Eva-Maria Bergmann

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Eva-Maria Bergmann (born February 28, 1941 in Sprottau , Lower Silesia Province ; † July 24, 2016 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

As a four-year-old while fleeing the Silesian Sprottau with her mother and brother , she only just escaped the Dresden bombing of February 13, 1945 , the future painter grew up in the Saxony-Anhaltinian village of Roitzsch near Bitterfeld . After attending secondary school, she studied graphics and painting at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig from 1960 . She belonged to Bernhard Heisig's painting class . With Werner Tübke she also completed a special training in portrait drawing and painting. In 1965 Eva-Maria Bergmann completed her studies with a diploma and took a part-time position as a teacher for drawing lessons at the primary school in Roitzsch.

When she was dismissed from school in the GDR in 1972 due to political unreliability , the artist was forced to accept a job as a cleaner at the Leipzig Opera . On the mediation of Leipzig artist friends, she was able to switch to the costume department of the Leipziger Schauspielhaus the following year . During this time she met Rolf Reuter , who from then on was to become the most important patron of her art. The inner circle of artist friends also included Karl Krug , Eva and Erwin Strittmatter , Friedhelm Eberle , Norman Shetler and the cellist Anna Niebuhr .

Eva-Maria Bergmann has lived as a freelance artist in Leipzig since 1993.

Creating art

Eva-Maria Bergmann's grave

Her first portraits in the New Objectivity style, such as Portrait of Frau Nestler , Portrait of Hannelore Scholz (1964) or Portrait of Helga (1969), were already being made during her studies . In 1973 the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg acquired her pencil drawing Portrait of an Old Woman , which was published in 1977 in the catalog Drawing in the Leipzig District .

Werner Tübke made her aware of the painter Albert Ebert , whom she was able to visit in Halle shortly before his death . Through Ebert's work she found her own artistic expression by taking up the style of naive painting and developing it further. The painting Fireworks in Wörlitzer Park , originally a gift to Werner Tübke, came into the possession of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1976 as the first work of her new visual language .

As a result, further imaginative, mostly small-format pictures, painted with the finest brushstrokes and splashes of color, were created that deal with themes from the world of fairy tales and mythologies, everyday and festival culture as well as landscapes of the region or scenes from the world of music and theater. Cardboard, wood, scraps of fabric or furniture panels served as a painting surface.

Eva-Maria Bergmann died in Leipzig in 2016. Her grave is in the south cemetery there .

Memberships

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970 Leipzig: Engewald bookstore (personal exhibition)
  • 1977, 1982, 1987 Dresden : Art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1992 Bonn : Artist Forum Ars Lipsiensis
  • 1997, 1999 Leipzig: Art exhibitions of the Federal Association of Visual Artists
  • 2015 Leipzig: Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig : The better half - painters from Leipzig

Works in museums

literature

  • Dieter Gleisberg (arrangement): Drawing in the Leipzig district . State Lindenau Museum Altenburg 1977.
  • Barbara John (Ed.): The better half. Painters from Leipzig . Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815840-5-9 .
  • Rita Jorek: On the wings of the imagination. The painter Eva-Maria Bergmann . In: Leipziger Blätter 71, 10/2017, p. 92ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau , Province of Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2016
Place of death Leipzig