Bettina Glas
Bettina Glas (born January 3, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , object and textile artist with a focus on tapestry (tapestry weaving).
Life
After graduating from high school, Bettina Glas attended the state vocational school for wood sculptors in Oberammergau from 1962 to 1965 and studied sculpture and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1965 to 1969 . In 1971 she passed the 2nd state examination for the teaching post for art education at grammar schools. Since then she has been working as a freelance artist.
Her husband is the sculptor Heinrich Glas . For smaller work, both have been using their studio in Nittendorf - Undorf since 1977 . For larger work they have been using a multi-storey barn in the Nittendorf industrial park since 1986, which they dismantled at the Regensburger Karthäuser Hof and rebuilt with practical changes in Nittendorf.
Bettina Glas had her first solo exhibition with the title "Tapestry" in 1985 at the Regensburg Art and Trade Association . In 1990 "Gobelins and Pictures" followed in the gallery of the Sparkasse Pfaffenhofen , in 1994 "Textile Art" again at the Regensburg Art and Trade Association, in 1993 "Picture Wall Objects" in the Regensburg city gallery Leerer Beutel and in 1998 "Art in the Church" in the parish church St. Andreas in Runding . In 1999 she received a scholarship to study at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in the United States. In 2002 she exhibited her work in the Upper Palatinate Künstlerhaus (Kebbel-Villa in Schwandorf ) from 1999 to 2002 under the title “Virginia and After”. Since 2000 she has also participated several times in the Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition (GOK) of the BBK Niederbayern / Oberpfalz .
Her works are among the collections of the government of the Upper Palatinate , the University of Regensburg , the Regensburg Chamber of Crafts , the St. Franziskus vocational training center in Abensberg , the primary schools in Pettendorf and Thalmassing , the Realschule am Judenstein in Regensburg, the Nittendorf police station and the Tirschenreuth and Barmherzige hospitals Brothers in Regensburg.
Awards
Exhibition catalogs
- Bettina Glas: tapestries and pictures ; Sparkasse Pfaffenhofen, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm 1990.
- Bettina Glas: picture wall objects. Municipal Gallery Empty Bag (ed.), Regensburg 1993.
- Bettina Glas: Painting 1999–2002; 'Virginia and After'. Upper Palatinate artist house Kebbel-Villa (ed.), Schwandorf 2002.
literature
- W. Amann: Glass, Bettina . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 16.
Web links
- Glass, Bettina . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bettina Glas , BBK, Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate.
- ^ Ingrid Kroboth: Artists open their workshops , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , October 13, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glass, Bettina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, object and textile artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |