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Harald Metzkes Biography
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1929 |
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Born in Bautzen to Dr. Walter Metzkes and his wife Margot, Germany
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1945 |
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Conscripted into the Wehrmacht, brief period as American prisoner of war
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1945 - 1946 |
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Secondary school in Bautzen and school-leaving examination
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1946 |
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Began to study painting with Alfred Herzog
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1947 - 1949 |
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Apprenticeship as a stonemason with Max Rothe
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1949 - 1953 |
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Studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, under Wilhelm Lachnit and Rudolf Bergander
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1953 |
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Married Elrid Fiebig, textile designer. Their children Robert, Verena and Walter are born in 1954, 1955, 1956
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1953 - 1955 |
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Freelance artist in Bautzen
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1957 |
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Study trip to China with John Heartfield and Werner Stötzer
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1955 - 1958 |
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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.
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1963 |
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First solo exhibition at the Institut für Lehrerweiterbildung, Berlin-Weißensee
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1976 |
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Receives Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Akademie der Künste zu Berlin
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1977 |
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Receives National Award by the DDR for Illustration and Graphic
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1986 - 1991 |
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Full member of the Akademie der Künste
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2000 |
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Harald Metzkes “Ich und Herr H.” (“Mr H. and I”): writings, speeches, notes, prose
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2007 |
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Hannah-Höch Prize from the Federal State of Berlin
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Numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad since 1963.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Olaf-Gulbranson-Museum, Tegernsee (solo)
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2009
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Galerie Leo.Coppi (solo)
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2009
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Grassi-Museum, Leipzig (solo)
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2009
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Stadtmuseum Bautzen (solo)
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2008
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Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde (solo)
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2008
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Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Kunstverein Soest (with Elrid and Robert Metzkes) (solo)
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2007
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Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Ephraim-Palais (solo)
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2007
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Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Bilder aus 50 Jahren (50 Years of Painting) (solo)
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2006
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Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (solo)
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2006
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Deutsche Bilder aus der Sammlung Ludwig (German Art from the Ludwig Collection), Schloss Oberhausen
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2004
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Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
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2003
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Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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1999 - 2000
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Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, (The XXth Century. A Century of Art in Germany) Altes Museum, Berlin
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1999
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Stadtmuseum Bautzen (solo)
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1999
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Kunstsammlung Lausitz, Senftenber (solo)
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1997 - 1998
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Deutschlandbilder - Kunst aus einem geteilten Land, (German Art from Beckmann to Richter: Images of a Divided Country), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
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1997
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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)
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1990
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Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (solo)
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1989
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Akademie der Künste der DDR, Berlin (solo)
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1988
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Zeitvergleich, (Comparing Times) Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin
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1988
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Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1984
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Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1977
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Nationalgalerie, Berlin (East) (solo)
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Regular solo exhibitions at Galerie Leo.Coppi Berlin since 1991
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