Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler

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Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler (* 1948 in Dillenburg ) is a German visual artist . She lives and works in Marburg an der Lahn (Hessen).

Life

Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler studied after graduating from high school from 1968 to 1975 sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Wilhelm Loth and in 1972 passed her first state examination in art education. She has lived as a freelance artist in Marburg since 1976 and ran her own children's art school there from 1977 to 1981. Together with her husband, the mathematician and designer Jörg Bauer, she realized the 1980 exhibition “Seeing With Your Hands”. From 1981 to 1985 she was a guest lecturer at the University of Marburg and the University of Gießen . She is also involved in the artistic advisory board of the Marburger Kunstverein and curates art exhibitions there.

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From the barnacles family (2004), multi-part wall installation, corrugated cardboard, painted
Diary sheets , (2014), drawings

In her childhood, Bauer-Heusler developed a deep interest in the animal world, which continues to shape her artistic work to this day.

“I found the representation of animals through associations such as 'group - herd', through the comparison of social structures in humans and animals. … I am interested in animals as part of our environment. For me it is always about people, about the human-animal relationship ... The animals symbolize our environment, which is no longer 'in tact'; To the same extent as the world of animals and their habitat is destroyed, the human habitat is also destroyed, made inhuman. "

- BI Bauer-Heusler

Shaped by her training in Wilhelm Loth's sculpting class in Karlsruhe, which was mainly used for modeling, she created sculptures made of polyester resin during her studies in which the artist dealt with themes from the animal world. Even at that time, her work was often multi-part, "occupying" the space - a way of working that she retained in later years.

At the end of the 1970s, Bauer-Heusler was looking for new forms of more spontaneous three-dimensional design and for a few years concentrated exclusively on the medium of drawing . In addition to detailed pencil studies. a. ever larger charcoal drawings on plain wrapping paper. These drawings are of her increasing a collage expands in which they cutout, combined with other materials and offset in a spatial context into it. In doing so, she opened the two-dimensional medium of drawing in the direction of three-dimensionality.

In the next step, she expanded these experimental works, which emerged at the beginning of the 1980s, to be located between drawing and collage in connection with ready- mades, to create entire spatial environments; In addition, drawings were cut out in outline and attached directly to the wall as a multi-part ensemble. She used the corrugated cardboard as the ideal material for her spontaneous three-dimensional work and, in the next step, included the entire room again. The graphically and painterly designed corrugated cardboard objects also include walls and ceilings as installations in addition to the floor.

"Bauer-Heusler's works ... are not peeled out of the already three-dimensional block, but arise from it two-dimensionality, from cut and bent forms, build up in space."

- Hans Gercke

At the end of this artistic development, from the beginning of the 1990s, there were the large-scale sculptures characteristic of Bauer-Heusler.

Awards and grants

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1977: Südwestgalerie, Karlsruhe
  • 1979: Sindelfingen Municipal Gallery
  • 1988: Moltkerei workshop, Cologne
  • 1989: Marburg Art Association
  • 1990: Freundeskreis Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
  • 1992: Municipal gallery in the canvas house , Frankfurt am Main (with catalog)
  • 1993: Herborn Art Association
  • 1994: Association for Art Promotion, Darmstadt
  • 1995: Friedberger Kunstverein, Wetterau Museum Friedberg
  • 1997: Marburg Art Association
  • 1998: Gallery of the City of Remscheid
  • 2001: Villa Streccius , Städtische Galerie Landau (together with Doris Hadersdorfer)
  • 2003: LOG Gallery, Marburg
  • 2004: New Art Association, Giessen

Group exhibitions with catalog

  • 1971: 20 Loth students , Altes Theater Gallery, Ravensburg, (Text: Andreas Franzke )
  • 1976: Sculptures on the brickworks , Darmstadt Secession
  • 1976: Karlsruhe artist , Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
  • 1978: The fine arts and the animal , Orangery Hannover-Herrenhausen
  • 1980: See with your hands , Landgrafenschloss Marburg and Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg
  • 1980: Love, Documents of Our Time , Kunstverein Darmstadt and Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1982: Art Report 2'82 , 30th annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Düsseldorf
  • 1986: Works that develop on the floor , Karlsruher Kunstverein
  • 1986: Nine pupils of Wilhelm Loth , Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 1992: Paper Art , International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren
  • 1993: Five from Marburg , Marilies Hess Foundation, Frankfurt
  • 1994: Paper = Art 2 , Aschaffenburg Art Association
  • 1997: Encounter room castle, contemporary artists see old rooms anew, FrauenKunstGeschichte e. V. Marburg
  • 1999: Vierpaß , Marburg University Museum for Fine Arts
  • 2003: Even in the broadest sense , Marburger Kunstverein
  • 2012: just paper , Marburger Kunstverein
  • 2016: Art in Marburg , Marburg Art Association

literature

  • Ulrika Evers: German women artists of the 20th century. Painting, sculpture, tapestry. Hamburg 1983, pp. 18-19.
  • Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. Sculptures, installations. Exhibition catalog. Municipal gallery in the canvas house Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. The happy room. Exhibition catalog. Marburg Art Association. Marburg 1997.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See with your hands. April 26 - May 26, 1980, Marburg Landgrave Castle. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Dt. Study Institute for the Blind e. V., editor: Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. Marburg 1980.
  2. ↑ Ulrika Evers: German artists of the 20th century. Hamburg 1983, p. 18.
  3. ↑ See Ulrika Evers; ibid, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Hans Gercke in: Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. Sculptures, installations. Communal gallery in the canvas house, Frankfurt am Main 1992, pp. 3–6.
  5. ↑ Hans Gercke in: ibid, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Verena Kuni in: Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. The happy room. Marburger Kunstverein 1997, pp. 2-4.
  7. ↑ Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler. Scholarship holder in the artist village Schöppingen 1991. Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Schonzeit , January / February 1993. Schöppingen 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer-Heusler, Barbara Isabella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillenburg