Christa Murken

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Christa Murken (* 1944 in Mengen ; née Altrogge ) is a German art historian and painter .

Life

Christa Murken was born in Mengen in 1944 as the daughter of the aviation pioneer Werner Altrogge . In 1964 she graduated from high school in Euskirchen with a high school diploma . Between 1965 and 1967 she completed a commercial training in Cologne. From 1967 to 1971 she studied art history, archeology and psychology at the University of Cologne , from which she graduated with a Magister Artium. In 1990, his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen to Dr. phil. with an art historical study of the life and work of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig . She is married to the art and medical historian Axel Hinrich Murken and has three children.

activities

After working for one and a half years at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf (1971–1972), she began her work as an art writer. Together with Axel Hinrich Murken 1976 founded the Murken-Altrogge publishing house in Münster. In addition to her writing activities, she curated several museum exhibitions, including a. "Children of the 20th Century" (2000). Since 1984 she has also worked as a painter and illustrator and has had numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

Publications

  • North Rhine-Westphalia art collection for children . Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker - portraits of children . Munich 1977 (5th edition 1988).
  • Advertising, myth, art using the example of Coca-Cola . Tuebingen 1977.
  • The little strollers. An architectural story for children . Munster 1978.
  • Barefoot in art. Modern painting clearly explained . Münster 1980 (2nd extended edition 1993).
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker. Life and work . Cologne 1980 (8th edition 2007).
  • with Axel Hinrich Murken: Processes of Freedom. From expressionism to soul and body art . Cologne 1985.
  • Maria Lassnig. Her life and her painterly work . With a catalog raisonné of the paintings. Herzogenrath 1990.
  • with Axel Hinrich Murken: From the avant-garde to the postmodern. 20th century painting . Munich 1991.
  • Coca-Cola - consumption, cult, art . Munich 1991.
  • Adventure hospital. A day in a large hospital . Aachen 1992.
  • with Axel Hinrich Murken: Power for life. A health guide for young people . Ravensburg 1998.
  • with Brigitte Schad and Klaus Weschenfelder: Children of the 20th Century . Cologne 2000.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker, portraits of children . Ostfildern-Ruit 2004 (2nd edition 2009).
  • Animal Turn. Looking for a new way of dealing with animals . Herzogenrath 2015.
  • Make nature sound . Catalog raisonné of paintings by Christa Murken (1982–2020). Herzogenrath 2020.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1984 Burg Rhode cultural center, Herzogenrath
  • 1999 Producer Gallery Passau (Catalog ISBN 3-921-801-99-0 )
  • 2001 Cultureel Centrum Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist / Belgium
  • 2001 Gallery Open Art, Borken / Westphalia
  • 2002 Deutsche Bank, Cologne
  • 2003 Jorispoort Gallery, Antwerp / Belgium
  • 2003 Practice gallery Erlangen
  • 2004 Old Mariagrube station, Alsdorf (Catalog ISBN 3-935791-09-7 )
  • 2005 Planning office Dr. Pawlik & Partner, Berlin
  • 2005 Forum for Art and Culture Herzogenrath and the Euregio (together with Julian Murken)
  • 2007 Jean-Paul Flament Gallery, Brussels
  • 2007 BBK Gallery, Aachen (Catalog ISBN 978-3-935791-27-4 )
  • 2008 Bernack Gallery, Worpswede Art Center
  • 2010 Aachen City Library
  • 2010 Inloopcentrum De Hemelse Vrede, Cadzand-Dorp / Netherlands
  • 2011 Art, culture and Economic center Herzogenrath

Public collections

literature

  • Hanns Egon Wörlen . In: Christa Murken. Painting . Exhibition catalog. Passau 1999.
  • Silvia Szymanski : Catch your dreams. In: Christa Murken. Nature and myth . Exhibition catalog. Herzogenrath 2004.
  • Hinrich van Damme: Nature and Myth. Connecting elements of human existence. In: Christa Murken. Nature and myth . Herzogenrath 2004.
  • Anita Nardon: Sérénité. In: Christa Murken. Realism Magique . Exhibition catalog. Herzogenrath 2007.
  • Lexicon of Fantastic Artists. 2nd Edition. Ed .: Gerhard Habarta. Vienna 2013.
  • Lexicon of Fantastic Artists. Ed .: International Fantastic Artists Archive. Norderstedt 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Murken, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altrogge, Christa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH amounts