Brigitte Schuller

Brigitte Schuller-Kornbrust (* 1934 in Coburg ; † 2016 in Berlin ) was a German visual artist . She mainly worked in the field of artistic ceramics.

Vita

From 1951 to 1955 Brigitte Schuller completed a degree in ceramics , which was predominantly handicraft-oriented, with the lecturer Anneliese Braunmüller and with Boris Kleint at the State School for Art and Crafts ( Saarbrücken ), a predecessor of the Saar School of Fine Arts . During this time she also took courses in basic teaching with Oskar Holweck . In 1955 she passed her journeyman's examination at the Saarbrücken Chamber of Crafts . From 1956 to 1957 she continued her studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel , and at the same time she took lessons from the ceramic artist and art critic Mario Mascarin in Muttenz near Basel. From 1957 to 1958 she worked in the workshop of the ceramic artist Otto Hohlt in Katzbach am Inn. 1958 followed by a study visit to France , during which she also took part in drawing courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière ( Paris ).

In 1960 Schuller moved to Saarbrücken and built her own studio on Danziger Strasse, where she worked until 1974. In 1970 she went on a study trip to Japan , which also took her to Moscow , Irkutsk and Nakhodka . In 1973 she took part in an international ceramic symposium in Bechyně (CSSR). A year later, with her own participation, she organized a similar symposium in Mettlach, Saarland . In 1974 she returned to Katzbach / Inn and ran a joint studio with Görge Hohlt, with whom she was married, until 1984. In 1985 she later moved to her own studio in Rott am Inn , where she worked until 1987. In 1988 she moved back to Saarbrücken, where she was married to the brother of the sculptor Leo Kornbrust , Franz Kornbrust , where she had her own studio on the West Prussia ring. In 1994 and 1997 Schuller took part in an international porcelain symposium in the Polish town of Wałbrzych (German: Waldenburg).

In 1993 Brigitte Schuller was accepted into the Werkbund Saar , an association of visual artists, architects, entrepreneurs and experts.

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Brigitte Schuller says she seeks closeness to architecture very early on in her work. This is expressed in her numerous works that she created for buildings ( art in architecture ) and for public spaces . A fountain system can also be found in her oeuvre. Schuller mainly works with clay and the potter's wheel. Most of her pieces are turned on the disk and "... provided with relatively simple, multilayered glazes in predominantly dark tones". In her earlier works the artist pays attention to the usability of her vases, bowls and cup shapes. Figurative and representational representations are not Schuller's thing, she likes to design her objects abstractly. Amorphous designs are often found in their works . In later creative phases, her works become more filigree, their usability is no longer in the foreground.

Brigitte Schuller uses numerous other materials in her construction work. Stoneware, earthenware, and porcelain, but also acrylic or stainless steel can be found on their design palette. According to experts, their wall designs are among the trend-setting and formative elements in contemporary ceramics.

Awards - prizes

• 1967: Gold medal Vième exposition internationale de la céramique d'art (AIC Geneva) (Istanbul)
• 1968: Promotion competition for craftsmen of the Mainz Chamber of Crafts (3rd prize)
• 1973: German ceramics, Westerwald Prize (for an artistically designed floor in Trier)
• 1984: Upper Bavarian Culture Prize (together with Görge Hohlt)
• 1989: 1st prize in the competition of the Saarbrücken State Building Authority

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1970 Gallery Handwerk, Munich; Moering Gallery, Wiesbaden
• 1978 Emslandmuseum Forum Form, Clemenswerth
• 1979 Fogge Museum, Bremen
• 1986 Museum for modern ceramics, Deidesheim
• 1989 "Works from 1969-1989", Kulturhaus St. Ingbert
• 1995 Museum for City History and Folklore, Heppenheim
• 1997 Kunstverein Dillingen, gallery in the old castle
• 2001 "Brigitte Schuller. Latest Works", Orangery Blieskastel; Ceramics Gallery Bürkner, Frechen
• 2003 Arté Ristoranti, Lugano, Switzerland
• 2007 Gallery in the Old Castle, Dillingen

Works - work on construction (selection)

• 1964 Wall design in the lecture hall of the Medical Faculty of Saarland University (Homburg)
• 1970 Ceramic steles at the orthopedics department of the University Clinic (Homburg)
• 1972 Wall design in the Saarlouis swimming pool
• 1973 Staircase design over three floors in the Archbishop's General Vicariate in Trier
• 1978 Sculpture made of stoneware and porcelain, Oberpostdirektion Munich
• 1987/88 wall design in the entrance area of ​​the Landeszentralbank in Schwäbisch Hall
• 1989 Wall design in the Saarbrücken police department
• 1990/91 Exterior wall design of the Saarbank-Passage in Saarbrücken (8 m × 3 m)
• 1991/92 design of the dining room, trauma clinic Tübingen
• 1993 Wall relief (2.90 m × 3.45 m) in the Badenwerk Karlsruhe-Durlach
• 1993/94 design of two fountains for the Barneys company in Beverly Hills and New York
• 1994 Wall design, building of the United Electricity AG VEAG Berlin
• 1995 Pillar design of the entrance hall of the COSMOS insurance Saarbrücken
• 1996 Wall design of the dining room (4 m × 12 m) for the company La Roche, Monza / Italy
• 1998 Facade relief at the Rotenbergschule Saarbrücken
• 2001 Reconstruction of tiles and roof tiles from the turn of the century 1900, District Office St. Wendel
• 2004 Design of ten church windows in the Church of St. Georg, Neunkirchen / Saar

Literature (selection)

• Karl August Schleiden : Visit to the ceramist Brigitte Schuller. In: Saar-Heimat, born 1963/6, p. 174 ff.
• The ceramic sculpture in the landscape. In. Arts and crafts; 1974 / H.10-11, p. 16 ff.
• Ekkart Blade: International Ceramic Symposia in Bassano del Grappa. In: Keramos; Vol. 66 (1974), p. 47 ff.
• Monika Goedl: A new wall relief by Brigitte Schuller. In. Ceramic magazine; Vol. 27 (1975), p. 594 ff.
• Trends in modern German ceramics . Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum, 1983, p. 10 ff.
• Ekkart blade: German ceramics today . Düsseldorf: Verl.-Anst. Handwerk, 1984. p. 84 ff.
• Brigitte Schuller - Ciphers . In: ceramic magazine; 1988, p. 340 ff.
• Maria Schmitt-Rilling: The picturesque in Brigitte Schuller's work. In: Saarheimat; 1992, p. 59 ff.
• Beate Reifenscheid: Four ways to ceramics - Babuniak, Reimers, Schuller, White. Exhibition cat. Zweibrücken: Gallery in the Parkvilla, 1994.
• Gustav Weiß: Brigitte Schuller - building ceramics on acrylic and steel. In: New Ceramics; 1997, p. 615 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkart blade in: Brigitte Schuller - Working in clay . Dillingen / Saar: Krüger Dr. u. Ed., 2004

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