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Wolfgang Tietze explores the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf heaven and hell from

DGK, Inferno, VII singing, Styx is the quagmire that this wretched Bach is there ..., 2010, 130 cm x 200 cm, Aquacryl / ink on watercolor paper

dialogue of a painter


The Studio Table by Wolfgang Tietze are three different editions of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, runs quietly in the background an audio book with the same content. The great old Italian Beyond Vision describes Dante are wrong path that leads first through the underground hell where sinners of heinous attacks, polymorphic beasts, and finally to the passage of the Fire in paradise ends.

born in 1954 in Leipzig painter Wolfgang Tietze works through these 700 Year-old verse narrative. The scenarios described in it excites him, however, not merely to illustrate it. About 20 years ago Wolfgang Tietze has for the first time an edition of the Divine Comedy in your hands and since then they will not let him. And when he was in this summer as a fellow of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf came to him there, quite unexpectedly, a 100 square meter painting studio with 51 light-filled windows of his work was available, he reached for preliminary studies the decision to large-size images Dante's work to create. Thus in the last few months, many as a half by two meters wide work on heavy rag paper, Tietze, the "equivalence" is called. It is a long term project, a sisyphusartige search for it, the moods of the story in pictures to transfer.

Wolfgang Tietze says that yes there is a presumption in fact, this monumental work of European culture, which is full of philosophical and theological references to take as a starting point for your own artistic work. His respect for Dante is great, but he did not crippling. About 4 to 5 days work Wolfgang Tietze on a leaf. Some Council takes over weeks time and again that over-subscribed sites, adds a text fragments and makes color transitions with self-made brushes on long bamboo sticks around until the tide for him has a "consistency".

makes the color of his Dante cycle significantly: Wolfgang Tietze excludes no color. The high density of the pigment used Aquacrylfarben, a mixture of acrylic and water colors, lights the entire spectrum. Each image has its own mood. The leaves of both lead the viewer into the unknown dens, which are populated with snarling dogs and monkeys hell, and in paradise-like worlds that promise in which women's bodies floating access to long-awaited.

Wolfgang Tietze living from painting, his works are in galleries issued and sold, and he taught as a visiting lecturer at the University of Greifswald last. In addition to his painting profession he is also keen musician and plays in the "juke Eva Blum" drums, harmonica and guitar - jazz music, which is quite danceable. His musicality is also evident in his Wiepersdorf Dante cycle: dance Apart from the various color chords black lines on the leaves, form themselves into figures pile up on to vertebrae and then to disappear again in soft-aqueous gradients.

Olivia Franke in the Baltic Sea newspaper of 12/09/2010

W. Tietze in the studio Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf 2010 Photo: Archives