Sarah Schumann

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Sarah Schumann (born August 12, 1933 in Berlin ; died July 3, 2019 there ) was a German painter .

Sarah Schumann (left) and Silvia Bovenschen (no date, no details of the photographer)

Life

Sarah Schumann's parents, Dora and Kilian Schirmer, were sculptors who encouraged their daughter's artistic talent. She herself concentrated on painting and had her first solo exhibition in 1953 in the Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt am Main . Schumann lived in London from 1960 to 1963 and then in Piedmont and returned to Berlin in 1968.

There she joined the women's group “Bread and Roses”. During that time she worked on three films by the director Helke Sander . In 1977 she was one of the initiators of the exhibition Artists International 1877–1977 in Frankfurt am Main and painted large portraits of women. Sarah Schumann's works from the 1970s and 1980s deal with her time as a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome and her international work for Goethe-Instituts a . a. in New Delhi, Mumbai and Nairobi. The poetic images capture the view of human existence and its surroundings. Research into historical parks and cemeteries leads to what was then the GDR .

Schumann worked in Berlin-Charlottenburg and lived with her partner, the writer Silvia Bovenschen , until her death in October 2017 . Schumann has portrayed Bovenschen several times, and over the years Bovenschen has written several texts about Schumann.

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt counts Sarah Schumann in the oral history project “Café Germany” among the 70 most important protagonists of the first art scene in the FRG.

The painter's legacy has been looked after by Van Ham Art Estate in Cologne since December 2018 . Sarah Schumann died in July 2019 at the age of 85 in Berlin.

Sarah Schumann; in the background the Pückler-Muskau lake pyramid (no date, no details of the photographer)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Sarah Schumann: pictures, collages, prints; Works from the years 1958–1982. Exhibition, editing and arrangement of the catalog: Carl Vogel . Kunstverein Hamburg , 1983.
  • The sea pyramid and the land pyramid in Branitz. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 1996.
  • Moscow. Ore and body. Samtleben Gallery in Nikolaisaal, Potsdam 1997.
  • The darkness of the forest attracts me, but I have to stand by my word and walk miles before I can sleep. CALLAS, Worpswede 1997.
  • Monument landscape: the chalk cliffs. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 1997.
  • The Oderbruch-Rügen: the chalk cliffs. Multi-storey car park in the English Garden, Berlin (Kulturamt Tiergarten) 1998.
  • I play the streetlife, because there is no place, where I can go ... KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 1998.
  • Portraits. The communal gallery in the canvas house, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Public baths. Bathing temple. City baths. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 1999.
  • Berlin. Bridges across green and blue. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2000.
  • Portraits. Gallery in the Körnerpark, Berlin 2000.
  • Moscow. Ore and body. fabrik., Gallery for Contemporary Art, Neustrelitz 2000.
  • Berlin, walks in a city. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2001.
  • Sarah Schumann. Works 1958–2002. Exhibition on the book, KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2003.
  • Icon. Portrait. Madonna portraits. Mariensee Abbey, Neustadt am Rübenberge 2003.
  • Sarah Schumann. Gallery at Arkonaplatz, Berlin 2005.
  • Expedition Heiligengrabe - dogs and wolves. Galerie Levy, Hamburg 2006.
  • Darß and Vilm. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2008.
  • Island worlds. Annual meeting of the Vilm Association, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Island Vilm 2008.
  • City - country - people. E-Plus Group, Berlin 2010.
  • Follow me. Literature forum in the Brechthaus, Berlin 2010.
  • The sea - the morning - the evening. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2011.
  • Sarah Schumann, gouaches. Gallery on Arkonaplatz, Berlin 2013.
  • Sanssouci - The reflection of an apparition. Orangery Neuer Garten, Potsdam 2013.
  • Doctor Prokto's transformation began when the day was red. KUNSTstätte Dorothea, Berlin 2015.
  • Sarah Schumann. Real world - collages and paintings from 1958 to 2008. VAN HAM Art Estate, Cologne 2019.

Awards

  • Scholarship for the German Academy, Villa Massimo , Rome 1977/78.
  • Working grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 1981.
  • Scholarship for the Bleckede Artists' Center (Lower Saxony) in 1986.
  • Working grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 1987.
  • Werkstipendium of the Kunstfonds, Bonn 1990.

Working in collections (selection)

Book publications

Illustrations

Movies

  • 1978: Harun Farocki : "A picture by Sarah Schumann"
  • 2000: Renate Sami: "Sarah Schumann"
  • 2013: Lone Thau: "From dark to light"
  • 2013: Lone Thau: "Sanssouci - The reflection of an apparition"
  • 2019: Bettina Böttinger : "Sarah Schumann"

literature

Sarah's Law (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Schumann , short biography at kettererkunst
  2. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: On the brief moment of joy. In: taz , August 12, 2003.
  3. ↑ Monika Rinck : The memory is a ghost. Review of Sarah's Law , 2015, in: FAZ , October 10, 2015, p. L2.
  4. ↑ Van Ham Art Estate takes over the estate from Sarah Schumann. (PDF) Van Ham Art Estate , December 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Painter Sarah Schuhmann is dead , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on July 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Virginia Woolf - Gesammelte Werke - Cover design by Sarah Schumann , fischerverlage.de, accessed on May 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2019
Place of death Berlin