Angela Merkel is 65. The global importance of the German Chancellor, is also reflected in the art: a Street Art, oil Painting, photo art, or on the Cover of a U.S. magazine.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Political Street Art
Art begins on the street: In the Tradition of the Murals – South American wall paintings with a political message – has shown, the Italian Street-Art artist Jupiterfab Angela Merkel RUB shoulders with the former Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, on a wall in Athens.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Satirical Oil Painting
Political art can also be hung in a Museum: Here, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sits with a Napoleon hat clothed to the maternal bosom of the naked Angela Merkel. The British artist and satirist Kaya Mar selects his subjects preferred to politicians; even Theresa May, Donald Trump or the Pope, he has shown in critical contexts.
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The Chancellor as an art object
In The Dialog
Bulgarian art students have decorated the walls of a house in the village of Staro Zhelezare – beginning with portraits of the inhabitants. Later politicians were added, the seem to be with the Locals in the dialogue, as here, the Chancellor. Meanwhile, the walls are painted with copies of works of art from the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Humanitarian Heroine
“We know a lot of pictures of her in which she looks rather bland and cold, but I wanted to go beyond that, and your humanitarian attitude pose”, the Northern Irish artist Colin Davidson 2015 be Merkel-portrait that graced later, the Time Cover. To the “person of the year” was Merkel chosen among others because of their humanitarian stance on the refugee crisis.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Pop Icon
American artist Elizabeth Peyton painted of 2017, a portrait of the German Chancellor for the fashion magazine “Vogue”. In its stylized presentation, it makes the politician look like a young girl. Peyton painted small-format portraits of pop stars, historical and contemporary personalities of European monarchies, usually with fair skin and fine facial features.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Part of the Federal art collection
Art that belongs to all of us: representing the Federal art collection, accumulated since 1970, post-war German art. Issues such as cultural appropriation, power, symbolism, or even questions of national affiliation, can be found here. This drawing of Angela Merkel with a red mouth and critical eye comes from the Dutch painter Erik van Lieshout.
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The Chancellor as an art object
The painter and the Model
Not only well-known artists, lay people have tried of course to Angela Merkel. One of the most prominent: George W. Bush. The former U.S. President immortalized a total of 30 heads of government in the paintings – including Angela Merkel.
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The Chancellor as an art object
One of the many
Also in the Form of sculptures, it gives the Chancellor a lot of things, including Controversial, such as the sculpture of “European Citizenship” by Alexander Nikolic and Michael Kalivoda, which shows Merkel when you go to the toilet. Also provocative: bare “Global Players” of Peter Lenk with naked Merkel. Comparatively well-behaved: Georg Korner’s Installation “Transit” with Merkel as one of 2600 characters.
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The Chancellor as an art object
The burden of the office
The photographer Herlinde Koelbl has immortalized the Chancellor in her series “traces of Power” – as also previously by Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer. The long-term study examines the “transformation of people by the office”: From 1991 to 1998, photographed and interviewed 15 personalities from the worlds of politics and business.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Post girl for Hipster
The Israeli Illustrator Amit Shimoni has staged in his series “Hipstory” of the Powerful and Influential as a young Hipster. Since Trump is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and Obama in Dreadlocks. And Angela Merkel? Black-and-red lipstick, a casual hat, coat and a nose piercing.
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The Chancellor as an art object
A Feast for cartoonists
It has a couple of concerns are the wrinkles become more and more, the cartoonists from all over the world to the Chancellor around the eyes and mouth have missed. The sheer mass of corruption, your signatories around the world has given, proves the importance of Angela Merkel’s. After all, you occupied for years the first place on the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Political Street Art
Art begins on the street: In the Tradition of the Murals – South American wall paintings with a political message – has shown, the Italian Street-Art artist Jupiterfab Angela Merkel RUB shoulders with the former Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, on a wall in Athens.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Satirical Oil Painting
Political art can also be hung in a Museum: Here, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sits with a Napoleon hat clothed to the maternal bosom of the naked Angela Merkel. The British artist and satirist Kaya Mar selects his subjects preferred to politicians; even Theresa May, Donald Trump or the Pope, he has shown in critical contexts.
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The Chancellor as an art object
In The Dialog
Bulgarian art students have decorated the walls of a house in the village of Staro Zhelezare – beginning with portraits of the inhabitants. Later politicians were added, the seem to be with the Locals in the dialogue, as here, the Chancellor. Meanwhile, the walls are painted with copies of works of art from the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Humanitarian Heroine
“We know a lot of pictures of her in which she looks rather bland and cold, but I wanted to go beyond that, and your humanitarian attitude pose”, the Northern Irish artist Colin Davidson 2015 be Merkel-portrait that graced later, the Time Cover. To the “person of the year” was Merkel chosen among others because of their humanitarian stance on the refugee crisis.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Pop Icon
American artist Elizabeth Peyton painted of 2017, a portrait of the German Chancellor for the fashion magazine “Vogue”. In its stylized presentation, it makes the politician look like a young girl. Peyton painted small-format portraits of pop stars, historical and contemporary personalities of European monarchies, usually with fair skin and fine facial features.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Part of the Federal art collection
Art that belongs to all of us: representing the Federal art collection, accumulated since 1970, post-war German art. Issues such as cultural appropriation, power, symbolism, or even questions of national affiliation, can be found here. This drawing of Angela Merkel with a red mouth and critical eye comes from the Dutch painter Erik van Lieshout.
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The Chancellor as an art object
The painter and the Model
Not only well-known artists, lay people have tried of course to Angela Merkel. One of the most prominent: George W. Bush. The former U.S. President immortalized a total of 30 heads of government in the paintings – including Angela Merkel.
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The Chancellor as an art object
One of the many
Also in the Form of sculptures, it gives the Chancellor a lot of things, including Controversial, such as the sculpture of “European Citizenship” by Alexander Nikolic and Michael Kalivoda, which shows Merkel when you go to the toilet. Also provocative: bare “Global Players” of Peter Lenk with naked Merkel. Comparatively well-behaved: Georg Korner’s Installation “Transit” with Merkel as one of 2600 characters.
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The Chancellor as an art object
The burden of the office
The photographer Herlinde Koelbl has immortalized the Chancellor in her series “traces of Power” – as also previously by Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer. The long-term study examines the “transformation of people by the office”: From 1991 to 1998, photographed and interviewed 15 personalities from the worlds of politics and business.
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The Chancellor as an art object
Post girl for Hipster
The Israeli Illustrator Amit Shimoni has staged in his series “Hipstory” of the Powerful and Influential as a young Hipster. Since Trump is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and Obama in Dreadlocks. And Angela Merkel? Black-and-red lipstick, a casual hat, coat and a nose piercing.
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The Chancellor as an art object
A Feast for cartoonists
It has a couple of concerns are the wrinkles become more and more, the cartoonists from all over the world to the Chancellor around the eyes and mouth have missed. The sheer mass of corruption, your signatories around the world has given, proves the importance of Angela Merkel’s. After all, you occupied for years the first place on the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
At the latest in 2021, will join Angela Merkel, with her portrait in the famous historic Chancellor’s gallery. A renewed candidacy for the office of the Chancellor has ruled out.
But already now there are numerous pictures of her – as a motif of various artists. Including a couple of high-profile paintings by the artists Colin Davidson and Elizabeth Peyton. Maybe Angela Merkel making on the occasion of your 65. Birthday on the 17th. July 2019 already thinking, what painter could immortalize for the Chancellor’s gallery.
Your sense of art has proven to be the Chancellor of their term of office already – and not just as a regular visitor of the Opera, and especially the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, where she is with her husband Joachim Sauer every year to guest.
“Traces of Power”: a photographer Herlinde Koelbl in front of your Merkel-Portraits
From the photographer Herlinde Koelbl, and the photographer Andreas Mühe Merkel was just as modest as artistically convincing portrait photo capture (“traces of Power”). You probably like some of the works that were in the past years, from your customized, even more than others. Not expressed by the Chancellor in the Public.
Critical Appraisal
After all, the art world also deals critically with their political Actions. Some artists have put the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, according to the image – in particular in relation to Germany’s EU-policy.
The satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in February 2017
Other Works pay homage to mind of a remarkable politician who was referred to in December of 2015, because of their humanitarian stance on the refugee crisis by the US-magazine “Time” as “the Chancellor of the free world” and the “Person of the year 2015” is selected. The cover picture of that edition’s adorned the work of the Irish Colin Davidson.
Political Portraits
That politicians can be stylized in the art, to modern icons, proved to be Ex-US President Barack Obama with his selection of the colourful portraits of the artist Kehinde Wiley: It was a Statement, because Wiley was the first African-American who has painted the official portrait of a U.S. President.
Also, Helmut Kohl, chose his portrait painter, to political considerations. His choice of the East German Bernhard was Heisig, one of the main GDR state artist. Therefore, you can be curious, for whom Angela Merkel will decide when the time came.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsKonrad Adenauer (Between 1949 And 1963)
The first German Chancellor, stands as a bronze sculpture in the, named after him, Adenauer Allee, in the former government district of the former capital Bonn. The larger-than-life work of the artist Hubertus von Pilgrim dates back to the year 1981 and is a popular photo motif: It is directly in front of the old Federal Chancellery.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsLudwig Erhard (1963-1966)
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard had made as a cooling down of the economy expect the Minister under Adenauer career, put great value on art-historical significance. For his official Chancellor’s portrait in the Federal Chancellery, he selected as his successor, kiesinger – Munich “Prominent artists” Günter Rittner.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsKurt Georg Kiesinger (1966-1969)
Rittners Kiesinger-portrait for the Federal Chancellery, not artistically so much as his image of Chancellor Erhard. “Angela Merkel would like to I want to paint yet,” was knight (90) in March 2017 announced.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsWilly Brandt (1969-1974)
Brandt was Chancellor quickly become a darling of the German media – he himself was open-minded towards modern art. Even Andy Warhol, the American pop star among the painters, interested in “Chancellor Brandt”. He included him in 1976 as a Pop Art icon, in his famous silk-screen series – alongside Marilyn Monroe and Mao.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsHelmut Schmidt (1974-1982)
The idea to have all of the former Chancellor to the end of their term of office, to paint and to hang the works at the Federal Chancellery, came from Chancellor Schmidt. His predecessor, sought out the artist. Schmidt was the construction of the Bonn Chancellor’s office too sterile, art on the walls, which should remedy the situation. His portrait with cigarette, comes from the painter Bernhard Heisig.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsHelmut Kohl (1982-1998)
The music of Louis Armstrong and the Palatinate wine-Chancellor Kohl sat a total of four model for this Chancellor’s portrait. The East German artist Albrecht Gehse it has created, has paid the former Chancellor, the image out of his own pocket.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsGerhard Schröder (1998-2005)
The Pride that he has made it to the Chancellery, you can see Gerhard Schröder in this picture. The düsseldorf-based artist Jörg Immendorf has him immortalized here with a face in Gold.
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The German Chancellor, as art objectsAngela Merkel (since 2005)
Chancellor Merkel was there last paintings in the magazines “Vogue” and “Time”, created well-known artists such as Elizabeth Peyton and Colin Davidson. The picture above was painted by former U.S. President George W. Bush, who has immortalized 30 heads of government in the paintings.