Sabine Moritz

Sabine Moritz was born as the daughter of a chemist in East Germany. From 1973 to 1981 she lived together with her family in a high-density housing area of Lobeda in Neulobeda. Before emigrating to West Germany in 1985, she lived in Jena for 4 years. In 1988 she started her studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (The Offenbach University of Art and Design) at the class of Adam Jankowski. From 1991 she continued her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art Düsseldorf). At first she was in the class of Markus Lüpertz but changed to Gerhard Richter’s in the following year. She was the last student to be accepted to his class as he had planned to lay his teaching career to rest in 1994. In the years 1991 and 1992 she created the series of drawings Lobeda that consists of more than 100 pencil drawings. The subjects of these drawings are the living environments of a prefabricated housing estate in Neulobeda, East Germany, where Moritz lived as a child from 1973 to 1981. In 2009, they were discovered in the artist's studio by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the publisher Walther König and subsequently published in 2010 by Buchhandlung Walther König. These works were shown in the Kunsthaus Sans Titre in Potsdam from August to September in 2011. Later that year the book Jena, Düsseldorf was published, again by Walther König. It contains works that Sabine made between 1992 and 1994 after beginning her training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Neulobeda and the motifs from the Lobeda series remain the subjects of these works. Sabine Moritz has been married to her former teacher, Gerhard Richter, since 1995. They have three children and live in Cologne. ==Sabine Moritz as a model==