Eva-Maria Geisler

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Eva-Maria Geisler (born January 29, 1936 in Dresden ; † June 12, 2005 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Life

Eva-Maria Geisler was born the daughter of a soubrette . The parents separated early and Geisler grew up with his mother in Blasewitz . As a child, she suffered the nights of bombing in Dresden. In the autumn of 1945 she stepped in after the lead actress failed, so she also came to the theater and was the child star of the theater group until she was 15 years old.

Then she devoted herself to drawing and took lessons from a drawing teacher. Eva-Maria Geisler studied at the Dresden Art Academy from 1953 to 1954 when she was still young . A year later she fled to West Berlin together with her brother Hans Joachim Geisler . From 1955 to 1960 she studied at the Berlin School of Fine Arts with Hans Jaenisch and Ernst Schumacher . Schumacher was known for not accepting women into his art classes - he made one of the few exceptions with Geisler. Her first stays on the volcanic island of Stromboli in southern Italy were formative for her. In 1956, she organized an exhibition of the pictures taken during a semester abroad in Castellammare di Stabia (near Naples ). In her early years she lived in a tower room on Wannsee, where she also had her studio and, among other things, was preparing for an exhibition in the Hilton Colonnades in Berlin. When she didn't have any money, she hitchhiked into town from there. As early as the early 1960s, Geisler was celebrating unconventional studio parties in Berlin that reflected the attitude towards life of the Berlin art youth at the time, who had to adapt to the sometimes difficult conditions of that time. In the following years she took part in many exhibitions in Berlin and designed an exhibition with pictures taken in Paris in the Maison de France in Berlin .

She moved early on in Berlin's artistic circles and was friends with many artists, such as B. with Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern and Heinz Otterson . Until 1980 she was also a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin .

Geisler was regularly represented in the West Berlin art scene from the 1960s to the 1980s. Her life-size portraits were particularly valued - for example, the painter Johannes Grützke commissioned one. She regularly organized famous festivals in Berlin's artistic circles, at which over a hundred people gathered and often the painter, strong German inventor and hobby photographer Matthias Koeppel captured the crowd in photos. One of these celebrations known at the time was the “Dust Flock”, their “answer to the germ-free housewife ideology”. Without being part of her in the strict sense, she was part of the circle of friends of the School of New Magnificence , which, in addition to a poem to Eva-Maria, printed her self-portrait with doll (oil crayon on cardboard) in its almanac.

Self-portrait with doll
Eva-Maria Geisler , 1973
Oil pastels on cardboard
90 × 65 cm

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An important stage in her life was her wedding with the lyric poet Gerald Bisinger in 1980. The wedding was celebrated at the Literary Colloquium Berlin am Wannsee as a “marriage between poetry and painting”. This marriage was important for the artistic development between the two poles for both Geisler and Bisinger.

In addition to painting, she also decorated her husband's hand-bound and signed volumes of poetry. These volumes were created in the context of the Berlin painter poets (Kreuzberger Bohème) around Aldona Gustas and Kurt Mühlenhaupt in the Kreuzberg publishing house “Atelier-Handpresse” by Hugo Hoffmann .

In 1986 Geisler moved to Vienna and became an Austrian citizen. Geisler and her husband also lived in Vienna in artistic circles and for art. In the same year she worked as an editor and published a small volume of poems and texts on the occasion of her husband's 50th birthday. In it she wrote: “Eva-Maria Geisler, Gerald Bisinger's wife, has sent numerous letters and invited many friends to participate; Thirty responded to their request. ”The result is a small, limited edition volume with contributions by Richard Anders , HC Artmann , Aldona Gustas , Ludwig Harig , Ernst Jandl , Oskar Pastior , Wieland Schmied , Klaus Reichert , Ute Erb , Urs Widmer , and Ludwig Gosewitz , Milli Graffi , Konrad Balder Schäuffelen and many more. In this volume, among other things, her husband is honored as the dedicatee of a cheerful language game Ernst Jandl, which appeared a few years later in his "idyllen": "Mann & Frau / in der Welt des Deutschen / 2nd episode // gerald bisinger to the 50 . birthday".

Fled to West Berlin at a young age , a few days after reunification in 1990 she took part in the exhibition Expatriated. Artists from the GDR and the Soviet sector of Berlin, 1949–1989 participated in the Albertinum Dresden and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg , in which the aim was, among other things, to rehabilitate non-conformist artists who fled from the regime.

In 1999, instead of her husband, she accepted the Austrian Prize for Literature , which was awarded to him a few days after his death .

Since 2000 she has been working on the poet series for the Grazer Authors' Assembly (GAV). In 2005 she exhibited the series together with GAV at the Literaturhaus Wien . It contains, among others, portraits of Friederike Mayröcker , Andreas Okopenko, Elfriede Gerstl , Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer , Hubert Fabian Kulterer , Robert Schindel , HC Artmann , Herbert J. Wimmer , Walter Pilar , Gerhard Kofler , Manfred Chobot and many more. Eleven years after her death, the GAV showed a retrospective of their fifty years of work as part of an event on the 80th birthday of the artist couple. A year later, the series was posted as part of the “Pillars of Remembrance” campaign in Vienna-Ottakring in 2017.

Eva-Maria Geisler died on June 12, 2005 in Vienna. In her book 7 Lives , Ditha Brickwell published a biographical novella in 2010 with the title Eva Maria: the horror in the garden. About the life of Eva-Maria Geisler .

family

Geisler's brother was the classical philologist , co-founder and honorary chairman of the conservative federal freedom of science , Hans Joachim Geisler . The marriage with the architect Albrecht Wagner resulted in three children (* 1964, 1967 and 1969). The son Johann August comes from the second marriage with the writer Gerald Bisinger (1936–1999). Most recently she was in a relationship with the writer Andreas Okopenko (1930–2010).

style

Heinz Ohff described her early work (exhibited at the Wilmersdorf Art Office - Wilmersdorf Town Hall, Berlin 1961) - southern landscapes and groups of trees in oil, tempera and pastel - with the sentence: "Eva-Maria Geisler paints Italy." And said: "Colorful, between Primitiveness and loving, almost amorous awareness grows up there in Florence in tempera, Messina in oil, Lipari in pastel: light , this side, clear, with that youth-is-drunkenness-without-attitude that makes these pictures so appealing. ” Lucie Schauer judged her pictures as "decorative in the good sense": Geisler understood the "object itself as a decorative element in the picture as a whole".

Her large-format pictures were created using the same technique, oil pastel on wood. These works were then painted very thinly in order to maintain the vitality of the colors.

The painter Matthias Koeppel , who wrote art and exhibition reviews in Berlin daily newspapers under a pseudonym at the end of the 1960s, described Geisler's style as colorful and magical:

“She is inspired by children's drawings and admires the uneducated, direct way with which a child can express himself with colored pencils. [...] Besides oil paints, she prefers to use colored wax crayons for painting. […] [Often] she wanders through Berlin and portrays old corners and facades in her very personal way. What is in reality gray and unsightly turns into a colorful scene in your pictures. Houses, trees and people become emblematic ornaments that adorn a lovely, enchanted landscape. [...] Nothing appears complicated or obscured. Everything harmonizes with each other. Every picture looks as if it tells a dreamy story [...] - just like in a fairy tale. Your immediate surroundings look like your pictures. [...] [Your brightly painted apartment is] a bit of a Parisian flea market in miniature. [She was in Paris for two years and] painted the charm and amiability of this city in an unmistakable way. These pictures are currently on display in the Maison de France . "

- Matthias Koeppel

Her preferred motifs included unreal, dreamy doll worlds, in which the artist herself often appeared. In stark contrast, she devoted herself to current political issues. For example, in “1. May Salon 1981 - Peace Disarmament ”in the house on Lützowplatz presented the portrait of her father-in-law Admiral Gerhard Wagner , who agreed on the partial surrender of the Wehrmacht in the northwest on May 4, 1945. As commissioned work, she painted larger-than-life portraits, which she designed idiosyncratically and thus did not always meet the client's expectations for photorealistic likenesses, so that they were rejected.

Together with her husband, she remained connected to Italy:

Orvieto
Eva-Maria Geisler , 1977

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I'm still alive, still see, I'm still writing
and drinking Café Sambuca and water now
here in Orvieto it's raining a sip in January,
I've had a drink, I've been reading, I'm looking
around, I've just tried to
call in vain to Rome , now I'm writing it down
and think about the previous night half sleepless
, I was disturbed by the artificial moon, the
illuminated dial of this clock in front of the Torre
del Moro just before the window reflected the
light from the crack of the shops in the mirror on the
closet and then I thought sleeplessly of
theories of literature at night in Orvieto.

[...]

and drink a sip of water in the café see people up
there with umbrellas right in front of the
bar on the street they walk they live they look
around I sit here and write a few lines of
this poem Trace of my life as other stories
I expect twilight to
pick up Eva-Maria from the hotel where she draws then

we go out to eat

(Excerpt from Gerald Bisinger : Life and Poetry )

Gerhard Jaschke wrote in the catalog for the exhibition 25 portraits of poets from the GAV , in which a literary product of the person portrayed is printed next to the respective portrait, Geisler had remained in her entire work for decades with a recognizable autonomous punctuation and its own style, the consistently and at the price of easier marketability of her pictures refused to adapt to any trend in art. In her portraits she deals not only with the physiognomy, but also with the works and specific characteristics of the people portrayed. She let everyone look to the left: She does not attach great importance to the favorable aspects of the physiognomy of the portrayed, but raises questions and creates a charm of its own. The portraits also acted as a call to deal with the works of those portrayed.

Andreas Okopenko
Eva-Maria Geisler , 2003
Colored pencil and oil pastel on paper
49.4 x 42.0 cm
Vienna

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I am the only tree frog of all
who would rather eat leaves than blue corals, I only like
corals so blue
with cocoa
and only when they are solemnly popping.

I am the only bumblebee of all,

[...]

I am the only poet of all who
liked Okopenko poems,
How long, when I think
that I am already okopenk,
I can only babble in awe.

(Excerpt from Andreas Okopenko : special position . In: Why are the latrines so sad? (1969))

Exhibitions (selection)

Holdings

Since 1958 Geisler has been involved in numerous exhibitions, especially in Berlin and Vienna .

Solo exhibitions

Illustrations / offset lithographs

  • with Gerald Bisinger: Poema ex ponto II: and other poems. Atelier hand press, Berlin 1978
  • with Gerald Bisinger: Poema ex ponto III. Atelier hand press, Berlin 1982
  • with Gerald Bisinger: A piece of nature. Atelier hand press, Berlin 1983
  • with Gerald Bisinger: What else do I expect or a self-evident manifesto of postmodernism. Atelier hand press, Berlin 1984
  • with Gerald Bisinger: Le poème du lac Léman. The poem from Lake Geneva. Berlin, Atelier hand press 1988
  • with Gerald Bisinger: Reality touches me: about poetry and poets: selected poems from the 1970s. Autumn press, Vienna 1993
  • Contribution in: Gerald Grassl (Ed.): Zum Schwarzen Mohren - Spittelberger Lieder. Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1994
  • as editor: Eva-Maria Geisler (ed.): For Gerald Bisinger. Rose petals on hoarfrost . Klaus G. Renner, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921499-89-5 .

literature

  • Eva Maria Geisler. In: Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 20th century, I – IV, W. 1985–86. Result Volume I, 1991.
  • Eva Maria Geisler. In: Axel-Alexander Ziese: General lexicon of artists in the visual and creative arts of the late XX. Century. Volume 1, Research Institute of Fine Arts, arte factum, Nuremberg 1984, ISBN 3-923326-80-7 .
  • Gritta Hesse, Marie Agnes Bingel: artists of the young generation. Bibliography on contemporary art in the America Memorial Library, Berlin Central Library . KG Saur, Munich / New York 1987, ISBN 3-598-10693-9 .
  • Eva-Maria Geisler: 25 portraits of GAV poets . Ed .: M. Rutt, Richard Wall . Friedrich Druckerei, Vienna 2004.
  • Ditha Brickwell : Eva Maria: the horror in the garden . In: 7 lives. Poetic biographies of women from the century of the wars . Freimut und Selbst, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937378-07-3 , p. 147–169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's who in Literature. Containing Some 8,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Publishing Companies, Libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Who's Who Book & Publishing, 1978, ISBN 3-921220-20-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ditha Brickwell : Eva Maria: the horror in the garden . In: 7 lives. Poetic biographies of women from the century of the wars . Freimut und Selbst, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937378-07-3 , p. 147–169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Renate Bitter: Painting against melancholy and anger. A conversation with the Berlin painter Eva Maria Geisler. In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 11.701, March 18, 1984: Women's life. Faces of the big city. P. 54.
  3. ↑ Christiane Höllger : Sleeping Beauty lives at Wannsee . In: BZ November 14, 1959, ISSN  0949-5045 .
  4. ^ Felix Henseleit, Rudi Fehr : Berlinerinnen. A book of faces . Ullstein, Berlin 1962.
  5. ^ Friedhelm Schulz: Geisler, Eva-Maria. Important artists - 20th century artists; As of February 25, 2009.
  6. ↑ With an expert hand. In: Berliner Morgenpost , 17. March 1981.
  7. ^ Manfred Bluth , Johannes Grützke, Matthias Koeppel: Almanach of the school of the new splendor. Number 4 from 1976.
  8. ^ A marriage bond between poetry and painting. In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 29, 1980.
  9. ^ Gerald Bisinger: Post Scriptum . In: Matteo D'Ambrosio, Marcello Carlino (ed.): L'affermazione negata. Antologia di "Altri Termini". poesia, teoria, critica . Guida Editori, Napoli 1984, ISBN 88-7042-279-8 , pp. 91–93 (Italian, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  10. ↑ Horst Rudolph, Robert Wolfgang Schnell , Heinz Ohff et al .: Handpicked. The tradition of making books in small Berlin publishers and workshops . Ed .: Kunstamt Kreuzberg. Argon, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87024-160-8 .
  11. ^ Maria Fialik : The Charismatic. Thomas Bernhard and the friends of yore. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85409-211-3 .
  12. ↑ Eva-Maria Geisler (ed.): For Gerald Bisinger. Rose petals on hoarfrost . Klaus G. Renner, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921499-89-5 .
  13. ^ Literature archive of the Austrian National Library , Bernhard Fetz (ed.): Ernst Jandl. Music, rhythm, radical poetry . Zsolnay, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-552-05355-7 .
  14. ↑ a b Werner Schmidt , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Ausgebürgert. Artists from the GDR and the Soviet sector of Berlin; 1949-1989; Exhibition Albertinum Dresden , from October 7th to December 12th 1990; Kleine Deichtorhalle Hamburg , from January 10th to March 1st 1991 . Argon, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87024-160-8 .
  15. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: The appreciation award could only be awarded posthumously - death: Gerald Bisinger died . In: Culture - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on January 2, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Grazer Authors Author Assembly - 2016. Accessed on January 9, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ Pillars of Remembrance - In memory of all victims of National Socialism. Accessed December 31, 2017 .
  18. ^ Biography of Eva-Maria Geisler at the Graz authors' meeting
  19. ^ Gerhard Jaschke : Eva-Maria Geisler. Initiative to promote uncanny art and culture at the Aichhof.
  20. ↑ Heinz Ohff: Away from the jargon. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 21, 1961.
  21. ↑ Lucie Schauer: Ambiguities, decorative elements, contrasts of charm. In: The world . May 25, 1961.
  22. ^ Wall texts for the exhibition "Experiment and Method", Matthias Koeppel on his 80th birthday. Kommunale Galerie Berlin September 3 to October 29, 2017.
  23. ^ Matthias Koeppel (pseudonym Rudolf Thies): studio visit. Between art and odds and ends. In: BZ , January 25, 1967
  24. ^ Cover / title page 1st May Salon 1981. From April to May 1981 in the house on Lützowplatz. House at Lützowplatz / Förderkreis Kulturzentrum Berlin eV 1981.
  25. ↑ Gerald Bisinger: Life and Poetry . In: Incontri - magazine for Italians and Germans . No. 5 , 1980, ISSN  0169-3379 , Degli Italiani All'Estero. Poems by Italians Abroad, p. 34 (With imprint of Eva-Maria Geisler's “Orvieto”).
  26. ^ Eva-Maria Geisler: 25 portraits of poets of the GAV . Ed .: M. Rutt, Richard Wall . Friedrich Druckerei, Vienna 2004, foreword by Gerhard Jaschke .
  27. ↑ In: Whimsy songs . Residenzverlag, 1969. Quoted from: Eva-Maria Geisler: 25 portraits of GAV poets . Ed .: M. Rutt, Richard Wall . Friedrich Druckerei, Vienna 2004.
  28. ^ Eva-Maria Geisler - portraits of members of the Graz authors' assembly. Entry at literaturhaus.at
  29. ↑ Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1961, exhibition cat., Verlag Berlin 1961, No. 448: Self-portrait in the mirror, No. 449: Still life
  30. ↑ Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1966, exhibition catalog, Verlag Berlin 1966, No. 203: Christstrasse No. 33
  31. ↑ Horst Koffke, Ingrid Heinrich-Jost: May 1st Salon 1983. May 1933 - May 1983. Exhibition from May 1st – 29th. May 1983. House on Lützowplatz, Berlin 1983.
  32. ^ Cat .: The moment that stands still - 1986 Wiesbaden / Fluxeum 1991 (homage to Bob Watts ). Harlekin Art & Fluxeum ( Fluxus Museum), Wiesbaden 1991, p. 7.
  33. ↑ Helmut Bien: Harlequinäum. Pop-Life to High-Touch under the sign of the Neo-Barococo. Harlequin presents churned out 1969–1990. The Cheeky Harlequin Encyclopedia. Laugh & in-kind! Lexicon . Zeller, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-88300-029-9 .
  34. ^ The Berlin literary criticism : literary calendar for Austria : "From A to Z - The Grazer Authors' Assembly for the 35th Anniversary"
  35. ^ Eva-Maria Geisler portraits of members of the Graz authors' assembly. In: literature and fine arts. Literaturhaus Wien, 2005, accessed on January 1, 2018 .
  36. ↑ On the 80s by Eva-Maria Geisler & Gerald Bisinger. eSeL.at, December 16, 2016.
  37. ↑ Eva-Maria Geisler. In: Pillars of Remembrance. Poets Collection, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Eva-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Eva-Maria (married name); Bisinger, Eva-Maria (married name); Geisler, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2005
Place of death Vienna , Austria