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Bacchus at the grape harvest, 1997/2023
Terracotta, engobed
33,5 × 30 × 12 cm
Ex.-Nr. II/IV
Signed
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
1954
born on 29 March in Pirna as the son of the textile artist Elrid Metzkes and the painter Harald Metzkes
1959
The family moves from Bautzen to Berlin
1972 - 1977
Studied sculpture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Walter Arnold, Helmut Heinze and Gerd Jaeger
1977
works as a freelance sculptor in Berlin and is married to the painter Barbara Putbrese
1978
Participation in group exhibitions
1979
Model for an "E.T.A. Hoffmann monument" (E.T.A. Hoffmann, statuette, bronze, 1979; exhibited: 1982/83 Dresden, IX Art Exhibition of the GDR)
1981
First solo exhibition (Berlin (East), Gallery Sophienstraße 8)
1983
Awarded the Gustav Weidanz Prize for Sculpture by Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/Saale, combined with a solo exhibition at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle/Saale. Inspired by his sister, the ceramist Verena Hann, first occupation with polychrome engobed terracotta sculpture
1988
Awarded the Will Lammert Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR and a solo exhibition at the Academy of Arts of the GDR in connection with this prize
1989/90
Commission and realisation of the Adolf-Diesterweg monument (bronze figure group), Berlin, Spreepromenade, James-Simon-Park
1991
Solo exhibition at the Eisenhüttenstadt Municipal Museum
1998
Creation of the 23-part series of figures "Via del Corso" (terracotta/polychrome engobed), which is inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Princess Brambilla" and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Roman Carnival", among others
1999
Pen and ink drawings for August Graf von Platen's "Rosensohn"
2001
Participation in the exhibition "Commedia dell Arte", Bröhan-Museum Berlin
2007
Installation of three life-size terracotta figures in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig
2008
Exhibition together with his parents Elrid and Harald Metzkes in the Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest
2009
Installation of the larger-than-life portrait statue by artist Gerhard Großmann (bronze, Fürstenwalde/Spree) commissioned by the town of Fürstenwalde/Spree
2010
"Dreiklang": Exhibition together with Elrid and Harald Metzkes at the Kunstverein Rostock
2014
Major retrospective at the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
1983
"Gustav-Weidanz-Preis", Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halls/Saale, Halle/Saale, Germany
1988
"Will-Lammert-Preis", Akademie der Künste Berlin (Ost), Berlin, Germany
1984
"Robert Metzkes", Kleine Humboldtgalerie, Berlin (Ost), Germany
1985
Haus der Jungen Talente, Berlin (Ost), Germany
1987
"Tempéraments: jeunes artistes de Berlin", Centre Culturel de la République démocratique allemande, Paris, France
1990
Galerie a, Berlin (Ost), Germany
1991
Städtisches Museum, Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
1999
"Via del Corso", Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007
Galerie Leo Coppi, Berlin, Germany
2008
Kunst Kabinett Usedom, Benz, Germany
""Verweile doch!": Drei mal Metzkes (mit Elrid und Harald Metzkes)", Wilhelm-Morgner Haus, Soest; Kunstverein Soest, Germany
2010
Kunstverein (mit Elrid und Harald Metzkes), Rostock, Germany
2011
"Robert Metzkes", Galerie Leo Coppi, Berlin, Germany
2013
"Menschenbilder. Terrakottafiguren und Zeichnungen", Kunstverein Norden, Norden, Germany
2014
"Robert Metzkes. Menschenbilder", Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2016
Galerie Leo Coppi, Berlin, Germany
"Robert Metzkes - Quinta essentia", Klosterscheune, Zehdenick, Germany
"Von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Terrakotta-Figuren, Bronzen, Zeichnungen", Galerie Leo Coppi, Berlin, Germany
2018
"Ornament und Figur: Textile Arbeiten und Plastik von Elrid und Robert Metzkes", Stadtmuseum Pirna, Pirna, Germany
"Rondo", Galerie Helle Coppi, Berlin, Germany
2019
"12 Skulpturen. Schau Weikersheim", Stadt Weikersheim, Weikersheim, Germany
2020
"Robert Metzkes "Szenarium"", Galerie Sandau & Leo, Berlin, Germany
"Figürliches: Robert Metzkes - Terrakotten / Georg Weise - Malerei", Kunstverein Teterow, Teterow, Germany