Barbara Putbrese

Barbara Putbrese (* 1949 in Puddemin , Rügen District , Mecklenburg State ) is a German painter.

After graduating from high school in 1968, she did an apprenticeship as a typesetter and worked in a printing company. At the same time, she attended evening school at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1972 she began studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , and has been a freelance painter in Berlin since 1977. From 1977 to 1992 she was a member of the VBK Berlin artists' association. From 1989 to 1999 she was the director of the Berlin Artists' Initiative and organized the KUNST STATT WERBUNG competition for the Berlin-Alexanderplatz underground station. Putbrese exhibited in Germany, Italy, France and Greece.

Barbara Putbrese's preferred techniques are monotypes and watercolors . An important topic for Barbara Putbrese is the big city - influenced not least by her studio in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , from where she can see the roofscape of the quarter. “It is a quiet Berlin that appears in Barbara Putbrese's work, as if the houses, gables and roofs had stepped out of time for a long moment, out of the flow of history that has left so many traces and scars on them. There is something floating about the pictures, an atmosphere of unreality, a secret that cannot be resolved by quickly decoding and combining. The urban space becomes an interior space, the field of vision becomes an intellectual landscape, the building block becomes a metaphor for contradicting thoughts and experiences ” - Stefanie Endlich writes in the Barbara Putbrese catalog .

Barbara Putbrese is married to the artist Robert Metzkes and has two children. She lives and works in Berlin-Karlshorst .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Putbrese, Aquarelle und Monotypien Berlin 1999, editor: Galerie LEO COPPI, Berlin