With the seventh round of publications since 2017, the “Werkdatenbank Bildende Kunst Sachsen-Anhalt” has grown to 6,419 works by 43 artists. The focus is on two contemporary artists whose catalogs were newly created in winter 2025/26: the Wittenberg artist Ulrike Kirchner (1959) and Hans Molzberger (1953) from the Altmark region.
Ulrike Kirchner
- Painting” collection (99 works)
- Drawing” collection (8 works)
Ulrike Kirchner was born in Merseburg in 1959, studied painting at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) and was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in 1986. In addition to her freelance artistic work, she was a research assistant in an inclusion project, project manager for the conversion of a school by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, art teacher at this grammar school and long-time course leader in cultural education. She has lived in Bad Dürrenberg, Halle (Saale), Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Zahna-Elster, where she now lives and works. She is a member of the BBK Saxony-Anhalt, the GEDOK Brandenburg and a founding member of the artist group ALBA BLAU.
Her artistic development over many decades can be seen in the work database, from abstract paintings to the surreal exploration of symbolic portraits, the human body and still lifes, to the processing of travel experiences and experiments in combining spatiality and surface. The list of paintings and prints is to be expanded in the future and supplemented by the “Objects” collection.
Hans Molzberger
- Collection “Installation” (38 works)
- Mural” collection (8 works)
- Collection “Graphics” (8 works)
Hans Molzberger was born in Höhr-Grenzhausen in 1953. Although his family had been working with clay and pewter in the “Kannenbäckerland” for generations, he initially rejected this environment and consciously turned away from any form of design. A personal crisis finally led to a reorientation in which his openness to human and social conflicts became central. Since 1982, he has been working as a self-taught artist, initially in the Wendland region of Lower Saxony and later in the Altmark region of Saxony-Anhalt.
The artist, who mainly creates installations, assemblages and raku ceramic objects, has also turned to printmaking, particularly the techniques of woodcut and screen printing, which he combines with ceramics as an image carrier. Molzberger has worked in Israel, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Russia and has taught at several renowned universities. He currently lives alternately in Germany and Houston (Texas, USA), where he is an Artist Affiliate at Houston Baptist University. He is also the director of an artist residency program in Hilmsen (Altmark), which he founded in 2004.