Brigitta Zeumer

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Brigitta Zeumer , née Rochlitz (born May 31, 1939 in Rendsburg ; † August 20, 2015 in Cologne ) was a German painter and object artist. In Germany she was best known for her landscape watercolors and abstract works. She was the first German artist to be invited to Beijing by the Chinese Minister of Culture to present her work in a solo exhibition in the Imperial Palace.

Zeumer showed her works in more than 300 exhibitions at home and abroad during her lifetime. a. in international metropolises such as Barcelona , Chicago , New York , Shanghai , Tokyo , Vienna or Warsaw .

Her works were chosen by eminent politicians to be given as gifts to heads of state in other countries. The then Federal President Roman Herzog presented a picture of the artist to the Chinese President Jiang Zemin in November 1996 . In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder gave one of her works to the French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin . In October 1999, Federal President Johannes Rau presented an original from her to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .

Grave Melaten Cemetery

Private life

Brigitta Zeumer was the eldest daughter of H. Rochlitz and A. Rochlitz, nee Schürer. In 1959 she completed her school education with the Abitur and then studied social and newspaper sciences in Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg. She married and moved to Cologne in 1967. The marriage produced three sons.

Zeumer died in 2015 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (Flur 21 (U) No. 501).

Artistic development

In the second half of her life, Brigitta Zeumer recognized her artistic calling. As a student (1969–1971) of Karl-Anton Räderscheidt (* 1924, son of Anton Räderscheidt ), she initially concentrated on oil paintings from 1969–1975. She had her first solo exhibition with landscapes in the Kreissparkasse in Cologne in 1971, and more made her known beyond her home state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to a phase in which Brigitta Zeumer also made etchings, she shifted the focus to watercolors in 1975. On this basis, international success soon arose. In 1988 her watercolors were awarded first prize in a competition held by the Del Bello Gallery in Toronto, Canada, among 60 countries.

In the 1990s, Brigitta Zeumer's work became more abstract, large-format, colorful and pointed through several trips to East Asia and through her preoccupation with East Asian art. Her works found particular recognition in the People's Republic of China. In 1995 she received the Justice / Peace medal in Chang Chun, China.

  • Medal Justice and Peace of Brigitta Zeumer.jpg

In 1999 she led several workshops at the German School in Singapore. In 2001 she received a scholarship at Haus Rissen in Hamburg. From 1991 she gave many radio and television interviews at home and abroad. For example, on April 6, 2003, an interview with her was broadcast on nrw-tv as part of the “Artist Portrait” series.

Numerous pictures by the artist are in private collections as well as in the collections of museums, cities, banks and savings banks.

Brigitta Zeumer developed an increasingly freer abstraction from the representation of landscape. The colors used reveal elements of the landscape or architecture, but what is depicted always remains suspended. In the later years of her work, she also made abstract objects from various materials such as bronze, stone or glass.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1971–81 Kreissparkasse Cologne / Lembeck Castle / District Museum
  • Zons / New Castle Meersburg / Gallery Koppelmann Leverkusen /
  • Galerie L 'Aturiale Liège / Galerie Dehne Stuttgart.
  • 1982 Galerie An Groß St. Martin Cologne / Galerie Hebler Bochum.
  • 1983 Galerie Kreth d'Orey Heidelberg / Galerie NOVA Hagen.
  • 1984 Galerie Brockmeyer Kleve / Galerie Kühne Mülheim-R. / Inter Art / Galerie Reich Cologne / Galerie Lochte Hamburg / Galerie Wölffer Berlin /
  • 1985 Galerie Weigl Nürnberg / Galerie Capellmann Aachen.
  • 1986 Galerie Tscheuschner Kassel / Galerie Kreth d'Orey Heidelberg.
  • 1987 Kunstverein Nümbrecht / Galerie Hill Düsseldorf.
  • 1988 Gallery Schnittger Munich / Museum Heylshof Worms.
  • 1989 Del Bello Gallery Toronto / Galerie Nemec Ingolstadt.
  • 1990 Kühne Mülheim-Ruhr Gallery.
  • 1991 Wattis Fine Arts Hong Kong / Imperial Palace Beijing / Jiangsu
  • Art Gallery Nanking / Shanghai Convention Center.
  • 1992 ASIA Nippon Convention Center Tokyo.
  • 1994 European Parliament Strasbourg.
  • 1995 CHINA ART EXPO Beijing / Dt. Taipei Cultural Center /
  • Exhibition on the World Conference on Women in Beijing.
  • 1996 Galerie van Remmen Solingen / Kunstverein Grevenbroich.
  • 1997 ATORPA gallery in The Hague / Stubengalerie Goslar.
  • 1998 Konsugerma Shanghai / Gal Spectrum Euskirchen.
  • 1999 Culture Center St. Vith Belgium / The Substation Singapore.
  • 2000 Gallery NOVA Hagen / Deutsche Welle Cologne.
  • 2001 Rinsche & Speckmann Berlin / Sunjin Gallery Singapore.
  • 2002 Galerie Kley Hamm / Galerie Schneider Berlin.
  • 2003 TEREMA Monheim / Sparkasse Grafschaft Diepholz.
  • 2004 Stubengalerie Goslar / Stadtgalerie Sundern.
  • 2005 Gallery Zumkley Marienthal / Gallery Dorsel Heimbach.
  • 2006 Gallery Wild Frankfurt / BBD Art Amsterdam /
  • Gallery Forum Lindenthal Cologne / Gallery Il Quadro Aachen.
  • 2007 Galerie Schneider Berlin / Eschweiler Kunstverein / Art Cabinet
  • Hespert Reichshof.
  • 2008 Gallery Wagnerkunstmanagement Hamburg / Confucius-
  • Institut FU Berlin / Gallery Anne Malchers Bergisch Gladbach.
  • 2009 Altes Pfandhaus Cologne / Galerie Forum Lindenthal Cologne

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1971 Cologne Art Kaleidoscope, Neumarkt der Künstler, Cologne (1971–1975),
  • German Blade Museum, Solingen
  • 1976 L'Artothèque, Monte Carlo
  • 1977 Frechen Art Association
  • 1979 –1988 participation in international art fairs
  • ART BASEL (Inter Art Gallery Reich, Gallery Siedlaczek, Gallery Short, Gallery Scholten)
  • Participation in the art markets Göttingen (Inter Art Galerie Reich), participation in the art fairs in Düsseldorf and Cologne (represented by Inter Art Galerie Reich, Galerie Siedlaczek)
  • 1981 Frechen Art Association, Hazebrouk Municipal Museum
  • 1984 Frechen Art Association
  • 1987 Ansbach Culture Weeks
  • 1988 Frankfurt Book Fair, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
  • 1989 Art Expo, New York, Chicago International Art Fair
  • (Galerie Redies), "German Artists See Africa", Westfalenhalle Dortmund, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, BIAF, Barcelona (Galerie Root), LINEART, Gent (Galerie Root), Frankfurt Book Fair
  • 1990 ART Frankfurt (Galerie Redies), Art Expo, New York, Chicago International Art Fair (Galerie Redies), ART'21, Basel (Galerie Redies), Earth Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Book Fair, Frankfurt (CCA Galleries), ART Stuttgart, Del Bello Gallery,
  • Toronto
  • 1991 Comune di Mapello, Lombardy, galleries in Schleswig-Holstein, Salzau Castle, Frankfurt Book Fair, Bookmark Museum, Duisburg, Baden-Württemberg State Representation, Bonn, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
  • 1992 participation in the second international advertising art biennial in Munich
  • 1993–1994 Frankfurt Book Fair
  • 1994–1998 ART MULTIPLE, Düsseldorf
  • 1995 Participation in the exhibition for the World Conference on Women in Beijing
  • Exhibition JUSTICE / PEACE in Chang Chun (gold medal), Kanagawa graphic biennial, Japan, Graz art fair
  • 1996 Participation in the exhibition GOYA in museums on all the Canary Islands
  • Graphic Biennial Warsaw, Poland, State Museum Judenburg, Austria
  • 1997 Cairo Graphics Biennial, Giza, Egypt
  • 1998 "750 Years of Cologne Cathedral", Cologne, Graz Art Fair, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
  • 2000 Graphic Biennial Cairo-Giza, Egypt, 3rd Int. Bitola Graphics Biennial, Macedonia
  • 2002 touring exhibition German Sports u. Olympic Museum, Cologne, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Salt Lake City, Munich
  • 2003 Art Days Brauweiler
  • 2004 Singapore art fair, Kubus-Kunsthalle, Duisburg
  • 2005 Galerie Schneider, Berlin, Galerie eins !, Bad Münstereifel, Museum Blankenheim, Galerie Wagner - Art Management, Munich, Galerie HP Haas, Stuttgart, Dornbirn art fair
  • 2006 Bharat Bhavan International Biennale of Print-Art 2006, India, German-Dutch graphic exchange Borken, Graphic Biennale 2006 Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt

Printed matter

  • Postcards
  • greeting cards
  • Art calendar in the years: 1984 - 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Carborundum work
  • Serigraphs

Books

  • Happy silence. Book by Rainer Haak (date of first publication: 1986) ISBN 3501001657
  • You surround me every day: Aquarelle u. Thoughts . Book by Brigitta Zeumer (date of first publication: 1988) ISBN 387729412X
  • Harmony of silence: watercolors. Book by Brigitta Zeumer (date of first publication: 1986) ISBN 387729085X
  • Words of affection for you. Book by Brigitta Zeumer / Renate Schuh, SKV Edition (2007) * ISBN 9783825652074
  • Quiet landscapes of the soul. Book by Brigitta Zeumer and Kurt Rainer Klein, (2008) ISBN 9783937618609
  • Good wishes to you. Book by Brigitta Zeumer SKV-Edition (1996) ISBN 3877296726
  • Harmony of silence. Book by Brigitta Zeumer u. Simon Baum (2007) ISBN 978-3825643683
  • Brigitta Zeumer in Singapore. Sunjin Galleries (2001) ISBN 981-04-5222-5

Television interviews

  • April 6, 2003 TV artist portrait with Brigitta Zeumer on nrw-tv
  • 2006 and 2007 television artist portrait on Dutch television

Press articles (selection)

  • Brigitta Zeumer: Mastery of the beautiful, Dr. Russ, Source: iab revue internationale des art, No. 50
  • Brigitta Zeumer: Kindred spirits with the Middle Kingdom, Vernissage, issue 2–8 / 89

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lippe Library: Exhibition 2001-3: Zeumer, painting. Retrieved on May 17, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Artists - Individually - Galerie Wehr , accessed on July 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zeumer, Brigitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rochlitz, Brigitta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2015
Place of death Cologne