born 1950 in Dohna, Saxony

Both before and after the re-unification of Germany, lyric

poetry and political essays on Gottfried Benn, Carl Einstein,

Peter Weiss and Walter Benjamin - and on the film language of

Fellini and Takowsky - accorded Hubertus Giebe of Dresden

independence and immortality. It was there that he found his

inspiration for his own train of thought, complete with

contradictions, visible in a veritable flood of pictures:

dwarfs, skulls, showmen, women, mussels, angels and lonely

sailors. His aggressive gaze reveals weaknesses and dictates the

expressive language of forms. Giebe swears by painting which has

an intellectual force; he is not content with the surface of

objects alone. Painting stands for "Les grandes Aventures de

l'Ame", and Giebe - with his powerful, life-affirming pictures -

invites one to take part in an intellectual adventure. Anyone

who knows Hubertus Giebe the person, critical, reserved and

thoughtful, will particularly value the power behind his

pictures. They pose existential questions openly and honestly,

replying with a pictorial answer... for Giebe's painting has an

obligation to thought.