Eleonore Kötter
Eleonore Kötter (born September 2, 1932 in Schwelm ; † July 13, 2017 in Freudenstadt ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Live and act
Born in Schwelm near Wuppertal , Eleonore Kötter came to Aach near Freudenstadt with her parents at the age of 12 . The family had fled to the Black Forest from Wuppertal in 1943 before the bombing war. After graduating from school in Dornstetten, Kötter completed a commercial apprenticeship in Aach at the request of his father and worked in his parents' company. At the same time she attended lectures on art history and art at the Volksbildungswerk Freudenstadt and took drawing lessons from Otto Rühle (1909–1996). From 1954 to 1958 Kötter studied at the Free Art School in Stuttgart with Hermann Huebsch (1901–1995), Emil F. Karsten (1910–1993), Hans Karl Schlegel (born 1923). She also took lessons from the watercolor painter Ilse Beate Jäkel (1907–1982). From 1957 to 1974 Eleonore Kötter lived and worked in the GEDOK Stuttgart artists' house, built in 1955, at Hölderlinstrasse 17. Her friendship with the sculptor Eva Zippel (1925–2013) stems from this period . In the 1970s she also made use of the opportunities to work in the studio house of the Association of Visual Artists of Württemberg. V. (BBK) on Eugensplatz in Stuttgart. In autumn 1974 Kötter moved back to Aach, 1979 to Dornstetten , where she lived and worked in the historic building of the Alte Vogtei at Silbergasse 2 until her death in 2017.
Many of her works deal with nature, often presented from unfamiliar perspectives. Kötter prefers graphic techniques: woodcut, linocut, etching. Kötter was almost always on foot and took a lot of time to take in the respective surroundings and their moods, to capture them in sketches and to express them in her pictures. Over many years of creativity, she has worked on a large number of natural motifs in ever new variations. The idea of creation is always at the center of Kötter's art. In addition to landscapes and still life, Kötter was also interested in the built environment, which she processed in views of buildings and localities. Eleonore Kötter found inspiration for her artistic work on extensive travels.
In 1997 the artist founded the Eleonore Kötter Art Foundation, which she wanted to see as the basis for the municipal art collection in her place of residence in Dornstetten. The art collection and the graphic cabinet are housed together with a folklore museum in the town's former fruit box. The foundation comprises the entire estate of the artist. A digital catalog raisonné has been available since the beginning of 2019, comprising around 800 works by Eleonore Kötter and around 200 works by other artists. Part of Eleonore Kötter's artistic work is accessible online on the museum digital object platform .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions since 1958, mainly in cities in the German south-west
- 1967: Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum
- 1971: Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen City Gallery
- 1976: Hanover, Galerie Eisenbach
- 1977: Dornstetten , Upper Gatehouse
- 1979: Stuttgart, GEDOK gallery
- 1982: Bietigheim-Bissingen, Hornmoldhaus
- 1981: Kirchheim unter Teck, Kornhaus
- 1983: Freudenstadt, Kurhaus
- 1993: Moscow , Khodynka Gallery
- 2002: Lauterbach , Galerie Wilhelm Kimmich
- 2008: Görlitz, historic town hall
- 2011: Leipzig , Literaturhaus
- 2018: Wermsdorf , gallery in the Hubertusburg
Works in public collections
City Dornstetten collections (artistic estate), Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen , Regional Councils Freiburg, Stuttgart and Tübingen, Klingspor Museum Offenbach, State Gallery Stuttgart , City of Sindelfingen.
literature
- Karl Kussmaul: 's Johr about ... dialect poems and poems in high German. With 7 linocuts by Eleonore Kötter . Horb aN 1985
- Eva Zippel : Eleonore Kötter , in: Jahrbuch Landkreis Freudenstadt 1985, pp. 103-106
- Wolfgang Conrad: Scope of Seeing. The artist Eleonore Kötter , in: Schöne Schwaben 1990, issue 5, pp. 20-25
- Doris Wegerhoff: Exhibition by Eleonore Kötter. Homage to a great artist in the district , in: Jahrbuch Landkreis Freudenstadt 1993/94, pp. 114–116
- Eleonore Kötter: My places - my ways. Watercolors, drawings and prints from 1957–1995 . Dornstetten 1995
- Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg. On the history of the Württemberg Association of Women Painters and the Federation of Women Artists of Württemberg . Stuttgart 1999, Vol. 2, p. 97, p. 249f, p. 324
- Peter Bänsch: Eleonore Kötter Art Foundation. Graphic cabinet in the Dornstetter Fruchtkasten , in: Jahrbuch Landkreis Freudenstadt 2003, pp. 110–113
- Eleonore Kötter: Limitless. Watercolors, drawings, typefaces . Dornstetten 2007
- Ruth Dörschel: Limitless. The new art volume by Eleonore , in: Jahrbuch Landkreis Freudenstadt 2010, pp. 116–119
- Eleonore Kötter: My 7 trees. The tree as a metaphor for life; Woodcut; Drawing, watercolor, layered image, wooden printing block, hand printing, hand, writing . Dornstetten (2001)
- Barbara König: 50 works by female masters . Lindenberg 2012, pp. 20f
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kötter, Eleanor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwelm |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 2017 |
| Place of death | Freudenstadt |