Mark Lammert
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Mark Lammert is a German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

, graphic artist
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

 and stage designer
Scenic design
Scenic design is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers have traditionally come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but nowadays, generally speaking, they are trained professionals, often with M.F.A...

. He lives and works in Berlin.

Biography

Lammert studied painting at Kunsthochschule Berlin from 1979–1986 and from 1989 to 1992 he was master scholar at Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...

 zu Berlin. In 1993 he created his first stage design for Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...

’s production of „Duell-Traktor- Fatzer“ at Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble
The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin...

. In the following years he received scholarships for painting from Senatsverwaltung für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin (1994) and the Kunstfond Bonn e.V. (1996) In 1997 he was affiliated to the latter as a curator. In 1997 he lived and worked in Lisbon and in 1998 he was awarded the Grafikpreis of Kunstmesse Dresden. In 1999 Akademie der Künste awarded him their Käthe Kollwitz Award and in 2000/2001 Academie Experimentale des Theatres invited him to Paris. The Preußische Seehandlung presented him with their Eberhard Roters scholarship for painting in 2002. He spent most of 2002 in France where he was artist in residence des „Les Recollets“, Paris. In 2011 Lammert was appointed Professor of Painting at the Universität der Künste, Berlin.

Work

Lammert appeared before the public both with paintings and drawings from very early on and was represented in many exhibitions of German art
German art
German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art....

 (e.g. „Deutschlandbilder“, Bern 1997 and „Art of Two Germanys“, County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....

, Los Angeles, 2009). His work is driven by a conceptual approach that questions the limits of what is pictorially representable. This applies to the early portraits (Stephan Hermlin
Stephan Hermlin
Stephan Hermlin , real name Rudolf Leder, was a German author. He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany.- Life :...

, 1987) which were described as painted protest against a society unaware of its history and to the subsequent series of paintings, drawings and graphic art: beginning with the early group paintings „People Waiting“ (1983 – 88) via the frozen white nudes and butchery paintings up to the graphic sequence „Kinne“ that invalidates the cliche Heiner Müller.

His large-sized series of paintings „allied“ (1994–1995), he palimpsestically applied shades of red paint to the backside of maps increasingly illustrate his principle of reduction: he reduces fragment
Fragment
Fragment may refer to:* A small part/portion broken off something; debris* Fragment , all the data necessary to generate a pixel in the frame buffer* Sentence fragment, a sentence not containing a subject or a predicate...

s of human figures in the context of the cartographical pattern. He starts experimenting with various work bases, works on book caskets and puts fine line networks as quadrature onto drawings on crude paper. Since 1998 he has chosen to work on smaller pictures which he has expanded to tableaus. The scarceness that leaves only the elementary keeps the balance between the carnal and the sceleton, framework and matter, line and colour and also between image and polyvalent characters. The reduction not only captures the figurative traces of the physical, but also the colours of the backgrounds as the blots of paints appear on them like injuries. „Armbrusr“ (1997–1999), „Hüllen“ (1998–1999), „Brust-korb“ (1998–2000) and „Weiß“ (2001–2003) are placed onto white backgrounds, „Passion“ (2001–2002) and „Schwarz“ (2002–2004) are placed onto shaded dark backgrounds. Increasingly the colour sentiment begins to change („Floaters“, 2005–2009), whereas the relations between base and pictorial feature, as shown by the writing pieces, are changed and in their configuration turn towards the ornament
Ornament (architecture)
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornament does not include human figures, and if present they...

al.

A comprehensive body of work consisting of print graphic pieces has been created alongside. In some cases all lithographic
Lithography
Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

 templates were embraced by the image-finding process to yield a collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....

-like result. Furthermore, since the 1980s, Lammert has been collecting his material in work books that serve as a parallel work space and by reflecting the media illustrate the political context his work emerges from. Apart from collages, photos and drawings which often disclose techniques of representing the brutal these books are filled with written notations and excerpt
Excerpt
An excerpt is a relatively small sample passage from a longer work, such as a book or article....

s from various theoretical texts. The visual and the verbal are crossed. When creating the pieces entitled „Risse“ (2004), the technique of handwritten copying is used for the first time to bring into being pictures that are both text and drawing. By leaving openings within the body of text they reveal shapes and figures. Increasingly these notations become more fragmented and mapped. In „Knochen“ (2006/07) coloured, free-floating fields in linear contours that mark the growing stages from the animal collection of the Musée Fragonard in Paris in terms of colour are confronted with written extracts.

By means of his collaboration with Heiner Müller since 1991 („Aus dem Totenhaus“, 1990; „Blockade“, 1991; Totenzeichnungen 1995) Lammert created stage designs that convert the materiality of his painting into the spacial. The spaces that were sometimes merely divided by falling pieces of fabric (Germania 3, 1996) or by a revolving door (Perser, 2006) become fellow actors and have been referred to as dramaturgy engines.

Single Exhibitions

  • 1991 und 1993, Galerie Rotunde, Altes Museum
    Altes Museum
    The Altes Museum , is one of several internationally renowned museums on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. Since restoration work in 1966, it houses the Antikensammlung of the Berlin State Museums...

    , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin (catalogue);
  • 1995 Kunsthalle Rostock (catalogue);
  • 1996 Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg (catalogue);
  • 1998 galerie refugium, Berlin;
  • 1999 Käthe Kollwitz Preis, Akademie der Künste
    Akademie der Künste
    The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...

    , Berlin (catalogue);
  • 2000 Kunstkabinett am Goetheplatz, Stadtmuseum Weimar;
  • 2001 „Arbeitsbücher und Serien“, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg;
  • 2002 Kunstraum Les Subsistances
    Les Subsistances
    Les Subsistances is a cultural centre of diffuse artistic production and located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. Since 2007, it has housed a creative laboratory and the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon...

    , Lyon;
  • 2004 „Risse“, fruehsorge - Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin;
  • 2005 “Fragment d’espace”, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (catalogue);
  • 2006 “Ausgewählte Zeichnungen“, Berlinische Galerie
    Berlinische Galerie
    The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. It is located in Kreuzberg, on Alte Jakobstraße, not far from the Jewish Museum.-History:...

    , Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin (catalogue);
  • 2007 „One Stepp beyond“ (mit Greg Stone), fruehsorge - Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin;
  • 2010 „beauty is booty", fruehsorge – Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin;
  • 2010 „Malerei 1997-2010", Guardini Gallerie, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

  • 1989 „1. Quadrinale – Zeichnungen der DDR“, Museum der bildenden Künste
    Museum der bildenden Künste
    The Museum der bildenden Künste is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. On 7,000 square meters of display area, 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphical works are shown...

    , Leipzig;
  • 1991 „Vice Versa“, Frans Hals Museum
    Frans Hals Museum
    The Frans Hals Museum is a hofje and municipal museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1862 in the newly renovated former cloister located in the back of the Haarlem city hall known as the Prinsenhof...

    , Haarlem;
  • 1992 „Turning Points – East German Art in Revolution“, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
    Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
    Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery which is based in Sunderland, England. The gallery focuses on producing exhibitions of new work by emerging and established international artists. The main gallery is a 35 x 17m space which is regularly configured for each...

    , Sunderland u.a.;
  • 1993 „Akademie 93“, Berlin;
  • 1995 „Scharfer Blick – Der Deutsche Künstlerbund
    Deutscher Künstlerbund
    Deutscher KuenstlerbundThe Deutscher Künstlerbund was founded at the beginning of the last century on the initiative of Harry Graf Kessler, promoter of arts and artists, Alfred Lichtwark, director of the Hamburg Art Gallery and the famous painters Lovis Corinth, Max Klinger and Max Liebermann...

     in Bonn“, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
    Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
    Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland is a museum in Bonn, Germany....

    , Bonn;
  • 1996 „Zeichnen“, Der Deutsche Künstlerbund, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
    Germanisches Nationalmuseum
    The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day...

    , Nürnberg;
  • 1996 „Das szenische Auge“, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Neu-Dehli u.a.;
  • 1997 „respondem“, Exhibition Centre, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon;
  • 1997 „deutschlandbilder“, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin;
  • 2000 „Kabinett der Zeichnung“, Kunstverein Düsseldorf u.a.;
  • 2002 „Wahnzimmer – Kunst und Kultur der achtziger Jahre in Deutschland“, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, and Museum Folkwang
    Museum Folkwang
    Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th and 20th century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.The term...

    , Essen;
  • 2003 „Warum!, Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen“, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin;
  • 2003 „Kunst in der DDR“, Neue Nationalgalerie
    Neue Nationalgalerie
    Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin...

     Berlin;
  • 2008/2009 „Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten“, Akademie der Künste, Berlin and ZKM, Karlsruhe;
  • 2009 „Art of Two Germanys“, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles;
  • 2009 „Zeigen", Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin;
  • 2010 „Je mehr ich zeichne/Zeichnung als Weltentwurf", Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen

Stage Designs

  • 1993 for Heiner Müller, „Duell-Traktor-Fatzer“ (Müller/Brecht), Berliner Ensemble
    Berliner Ensemble
    The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin...

    , Berlin;
  • 1995 for Heiner Müller, „Germania 3“ (Müller), Berliner Ensemble, Berlin;
  • 1995 for Josef Szeiler
    Josef Szeiler
    Josef Szeiler is an Austrian theatre director. As co-founder of the group TheaterAngelusNovus he is first of all known for his experimental approach to texts by Heiner Müller, Bertolt Brecht, Homer and Greek dramas....

    , „Philoktet“ (Müller), Berliner Ensemble, Berlin;
  • 1997 for Jean Jourdheuil, „Germania 3“ (Müller), Lisbon;
  • 2003 for Jean Jourdheuil, „La Finta giardiniera“ (Mozart), Staatsoper Stuttgart
    Staatsoper Stuttgart
    The Staatsoper Stuttgart is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, Germany.-History:The Stuttgart Staatsoper forms part of the Stuttgart State Theatre , which is a a three-branch-theatre complex and represents the largest theatre of its kind in Europe...

    ;
  • 2004 for Jean Jourdheuil, „Michel Foucault, chose dites, choses vues“, Festival d’Automne, Paris;
  • 2005 for Jean Jourdheuil „Idemeneo“ (Mozart), Staatsoper Stuttgart;
  • 2006 for Dimiter Gotscheff
    Dimiter Gotscheff
    Dimiter Gotscheff is a Bulgarian-born German theater director. His work is often associated with dramatist and director Heiner Müller.- External links :* from the Goethe-Institut....

    , „Die Perser“ (Aischylos/Müller), Deutsches Theater Berlin;
  • 2007 for Dimiter Gotscheff, „Die Hamletmaschine“ (Müller), Deutsches Theater, Berlin;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, „Die Perser“ (Aischylos), Epidauros/Greece;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, „Prometheus“ (Aischylos/Müller), Volksbühne
    Volksbühne
    The Volksbühne is a theater in Berlin, Germany. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in what was the GDR's capital....

    , Berlin;
  • 2009 for Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...

    , „Und das Licht scheint in der Finsternis“ (Tolstoi), Berlin/Moskau;
  • 2009 for Jean Jourdheuil, „Philoktet“ (Sophokles/Müller), Théâtre de la Ville
    Théâtre de la Ville
    The Théâtre de la Ville is one of the two theatres built in the 19th century by Baron Haussmann at Place du Châtelet, Paris; the other being the Théâtre du Châtelet...

    , Paris;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, „Oedipus Tyrann“ (Sophokles/Hölderlin/Müller), Thalia Theater
    Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
    The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia...

    , Hamburg;
  • 2010 for Dimiter Gotscheff, „Die Chinesin" (Godard), Volksbühne, Berlin;
  • 2011 for Reinhild Hoffmann, „Exercices du silence", Staatsoper, Berlin

Public Collections

  • Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett
    Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
    The Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz...

    , Sammlung der Zeichnung, Berlin
  • Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin
  • Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
  • Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlung
    Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
    Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is a cultural institution in Dresden, Germany, owned by the State of Saxony. It belongs to the most renowned and oldest museum institutions in the world, originating from the collections of the Saxon electors in the 16th century .Today, the Dresden State Art...

    , Dresden
  • Staatliches Museum, Schwerin
  • Sammlung Ann und Werner Kramarsky, New York
  • Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Fankfurt a.M.

Awards

  • 1996 Wilhelm-Höpfner-Preis der Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, Stendal
  • 1998 Grafik-Preis der Kunstmesse Dresden
  • 1999 Käthe Kollwitz Preis der Akademie der Künste
  • 2002 Eberhard Roters Stipendium der Preußischen Seehandlung, Berlin
  • 2003 Artist in residence, Centre International „Les Recollets“, Paris

Literature

  • Michael Freitag: „Kalte Anschauung. Der Maler Mark Lammert“, in: Kunst in der DDR. Editors: Eckhardt Gillen/Rainer Haarmann, Köln, 1990.
  • Heiner Müller: „Aus dem Totenhaus“, Edition Pariser Platz 4, Berlin, 1991.
  • Jannis Kounellis
    Jannis Kounellis
    Jannis Kounellis was born on March 23, 1936 in Piraeus, Greece. He studied in art college in Athens until 1956 and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome....

    , Mark Lammert und Heiner Müller: BLOCKADE/ICH HAB ZUR NACHT GESESSEN MIT GESPENSTERN, Berlin, 1993.
  • Durs Grünbein
    Durs Grünbein
    Durs Grünbein is a German poet, living in Berlin since 1985.Grünbein is hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won in 1995...

    : Müllers Kinn, Berlin, 1994.
  • Anni Bradon: Schwebe-Zustand, Rostock, 1995.
  • Heiner Müller und Mark Lammert: Drucksache Nr. 20, Berliner Ensemble, Arbeitsbuch zu „Germania 3/Gespenster am Toten Mann“, 1996.
  • Uwe Gellner: „Körperräume“, in: Mark Lammert. Malerei, Berlin, Magdeburg, 1996.
  • Antje von Graevenitz: „Rekonstruktion einer Szene“, in: IfA, Stuttgart, 1997.
  • Jean Jourdheuil; Der Raum des Theaters und der Raum im Theater, Dresden, Berlin 1998.
  • Matthias Flügge: „Laudatio für Mark Lammert“ in: Sinn und Form, Berlin, 1999.
  • Michael Freitag: „Die Uneigentlichkeit des Scheins“, in: Warum, Ostfildern, 2003.
  • Roland März: „Diptychon imaginiaire“, Humboldt, Heft 86, Bonn, 2003.
  • Mirjam Schaub „Scriptoria“, in: SCHRIFT BILDER DENKEN, Walter Benjamin und die Künstler der Gegenwart, Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
  • Knut Ebeling, Carolin Meister: Arbeitsbücher/Workbooks, Düsseldorf, Richter-Verlag, 2005.
  • Jorge Molder: „Fragment d’espace“, in: CMA, Lisbon, 2005.
  • Ulrike Haß: „Dramaturgiemaschinen. Zu den Bühnen Mark Lammerts“, in: Theater der Zeit, 2008.
  • Amy Eshoo 560 Broadway. A New Drawing Collecktion at Work, 1991-2006, 2008.
  • Reinhard Ermen: „Mark Lammert“, in: Kunstforum international, Bd. 196, Zeichnen zur Zeit, 2009.
  • Eckhart Gillen: „Szenes from the theatre of the cold war of the arts“ in: Art of Two Germanys, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2009.
  • Matthias Flügge, Bruno Duarte: Mark Lammert, Malerei 1997-2010 (engl.), Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011.
  • Juriaan Benschop: Mark Lammert In: Artforum
    Artforum
    Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

    , New York March 2011.

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