Brigitte Handschick

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Brigitte Handschick , née Grabowski (born July 14, 1939 in Berlin ; † September 26, 1994 there ), was a German painter and graphic artist . Together with Christa and Lothar Böhme , Manfred Böttcher , Dieter Goltzsche , Wolfgang Leber , Harald Metzkes , Klaus Roenspieß and Hans Vent , she has been part of the Berlin school since the 1960s.

Life

After attending school in Berlin-Mitte from 1945 to 1956, Handschick worked as an extra at the Komische Oper Berlin . From 1957 to 1961 she studied at the master school for arts and crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg , specializing in exhibition design with Heinz Weißbrich and Günter Scherbarth . Her fellow students were Christa Krefft (later Böhme), Lothar Böhme and Wolfgang Leber. After the Berlin Wall was built in August 1961, she had to break off her studies in West Berlin . Since 1961 she has been working as a freelance painter, graphic artist and book illustrator in East Berlin . In 1966 she married the graphic artist and book illustrator Heinz Handschick (born on September 21, 1931). Both lived and worked in Berlin-Altglienicke ever since . In 1971 Handschick became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). From 1987 to 1990 she had a teaching position at the technical college for advertising and design in Berlin-Schöneweide. Brigitte Handschick died in 1994 at the age of 55 after a long illness. Parts of the written estate are in the Saxon State Library and in the Dresden State and University Library .

plant

Brigitte Handschick counted with Christa and Lothar Böhme, Manfred Böttcher, Dieter Goltzsche, Wolfgang Leber, Harald Metzges, Klaus Roenspieß and Hans Vent to the Berlin school of the post-war years. In her paintings and watercolors, Handschick mainly devoted herself to the landscapes on the periphery of the city. In her work, Handschick made connections between space, time and transience visible in a reduced color scheme, in which shades of black predominate, and a well-structured brushwork. The experience of nature was the starting point of her painting. In addition to cityscapes, still lifes and interiors were created. Watercolors and paintings have titles such as “Early Spring”, “Way to the Tram”, “Cobbler Garden” or “Terrace”. “Handschick's art draws its tension from silence, it is always restrained in expression” (Heidemarie Otto on the personal exhibition Handschicks in the State Museum Schwerin 1990).

"The lyrically subjectivized, integrity motif, the restriction of the area of ​​experience and representation to the near, personal, made it possible to distinguish it from any program painting, that of socialist realism and also a modified or alternative program."

Solo exhibitions

  • 1966: Brigitte Handschick , Kathanna Becker antiquarian bookshop, Weimar
  • 1974: Brigitte Handschick , Galerie am Prater, East Berlin
  • 1977: Brigitte Handschick , Club Gallery Magdeburg (with Rolf Händler )
  • 1978: Brigitte Handschick , Small Gallery in the Bertolt Brecht Club, Schwedt
  • 1980: Brigitte Handschick , Galerie im Turm, East Berlin
  • 1987–88: Brigitte Handschick. Drawings , Studio Fine Arts, East Berlin
  • 1988: Brigitte Handschick. Gouaches, watercolors, drawings , gate gallery, Neubrandenburg
  • 1990: Brigitte Handschick. Paintings & watercolors , State Museum, Schwerin
  • 1996: Brigitte Handschick , Galerie am Wasserturm, Berlin
  • 2009: Brigitte Handschick. Painting (exhibition for the 70th birthday), Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972: Köpenicker Pedagogical Club , East Berlin
  • 1975: German visual artists from the time of Goethe to the present day , National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, West Berlin
  • 1977: Berlin art exhibition of the VBK , East Berlin
  • 1977: VIII. Art Exhibition of the GDR , Dresden
  • 1977: The watercolor in 5 centuries , Weimar
  • 1977: Selected watercolors by GDR artists , Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1979: Art exhibition of the GDR for the Berlin days in Moscow ,
  • 1979: Berlin in the picture , Galerie am Prater, East Berlin
  • 1979: Children, animals, circus , Galerie Mitte, East Berlin
  • 1979: Berlin art exhibition of the VBK
  • 1980 portrait exhibition, Galerie Mitte, East Berlin
  • 1981: Heringsdorf Art Pavilion (with Wolfgang Leber and Wulff Sailer)
  • 1982: IX. Art exhibition of the GDR , Dresden
  • 1983: Portrait exhibition, Galerie am Prater, East Berlin
  • 1983: Hand drawings by Berlin and Magdeburg artists , Galerie im Turm, East Berlin
  • 1983: Berlin art exhibition of the VBK
  • 1985–86: GDR artists. Painting, sculpture, graphics , Stuttgart; Bremen
  • 1987: Seven Berlin artists , Bordeaux
  • 1987–88: Xth Art Exhibition of the GDR , Dresden
  • 1990: Treptow artist , Schloss Briz, Berlin
  • 2018: the beauty of the big city. Pictures from Gaertner to Fetting , Ephraim-Palais , Berlin
  • 2018: Again in Light III , Inselgalerie, Berlin (with Christa Böhme and Brigitte Fugmann)

Works in public collections

monograph

  • Bernd Kuhnert and Jens Semrau (eds.): Brigitte Handschick . With a text by Jens Semrau, conversations with Lothar Böhme and Heinz Handschick, an obituary by Harald Metzkes and with a biography, literature and exhibition list. Ernst Schröder Society , Berlin 2003.

Work documentation

  • Brigitte Handschick. Drawings , leaflet for the exhibition. Studio Fine Arts, Berlin (GDR) 1987.
  • Brigitte Handschick. Gouaches, watercolors, drawings , leaflet accompanying the exhibition. Goal gallery, Neubrandenburg 1988.
  • Brigitte Handschick. Paintings & watercolors . Leporello with a text by Heidemarie Otto, the biographical data and 7 black-and-white illustrations of paintings. State Museum, Schwerin 1990.
  • Brigitte Handschick. Märkische Landscapes . Reinhard Stangl, Hans-Joachim Weichardt. State Representation Brandenburg, Bonn, 1993.

Literature (selection)

  • The watercolor in 5 centuries . Exhibition catalog, Weimar 1977.
  • Visual 82 . Exhibition center at the television tower, Berlin, capital of the GDR, from October 5 to 30, 1982. Event organized by the Berlin City Administration, Culture Department. Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, Berlin district executive. Exhibition center at the television tower, Berlin (GDR) 1982.
  • Art exhibition Berlin 1986. Painting, graphic, plastic . Magistrate of Berlin; VBK of the GDR Berlin, 1986
  • Seven Berlin artists . Exhibition catalog, Bordeaux 1987.
  • "On the edge of the city. Brigitte Handschick ”. In: The Beauty of the Big City. Pictures from Gaertner to Fetting , catalog for the exhibition in the Ephraim-Palais , Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin , 2018, ISBN 978-3-939254-46-1 , pp. 58, 59.

Illustrations (selection)

  • Theodor Storm : Bulemann's house and other stories . The children's book publisher, Berlin 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Handschick's biography at De Gruyter online
  2. ↑ Short biography of Heinz Handschick , accessed on November 13, 2019
  3. ↑ In: Jens Semrau, Brigitte Handschick . Edited by Bernd Kuhnert and Jens Semrau. Ernst Schröder Society, Berlin 2003, p. 9.
  4. ↑ see text by Barbara Fuchs on the personal exhibition in the Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin 2009 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Handschick, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1994
Place of death Berlin