Hartwig Ebersbach
Artist, Leipzig / Germany
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Curriculum vitae


annual trips to South Tyrol; discovery of landscape as a subject matter
in his artwork, as well as frescoes

foot painting discontinues; returns to traditional painting now influenced
by this constant breaks in subject matter

journey to Australia

repeated journeys to China

journey to China (participation at a symposium of artists)

first journey to China

journey to South Africa (study visit)

one of the founders of the "Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig"
[Free Academy of Arts Leipzig]

speech for the Enquete commission of the German Bundestag

journey to Chicago / USA (participation at the art fair)

journey to Japan (with the exhibition tour "Zeitzeichen" [Time signs])

first journey to the USA (solo exhibition in New York)

heart attack due to excessive way of living, increasing political repressions,
travelling restrictions, cancelling of exhibitions by official authorities, and new
definition of the own artistic existence

first retrospective (solo exhibition) at the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg

member of the experimental group „37,2“ that searched for new structural
possibilities of producing and perceiving art in order to newly define the function
of art in the society

teaches a class of experimental art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig

first journey to Western Europe to the Basel Art Fair; meets there important
artistic positions (for instance, Walter Stöhrer)

starts collaboration with the composer Friedrich Schenker concerning the
scenic play II - MISSA NIGRA (première in 1979 in Leipzig; further shows Italy,
France, Switzerland, for instance)

first solo exhibition (together with his brother Wolfram Ebersbach)

additional work as fair and exhibition designer

studies painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in the class of Bernhard
Heisig and Hans Meyer-Foreyt (established in 1961 following a demand for a
particular painter’s class); works afterwards as freelance artist

born in Zwickau (Saxony); works and lives in Leipzig

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