Doris Ziegler (born 14 March 1949) is a German painter whose work responded to and engaged with the '' Wende'' and the peaceful revolution in the

GDR East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

during the late 1980s.

Life

Ziegler was born in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany and studied painting at the School of Visual Arts/Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 1969 to 1974 under

Werner Tübke Werner Tübke (30 July 1929 in Schönebeck, Germany – 27 May 2004 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German painter, best known for his monumental '' Peasants' War Panorama'' located in Bad Frankenhausen Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhaus ...

und Wolfgang Mattheuer. From 1972 to 1981, she was married to the painter . The marriage brought forth a son (born 1977). In 1989, she was an assistant in the Painting department at the School of Visual Arts/Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. From 1993 to 2014, she served as a professor at the school. Doris Ziegler lives in Leipzig.

Work

The first figurative paintings emerged in the former GDR during the 1970s. Ziegler mainly focused on portraits and cityscapes. Triggered by her mother's disorder, between 1999 and 2005 she focused on the situations of Alzheimer's patients who were required to spend the end of their lives in a retirement home. At the end of the 1980s, Ziegler's paintings dealt with demonstrations and crowds, such as Passage 1 (1988, Oil on canvas, 160 x 175 cm) or Aufbruch Straße (1989, Oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm), which were created in the time of upheaval leading up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Her series "Passage pictures" between the years 1988 and 1993 addressed the Wende and the peaceful revolution in the GDR as well as the upheaval in Leipzig. The picture cycle has been included in the exhibition Point of no Return: Transformation and Revolution in East German Art since July 2019 in the Museum of Fine Arts in the room dedicated to Leipzig.Ausstellungsbesprechung
von Ingeborg Ruthe 25 July 2019 in der

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Solo exhibitions

* 1983 ''Doris Ziegler'', Kleine Galerie Süd, Leipzig * 1990 ''Doris Ziegler'', Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder * 1990 ''Doris Ziegler. Von Leipzig bis Amsterdam'', Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen * 1991 ''Doris Ziegler'', Ausstellungszentrum der Universität Leipzig im Kroch-Haus, Leipzig * 1992 ''Doris Ziegler'', Bayerische Vereinsbank, München * 1997 ''Doris Ziegler'', Bayerische Vereinsbank, München * 2000 ''Doris Ziegler. Stillleben'', Kunstverein Panitzsch * 2000 ''Doris Ziegler'', Frauenmuseum, Bonn * 2005 ''Doris Ziegler. Augenlust'', Galerie Kunstantin, Herne * 2006 ''Doris Ziegler'', Kunstverein Südsauerland, Olpe * 2007 ''Doris Ziegler'', Galerie CasArte, Aschaffenburg * 2006 ''Doris Ziegler'',

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) (English: Gallery for Contemporary Art) is an exhibition center for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945 in Leipzig, Germany, in a beautiful location opposite Johannapark. Histor ...

* 2010 ''Doris Ziegler. Trockendock'', Galerie Irrgang Leipzig * 2012 ''Doris Ziegler. Lebensarchitektur'', Schloss Burgk, Saale * 2016 ''Doris Ziegler. Am Kanal'', Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig * 2018 ''Doris Ziegler. Lange Abschiede'', Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder

Group exhibitions (selection)

* 1988 Biennale Venedig * 1989 ''Junge Malerei der 80er Jahre aus der DDR'', Solothurn/Schweiz * 1989 ''Konturen'',

Neue Nationalgalerie The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) 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 National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its ...

, Berlin * 1992 ''Zwischen Expressivität und Sachlichkeit'', Frauenmuseum, Bonn * 1997 ''Lust und Last. Leipziger Kunst nach 1945'',

Museum der bildenden Künste The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the fo ...

, Leipzig; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg * 2000 Gabriele Münter Preis, Frauenmuseum, Bonn * 2007 ''Seit Leipzig'', Gut Conow, Wittenhagen * 2009 ''Nicht ohne uns. Ausstellung an vier Orten zur nonkonformen Kunst in der DDR'', Dresden * 2009 ''Landschaft'' Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig * 2010 ''Gender Check'', Mumok, Wien * 2011 ''Entdeckt. Rebellische Künstlerinnen der DDR'',

Kunsthalle Mannheim The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those ...

* 2015 ''Mit Tübke am Strand. Leipziger Maler in Ahrenshoop'', Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop * 2015 ''Object is Mediation and Poetry'',

Grassimuseum The Grassi Museum is a building complex in Leipzig, home to three museums: the Ethnography Museum, Musical Instruments Museum, and Applied Arts Museum. It is sometimes known as the "Museums in the Grassi", or as the "New" Grassi Museum (to di ...

, Leipzig * 2016 ''Palau-Gefühl'', Galerie Irrgang Berlin * 2016 ''Die wilden 80er Jahre in der deutsch-deutschen Malerei'', Potsdam Museum * 2019 ''Point of no Return. Wende und Umbruch in der Ostdeutschen Kunst'',

, Leipzig

Literature (selection)

* ''Contours. Works by GDR Artists born in 1949''. Exhibition on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR. National Gallery from October 5 to December 3, 1989. State Museum Berlin, 1989. * Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen,

Frank Zöllner Frank Zöllner (born 26 June 1956) is a German art historian who has been a professor of art history at Leipzig University since 1996. He is a prolific scholar on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, and author of one of the two modern ''ca ...

, ''A Matter of Opinion. Leipzig Painters and their City'', Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, . * April Eisman, “From Doppelbelastung to Doppelgänger: Doris Ziegler’s Paintings of Women in East Germany,” in Deborah Barnstone, ed. ''The Double in Art'' (London: Peter Lang, 2016), 45-66. * ''Point of no Return. Wende und Umbruch in der Ostdeutschen Kunst'', hrsg. von Alfred Weidinger,

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und Christoph Tannert,

Hirmer Verlag Hirmer Publishers is the name used by Hirmer Verlag, a German art book publishing house based in Munich, for its operations in the English-speaking world. Publishing history The publishing house was founded in 1948 by Max Hirmer and his wife ...

München 2019, . * Paul Kaiser, ed
''Doris Ziegler. Das Passagen-Werk. Malerei''
(Dresden: Tympanon, 2020). Authors include Paul Kaiser , Thomas Bille, Ina Gille, Eckhart Gillen, Claudia Petzold, Judith Hoffmann, April Eisman, Katrin Arrieta, Ulrike Kremeier, Katrin Kunert, Annika Michalski, Meinhard Michael, Ingeborg Ruthe, Dietulf Sander, Ines Thate-Keler.

References

External links

Artist's website

Biography
of Doris Ziegler in De Gruyter, on August 2, 2019
short bio
auf whoswho.de
Doris Ziegler
auf artnet.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Ziegler, Doris 1949 births Living people 20th-century German women artists 21st-century German women artists German women painters Artists from Weimar German portrait painters German landscape painters Academic staff of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig