Bettina von Arnim (painter)

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Bettina von Arnim (born October 19, 1940 in Zernikow , Prussia) is a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist of the New Realism and a descendant of the poet of the same name .

Life

The romantic poet , Bettina von Arnim geb. Brentano, was the great-grandmother of the painter Bettina Encke von Arnim , and she was the aunt of the painter Bettina von Arnim. The poet Achim von Arnim grew up in the house where she was born in Zernikow . The last landlord of Zernikow and Wiepersdorf was Friedmund Freiherr von Arnim, brother of the painter Bettina Encke von Arnim and father of Bettina, who was four in May 1945. The father was expropriated and deported to the Soviet Union in 1945, where he died in a prisoner of war camp in January 1946. Four of the six children, then also the mother Clara von Arnim with two of her sons, fled via Berlin to southern Germany.

As a student in Schwäbisch Hall, Bettina von Arnim received a scholarship from the American Field Service for a school year in Cambridge / Massachusetts , USA. After returning in 1958 and after graduating from high school, she studied at the art education department of the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Schöneberg . With a scholarship from the Maison de France de Berlin, she was able to register at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris in 1962 , but mainly studied etching technology in the workshop of the graphic artist Johnny Friedlaender .

In 1964 Bettina von Arnim returned to West Berlin , passed the two state exams for school service and worked as a teacher. In 1966 she married the painter Ulrich Baehr . The daughters Antonia and Juliane Baehr were born in Berlin in 1970 and 1972. The West Berlin period was also artistically productive: Etchings and large-format oil paintings were shown at numerous exhibitions, such as B. that of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (member since 1973) or that of the Aspect group , which existed from 1972 to 1978, of which the artist was one of the founding members. After the divorce from Ulrich Baehr in 1975, Bettina moved with the children and the etching press from Berlin to a house in south-west France that she had acquired as a ruin and restored during her time in Paris. The painter Bettina von Arnim has lived and worked in a house with a studio in Concots in south-west France since 1981 .

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At the end of the 1960s, Bettina von Arnim began to warn against the "seizure of power by the technocrats" ( Werner Rhode , September 1973). She was critical of the industrialization of agriculture and the conquest of space. Her large-format oil paintings showed machinists whom she called “Optiman” and “Kyborg”, referring to Rüdiger Proskes “To the moon and further”, or “Galactic General” after HG Wells . Robots in fantastic outfits, whose natural organs have been replaced by tubes and funnels, finally buried them in the landscape that they themselves destroyed, as in the paintings "Kahlschlag" (1971, oil on canvas, 150 × 130 cm) or "Schacht" (1972 , Oil on canvas, 130 × 130 cm) in order to gradually make them disappear completely. What remained were Martian landscapes, characters and concrete patterns. “The pattern as a monster” was the title of an exhibition review in 1974 with titles such as “Traces”, “Mäanderthal” or “Cities-Sea”. Arnim's works attracted new attention through the exhibition “German Pop”, which took place from November 2014 to February 2015 in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , which received wide coverage in the press.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1964: Galerie La Galère, Paris
  • 1970: Gallery Poll , Berlin
  • 1971: G. Kammer Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1973: Ostentor Gallery, Dortmund
  • 1973: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1976: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1976: Apex Gallery, Göttingen
  • 1977: Center Culturel de la Ville de Toulouse
  • 1981: Kunstverein Augsburg
  • 1982: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1983: Gallery in Böttcherstraße, Bremen
  • 1984: Studio Jaeschke , Bochum
  • 1985: New Berlin Art Association
  • 1985: Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 1985: Municipal Gallery Haus Seel, Siegen
  • 1986: Grenier du Chapitre, Cahors / Lot
  • 1987–1990: Project Das Spiegel-Labyrinth , Cahors / Lot
  • 1994–1995: Gallery Villa Bösenberg, Leipzig
  • 1998: Kurt Tucholsky Memorial, Rheinsberg Castle
  • 2001: Picture box and rust pictures , Gothic Hall, Ansbach
  • 2005: Chateau de Saint-Cirq-Lapopie , Lot
  • 2015: Mutants and Meteorologists , Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015: countdown. Etchings , Poll Art Foundation , Berlin
  • 2015: The cyborgs and their traces 1968-1983 , Galerie Poll , Berlin
  • 2020: The cyborgs and their traces 1960-2020 , Kunsthalle Lingen

Group exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Books

Exhibition catalogs

Literature (selection)

documentary

  • Without nightingales - a film about and with Bettina von Arnim by Riki Kalbe, Concots / Berlin, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clara von Arnim , Bettina von Arnim, The colorful ribbon of life. The Brandenburg homeland and a new beginning in the Kupferhaus , Scherz Verlag , Bern 1998, ISBN 3-502-18009-1 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Ohff , instead of a foreword . In: Maina-Miriam Munsky . Pictures and etchings. Publishing house of the Poll Gallery, Berlin 1975.
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Bettina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Zernikow