Michael Mutschler

Born 1947 in Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg), father was the artist and educator Rudolph Mutschler, sister is the artist and architect Eva Petzold. Art and art history have always played the most important role in my life. Numerous stays in Greece and Italy during my childhood and youth. Later also a three-month trip through Italy, very inspiring for the rest of my life - disposable income ten Deutschmarks. As a (young) father of two and later four children, I found it sometimes exhausting but also enriching to come to terms with little.
Studies at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart. We were struggling over the concept of art. Beuys helped me out of the conservative concept of art. One of his students, Holger Utta, taught me. I read a lot, Erich Fromm, C.G. Jung, Mitscherlich, first encounters with anthroposophy. I was with Prof. Schellenberger in the master class for puppetry, we developed experimental theatre, our attempt to see man as part of art. Our performance "Ich - Sklave - Über-ich - Sklave, Roboter - Sklave" moved a reporter of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk II (21.2.1971, 22.30) to this statement: "The following actions", says the reporter, sceptical about the title, "a mixture of pantomime, puppet play and effective visuals, fascina...

Kunstakademie Stuttgart, 1968-1972

2020 Solo Exhibition Dresden
2020 Solo Exhibition Paris
2020 Group Exhibition Paris
2020 Booth at art fair Dresden
2020 Group Exhibition Cologne
2019 Booth at art fair Leipzig
2019 Group Exhbitions New York, New York Art Fair
2019 Group Exhibition, Art fair du Louvre
2017 Werkschau, Galerie Bilderbogen, Leipzig