Anna Franziska Schwarzbach

Anna Franziska Schwarzbach, 2013

Anna Franziska Schwarzbach b. Brockhage (until 1990 Franziska Lobeck ; born September 21, 1949 in Rittersgrün , Saxony ) is a German architect , medalist and sculptor .

Live and act

The daughter of the sculptor and designer Hans Brockhage attended the Bertolt-Brecht-Oberschule in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , then studied architecture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Selman Selmanagić . She completed her studies in 1973 with a diploma and then worked from 1973 to 1975 as an architect at the Berlin Palace of the Republic , working on the theater hall. From 1975 to 1979 she completed an evening course in portrait sculpture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. She has been a freelance sculptor since 1977.

Anna Franziska Schwarzbach is a member of the German Society for Medal Art and belongs to the group of Berlin medalists.

Her field of work ranges from art in public spaces to sculptures made of bronze, stone, wood and cast iron to small sculptures and medals . Anna Franziska Schwarzbach is one of the few sculptors who deal with iron casting, which she particularly fascinates. She is also active in graphics , and besides other printing techniques, she especially cares for etching .

She lives and works in Berlin and is married to the restorer Peter Schwarzbach.

Exhibitions

• 1983–1989: Gallery Sophienstrasse 8 Berlin, Galerie Bunte Stube Ahrenshoop, Oppurg Palace , Galerie Oben Karl-Marx-Stadt, Galerie Rotunde, Altes Museum Berlin, Galerie Silberstein Schwarzenberg with P. Schwarzbach
• 1990–1995: Brecht-Haus-Weißensee Berlin with E. König, Galerie Berliner Grafikpresse with Wienkowsky, Galerie-OR-Form Berlin with Hans Brockhage , Rheinsberg Palace with E. König, Galerie Netuschil Darmstadt; Gallery Hintersdorf with HD Sailer, Hofgalerie Bullmann & Wunsch Chemnitz; Art Casting Museum Lauchhammer; Leonberg Town Hall; VBK Berlin; ARAG Düsseldorf
• 1996–1999: Havelberg Cathedral; Kunsthof Halberstadt; Netuschil Gallery; Old Völklinger Hütte Saarland; Böll Library Berlin; Galerie Mite Berlin with Dietrich Noßky ; Kulturforum Villa Oppenheim Berlin; Galerie Himmelreich Magdeburg; Gallery in the Ribnitz Damgarten monastery; GEHAG Forum Berlin
• 2000–2004: Magdeburg Cathedral ; Wolkenburg Castle ; Fürstenwalde town hall ; Galerie Petra Lange Berlin with Guy Michels; Galerie d´Art du Théatre d´Esch / Alzette Luxembourg; Exhibition of contemporary art from Germany CERN Geneva; Botanical Garden Berlin; Zerbst City Museum; Rosary Gallery; Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz; Evangelical Church Hückelhoven; Red Tower Jena
• 2005 Galerie M, Berlin (with Peter Schulz Leonhardt)
• 2009/2010: Art foundry Flierl, Berlin
• 2013: Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin-Pankow: Konrad Knebel & Anna Franziska Schwarzbach - painting and sculpture
• 2018 Portraits of Clever Women , Humboldt University Berlin, Curator. This exhibition was organized by Anna Franziska Schwarzbach and Dr. Angelika Keune curates.

Participation in exhibitions

• 2015/2016 Schadow House in Berlin Princesses

Works (selection)

Medal art

• 2010: Bishop's Cross , silver and gold, Evangelical Church in Central Germany

Working in public space

Sculpture 'Kneeling Lady with a Shell' in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , called the Naked from Ostseeplatz

Friedrich Jung, physician and pharmacologist (bust 2019)

2004–2009: Door handles on the main portals of the Göttingen city churches St. Jacobi (Peregrine Falcon, 2005), St. Marien (Unicorn, 2006), St. Johannis (Fish, 2006), and St. Albani (Phönix, 2009). This art action goes back to the fact that in 2003 the door handles of the main portals of St. Marien, St. Johannis and St. Jacobi were stolen.

2010: Christ carrying the beam , 2010, sculpture, Bonhoeffer Church Friedrichsbrunn

2014: Lise Meitner , memorial, Humboldt University Berlin

2017: Portrait bust of Marie-Elisabeth Lüders , on a white stone base with gold inscription; Commissioned by the German Bundestag to honor the namesake of the corresponding administrative building

2019: Portrait bust of Friedrich Jung , placed in honor of the pharmacologist in the Science Museum on the Berlin-Buch campus

Sculpture symposia

• 2000 Memorial to the murder victims of the National Socialist euthanasia program , sculpture park of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin

Awards

• In 1998 Anna Franziska Schwarzbach was honored with the Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture.
• In 2011 at Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha , she was honored for her “original and complex, contemporary and timeless work” with the Hilde Broër Prize of the German Society for Medal Art.

Literature / catalog mentions

• Anna Franziska Schwarzbach. Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung in the Free State of Saxony, Dresden [1999], ISBN 3-930382-42-3 .
• Significant signatures 2001. 4 x young art (Jörg Jantke, Hans-Wulf Kunze, Anna Franziska Schwarzbach, Iris Thürmer). Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung in the Free State of Saxony, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-930382-65-2 .
• The contemporary art medal in Germany. German Society for Medal Art .
  • Volume 1, 1992: The Contemporary Art Medal in Germany 1988–1991.
  • Volume 2, 1994: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The contemporary art medal in Germany 1991–1993.
  • Volume 4, 1996: Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland 1993–1995, with supplements since 1988. ISBN 3-7861-1926-0 .
  • Volume 10, 1999: Wolfgang Steguweit (Ed.): The Art Medal in Germany 1995–1998. ISBN 3-7861-2329-2 .
  • Volume 14, 2000: Wolfgang Steguweit (Hrsg.): The medal and commemorative coin of the 20th century in Germany. ISBN 3-88609-443-X .
• Eva Wipplinger (catalog): Medalists in Germany: Creativity in the past and present; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle November 15, 1992 - March 21, 1993; Frauen Museum , Bonn April 18 - May 30, 1993. Moritzburg State Gallery, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-86105-066-8 .
• Wolfgang Steguweit: European medal art from the Renaissance to the present. Science Center Bonn, September 28, 1995 - January 14, 1996; Gotha Castle Museum, February 24, 1996 - January 14, 1996; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, June 24, 1996 - August 31, 1996. Münzkabinett, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88609-379-4 . (also: Gebr. Mann, Berlin, ISBN 3-7861-1911-2 )
• Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock (editor): The world »in miniature«: German medal art today, 2000–2006. (= The art medal in Germany. Volume 23). Moritzburg Foundation, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , pp. 301-303. (On the occasion of the exhibition Die Welt "en Miniature". German Medal Art Today from July 15 to October 7, 2007 in the Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt)
• Bernd Kluge , Bernhard Weisser (ed.): I gave gold for iron. (= The Cabinet. 14). Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88609-748-7 .
• Bernhard Weisser: The medal edition 'Friedrich 300'. In: H. Kahnt (Ed.): Coins and collecting. March 2012, pp. 14-17. PDF on the website of the Numismatic Society in Berlin

Web links

Commons : Anna Franziska Schwarzbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Anna Franziska Schwarzbach
• Literature by and about Anna Franziska Schwarzbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anna Franziska Schwarzbach. Biography & exhibitions. Archived from the original on May 11, 2002 . 
• Anna Franziska Schwarzbach: Thoughts in front of the memorial in Jens Reich's book. In: Art on Campus. Max Delbrück Center, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ artist. Anna Franziska Schwarzbach (-Lobeck). German Society for Medal Art, accessed on July 13, 2014 . 
2. ↑ http://schulz-leonhardt.de/wordpress/ausstellungen
3. ^ Dummy head: Anna Franziska Schwarzbach. In: tip Berlin . December 30, 2009. Short interview.
4. ^ Exhibition in the art foundry Flierl.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Exhibition in the Galerie Forum Amalienpark, 2013 ; accessed on June 4, 2018.
6. ↑ Princesses. In: German Bundestag. Retrieved March 11, 2016 . 
7. ↑ The bishop's cross. ( Memento of December 24, 2014 in the archive.today web archive ) Retrieved September 8, 2012.
8. ↑ Jens Reiche, Christian Scholl (ed.): Göttingen churches of the Middle Ages. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen, 2015.
9. ↑ Bonhoeffer Church , with a picture of the sculpture. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
10. ↑ Lise Meitner - great physicist, late honor. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 9, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
11. ↑ Tobias Miller: Art of Politics , in: Berliner Zeitung , April 18, 2018, p. 6.
12. ↑ Press release of the MDC No. 21, September 14, 2000. ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
13. ↑ Kressbronn yearbook; Volume 24, 2011, p. 95.