Gabriele Quasebarth

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Gabriele Quasebarth (born June 15, 1956 in Essen , † June 10, 1986 in Vienna ) was a German artist.

Life

Gabriele Quasebarth was born on May 15, 1956 in Essen. In February 1975 she finished school with the Abitur at the music grammar school in Essen and began her studies at the Folkwang University of Music, Theater, Dance (today: Folkwang University of the Arts ).

In 1976 Gabriele Quasebarth went to Austria to study painting in the master school Rudolf Hausner at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Together with Khy Engelhardt, Andreas Campostellato and Leo Mayer, she founded the Trakt W4 gallery in 1980 in the courtyard of a former factory building in Vienna.

The feature film "Leave Everything" is shown at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. August / September 1982 to May 1983 Gabriele Quasebarth worked with Erwin Piplits in the Serapionstheater in Vienna. From October 1983 to March 1984 she designed equipment and stage sets at the Renaissance Theater (Berlin) .

At the beginning of 1985 she moved into a studio in the Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK) in Vienna.

Gabriele Quasebarth ended her life on June 10, 1986 in her studio in Vienna.

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The artistic inventory of this only ten-year creative period comprises around 260 oil paintings, some of them large-format, on canvas and paper, as well as drawings and graphic sheets. In parallel to the painting work, an extensive and equally important collection of autographs was created with 56 diaries totaling 12,440 pages. In these notes, written by Quasebarth between 1975 and 1986, she describes the stages in her life. She accompanied and reflected on the development of her painting in writing.

Two creative phases can be identified for the painted oeuvre: early works that arose during the association with the academy and the free work from 1981/82. The human figure is a central concern in Quasebarth's world of motifs , in which it combines the figurative-representational and the abstract. Cut figures are shown as busts, half or three-quarter figures. Physiognomic details are only hinted at, seem to dissolve or disappear completely. The characters remain anonymous. Starting from the self-portrait, the topic is not the recording of individual characteristics, but the illustration of a physical-psychological state. This is revealed in the specific relationship between the figures and space. There is a lot of space around the characters, especially their heads. Art historians interpreted it as the "vastness" or "emptiness" of space, as (spiritual) freedom or inner loneliness and anonymity.

The early works are kept in rather strong dark tones, which are created by thickly applied, sometimes overpainted, color compositions. Quasebarth occasionally overworked or reworked her canvases with alcohol in order to smudge traces of paint. This 'act of discarding' produced unexpected side effects. The principles of destruction and construction thus became visible as immanent in the image.

In the following years her color palette brightened, the transparent application of paint let underlying structures shine through. This was accompanied by the dissolution of the figurative into blurred, non-representational fields of color. The figures became even less tangible, disappeared into space, became colored matter.

Gabriele Quasebarth described her work as "staging yourself", which was always included in the painting process and in the accompanying activities and was expressed in the picture.

Part of the artistic legacy was taken up in 2008 by the forum for legacies of artists , Hamburg .

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1978 The group "Der Kreis" visits Parz Castle , Upper Austria
  • 1979 "Geist und Form", Vienna
  • 1980 "INDEPENDENT PAINTING", Khy Engelhardt - Andreas Campostellato - Gabriele Quasebarth - Leo May, Gallery Trakt W4, Vienna 4, Goldeggasse 29
  • 1981 Gallery section W4, solo exhibition
  • 1982 Diagonal Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1984 Galerie Mana, Vienna 7, Stuckgasse 4
  • 1986 Galerie Mana, together with Inés Lombardi
  • 1986 "Schillerplatz Artists Location Determination", Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 1992 Leviathan Gallery, Bordesholm , Schleswig-Holstein
  • 1998 Water tower Favoriten on Wienerberg, together with Christoph Luger, Vienna 10
  • 1999 Kunstflecken paper factory Neumünster , group exhibition, Neumünster , Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2003 "Japan dreams", Neumünster paper mill, solo exhibition, Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2005 Exhibition premiere of the forum for bequests, group exhibition of eleven artists, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
  • 2009 Exhibition in the Garden House of Art, Vienna 19, Nussdorf

literature

  • Brigitte Ambros: Gabriele Quasebarth . Provincial Library, Weitra November 2011, 152 pages, ISBN 978-3-99028-025-6 .
  • Gora Jain: Gabriele Quasebarth (1956-86); in: Exhibition cat. Exhibition premiere - The Forum for Legacies presents works by eleven artists, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 2005, p. 17
  • Christine Schwab: About the artistic estate of Gabriele Quasebarth (Essen 1956 - Vienna 1986); in: Women in One World, Volume 10 / Issue 2, Frankfurt / aM 1999, pp. 66–75.

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personal data
SURNAME Quasebarth, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1986
Place of death Vienna