One agrees that Hubertus Giebe's paintings and designs, his drawings and recently also his sculptures follow different origins than those, whom we would name the typical painters of fine arts.

The work of Giebes is entirely intuitive animated by literature, but without beeing illustrated. Giebe is erudite, his sense of mission enclosing and uncompromising. Allthough his art is altogether constructed representational and since an important part of his works is dedicated to history, does not happen in terms of traditional picture of history. We meet "employees", whos art-historical ancestry lie far back in the past or appear to outgrow the fantasy of the painter and still think of the present and the observer: a phalanx of outsiders giving us riddles, dolls which act like human beings, runts which are placed huge into the spotlight of stages, or angels who perform their arabesques in front of the dome of the Dredner Kunsthochschule.

The Works of Giebe are located in large collections and museums, among other things: Nationalgalerie and Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz; Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister und Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg; Galerie Moritzburg, Halle; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Museum für bildende Künste Leipzig; The British Museum London (Print Collection); Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz; Sammlung Ludwig, Oberhausen; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart.