Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft

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Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft (* 1949 in Baden-Baden , Germany ) is a German artist (painting, drawing, installation).

Life

Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft grew up in Baden-Baden. From 1969 to 1974 she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . Her teachers were Klaus Arnold , Werner Knaupp , Herbert Kitzel and Franz Bernhard . From 1972 to 1974 she studied art history at the University of Karlsruhe with Klaus Lankheit .

Nowatzke-Kraft has lived in Karlsruhe-Grötzingen since 1978. She is a member of BBK and Gedok as well as a member of the art commission of the city of Karlsruhe (2009–2019).

In 2010 she received the art prize of the city of Baden-Baden and the Society of Friends of Young Art : "Artists in Baden-Baden". (Exhibition and catalog)

2018 artist award of the Friends of Badisches Malerdorf Grötzingen eV (exhibition and catalog)

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Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft's range of work has been broad for years. The largest part is played by painting, which - coming from the expressive, picturesque landscape - made a U-turn in the 80s.

Over a period of about ten years, under the title Subjectivierungen, newspaper photos were painted over, which were located in the field of the satirical-surreal and, by retaining the original captions, contained absurd or critical messages. The series is currently being continued with black and white overpainting.

In addition to questions of content, designing with color is a fundamental element in the artist's work.

In current architectural and spatial images , what is depicted takes a back seat. Instead, she deals with color and shape, surface and space. In the foreground is the process-based work, which puts a layer of paint on top of a layer of paint and only gradually forms the composition. Typical stylistic devices of this group of works are: design elements that lead into the picture, graphic structures and obscure, painterly surfaces. The conscious exploration of transparency as one of the most important possible effects of color leads the artist to the question of how this shining through can be increased. With her the desire arose to work out the impression of floating even more and to detach the painting from the materiality. Your answer was to change the technique and the image carrier. She applies her motifs to Plexiglas using a photo-technical process. Transparent pictures are created that are executed in small format and can stand on their own, or are brought together with paintings in groups.

In addition, drawings are created under the title "Urban Structures", which show an unrestrained rampant architecture in archaic spatial networks, the construction of which is characterized by compression and loosening. Man's presence can only be guessed at.

The painter Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft makes side jumps when she leaves the room of her pictures and packs her ideas in boxes and glasses or develops concepts for installations and real spaces (including art in architecture) using a wide variety of materials. Often this is their artistic response to tenders or themed exhibitions. These works are full of cryptic wit and ambiguity. They reflect current events, make use of literary models or have their roots in art history.

literature

  • Brigitte Baumstark: The "Badische Malerdorf". Artist in Grötzingen . In: One thousand years of Grötzingen . Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives. Volume 13, Badenia Verlag Karlsruhe 1991, ISBN 3-7617-0266-3 .
  • City of Karlsruhe - Städtische Galerie (Ed.): Acquisitions of the Städtische Galerie . Karlsruhe 1992, ISBN 3-923344-23-6 , pp. 315-316.
  • Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft: "Subjectivizations" . With a contribution by Rainer Braxmeier: “Subjectivizations” - a diary with hooks and deeper meaning . Karlsruhe 1995.
  • Gedok Schleswig-Holstein (Hrsg.): Republic of the arts . Lübeck 1996.
  • City of Rastatt et al. (Ed.): Revolution in the box . Rastatt 1999, ISBN 3-923082-31-2 .
  • Dietrich Maier : Karlsruhe fountain . Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2004, ISBN 3-89929-022-4 .
  • Soroptimist International Club Pforzheim: Dolls for Peace . With a contribution by Regina Fischer: The Metamorphosis of Daphne . Pforzheim 2005.
  • Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden (Hrsg.): Show the flag . Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-9810432-0-0 .
  • Kunst Halle and Hallescher Kunstverein (ed.): Fine arts from Halle's twin cities . Halle (Saale) 2006.
  • City of Baden-Baden et al. (Ed.): Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft - Blickwechsel . 1st edition. Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-88190-595-4 .
  • Gedok Karlsruhe (Hrsg.): Attention tension . 1st edition. Karlsruhe 2011.
  • Herman De Vilder (Ed.): Water in de art . Tervuren, Belgium 2011.
  • Badische Landesbibliothek (Ed.): LibrARTy . [Exhibition in the foyer of the Badische Landesbibliothek August 4 to September 30, 2012], Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-88705-057-3 .
  • Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden (Hrsg.): Show the flag . 2015, 60 years of the Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-9810432-1-1 .
  • Stadtwerke Karlsruhe and European Well Society : Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft WasserWerkeBrunnenGeschichten . 2017, booklet for the exhibition of the same name with a text by Nina Rind.
  • Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft (Ed.): Urban structures . 2018, with a literary text by Abier Bushnaq.
  • Brigitte Nowatzke-Kraft, city landscapes . Lindemanns Bibliothek Volume 325, Info Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-96308-022-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of "Artists in Baden-Baden" . Website of the Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Nowatzke-Kraft, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES NoK
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden , Germany