Jörg Maurer

Biography

	1953 born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Graduation from highschool, founded several theater groups, became self-taught painter.
	since 1972 lives in Munich, Germany, studied German, English, theater and philosophy.
	1978 Master of Arts. Taught German in Munich high schools for five years, taught the history of theater as university lecturer. Took part in the teaching of adults in extension courses. Worked occasionally as actor, cook and evening school lecturer.
	1979 founded serveral free theater groups in Munich. Became musical director of the Variete Spectaculum (Spectacular Variety).
	since 1980 offered his own theater productions in small Munich theaters with emphasis on directing, composition, music arrangement and text.
	since 1982 active as cabaret soloist on tour in Germany and other countries. Performances on several radio and television programs.
	1994 Opened his own theater: JÖRG MAURER's UNTERTON in the Schwabing section of Munich. The theater temporarioly functions also as art gallery for his own art works and those of other artists. Among other laudations in the media this theater was awarded the Schabinger Small Scale Theater Prize which was given by the city of Munich. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dec. 1997: "With his newest program Jörg Maurer shows that he now definitely is playing in the cabaretist's major league."
	Exhibitions: First exhibition of Music Pictures 1990 in Wiesbaden, Germany, following exhibitions in Wiesbaden; Vienna, Austria; Hamburg, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Munich in Germany.

Artist's Statement
"Looking at my many times rewritten partitures with scribbling on the borders of the texts and the much written over accompanying manustripts I noticed early on that they had the attraction of works of art. After looking long at them the music notes appeared to develop a furious life of their own apart from all the music. They hurried over the page or hung lazy around between the lines of the staffs. These pages gave me the idea of making pictures in which the music notes and the text were not to hear or understand, but could be visually experienced. Using this idea I then consciously made pictures that I called Two Dimensional Comedies and Farces."
Jörg Maurer's answer to the question: "What led a musician and theaterman to take up brush and paints?"

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