Barbara Quandt

Barbara Quandt (* 1947 in Berlin ) is a German painter .

Life

Barbara Quandt worked as a technical draftsman at Siemens from 1965 to 1970 and then at Schering . From 1970 to 1976 she studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Hans Kuhn and Karl Horst Hödicke . During her studies, she worked on the adventure playground Wutzkyallee , which she helped to build. From 1976-81 she gave socio-educational painting lessons at the Plötzensee juvenile detention center . She found her own style in the 1970s among the “ New Wilds ”.

In 1978 she went to the St. Martins School of Art in London on a DAAD scholarship . In 1982 she was in New York on a PS1 scholarship . 1983–84 she received a studio grant at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. During this time she made the set for “ Charley's Aunt ” for the theater of the Freie Volksbühne under the direction of Kurt Huebner .

In 1986 she went to Tanzania for a few months and from 1987–88 to Chicago , after which she received a scholarship from Galerie Walter Bischoff in San José .

This was followed by working stays in Buenos Aires and Madrid and, in 1996, a scholarship to Apt in Provence . In 1997 she went to Alaska , after which the book 50 ° Die Expeditionsreise der Gertrude Kronthaler in Alaska 1896 1898 was written.

In 2003 she received a teaching position for design theory at Burg Giebichenstein , University of Art and Design in Halle . From 2006 to 2008 she toured Russia. The painter has been working in Lehnitz and Berlin since 2008 .

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Travel in the head and in the world are the basis of her art. The focus is on people. Each topic forms a closed cycle, which is defined by its individuality. The individual pictures relate to each other, complement each other in their motifs.

Her painting is based on an objective narrative imagery and is characterized by a great variety of styles. Expressions and styles are used as raw materials. Ideas develop from time and place. Movement and sensuality are important to her, shapes, colors and concepts are used explicitly.

Series

• Cityscapes Berlin People Portraits - Rockers, Friends - Amorosities (1975-78)
• Punks London and Berlin (1978–81)
• Stils - International People New York (1982)
• Between the Moons Pairs (1984–86)
• TAM TAM- Africa (1985-86, 1989)
• Bullfighting (1986)
• Rigidity and Mobility - Clear Shapes (1986)
• In Between - Chicago - Architecture + People (1987-88)
• California Dreaming- San Jose (1988)
• Fall of the Wall (1990)
• Tango Buenos Aires (1991)
• One day - one year - one millennium (1991-92)
• Suerte Barbara - Black Series (1992)
• Angels and Madonnas (1993)
• From bed to bed interiors (1994)
• Small beings - art and science, your blood - micro- macrocosm (1995–96)
• Lièvre - lièvre the French lesson (1996)
• Put on wigs of millions of curls ... Mein Faust - Dog Portraits (1997)
• - 50 ° The expedition of Gertrude Kronthaler, Alaska 1896–1898 (1997–98)
• My sky my mountain my way (1999)
• Women and Architecture (1999)
• Children's Games, Welcome to the Club (2001)
• The End of Swan Lake (2002)
• Artificial heads (2002)
• Lust for the Forest and Country Life (2002-03)
• In Bausch and Wogen (2004)
• Park Kultury - Russian Green (2005-06)
• Roped - Roped (2006)
• My White Shadow (2008)
• Quandt's Worlds (2009)
• Monkey Theater (2010)
• Threads of the Soul - Lyrical Abstraction (2011)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2012 Chicago-California, Villa Köppe, Berlin
• 2011 Quandtensprünge, dorisberlin art
• 2008 Russian Green, Galerie M, Berlin
• 2007 The sweet life, Kunstverein, KunstHaus Potsdam
• 2003 I am a German girl ..., Galerie Kühn, Berlin-Dahlem
• 2002 Many are looking for ..., Stuttgarter Kunstverein. The further away - the greater the longing, Oldenburg cultural memory
• 2001 Moving in of the small beings, Schering Kunstverein, Berlin
• 1997 Why do you dream of red spiral staircases ..., Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
• 1996 La marche des petites natures, Artifice, Apt, France
• 1995 Art Association Pirmasens
• 1993 Between the Worlds, Art Gallery Leuchter and Peltzer, Düsseldorf. TAM TAM Africa cycle, Municipal Museum, Engen
• 1990 Show her - show her heart, Gallery Huber-Nising, Frankfurt / M
• 1989 TAM TAM, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
• 1988 In Between, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Chicago
• 1985 Between the Moons, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin. Art Association Göttingen
• 1984 Studio1 in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• 1982 Studio PS1, New York
• 1979 St. Martins School of Art, London
• 1976 Gallery at Savignyplatz, Berlin (with Reinhard Pods)

Individual catalogs (selection)

• 2016 Tell me what is Art, autobiography, Kerber Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7356-0224-4
• 2012 Chicago-California, Villa Köppe, Berlin
• 2011 Quandtensprünge, dorisberlin art
• 2002 Many are looking for ..., Stuttgarter Kunstverein
• 1999 -50 °, Gertrude Kronthaler's expedition to Alaska 1896–1898, Edition Volker Huber, Offenbach
• 1994 Under strange skies, Passagen 13, Galerie Huber-Nising, Frankfurt / Main
• 1989 TAM TAM, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
• 1988 In Between, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Chicago
• 1985 Between the Moons, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
• 1984 New York - Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Web links

• Barbara Quandt - Homepage