Erika striker-Alex

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Erika Stürmer-Alex, 2015

Erika Stürmer-Alex (born February 4, 1938 in Wriezen ) is a German painter and graphic artist who works in the areas of panel painting , printmaking , collage plastic , polyester plastic , installation and wall painting .

Life

Erika Stürmer-Alex studied painting, graphics and art in building at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee from 1958 to 1963 , where Herbert Behrens-Hangeler and Kurt Robbel were among her teachers . From 1967 she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . After studying and doing her first freelance work, she worked from 1970 to 1987 as a course instructor for painting and graphics at the Kulturhaus Rüdersdorf near Berlin . From 1980 onwards she also carried out numerous commissions and designs in the field of building-related art.

In 1982 she moved the center of her life to Lietzen , Amt Seelow-Land , where she bought a homestead and has been teaching painting, graphic and collage courses every year since 1983 .

In the same year, Erika Stürmer-Alex and the painter Johanna Görke collected support signatures for the recently published “Berliner Appell”, which was written by the scientist Robert Havemann and the pastor Rainer Eppelmann , during a celebration in Schwedt . This appeal was about a permanent basis for a peace order and not about peace as the absence of war. The 80 or so signatories advocated a policy that not only aimed at postponing the war, but aimed at substantial relaxation. As a result, she was summoned to various bodies of the party and the artists' association and a case was opened against her at the Ministry of State Security . When friends later left the GDR, Erika Stürmer-Alex was banned from exhibiting a series of portraits of friends who had left. In 1988, as part of a working group during the 10th Congress of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, she worked out a resolution against the ban on the Soviet magazine Sputnik .

After the fall of the Wall , she co-founded the Endmoräne-Künstlerinnen aus Brandenburg und Berlin eV in 1991. Since the mid-1990s she has been a member of the GEDOK Brandenburg and the Brandenburg Association of Visual Artists. V.

Works by Erika Stürmer-Alex are owned by the Nationalgalerie (Berlin) , the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder) , the Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus , the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , the University Gallery Evansville (Indiana) , USA and in many private collections.

A film portrait by Therese Koppe, Im Stillen Laut ("A Quiet Resistance"), illuminates the lives of Erika Stürmer-Alex and her partner Christine Müller-Stosch.

Quote

“Using different visual techniques, Erika Stürmer-Alex constantly moves into the friction zones of reality in order to check her own positions in alternation with general existential questions, to combine the process of being with individual mythology and to develop a subjective sign language for it. That is why she relies on the everyday with a captivating meaning, mixes the visionary with the varieties of the banal and, with everything she does, aims provocatively at the center of our perception ”( Herbert Schirmer )

honors and awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Berlin appeal at jugendopposition.de
  2. ↑ Hannelore Offner and Klaus Schroeder: bounded - excluded: fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961-1989 , page 255 f., Akademie Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2000, ISBN 3050033487
  3. ↑ Günter Feist and Eckhart Gillen: KUNSTKOMBINAT DDR , page 194, Museum Pedagogical Service Berlin, 1990, ISBN 3889400647
  4. ↑ When the Stasi files really make you laugh. on rbb24 from November 2, 2019.
  5. ^ Herbert Schirmer: Erika Stürmer-Alex . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-52-4 ( digitized version of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung im Land Brandenburg [ed.])
personal data
SURNAME Forward Alex, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Spices