Annegret Soltau

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Annegret Soltau (* 16th January 1946 in Lüneburg ) is a German collage artist of body art .

life and work

Annegret Soltau spent her childhood with her grandmother in Elbstorf , Elbmarsch municipality . She was trained as a painter and graphic artist at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1967–1972) with Hans Thiemann , Kurt Kranz , David Hockney and Rudolf Hausner . Since 1973 she has lived in Darmstadt with her husband, the sculptor Baldur Greiner (grandson of Daniel Greiner ) ; both have a daughter and a son.

The artist had her first solo exhibition with etchings and drawings in Darmstadt in 1974 , where she showed her performance permanent demonstration in 1975/76 , in which she “marked” herself with black thread (tied around) and connected several people to one another (connections): “ My main concern is to include physical processes in my pictures in order to connect body and mind as equals ”(Annegret Soltau). So for the artist, her body became a kind of raw material for her work. "Using the video recording, she observed her own body during the entire period of pregnancy and showed external changes and at the same time internal states" (...) (by H. Friedel: The new self-portrait in the catalog video art in Germany 1963–1982. Hatje , Stuttgart 1982).

From 1975 Annegret Soltau developed photo stitching and photo stitching , in which she for the first time combines the real (haptic) thread with photographic material. She works with the image of her own person and close relatives: "I use myself as a model because I can go the furthest with myself."

“In 2000 she received the Wilhelm Loth Prize of the City of Darmstadt for her idiosyncratic works of art, which are in numerous renowned collections . (...) Annegret Soltau has been using the picture with the greatest persistence and radicalism for more than three decades their own apart. In her sensually tangible photo stitching and stitching, she spins threads over photographic self-portraits with relentless needle pricks, tears open inner worlds and in turn closes the injuries with needle and thread. Even if the focus of her work is primarily on herself at the beginning, her work encompasses the history of people as a whole. Her topics seem as archaic as they are strikingly topical: the image of the body, violence, pregnancy and childbirth , the succession of generations and the search for one's own roots. The result is an oeuvre that captivates with its contrasting facets, its drastic and at the same time intimacy.

Annegret Soltau is a member of the Darmstadt Secession , the Photographic Academy in Leinfelden and the German Association of Artists .

In addition to her artistic work, she has taught at several universities and academies, for example at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg .

Works

  • Drawings and etchings 1971–1974, in addition to self-portraits, she portrayed Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof as well as Ingeborg Bachmann, among others
  • permanent demonstration performance 1975/76
  • Even a series of photo sewnings, 1975.
  • pregnant video performance and photo collages 1977–80, (catalog pregnant , text: Gislind Nabakowski, Frankfurter Kunstverein 1983)
  • Mutter-Glück 1978–86, photo stitching, text: Klaus Gallwitz , portfolio: Edition Barbara Gross, Munich 1980
  • Grima - with child and animal photo stitching 1986–96 (Catalog Grima ", Selk 1988 and" Fragments of the ego ", Mainz 1991)
  • generative series of photo stitching with daughter, mother and grandmother, 1993–2005, ( Heilung catalog , Städt. Galerie, Schwäbisch Hall 1994 and "I myself" catalog, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt 2006)
  • Kali daughter life-size daughter pictures doubled, 2000, (catalog do I mutate or do I transform? Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt )
  • NYFACES - Surgical Operations I-XXIII 2001–2002 (a series created after the assassination attempt on September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York )
  • Search for father I-XXXXXXIX 2003–2007, in this work the artist, who grew up with her grandmother without a father , documents the search for her father who disappeared during the Second World War
  • transgenerativ - father- mother-daughter- son 2004–2008, a continuation of the generative work - with daughter, mother and grandmother, in which Soltau also includes the male line of the family in her sewing with photos of her husband and son
  • personal identity from 2003 (work in progress), a biographical search for traces in self-portraits with sewn-in original documents and everyday chip cards . In this series, the artist questions how we deal with our own identity in the digital information age .

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Fonts

literature

  • Karin Struck: The lovable old woman. Narrative. Graphics by Annegret Soltau, bibliophile edition, 500 numbered a. by K. Struck u. A. Soltau signed copy, Pfaffenweiler Presse, 1977, ISBN 3-921365-09-0 .
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 156f.
  • Wulf Herzogenrath : Video Art in Germany 1963–1982. Cantz, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-7757-0172-9 .
  • Werner Hofmann (ed.): Eva and the future. Prestel, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0754-1 .
  • Renate Berger: Between life and death. To the mother image with Niki de St. Phalle, Ulrike Rosenbach, Mary Kelly and Annegret Soltau. In: Renate Möhrmann (ed.): The mother as an aesthetic figure. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01302-2 .
  • Kunsthalle in Emden : The Nude in 20th Century Art. Wienand, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-935414-09-9 .
  • Cornelia Kemp (ed.): The second face. Prestel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2648-1 .
  • Friedhelm Hütte (Ed.): More than the eye can grasp. Deutsche Bank Collection. Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-938833-02-5 .
  • Charlotte Martin: ... because art always means surrendering. Three artist portraits: Gabriele Wohmann , Annegret Soltau, Karola Obermüller. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-87390-206-0 .
  • Cornelia Butler, Lisa Mark (Eds.): WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. The Museum Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2007, ISBN 978-0-914357-99-5 .
  • Gabriele Schor (Ed.): DONNA: Avanguardia Feminista negli anni '70 dalla Collection Verbund di Vienna. Mondadori Electa, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-370-7414-2 .
  • Franziska Nori, Barbara Dawson (eds.): Francis Bacon e la condizione esistentiale nell´arte contemporanea. Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3465-3 .
  • Baldur Greiner : Annegret Soltau: I was totally looking. Weststadt-Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-940179-17-3 .
  • Verena Borgmann, Frank Laukötter. (Ed.) You.Self.Naked. Paula Modersohn-Becker and other artists in self-act . Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3664-0 .
  • Leena Crasemann: Annegret Soltau: Spinning, entangling, sewing - emancipatory thread games. In: Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Feminist Avantgarde. Art from the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna. Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-7913-5445-3 .
  • Adriano Pedrosa (Ed.): Artevida . Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2015, ISBN 978-85-60965 .
  • Gabriele Schor (ed.): Feminist avant-garde. Art of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna (extended edition). Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2016, ISBN 978-3-7913-5627-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Diehl: Oh Bella Donna. (No longer available online.) Art - Das Kunstmagazin, March 17, 2010, p. 1,4 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Annegret Soltau. Echo online, February 21, 2011, archived from the original on November 10, 2010 ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Annegret Soltau (accessed on March 7, 2016)
  4. ↑ Annegret Soltau - myself. (No longer available online.) Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt / Archive, archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; accessed on March 18, 2011 : "Annegret Soltau - myself"
  5. ↑ WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. (No longer available online.) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, archived from the original August 17, 2011 ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 (English).
  6. ↑ WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. MoMA PS1, New York City, accessed March 7, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Annegret Soltau "Generative". (No longer available online.) Hessischer Rundfunk / hr-online.de, April 26, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 24, 2012 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
  8. ↑ Leon P. Weiss: Compulsory veils at Hessischer Rundfunk. (No longer available online.) Achgut UG / The Axis of the Good , June 7, 2011, archived from the original on November 2, 2012 ; accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Leon P. Weiss: But no censorship at HR? (No longer available online.) Achgut UG / The axis of the good , June 30, 2011, archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  10. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ MUMOK website, Vienna
  12. ↑ ZKM website
  13. ↑ Verbund art collection
  14. ↑ Dum umeni website
  15. ↑ Marielies Hess Art Prize. (No longer available online.) Hessischer Rundfunk / hr-online.de, April 20, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 24, 2012 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Soltau, Annegret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German body art collage artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg