Dietmar Moews

Dietmar Moews (born November 8, 1950) is a German artist, best known as a painter of the German Pop Art and Postmodern movements. He is also a scholar, philosopher, government-approved master harbour builder and harbour engineer, sociologist, musician, and publisher.
Life
Early years
Moews was born in Lauenau, Lower Saxony, being christened Lutheran and educated at the Grammar School in Springe. He loved sports and in the footsteps of his father (an engineer and city planner) he painted and drew and made lots of music, and was judged an excellent singer.
1960s
Still at school Moews bought a second hand jazz guitar, started playing with friends in a scout troop. In 1964 he founded his first band Mercy Lsd, played first gigs and joined (1967) as bass player and singer in to the distinguished band of Hanover of that time The Beads. He also had his first exhibition with water color paintings in his home town. In the age of 17 he had already read through the whole library of his family and got familiar especially with the complete works of Goethe and Nietzsche. His favorite painter was the master from Lorraine Georges de La Tour. In 1967 Moews started to train as carpenter and concrete worker for become building engineer and went (1968) to study in Minden. Before finishing this line he went by occasion into cross-Europe travelling and hearse driving business, came first time to Italy and decided to became an Artist Scholar modelled on allround masters like Piero della Francesca, Bruneleschi or Leonardo da Vinci. In the mood of 1960s Beatlemania, hippie subculture and student activism and the hypertrophical modern living of the sixties with alcohol and drugs experiences brought the coming out twice, his brilliant discursive and musical line.
1970s
Moews studied hydraulic engineering and seaport and harbour-building in Minden in Bielefeld between 1968 and 1972, graduating with a Diploma of Engineering (Analysis, Design and Calculation of a new Harbour of Norderney). His 1972 design for the "Seaport and sport-and-shelter-harbour of the Isle of Norderney“, the so-called "Dietmar-Moews-Port", was constructed in 1975 by the State of Lower Saxony and the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1973 Dietmar Moews had his first exhibition with own paintings and founded the "Fine-Arts-Gallery M" in Hanover-Linden together with a former school-friend Gerhard Merkin under the important influence of Egon Neubauer, Bernhard Dörries and Peter Janssen, German painter. 1977 to 1984 he directed the "Ballhof-Galerie Hannover“ in downtown Hanover.
In 1979 he founded the art magazine Neue Sinnlichkeit with a manifesto of the Neue Sinnlichkeit . Moews also continued his studies at the University of Hanover in engineering and education between 1972 and 1974 and law at the Georg August University of Göttingen between 1974 and 1976 and since then in numerous political activities in the extra parliamentary opposition and along with the peace movement (1978) founder of the . In the meanwhile he had to serve his duty as a medic in the German Johanniter Unfallhilfe, went on to also study fine arts in Brunswick between 1976 and 1978, meantime he worked at the High School of Springe as a teacher. 1977 Moews entered the international market at the art fair of Cologne and painted a copy of Caravaggio's .
1980s
In his first manifesto of the Neue Sinnlichkeit he accuses the esthetic exclusivity of modernity and postulates the esthetic inclusivity by accessibility of artefacts.
"Dietmar Moews, the white cherub skirt, the firecracker under the tail of the dozing culture lion" wrote the German Critic Armin Mohler on the contemporary Art Scene in Die Welt (1980). He organized about 120 Exhibitions with different artists and Chamber Music Concerts with distinguished musicians and first releases. 1987 he performed together with the photographer Joachim Peters-Schnee the Color in the Routine and "Art-Fair-Play" called "U" for central Hanover's "Spielplatz der Künste" from 1983 to 1989 near the main station for year where he lived under ground and started painting the big cycle Zuginsfeld (1984), ostracism of war after a poem by Otto Nebel. First release of the stage play Die Hunde (1986). Beside his obligatory every year visit of Italy he travelled all around the USA (1981). After moving to the Schwabing neighborhood of Munich in 1989, Moews founded the "Pandora Kunst Projekt“ with exhibitions, concerts, stage plays and residences for artists. Between 1987 and 1992 he have been several times in Sardinia/Italy for painting in the Italian light.
1990s
Later on Moews developed his profil as universalist, artist scholar studying philosophie, empirical social research and organizational sociology as a post-graduate in 1990-1998. 1991 he visited Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Andes and Chile and made Music with Los Chalchaleros and Bocha Martinez in Cafajate/Salta/Tucuman. Later on he visited Iceland and made Music in Reykjavík and Bolungarvik together with Hrolfur Vagnsson, his friend for the 4 Beads studio recording of his Beatles cover versions of "I Feel Fine", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "", "Eight Days a Week" and I'm Only Sleeping and by the support of Matthias Gawriloff, Clarinet, and others. First release of the stage play - Melodram. The same year he travelled with a BBC TV music production, together with Vladimir Krajnev, piano, and Carine Georgian, violoncello, for Rachmaninov concerts to Moscow, Tambov and Ivanovca, Russia. His author for several items of the Neue Sinnlichkeit, the eminent sociologist Alphons Silbermann, gave him essential tutorship and expertise for the empirical research on the organization in the production and distribution of arts and culture. 1994 he was an internet technology and communications consultant to the German Green Party (Alliance '90/The Greens) in the Deutscher Bundestag in Bonn. In 1995 he founded the Office for Earth-Belongings in Magdeburg and Leipzig. In 1996 and 1997 the Government of Saxony-Anhalt made three exhibitions in the ministries in Magdeburg. He went to Dresden 1998 and organized the "Diesseits von Gut und Böse" art project. In 2000 he received his PhD from the University of Bremen SUB.
2000s
In the year 2000 he founded the "asz Alphons Silbermann Zentrum Institute for European Mass-Communications- and Education Research Dresden" . and in 2003 he organized the Free University Dresden Freie Universitaet Dresden: Satzung der Freien Universitaet Dresden , Pandora Kunst Verlag Dresden, 2003 , a model of a virtual research university. In 2005 he founded the "Mobile Büro für Lichtgeschwindigkeit", the BiBi4E (DSL Broadband for Everyone) campaign and the non-governmental organization Mobiler Verein für Mobile Büros für Lichtgeschwindigkeit (Mobile DSL Association). Until instructed to stop he acted as an imposter as a political director of the Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) in Germany.
Life and creations
"The White Angel Skirt“ Founder of the Beatband Mercy Lsd (1966), Designer and Constructor of the Harbour of Norderney, founder of Galerie M of Hanover (together with Gerhard Merkin; 1973), of the Ballhof-Galerie Hannover (1975), der Gabl (Hanover section of the Green Party; 1977); he wrote and published the Manifest of Neue Sinnlichkeit (1979); Hanover, Artists Group Neue Sinnlichkeit, (1980), International Initiative Sportsmen for Peace (1982); U Spielplatz der Künste, Raschplatz (1984); Lies association (Club for the development of Truth and Fairness by the Art of Lying) (1986); Artists Group of the capitalistic Realism, together with Franz O. Kopp, Job Crogier and Fokko von Felde (1987); Pandora Kunst Projekt München (1987); Office for Earth Belongings, Leipzig (1996); At the Side of Good and Evil, Dresden (1998); asz alphons-silbermann-zentrum - Institute for European Mass-Communication- and Education Research Dresden 2000; freie-universitaet-dresden (2003); Mobile Office for Speed of Light (2005).

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