Elke Pollack
Elke Pollack (* 1960 in Stalinstadt ) is a German painter and graphic artist .
Live and act
From 1973 to 1978 Elke Pollack attended the special school for music in Dresden. In 1978 she began studying violin at the Dresden University of Music, which she completed in 1983. From 1983 to 1989 she played in the Rostock Philharmonic Orchestra .
In 1990 Elke Pollack began her career as a painter. From 1990 to 1995 she studied painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls her "an artistic dual talent" because of her artistic work in music and painting. Pollack made her diploma with the painter Professor Dieter Goltzsche . She has been a freelance artist since 1996.
Elke Pollack is counted at the Berlin school . She is one of the most important students of Dieter Goltzsche. Her works are shown in exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland and France.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called her a “talent in the tradition of the Berlin School, which focused on objectivity and the reduction of form to artistic generalization .” According to New Germany , Pollack has “her style full of obstinacy and skepticism, a bit of arrogance and self-irony " found. “It is a tremendous pleasure to look at your pictures. The idea of irony enables them to accept the automatic emergence and the accidental with its surprising consequences. "
Pollack has a son and lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
Honors
- 2010 Awarded the Impulse Art Prize , Osnabrück
- 1999–2000 again the Käthe Dorsch Foundation grant
- 1999 3rd prize in the artist competition Artists see Marzahn
- 1998 Picture acquisition by the German Bundestag
- 1998 Scholarship from the Käthe Dorsch Foundation as well as the working scholarship from the Kulturfonds Berlin Foundation in the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
- In 1997 she received a scholarship from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen at the Künstlerhaus Willingshausen in Hessen
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2015 Galerie Amtares, Paris-Montmartre; Gallery of the Hellen Panke; Gallery in Hofefeld, Frauenstein
- 2014 Café "Sibylle", Berlin; Art Mathieu, Olten, Switzerland; Galerie Amtares, Paris-Montmartre "On City Life"
- 2012 Kunsthaus Flora, Berlin-Mahlsdorf "People and Medusen"; Galerie am Platz des Friedens, Hanau-Steinheim; Cologne Paper Art, Cologne; Art fair for graphics and paperwork, ART ULM; Vernissage artist forum Schwetzingen
- 2011 Hellbusch Gallery, Mainz
- 2009 artist fair ART Brandenburg; Art fair HanseArt , Bremen
- 2005 Young Gallery, Heidelberg
- 2003 Galerie am Wasserturm, Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg; Gallery "Remise Degewo", Berlin-Pankow
- 2001 Participation in the symposium of the Kutaisi Art Association, Georgia
- 1998 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for advanced study); Galerie am Wasserturm, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg; Gallery Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
literature
- Jürgen Große: Five time images. Leipzig: Leipziger Literaturverlag, 2010.
- Elke Pollack. From people in the city. Hennigsdorf: brahms artgallery, 2007.
- Elke Pollack. Painting - works on paper. Berlin: Galerie am Wasserturm, 2001.
- Elke Pollack. Fourth artist grant from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen. 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d "scratch marks, somewhat scratchy", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 15, 2001.
- ↑ East German art deposits, URL: http://ostdeutsche-kunstauktionen.net/?p=1315 (accessed on December 20, 2015).
- ↑ “Figures walk across the paper. Pollack's pictures in the gallery at the water tower ”, in: Neues Deutschland, 24./25. Feb 2001.
- ↑ a b The city and its people. Painting and graphics by Elke Pollack in the gallery of Hellen Panke in Prenzlauer Berg, in: Neues Deutschland, on September 21, 2015.
- ^ "The rhythm of loneliness", in: Die Welt, March 14, 1998.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollack, Elke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stalin city |