Anke Doberauer Biography
Anke Doberauer was born in Bad Homburg in 1962 and studied at the Art University of Braunschweig with Ben Willikens, who made her a master's student in 1991. In 1991-1992 she received a postgraduate scholarship at the École d'Art de Marseille Luminoso. From 1992 to 1994 he taught painting and graphics at the École d'Art Marseille-Luminy. In 1993 he received the Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship and in 1994/95 he received a one-year scholarship from the Hessian Cultural Foundation to the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. In 1998/1999, Doberauer was artist in residence at the Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study. Since 2003, Anke Doberauer has been a professor of painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and lives between Marseille and Munich.
The painter is best known for her depictions of large men, the main motif of her paintings of life-size figures. They describe man as an androgynous, narcissistic and very vulnerable being, but also very desirable. Jean-Christophe Ammann describes this reversal of perspective as a challenge to the category of "masculinity". It infiltrates this category. Reversal has consequences. The male spectator feels "naked". If the author of the image were an artist, the male viewer might distance himself from him or his desires. Since an artist is at work, he must first fundamentally accept his desire as that of a woman in the form of a work of art." In addition to the first male images, Doberauer developed further pictorial forms. He portrays objects, flowers, animals, people and finally landscapes. Doberauer also became known for her portraits of the rectors of the University of Jena (Eight Magnificences, 1997) and the series of portraits of international humanities scholars (14 researchers, 1998), as well as for her monumental panoramic images (Sunset, 2006 ). His photos have been exhibited, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main, Castello di Rivara, Turin, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, the Kunstverein Ulm, the Art Unlimited Basel and the Museum der Moderne on the Mönchsberg, Salzburg.
