Elli Graetz

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Elli Graetz (born March 20, 1947 in Berlin as Elli Fuhrmann ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Elli Graetz was born in Berlin as the daughter of Bruno Fuhrmann and Louise Vitzthum, both of whom were in the resistance against National Socialism. After graduating from high school in Hennigsdorf, she completed an internship in the theater workshops of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. From 1968 to 1969 she studied theater painting in Dresden , then worked in various professions before she began studying graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1971 and graduated in 1976 with a diploma. She studied with Professors Arno Mohr , Werner Klemke , Klaus Wittkugel and Axel Bertram .

Elli Graetz has been working as a freelancer since 1976. She began as a graphic designer, illustrator and poster designer on behalf of various Berlin publishers, Progress Filmverleihs and German TV broadcaster. Since 1990, free graphics has been the main focus of her work, preferring printing techniques such as woodcut, screen printing, lithography and etching. But she also creates installations and objects. Part of her work is helping to create artist books and portfolios.

Elli Graetz lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg and is married to the photographer Jürgen Graetz.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

E - solo exhibition, B - exhibition participation, K - catalog, M - folder

  • 1983 Halle, Burggalerie E, K
  • 1984 Magdeburg, Burggalerie E
  • 1987 Dresden, Albertina; X art exhibition of the GDR B
  • 1987 Berlin, Studio Fine Arts; Berlin views in print series B, K
  • 1988 Jena, gallery in town house E
  • 1998 Berlin, gallery in the tower; Etching in Berlin after 45 B, K
  • 1990 Fürstenwalde; Miniatures in the fine arts B, K
  • 1991 Berlin, Studio Fine Arts E
  • 1997 Potsdam, Tower Gallery; Graphic exhibition B
  • 1999 Berlin, Inselgalerie E
  • 2001 Güstrow, City Gallery Wollhalle; Images of women B, K
  • 2002 Berlin, Biesdorf Palace; Wood and stone prints E
  • 2002 Berlin, Inselgalerie; Space to Fly B, K
  • 2002 Klein Sassen, art station; Lithographs from Berlin B, graphic portfolio
  • 2002 Vienna , The Small Gallery; Lithograph Paris-Berlin-Vienna B
  • 2003 Rheinsberg , Schloss, Kurt-Tucholsky Literature Museum; Imagery E
  • 2003 Dannenwalde, church on the way; Figures (with Carin Kreuzberg) E.
  • 2004 Baruth / Glashütte, Gallery Packschuppen; high, deep, flat (with Ralf Hentrich ) E
  • 2004 Eschen / Liechtenstein, Tangente Gallery; Graphics and figures (with Hans Scheib ) E
  • 2004 Copenhagen , Rundetaarn; Region and identity B, K
  • 2004 Berlin, Galerie M; Region and identity B, K
  • 2004 Ahrenshoop, Neues Kunsthaus; History in landscapes, B, K, book object
  • 2005 Berlin, Grünstraße, Wintermond - Graphics and Objects E
  • 2006 Ahrenshoop, Kunsthaus; Hide B, book object
  • 2006 Berlin, Grünstrasse; Approaching Heinrich Heine B
  • 2006 Fürstenwalde, Rathausgelerie; 7. Miniature in Fine Arts B, K
  • 2006 Baruth / Glashütte Gallery Packshed; wide country B, K
  • 2006 Neuhardenberg, Brandenburg Castle Art Prize of MOZ B, K
  • 2007 Neuruppin, Siechenhauskapelle; Pictures E
  • 2007 Berlin, Galerie Grünstrasse; Especially food and drink (with Jürgen Graetz ) E
  • 2007 Teterow, Galerie am Kamp; The animal in me B
  • 2008 Altlangsow, school and prayer house; Figure head sign E.
  • 2009 Berlin, graphics studio gallery; Collages, prints, objects E, K
  • 2009 Essen , Forum Art and Architecture; Red thread B
  • 2010 Berlin, print studio, Prenzlauer Berg; WOOD E
  • 2010 Zernikow, old distillery; Graphic objects (with Christiane Wartenberg and Ralf Hentrich ) E
  • 2010 Neuruppin, gallery in Bollwerk E with Jürgen Graetz
  • 2011 Berlin, Inselgalerie; Paper-wood cut (with Beate Hoffmeister) E
  • 2011 Menz, Künstlerhof Roofensee; Graphics and objects E
  • 2011 Frankfurt / Oder, Kleist Museum; Impressions of the Romantik B, folder
  • 2012 Zehdenick, Klostergalerie; Graphics and objects E
  • 2012 Müncheberg, parish church; Woodcuts E
  • 2012 Gdańsk / Poland, National Museum B, K
  • 2013 Berlin, Adlershof, Alte Schule gallery; Têtê-á-Têtê B
  • 2013 Berlin, Adlershof, Alte Schule gallery; Five on site B
  • 2014 Berlin, Inselgalerie; Brave New World- 450th Anniversary of Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare B, K
  • 2015 Berlin, Gallery 100; Drei in Hundert (with Rahel Mucke and Eberhard Hartwig) E
  • 2015 Zernikow, old distillery; THREE TIMES GRAETZ with Sara and Jürgen Graetz E
  • 2015 Berlin, Grünstrasse; maerztiere-celestial brood B
  • 2015 Neuhardenberg, Castle; Brandenburg Art Prize of MOZ B
  • 2015 Ahrenshoop New Art House; Temperaments; From the woodcut in contemporary art
  • 2016 Rangsdorf, Art Wing Gallery, Gedok House; Departure B
  • 2016 Berlin, Inselgalerie; The animal and us, B.
  • 2016 Berlin − Pankow, gallery in Cafe Canape; Woodcuts E
  • 2o17 Ahrenshoop, Neues Kunsthaus; The mysterious disappearance of the painter Alfred Particle , 43 positions from literature and the visual arts G
  • 2017 Rangsdorf, Art Wing Gallery, Gedok House; Path of the passenger pigeon E
  • 2017 Potsdam, museum house "Im Güldenen Arm"; Graphics & Objects E
  • 2017/18 Berlin, Adlershof Galerie Alte Schule; 30 years of workshop artistic lithography Berlin-Treptow B
  • 2018 Potsdam, Landtag Brandenburg ; The other capital BK

Awards and grants

  • 1976–78 Magistrate Berlin, scholarship
  • 1995 Künstlerhaus Lukas , work grant
  • 1996 Kulturwerk Vorpommern / Uckermark eV, graphic work grant
  • 2001 Salzburg, Austria, graphic workshop in the Traklhaus, studio grant
  • 2007 Haldenstein / Switzerland work stay as part of the artist exchange, Treptow / Köpenick, Haldenstein / Chur / Switzerland
  • 2019 Brandenburg Art Prize 2019 in the graphics category

Illustrated books (selection) by Elli Graetz

  • 1978 Seven spoons of pudding, Günter Saalmann ; Children's book publisher Berlin
  • 1978 Romance for a flugelhorn, Frantisék Hrubín; Publishing house Volk und Welt Berlin
  • 1978 The ripped jacket, Tom Wittgen ; Verlag Junge Welt Berlin
  • 1988 A butterfly dream under the apple tree, Eberhard Hofmann ; Verlag Junge Welt
  • 2012 Touches, Poems Waltraud Friederike Rauh; Edition Stechlin, Berlin

Participation in graphic portfolios and book objects

  • 1999 Room to Fly, portfolio with original graphics, Inselgalerie Berlin
  • 2000 Ambivalences, portfolio with original graphics, Inselgalerie Berlin
  • 2004 History in Landscapes, book object with original graphics, Edition Hohes Ufer, Ahrenshoop.
  • 2006 Hiding places, book object with original graphics, Edition Hohes Ufer, Ahrenshoop
  • 2009 20 years of the workshop of artistic lithography, graphic edition Berlin (for the twentieth anniversary of the workshop with 21 multicolored lithographs by 21 artists from Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland)
  • 2012 Impressions of Romanticism, graphic portfolio, Lübbering Foundation

Catalogs

  • 1998: Elli Graetz; Graphics, pictures, Edition Stechlin
  • 2009: Elli Graetz; Collages, prints, objects 2005-2009, Edition Stechlin
  • 2010: Elli Graetz; Prints on tea bag paper, Edition Stechlin
  • 2012: sasiadki / Neighbors Gdańsk / Berlin Stowarzyszenie Arteria ISBN 978-83-931353-2-5
  • 2012: sans souci works on paper 30 artists out of 30 links catalog for the exhibition ISBN 978-3-00-038695-4
  • 2015: Gedok Literature Calendar 2016 ISBN 978-3-9815084-6-8
  • 2017: Elli Graetz; Works from 1997 to 2017, Edition Stechlin

Literature (selection)

  • Gotthard Brandler, Berlin: Views of Berlin in Print Series II 1965-87 , Berlin 1987 Catalog, VBK Berlin
  • Ingrid Sedlacek: Artists and their work , movement in Rheinhessen art on the bike path, Kunstinitiative Rheinhessen eV, Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Lonny Neumann : Elli Graetz graphics, pictures , catalog Edition Stechlin, Berlin 1998
  • Dietlinde Schirmacher: Elli Graetz Grafik, Bilder , Catalog Edition Stechlin, Berlin 1998
  • Lonny Neumann: Elli Graetz collages, prints, objects 2005-2009 , catalog, Edition Stechlin, Berlin 2009
  • Petra Hornung: Elli Graetz Prints on teabag paper Catalog Edition Stechlin, Berlin 2010
  • Herbert Schirmer , book text, collages, prints, objects 2005-09
  • Karla Bielang, Galerie 100 Berlin 2015 and text leaflet 10 years collegium artis eV Galerie, Grünstraße 2015
  • Franz Zauleck: "Rabbit to the left, rabbit to the right" Elli Graetz in the Klostergalerie Zehdenick 2012
  • Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of Ex-Libris Artists , Constance, 3rd edition, 2013 ISBN 978-3863864491

Working in public collections

  • Beeskow Art Archive
  • Berlin-Mitte, museum
  • Edition.Hohes Ufer, Ahrenshoop
  • Foundation European Academy of Arts and Culture for Women (EFAK)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Fuhrmann, German resistance fighter, In: Who was who in the GDR , ISBN 3-59612767-X .
  2. ^ Hermann Wichers : Bruno Fuhrmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 26, 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Austrian-German resistance fighter, In German Communist Supplement to the Biographical Manual 1918 to 1945 , ISBN 978-3-320-02295-2
personal data
SURNAME Graetz, Elli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuhrmann, Elli (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin