Carolin Beyer

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Carolin Beyer (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German painter .

life and work

Carolin Beyer studied illustration at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung, now part of the HAW Hamburg . In 1997 she finished her studies with a diploma, in her diploma thesis she devoted herself to the subject of "Painterly Illustration - Illustrative Painting". Study visits took her to Italy, France and Spain. Carolin Beyer has been working freelance in her own studio in Hamburg since 1992.

Her artistic focus is on portrait painting. “She represents a 'new realism' and, while painting, undertakes expeditions into the soul life of the people she portrays,” writes the Hamburger Abendblatt . "Her goal is not to create an image of the human being, as flattering as possible of the person being portrayed, but rather to peel out the core of the personality," said art historian Barbara Aust-Wegemund in a 2011 exhibition catalog. Carolin Beyer's motifs also include landscapes and Christian motifs Topics, for example, she created a triptych for St. Elisabeth in Hamburg-Harvestehude. She created two altarpieces of Jesus and Paul for the St. Paul's Church in Vladivostok . In 2012, Carolin Beyer won the special artist award at the DAK “Flower for Life” painting competition . “You have to learn to read faces,” says Carolin Beyer in an interview with Die Welt . Carolin Beyer has also taken on various teaching positions in the fine arts.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1998: Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Hamburg, retrospective 1988–1998
  • 1999: University of Düsseldorf , work exhibition 1988–1989
  • 2002: Elysée-Galerie Hamburg, encounters , pictures and graphics (1998–2002)
  • 2005: Art Collection Thamsen North Friesland, Bongsiel
  • 2008: Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , couples and other individualists in Hamburg
  • 2013: Art Forum GEDOK , Hamburg, What for? Be for it!
  • 2015: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg, new hanging
  • 2016: Benedictine monastery Nütschau , what for? Be for it!
  • 2017: Gallery "Kunsthaus an der Alster", 2gether not alone
  • 2018: Galerie Göldner, Bordesholm, Klar Kimming
  • 2019: Reinbek Castle, Prima Vista - pictures for a second look

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990: Salon du livre de jeunesse, Paris Jeunes illustrateurs pour demain
  • 1997: Catholic Academy Hamburg, Bixt & Teld - Presentation of the diploma thesis Der Silvesterfisch
  • 2006: Thamsen art collection, North Friesland, Bongsiel, Nolde lives , six artists - six positions
  • 2011: Gallery of the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts, sometimes mother - sometimes daughter
  • 2015: Hamburg Chamber of Commerce , Width and Light
  • 2016: Berlin.Galerie, Berlin, benefit exhibition for Expensive des Femmes
  • 2018: Kunstverein Elmshorn, 35 artists from GEDOK Hamburg

Works

  • Kevin Henkes, Carolin Beyer (illustration): ... and then came Joselle . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86615-816-0 .
  • Carolin Beyer: Oh, you are a painter? . In: Hamburg on the way to becoming a cosmopolitan city . Innocentia Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-9808107-2-0 , pp. 15-21.

literature

  • Roger Willemsen , Felix Billeter, Carolin Beyer (Ill.): Couples and other individualists in Hamburg . Dölling and Gallitz, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-79-5 . (Catalog for the exhibition in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce 2008/2009)
  • What for? Be for it! 17 positions - a portrait sequence . Verlag Cord Ortmanns, Hamburg 2013. (Exhibition catalog)
  • Prima Vista - Pictures for a second glance , catalog for the exhibition at Reinbek Castle near Hamburg

Web links

Commons : Carolin Beyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maike Schiller: Expeditions into the soul life . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from February 4, 2002.
  2. ↑ Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund: Sometimes mother, sometimes daughter . Exhibition catalog, Hamburg 2011.
  3. ↑ Gallery overview of St. Elisabeth , three pictures: St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, Mary with the child, Harvestehude monastery.
  4. ↑ Manfred Brockmann, pastor at the Pauluskirche in Vladivostok: The Pauluskirche in Vladivostok has two new pictures: Christ the King and the Apostle Paul . June 2016 on the website of St. Paul's Church in Vladivostok.
  5. ↑ Special artist award for tulip meadow . In: fit! - Magazine of your DAK health for the best years , No. 04/2012, p. 6.
  6. ↑ Norbert Vojta: Vojta asks: “You have to learn to read faces” . Interview with Carolin Beyer in Die Welt on April 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Carolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg