Annemirl Bauer

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Annemirl Bauer around 1966

Annemirl Bauer (born April 10, 1939 in Jena ; † August 23, 1989 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ) was a German painter and graphic artist . She was one of the regime critics in the GDR .

biography

Annemirl Bauer was born in Jena as the daughter of the painter Tina Bauer-Pezellen and the photographer Siegbert Bauer. From 1955 to 1958 she attended the technical school for applied arts , specializing in ceramics and toy design, in Sonneberg . She then completed an evening course at the Dresden Academy of Arts , from 1960 to 1962 to study at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee in professional painting and graphics at Fritz Dähn and from 1962 to 1965 among others, Walter Womacka and Arno Mohr .

After graduating, she was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). During these years study trips took her to Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the CSSR. In 1969 their daughter was born. In the 1970s she produced several murals for public buildings in Berlin and Thuringia on behalf of the state. From the late 1970s onwards, it increasingly came into conflict with the system in the GDR. In 1981 employees of the East German Ministry for State Security tried to recruit her as informers within the artist scene as unofficial employees , which she refused.

In February 1984, Annemirl Bauer, in a petition to the President of the Association of Visual Artists, Willi Sitte , requested a copy of the GDR's culture minister, Hans-Joachim Hoffmann and Kurt Hager , a political bureau member responsible for cultural issues , for all GDR citizens to have the right to travel. In it she wrote, among other things: "The containment of an entire people in the long term is the use of force and leads to their isolation and incapacitation". She also protested against the self-firing systems at the GDR border , the ransom deals and the "violent expatriation of people who I count among the creative intelligentsia", as well as against the state measures against those who had recently been deposed from the management of the Association of Visual Artists and who had been in the Stasi detention center Hohenschönhausen imprisoned painter and civil rights activist Bärbel Bohley . In response to the petition, Annemirl Bauer was expelled from the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in July 1984, which amounted to a professional ban. In April 1984, the boroughs, opened the State Security Service of the Operational procedure "cell" with the aim of "evidential evidence" against Annemirl Bauer because of " anti-state propaganda to work out and" " decomposition measures to organize" against them. This included, among other things, isolating them from their colleagues and friends through the "targeted use of IM", many of them in the field of the Association of Visual Artists, including IM "Christian", Jürgen Strand, and bringing them into economic distress, such as with subsequent tax claims from the tax office organized by the MfS or harassment by the state housing administration as well as several break-ins and vandalism in her studio, also initiated by employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . Due to the advocacy of artist colleagues, she was nonetheless reassigned to the Association of Visual Artists in 1986. As part of an approved trip to the FRG, she traveled illegally to Spain in 1987 and then returned to the GDR.

In the early summer of 1989 she was diagnosed with cancer, which she succumbed to in August 1989 in East Berlin. She left an extensive artistic work, some of which are now owned by the Museum Junge Kunst in Frankfurt (Oder) and the collection of the Berlinische Galerie.

Bohley Included , Annemirl Bauer, undated
Last wall dead , Annemirl Bauer, spring 1989

Works (selection)

Annemirl Bauer left behind an extensive work of around 16,000 portraits. These include numerous depictions on traditional painting surfaces such as paper, linen, acrylic or glass. But she also painted on official forms, doors, ceilings, windows and carpets: "Annemirl Bauer's idiosyncratic use of materials cannot be explained solely by her sometimes precarious financial situation - as a result of her political exclusion - and her nonetheless irrepressible will to create," he said "To be traced back to the broad artistic training and a central concern in terms of content". Because Annemirl Bauer herself referred to the materials used, which in particular come from households with female connotations, as “a parable for traditional patterns that I would like to dissolve”.

Honors

On September 18, 2010, in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where she maintained her studio in the last years of her life, a previously unnamed park was named at the Ostkreuz train station in Annemirl-Bauer-Platz .

On March 28, 2012, the exhibition In my own country: the painter and dissident Annemirl Bauer opened in the German Bundestag Wall Memorial in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus . The retrospective “I don't want to be a trapped bird in a cage. Annemirl Bauer ”was shown from the end of April 2015 for two months in the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus .

Artistic reception

“The artist's numerous pictures, drawings and texts prove that she has taken a path that corresponds to her fearless, combative and creative way of life. Nevertheless, she has managed to impressively depict the various possibilities of our being. In her work we get to know both the woman who was' dull and dull, without contours and without fire, a submissive victim ',' who for her part had someone in the noose ', as well as the' who flashed and sparkled ... sharp edges, knowing eyes and a resounding laugh 'and at the same time was a' fighter and comforter, provocateur and role model '”, writes Brigitte Rieger, director of the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder).

The former East Berlin gallery owner Christof Tannert put it in 2007: “Unrestrained painting, unrestrained senses. Annemirl Bauer's work is opulent and dissident. What at first glance seems to be cheerful and naive, rarely also gloomy, is intimate and subtle and deeply questioning, but always and above all: picturesque. There are colors, lines and lines, there is random material, and there is composition and opposition.

The art historian Inken Dohrmann said about Annemirl Bauer: “Over the years, her drawings condensed into an artistic language that unites words and images. "I want to talk about the feminine," said Annemirl Bauer at the time, "because I live in a male world where feminine being is as good as invisible." She weaved word games into her ideas for images, exposing "feminine being" as "his", "yours" as "insane", referred to "well-to-do masculinity," which presupposes "compliant femininity". In the outlines of her figures, which she quickly and confidently captured on paper, leaving out the individual, what is generally human becomes visible in addition to personally experienced things. "

literature

  • Wolf Deinert : My home. 1980.
  • Asteris Kutulas (Ed.): Bizarre Cities . Chapter 'Feminism, France, Fanderole', Christine Müller in conversation with Annemirl Bauer, 1989.
  • Frauenmuseum Bonn exhibition catalog: April 22 - May 27, 1990.
  • Exhibition catalog: Intershop Global Art Exhibition 1999. Hamburg-Jena-Paris-San Francisco-Stuttgart.
  • Inken Dohrmann: The Annemirl Bauer case. In: Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder : bounded - excluded, fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961–1989. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Bärbel Bohley , Gerald Praschl, Rüdiger Rosenthal: Courage - women in the GDR. Herbig Verlag, 2005, p. 61f.
  • Exhibition catalog: About the Feminine ... , Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), 2007
  • Amrei Bauer, Kristina Volke (ed. On behalf of the German Bundestag): In my own country: the painter and dissident Annemirl Bauer. Edition Stechlin, Berlin 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tina Bauer-Pezellen  ( 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 / oltmanns.de  
  2. ^ [1] Website Art in the GDR, accessed on April 8, 2015
  3. ↑ cf. Inken Dormann: The Annemirl Bauer case. In: Confined, Excluded: Fine Arts and Party Rule in the GDR 1961−1989. Ed .: Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schröder. Akademie Verlag, 2000.
  4. ↑ Input from Annemirl Bauer to Willi Sitte, copy from the Stasi file OV "Cell"  ( 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. (PDF; 5.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / dl.dropbox.com  
  5. ↑ cf. on this Inken Dohrmann: The Annemirl Bauer case. P. 232, dto.
  6. ↑ Pay Matthis Karstens: Image and meaning carriers. Notes on the use of materials by Annemirl Bauer. In: Ulrike Kremeier, Annette Tietz (ed.): "I don't want to be a trapped bird in a cage." Annemirl Bauer. Exhibition cat. Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus and Galerie Pankow Berlin. Berlin / Cottbus 2015, p. 38f.
  7. ↑ Annemirl Bauer, 1988, quoted from Pay Matthis Karstens: Image and meaning carriers. Notes on the use of materials by Annemirl Bauer. In: Ulrike Kremeier, Annette Tietz (ed.): "I don't want to be a trapped bird in a cage." Annemirl Bauer. Exhibition cat. Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus and Galerie Pankow Berlin. Berlin / Cottbus 2015, p. 38f.
  8. ↑ Taz, November 10, 2009, make room for an artist , on taz.de, viewed on November 13, 2010
  9. ↑ German Bundestag, 2012, In my own country. , on bundestag.de, viewed on April 8, 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
  10. ↑ Exhibition opening: “I don't want to be a trapped bird in a cage. Annemirl Bauer ”in the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  11. ↑ a b Exhibition catalog: “About the Female…” Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), 2007.
  12. ^ Text by Christof Tannert, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Annemirl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1989
Place of death Berlin-Friedrichshain