Tobias Magaß

 

 

 

 

VITA

 

1959 born in Osnabrück, Germany  

1979-1980 Bonn University , Study of History of Art and English Literature  

1980-1984 College of Applied Art Hildesheim / Holzminden, Study of graphic design  

1984 Diploma in graphic design  

1984-1985 College of Art and Design Offenbach / Main, postgraduate studies
(Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach / Main)  

1985-1986 Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Academie van beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam)  

1986-1990 Study of fine arts, Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf
Drawing with Prof. Eggenschwiler, painting with Prof. Dibbets  

1989 Appointment as Meisterschüler (master graduate) of Prof. Jan Dibbets  

1990-1995 Independent work in Osnabrück  

1995-2000 Lecturer at Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel  

1998-2000 Lecturer at Shenkar College of Textile Design and Technology
Ramat Gan, Israel  

2001-2003 Guest professor in three-dimensional art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Antwerp, Belgium

 

Solo-Exhibitions (selection)

 

1992 leo.coppi Gallery, Berlin, Cityscapes  

1992 Dominican Church Art Hall, Osnabrueck, Pictures about pictures  

1993 Caja Salamanca y Soria, Palencia, Spanien  

1994 Caja Salamanca y Soria, Valladolid und Zamora, Spanien  

1994 Real Monasterio de San Zoilo Carrion de los Condes, Spanien  

1994 Venta de Boffard Fromista, Spanien  

1995 Susanne Albrecht Gallery, Muenchen  

1996 Center for Technological Education Holon, Israel  

1997 Venta de Boffard Fromista, Spanien  

2000 Goethe-Institut, Tel Aviv, Israel  

2004 MDZ Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, Past Future  

2005 Municipal Gallery Osnabrueck, Germany
Ants and elephants  

2007 Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg          

 

Group-Exhibitions (selection)

 

1984 Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Paper made of paper - Colour, Lines, Space  

1985 I. Bonner Regionale, Bonn  

1985 Prizewinner at the Johannes Mosbach Foundation, Offenbach a. M.  

1992 Kommunale Galerie, Berlin  

1994 Galerie Albatros, Madrid  

1996 Prémio Caneja de Pintura, Fundación Díaz Caneja, Palencia, Spain  

2000 Competition - European prize for painting Ostende, Belgium  

2000 III. Prémio Caneja de Pintura, Fundación Díaz Caneja, Palencia, Spain  

2001 Art in boxes, Berlin  

2005 MDZ Gallery, Knokke, Belgium  

2005 Scope Art Fair, New York, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta  

2006 MDZ Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, The young ones  

2006 Arte Regionale IV, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany  

2007 Kunst im Kloster, Gravenhorst  

2008 Galerie Michael De Zutter, Knokke, Belgien, Germania  

2008 Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg

 

About the artist.

Tobias Magass is inspired by emblemata, symbols from literature and the kind of art emerging during the 16th and 17th centuries. Accompanied by a motto, they allude to peculiarities of human life, to typical behavioural patterns, and life experiences. They are a mirror image of the world view and the comprehension of the time. Tobias Magass takes them out of their context. The motto is not applicable; the picture is detached from the ornamental environment, reduced to an important detail or basic shape of the drawing. The historic background are left aside. What remains is the reduced graphic with its great wealth of allusions, references, associations. With the painting media of the 21st century, Tobias Magass picks up this drawing and uses it as the provocation and framework of his paintings. - Dr. phil. Johannes Römelt