Ekkeland Götze (1948) - photo 1

Ekkeland Götze

Ekkeland Götze is a German painter, printmaker and conceptual artist. After a training as a screen printer he educated himself as an industrial engineer through a correspondence course. Götze painted in his spare time, but he was not allowed to exhibit because of regulations in East Germany - formally he was a printmaker, not a painter. Because of these restrictions he filed an application for an exit permit 1985 which was granted in 1988. In 1989 Götze started to work on a project called "Erde" ("Earth"). He collects soil samples at extraordinary sites of human history around the world and applies them to paper, lime mortar or other backgrounds, making use of a standardized, self-developed technique he calls "terragraphy": He grinds the soil, mixes it with a binder and then applies it making use of a technique similar to screen printing. All backgrounds are square and of identical size. For each site the resulting works of art are given an individual name that reflects the importance of the site. According to Götze, the pictures capture th "spirit and energy" of the place where the soil was gathered. Götze runs a studio in Sendling. He is a member of the Neue Gruppe, an association of Munich artists regularly exhibiting at the Haus der Kunst museum. In 2018 Götze has been awarded the Seerosenpreis, a yearly award assigned to visual artists by the city of Munich.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:14 august 1948, Dresden, Germany
Nationality:Germany
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Artist, Engraver, Painter, Photographer
Art style:Conceptual art, Contemporary art
Technique:Engraving, Screen printing

Creators Germany

Willy Tiedjen (1881 - 1950)
Willy Tiedjen
1881 - 1950
Franz Ackermann (1963)
Franz Ackermann
1963
Cella Thoma (1858 - 1901)
Cella Thoma
1858 - 1901
Andreas von Weizsäcker (1956 - 2008)
Andreas von Weizsäcker
1956 - 2008
Josef (Joss) Rower (1903 - 1968)
Josef (Joss) Rower
1903 - 1968
Johannes Harders (1871 - 1950)
Johannes Harders
1871 - 1950
Richard Seewald (1889 - 1976)
Richard Seewald
1889 - 1976
Georg Pecham (1568 - 1604)
Georg Pecham
1568 - 1604
Heinrich Nüttgens (1866 - 1951)
Heinrich Nüttgens
1866 - 1951
Ernst Schumacher-Salig (1905 - 1963)
Ernst Schumacher-Salig
1905 - 1963
Hermann-Josef Kuhna (1944 - 2018)
Hermann-Josef Kuhna
1944 - 2018
Karl Heffner (1849 - 1927)
Karl Heffner
1849 - 1927
Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard (1855 - 1945)
Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard
1855 - 1945
Tomas Maldonado (1922 - 2018)
Tomas Maldonado
1922 - 2018
Juergen von Huendeberg (1922 - 1996)
Juergen von Huendeberg
1922 - 1996
Louis Toussaint (1826 - 1887)
Louis Toussaint
1826 - 1887

Creators Conceptual art

Richard Artschwager (1923 - 2013)
Richard Artschwager
1923 - 2013
Maurício Nogueira Lima (1930 - 1999)
Maurício Nogueira Lima
1930 - 1999
Boris Evseevich Kaplyansky (1903 - 1984)
Boris Evseevich Kaplyansky
1903 - 1984
Neil Jenney (1945)
Neil Jenney
1945
Tai Xiangzhou (1968)
Tai Xiangzhou
1968
Raffi Lavie (1937 - 2007)
Raffi Lavie
1937 - 2007
Ekaterina Evgen'evna Grigor'eva (1928 - 2010)
Ekaterina Evgen'evna Grigor'eva
1928 - 2010
Benjamin Patterson (1934 - 2016)
Benjamin Patterson
1934 - 2016
Arnold Wühl (1946)
Arnold Wühl
1946
Constancia Nery (1936)
Constancia Nery
1936
Frank Moore (1946 - 2013)
Frank Moore
1946 - 2013
Hermann Ober (1920 - 1997)
Hermann Ober
1920 - 1997
Frederick Joseph Yates (1922 - 2008)
Frederick Joseph Yates
1922 - 2008
Johnny Friedlaender (1912 - 1992)
Johnny Friedlaender
1912 - 1992
Wacław Borowski (1885 - 1954)
Wacław Borowski
1885 - 1954
Gerhard Bochmann (1925)
Gerhard Bochmann
1925
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