Dorothea Gelker

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Dorothea Gelker (* 1958 in Altenberge , Westphalia) is a German painter.

Career

Dorothea Gelker grew up in Münster and studied from 1976 at the "Institute for Art Education, Münster Department" at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . After two compulsory trial semesters in orientation with Bernd Minnich with a subsequent intermediate examination, she studied sculpture with Ernst Hermanns , and from 1979 painting in Hermann-Josef Kuhna's class . At the University of Münster from 1976 to 1982, she studied education in parallel to her art studies, accompanied by educational sciences and philosophy.

In 1982 Gelker was made a master class student and worked in the Kuhna class for another year. 1983 to 1985 followed in Recklinghausen a traineeship for teaching positions SEK I and SEK II in the subjects of art and education.

In 1985 she moved to Düsseldorf and - after an initial six-week stay in New York City - found her main artistic theme "Big City Architecture". Further stays in the USA followed. In 1990 Gelker decided to paint professionally.

Dorothea Gelker has been living and working in a subsidized residential studio in the listed Salzmannbau in Düsseldorf-Bilk since 1995 and exhibits regularly. Since 2002 she has been a program artist at Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden and Galerie Jutta Kabuth, Gelsenkirchen.

Informal traces of paint in an intuitive interplay with a careful choice of colors and strictly geometric construction - the reduction of traditional vanishing point perspective to the mathematically right angle - shape her way of working to this day. Manfred Schneckenburger wrote on the occasion of the Kuhna-Meisterschüler exhibition in 2004 in the WGZ-Bank: “The most important means of creating spatial depth is, as with the three-stripe scheme of the early Baroque Dutch, the color perspective” [...] “In the detail, a loose one counters Handwriting the geometric grid: washouts, streaks, drops break away from the strict functionalism of the construction ”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985: Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 1985 (G). Catalog: Fig. Without page number (without ISSN)
  • 1990: Museum of the Waldshut District, Bonndorf Castle (E)
  • 2001: Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2001 (G). Catalog: Fig. 55; ISSN  0931-0908
  • 2004: art Karlsruhe , Galerie Cerny + Partner, booth E36, Wiesbaden, one-man-show: Dorothea Gelker (E). Catalog: p. 78, ill. P. 79; ISBN 3-937295-10-0
  • 2005: Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2005 (G). Catalog: Fig. 104; ISSN  0931-0908
  • 2008: "City Landscapes", Robert Koepke House, Schieder-Schwalenberg (E)
  • 2012: "Here and now - current art in Hamm and in the Westphalia region", Gustav-Lübcke-Museum , Hamm (G)
  • 2014: "From here to now, 20 years of artist studios in Salzmannbau", Kunstraum Düsseldorf (G)
  • 2015: "NYC", Jutta Kabuth Gallery, Gelsenkirchen (E)
  • 2017: "Space 42nd Düsseldorf Positions", Robert-Koepke-Haus, Schieder-Schwalenberg (G)
  • 2017: "Insight - Outsight", Dorothea Gelker and Dorothea Schüle, Galerie Diede / Stadtgalerie Ahrweiler, Weißer Turm - Bad Neuenahr, Ahrweiler, March 5 to April 2, 2017
  • 2017: “In the rhythm of colors”, Hermann-Josef Kuhna, Dorothea Gelker and Hugo Boguslawski, Galerie Anette Müller, Düsseldorf
  • 2018: "Here and now - current art in Hamm and the Westphalia region", Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm (G)
  • 2019: art Karlsruhe, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, booth no. H3 / J19, pp. 158/159; ISBN 978-3-00-061734-8
  • 2019: "Sharp Edges in Sculpture and Paintings", Dorothea Gelker and Clemens Weiss, Galerie Jutta Kabuth, Gelsenkirchen

Collections (selection)

  • Collection in the Willy Brandt House , Berlin
  • Permanent collection of the State Museum Buca, Tivat / Montenegro
  • Art collection WGZ-Bank, Düsseldorf

Bibliography (selection)

  • Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 1985. Fig. Without number (without ISSN)
  • Large art exhibition Düsseldorf NRW 2001. Fig. 55. ISSN  0931-0908
  • Large art exhibition Düsseldorf NRW 2005. Fig. 104. ISSN  0931-0908
  • Muzej i Galerija Ljetnjikovka Buca - Ludovic Düsseldorf Tivat Art Collection. Donation, n.d., Fig. 12, p. 15, Vita p. 73. (without ISBN)
  • Manfred Schneckenburger, Dorothea Gelker: Filigree Manhattan. In: WGZ-Bank Westdeutsche Genossenschaftszentralbank eG, Düsseldorf (Ed.): Great! Painting by master students of the Kuhna class / Art Academy Münster. Düsseldorf 2004, p. 20. (without ISBN)
  • Th. Hirsch: Gelker, Dorothea, German painter. In: Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL), The visual artists of all times and peoples, Vol. 51, Geeslin - Geranzani. KG Saur Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-22791-2 , p. 203.
  • Helmut Ebert: Gelker, Dorothea. In: Helmut Ebert: Lexicon of the visual and creative artists in Westphalia-Lippe. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-05458-2 , p. 174.
  • WGZ Bank art collection. Düsseldorf, undated (2006), ISBN 978-3-00-020197-4 , pp. 140, 141, 233.
  • Ulrike Fuchs: Structures of a City - City Landscapes by Dorothea Gelker. In: ARTPROFIL, magazine for contemporary art. 12th year, issue 2, Light and Shadow in Painting - Rembrandt, Caravaggio and the Present. 2006, pp. 42 and 43. ISSN  1430-4821 , PVSt. E 48757

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger: Dorothea Gelker: Filigree Manhattan. In: class! Painting by master students of the Kuhna class / Art Academy Münster. Düsseldorf 2004, p. 20.
  2. ↑ From here to now, 20 years of artist studios in the Salzmannbau, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
  3. ↑ NYC, Gallery Jutta Kabuth, Gelsenkirchen
  4. ↑ https://www.lippe-news.de/2017/06/02/picasso-warhol-und-space-42-4/
  5. ↑ Note and images on the website of Galerie Diede
  6. ^ In the rhythm of colors, Hermann-Josef Kuhna, Dorothea Gelker and Hugo Boguslawski, Galerie Anette Müller, Düsseldorf, June 10th. - 07/22/2017
  7. ↑ A play of colors in art Delights Düsseldorf
  8. ↑ https://www.cernyundpartner.de/artists/ausstellung/messe-art-karlsruhe-2019/
  9. ↑ A breath of New York blows through the Galerie Kabuth, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 26.09.2019
personal data
SURNAME Gelker, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, contemporary painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenberge