammlung.. Ausgewählt! : Neuerwerbungen aus der Graphischen Sammlung 2000 bis 2005. 2006 . Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Haas, Mechthild., Märker, Peter. . 3926527781 . Darmstadt. 71794644.
  10. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 17–18. 82874449.
  11. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 18. 82874449.
  12. Web site: Verschwinden der Existenz. Meisel-Kemper. Elvira. Westfälische Nachrichten. de. 2019-10-17.
  13. Web site: Ein Kunstereignis wird vorbereitet. Lüttmann. Hans. Westfälische Nachrichten. de. 2019-10-17.
  14. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 66. 82874449.
  15. Web site: Biografie von Jörg Madlener – Jörg Madlener auf artnet. www.artnet.de. 2019-09-26.
  16. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 65. 82874449.
  17. Book: Gibson, Michael, 1929-. Jörg Madlener : the mountain and the woodman's hut. 1986. Philippe Guimiot Art Gallery. 65. 82874449.

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