Antje Fretwurst-Colberg

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Antje Fretwurst-Colberg (* 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Antje Fretwurst-Colberg is the daughter of the painter Willy Colberg . As a small child, she experienced the burning Hamburg during World War II. In 1954, at the age of fourteen, she went to East Germany without her parents. There she attended the extended secondary school in Sanitz from 1954 to 1958 , where she lived in the boarding school. After graduating from high school, she studied art education at the University of Greifswald from 1958 to 1962 . In 1961 she married her fellow student Friedrich-Wilhelm Fretwurst . In the same year their son Jan was born. From 1962 to 1967 she worked as a teacher in Greifswald and Berlin. Then from 1967 to 1971 she studied painting and graphic art at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , where she mainly worked with Arno Mohrwas coined. After graduating, she was an aspirant at the university until 1974 . In 1974 she became the mother of the twins Hinnerk and Benjamin. Since 1970 she went on study trips, a. a. to Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, today's Slovakia, what was then Soviet Central Asia, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Mexico, Italy, France, Sweden and Denmark, and made series of images from them. Since 1974 she has been working as a freelance painter and graphic artist together with her husband, until 1997 in Berlin and since then in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Dändorf .

reception

"Antje Fretwurst-Colberg is one of those quiet painters and graphic artists who deal with art alone and as if outside of the temporal currents." "

- Klaus Hammer : The city has many faces.

“Antje Fretwurst-Colberg cannot deny her artistic background. It is the Berlin painting tradition with its simple motifs oriented towards everyday life, the object-related method of representation and the reserved, balanced and cultivated use of color. "

Preferred motifs are the "depictions of moments in everyday life, big city scenes and their inhabitants, but also moving coastal landscapes, captured in seemingly fleeting moments ..." For this purpose, she mainly uses oil and gouache, graphic techniques and reverse glass painting. “Above all, she cultivated etching: as drypoint, line and brush etching, reserve , aquatint or vernis mou , often printed in several plates. Your graphic work is technically diverse and sophisticated. "

Works

Graphics (selection)

  • Series of graphics Berlin Alexanderplatz

Book illustrations

  • Volker Ebersbach : Peter on the Faxenburg. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1982.

Memberships

Honors

  • 1983: Berlin Prize for Painting

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1976 Antje Fretwurst-Colberg has had several exhibitions, many together with her husband Friedrich-Wilhelm Fretwurst, but also with other artists such as Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas , Robert Metzkes , Arno Mohr , Michael Mohns , Emerita Pansowová , Gerhard Rommel , Hilary Rosen, Ursula Strozynski and Herbert Tucholski .

Recent exhibitions:

  • 2020: Berlin, Galerie der Berliner Graphikpresse (together with Friedrich-Wilhelm Fretwurst )
  • 2020: Wustrow, Fischlandhaus (gouaches and graphics)
  • 2020: Ribnitz-Damgarten, gallery in the monastery (reverse glass painting)
  • 2020: Ahrenshoop, Kunstkaten ("The Fall of the Wild Rose", oil painting from six decades)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The leaflet. Berlin, Volume 18 / Number 19 from September 14, 2015
  2. ↑ Antje Fretwurst-Colberg , on galeriezimmer.de, accessed on June 22, 2020
  3. ^ Exhibition - Antje Fretwurst-Colberg (* 1940) , on ostseebad-ahrenshoop.de, accessed on June 22, 2020
  4. ↑ Antje Fretwurst-Colberg - master of graphics. at ostseebad-wustrow.de, accessed on June 22, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Fretwurst-Colberg, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg