Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos
Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos (born October 10, 1925 in Münsingen ; died February 25, 2017 in Mannheim ) was a German artist who became known as an industrial painter.
life and work
Her mother was a self-taught painter, her father ran a trade school and designed posters. Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos began studying biology at the University of Tübingen , which she dropped out after two semesters. She completed an art degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
In 1952 she moved to Mannheim with her husband. The city in its rebuilding after World War II became a main subject of her painting. She later painted on the BASF factory premises , in Daimler-Benz workshops and on the blast furnaces at Thyssen .
“In her extraordinarily extensive oeuvre, which is almost exclusively devoted to the industrial theme, Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos turns to the immediate, technically determined production processes. Robots play an important role in this. Only very rarely does she use the stylistic device of ironization [like her work Neue Technologie. Robots (1985)], which highlights the replacement of human labor with robots. Your pictures formulate neither a praise nor a blacksmith for modern technology; ... "
Solo exhibitions
Source: Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos on kuenstlernachlaesse-mannheim.de
- 1957: Reiss-Museum Mannheim
- 1961: Mannheim Art Association
- 2004: Old Town Hall Feudenheim
- 2005: State Museum for Technology and Work Mannheim
Publicly owned work
Source: Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos on kuenstlernachlaesse-mannheim.de
- Kunsthalle Mannheim
- Reiss-Museum Mannheim
- Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
Exhibition catalogs
- Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos. Painting and graphics 1953–1982. Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen 1983.
- Under the sign of the construction sites - Mannheim's reconstruction after 1945. Illustrations by Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos. Carl Bosch Museum , Heidelberg 2003.
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos on kuenstlernachlaesse-mannheim.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Simon: Early role conflicts. Article on Elisabeth Bieneck-Roos. In: The time . February 7, 2006
- ↑ Klaus Türk: Pictures of the work. An iconographic anthology , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2000, ISBN 978-3531133584 , pp. 346–347.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bieneck-Roos, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Münsingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 2017 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |