Christina von Bitter

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Christina von Bitter (* 1965 ) is a German freelance artist and studied as a master class student with Lothar Fischer . Christina von Bitter, who lives in Munich, works as a sculptor and painter.

Life

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1988 to 1991), an internship with the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle in her Tarot Garden in Tuscany and a guest study at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Barcelona (1990), Christina von Bitter from 1991 to 1995 sculpture and painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and was a master student of Lothar Fischer .

View into a shop window with works by Christina von Bitter (2012)

Her work is represented in various public collections, such as B. in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich , the Diözesanmuseum Munich-Freising, in the Lyrik Kabinett Munich, in the Artothek Munich, in the Artothek Nuremberg, in the district of Upper Bavaria, in the Munich Municipal Collections, in the Klingspohr Museum Offenbach, in the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and of the Academy of the Diocese of Stuttgart. Her work has been documented in various films and publications. The artist has been exhibited several times by the cultural department of the city of Munich, such as the Maximiliansforum (Morpholog 2003) and the Artothek (2004).

Christina von Bitter lives and works in Munich and in Chiemgau.

Exhibitions

Museum exhibitions:

Christina von Bitter: Sculpture (2012)

Her work has been shown by art associations and institutions such as the Villa Wessel in Iserlohn (“The Skin of Things” 2012) and the Maximiliansforum Munich (“Morpholog” 2003).
Regular participation in art fairs such as art Karlsruhe and ART.FAIR Cologne or the art and antiques fair Münster.
Galleries at home and abroad, e.g. For example, in Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich, Münster and Ulm as well as in Switzerland and Spain, Christina von Bitter exhibited and exhibited.

Working in public space

  • 1992: Drinking fountain in Unterhaching near Munich, inner courtyard of the cultural center.
  • 2017: Bronze sculpture on the sculpture path in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate.

literature

  • "The skin of things", Gottfried Knapp (ed.), Edition Jürgen B. Tesch: Christina von Bitter "The skin of things" , Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-3811-5 .
  • "Ever since we met, the faded shrub next to the house smells nice" Artist's book with Nora Gomringer, Josef Kleinheinrich Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-945237-14-4 .
  • “The room within the room”, sculptures by Christina von Bitter, exhibition in the garden pavilion of the Beuerberg monastery, Diözesanmuseum Munich Freising, 2018.
  • “After the thunderstorm, the mosquitoes”, artist book with Michael Krüger, Hirmer Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7774-3457-5 .

Movies

  • “Children meet artists” (11 minutes), Benedikt Julian, 2008
  • “Portrait of an Artist” (7 minutes), Michael Bauer BR, 2009
  • “Art spaces”, BR-Alpha (15 minutes), Defilla Peider, 2011
  • “The Silence of Things” (3:12 minutes), works by Christina von Bitter and Giorgio Morandi in Kaufbeuren, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Bitter, Christina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965