Christa Böhme

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christa Böhme , b. Christa Krefft (born December 25, 1940 in Berlin ; † March 17, 1991 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

From 1958 to 1961 she studied graphics at the master school for arts and crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and from 1961 to 1963 painting and graphics at the University of the Arts in West Berlin. After a short stay in Hamburg, she moved to East Berlin in 1964 to marry the painter Lothar Böhme . They lived in Berlin-Pankow , where she also had a studio and worked as a freelancer. In 1966 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . In 1975 she headed a drawing circle for autodidacts in Berlin's Otto-Nagel-Haus , which her husband looked after from 1976. In 1977 she went on a study trip to the Soviet Union and from 1977 to 1980 she was a master class student at the Akademie der Künste with Wilhelm Schmied , after which she held a teaching position at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1980 and again worked as a freelancer in Berlin-Pankow. In 1981 she traveled to Munich with Lothar Böhme, and in 1985 to Leningrad with the gallery owner Inga Kondeyne and Klaus Roenspieß . Christa Böhme committed suicide in March 1991.

Artistic creation

Her artistic work developed outside the official art scene. She was in friendly contact with Hans Brosch, Manfred Böttcher , Dieter Goltzsche , Brigitte Handschick , Wolfgang Leber , Harald Metzkes , Klaus Roenspieß , Roger Servaes and Hans Vent , who like herself and her husband Lothar Böhme, Brigitte Handschick, Brigitte Fugmann and Wolfgang Leber belonged to the Berlin School , a group of artist friends with a common visual conception, who stood in opposition to the socialist realism that was required . Many artists of this generation largely refused to join the official art scene. The term Berlin School, coined by Lothar Lang , “stood for a cultivated painting culture turned away from everyday politics and ideologies, for sensual reflection, consistent inwardness that was all about art”, “which opposed socialist dogmas of realism and agitational art”. Classical modernism , especially the work of Paul Cézanne, shaped the circle of artists . "The renewed formulation of the classic genres of nude and portrait, interior and still life, man and city connected the artists with one another and gave them credibility in their endeavor to be only committed to the laws of art apart from the official art scene".

Böhme, "whose interiors, still lifes and almost magical, introverted portraits consist of strictly beautiful, rhythmic and transparent color structures", chose "with their motifs the arcadian, mythological: placeless landscapes, interiors, quiet, unexcited realms". Her “work was one of those self-contained oeuvres that eluded public attention twice because they did not define themselves in the social environment in any other way than by determining what was their own. Your work is not narrative, has completely detached itself from the conditions of its creation and wants to be nothing other than art. ”( Matthias Flügge , catalog for the exhibition“ Christa Böhme ”, Akademie der Künste, 1994).

Exhibitions

  • 1972: Gallery in the tower
  • from 1974: regular participation in the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association
  • 1978: Participation in the GDR art exhibition in Dresden
  • 1980–1981: The Nationalgalerie acquires one of its major works, the "Drei Akten"
  • 1986: Participation in the exhibition Contemporary Art , Lindenau Museum Altenburg
  • 1989: Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic. Drawings in the art of the GDR: a selection from 40 years
  • 1990: Participation in the First May Salon - Art in Berlin

Posthumously:

  • 1994: Academy of the Arts Berlin
  • 1995/1996: Galerie im Turm, Berlin
  • 1998: Galerie am Prater, Berlin
  • 2011: Pictures, drawings and some of her main works, Galerie Pankow, Berlin
  • September 16 - November 19, 2017: dkw - Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus together with Lothar Böhme.
  • June 28 - August 4, 2018: 247th exhibition Again in Light III with Brigitte Fugmann, Brigitte Handschick, Inselgalerie Berlin

literature

  • Christa Böhme, Lothar Böhme. Stay free inside. Exhibition catalog, texts: Jörg Sperling, Ulrike Kremeier, Roland März, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus 2017, ISBN 978-3-942798-00-6 .
  • National Gallery Berlin - Art in the GDR. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-86502-077-1 .
  • Figure and object. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7861-1907-4 .
  • Christa Böhme. 1940-1991. Painting and drawings. Exhibition catalog, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-883319-83-4 .
  • Christa Böhme. Gallery in the Altes Museum . Exhibition catalog, text: Inga Kerkin, Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR (Ed.), Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German photo library : Böhme, Christa . Retrieved February 10, 2020
  2. ↑ Christa Böhme. In: Entry in the picture atlas Art in the GDR . Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Galerie Pankow: Christa Böhme. Painting and drawings . Retrieved February 11, 2020
  4. ↑ Hildtrud Ebert, Jutta Penndorf in collaboration with Matthias Flügge : Expert opinion on the inventory of the Beeskow art archive . On behalf of the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) of the State of Brandenburg, Berlin and Altenburg, July 2014, p. 21
  5. ↑ a b c Ingeborg Ruthe: Three female painters from the East: Böhme, Fugmann and Handschick in the Inselgalerie . In: Berliner Zeitung of July 4, 2018. Retrieved on February 11, 2020
  6. ^ Gallery in the tower: Past Exhibitions 1991 - 2016: December 14, 1995 - January 12, 1996 Berliner Kabinett - Drawings IV . Retrieved February 11, 2020
  7. ^ Klaus Hammer: At the Berlin Montmartre . In: Der Tagesspiegel of April 29, 1998. Retrieved on February 11, 2020
  8. ^ Dkw - Dieselkraftwerk art museum: Christa Böhme and Lothar Böhme - Staying free inside. (No longer available online.) Dkw, January 1, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  9. ^ Inselgalerie Berlin: 247th exhibition Again in Light III . Retrieved February 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krefft, Christa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1991
Place of death Berlin