Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer
Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer (born September 15, 1938 in Augsburg ) is a German painter and sculptor .
Life
Growing up in the war years and the post-war period, she describes her childhood as happy despite everything: “The memory of a desperately caring mother, of a father who was absent 'at the front' remains. Hours in air raid shelters, howling sirens, and many daring adventures in the ruins and on the black market. And the intoxication of the end of the war. Oranges, bananas, chocolates that the Americans threw us from their tanks. "
She later processed the experiences that were sometimes traumatic for the children of the post-war period in the installation “Lager Lechfeld 1944”. The German literary scholar Gisela Ecker writes in “Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer - Pictures and Sculptures”: “The installation“ Lager Lechfeld 1944 ”- arranged over an area of around 50 square meters - is based on experiences of the air raids on Augsburg and in particular the bombing of the Lechfeld air base back, in which seventy-six people died on September 12, 1944. At the age of six, the artist “helped extinguish the fire, recover the corpses and clean up.” The children had arranged the objects around the dead bodies around the mutilated and charred corpses, as found objects that were supposed to serve as a mostly futile identification. Such found objects, leftover, now useless artifacts, are tied to the body of the “lost children”. The narratives that are inscribed in this installation are noticeably sparse in artistic discussion, there are only a few, but verbose, experience reports and descriptions of the consequences of the bombings by the Allies. "
Before 1950 she attended the Augsburg art school . Then she went to New York for a year. Manhattan became a second home for her, where she works and lives part of the year.
She has been working as a freelance artist since 1970.
The first exhibitions and publications quickly followed in 1974. There were also themed and solo exhibitions in Germany as well as exhibitions in Austria, France and the Netherlands. Since 1990 she has exhibited regularly in the USA, especially in New York and Atlanta.
From 1982 to 1992 she taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Work with students and joint projects with colleagues followed.
She worked on various major projects in public space. The installation “Lager Lechfeld 1944” in St. Martin, Graben is certainly one of her most important works.
Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer lives and works today on Lake Ammersee and for a few months of the year in New York and the Seychelles.
Working in public space
- 2007 “Sunday Afternoon”, Monte Cito, California, USA
- 2006 “Monument to an Angel”, Graben
- 2005 “Lager Lechfeld 1944”, St. Martin, Graben
- 2004 mural for the architect Christa Giesecke, New York-Harlem
- 1995 “Mask rods” 11 sculptures for the Frankenwaldklinik, Kronach
- 1995 With a student work collective: "Excavation" installation in the park of the court in Moosburg
- 1989 large sculpture for the city of Troisdorf
- 1986 Facade of the Lindenberg company, Troisdorf
- 1986 Room installation in the administration building of the Veyhl company, Neuweiler (Black Forest)
- 1986 Object wall “Myths, Roles, Dreams”, University of Munich
- 1985 With a student work collective: Object wall in ceramic in the new building of the University of Munich
- 1984 With a student work collective: Creation of a ceramic relief wall for the reception hall of the Hotel NOVOTEL in Munich-Neuperlach
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2014 Forum Rutzmoser, Munich; Longhouse, Ammersee; Friedensweg, Lechfeld
- 2013 Städtische Galerie, Isny; Oberkapelle, Isny; Seidl 4, Murnau; Roccafederighi, IT
- 2012 Gallery Creative Mind, Munich
- 2011 Seidl 4, Murnau; St. Martin, Graben; Longhouse, Ammersee
- 2010 Am Eicholz, Murnau; Galerie Laimböck, Langenbroek, NL; The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 2009 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA; Ronstedt, Munich; Longhouse, Ammersee
- 2008 Seidl Villa, Murnau; Forum Rutzmoser, Munich; Galerie Laimböck, Langenbroek, NL; The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 2007 Sculpture Hall project
- 2006 Forum Rutzmoser, Munich; Gallery Creative Mind, Germering; Seidl Villa, Murnau; Galerie Laimböck, Langenbroek, NL
- 2005 Gallery Wernz, Nendingen; Galerie am Eichholz, Murnau; Galerie Capazza, Paris, F
- 2003 Galerie Laimböck, Langenbroek, NL
- 2002 “13th Anniversary Show,” The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 2000 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA; Schwaben Art Gallery, Weitnau
- 1999 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA; Galerie Capazza, Paris, F; Galerie Götz, Stuttgart;
- 1998 Atelier Tapisserien, Munich; Kunsthalle Schwaben, Weitnau; Workshop, project; “Weltumwohnung”, Gulgong, AUS,
- 1997 Project: “Weltumwohnung”; Galerie Capazza, Paris, F; Aedes Gallery, Berlin; Old Botanical Garden, Munich; Wernz Gallery, Nendingen
- 1995 Art & Arche, Wendhausen; B-15 Gallery, Munich; Schwaben Art Gallery, Weitnau
- 1994 domicile, Berlin; Chart, New York, NY, USA
- 1993 Kunst + Form Galerie, Arnbruck; Gallery Hanson, New York, NY, USA
- 1992 Galerie Mader, Munich The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA; The corner, Augsburg; Galerie Götz, Stuttgart; The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- 1991 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY, USA; E + P Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1990 Municipal Gallery, Neuburg; E + P Gallery, Düsseldorf; The Bindery, Buffalo, NY, USA; Galerie Ruth Siegel, New York, NY, USA
- 1989 Studio Gallery, Munich; Gallery in the Osramhaus, Munich; Hasieber & Roth Gallery, Munich; Galerie Götz, Stuttgart
- 1988 Galerie Betz, Munich; Bavarian State Representation, Bonn
- 1987 Galerie Mader, Munich; Galerie Götz, Stuttgart; Krakel Gallery, Krumbach; Gallery The Corner, Augsburg
- 1986 Chamber of Crafts, Cologne
- 1984 Götz Gallery, Stuttgart Lindemann Gallery, Hamburg Boisseree, Cologne
- 1983 Studio R, Mannheim; Atelier Galerie, Nördlingen;
- 1982 Galerie Götz, Stuttgart; Rolandshof Gallery, Remagen; Galerie Voigt, Nuremberg; Apfelbaum Gallery, Karlsruhe; Gallery in the Zielemp, Olten, CH
- 1981 Klus Galerie, Zurich, CH; Tabula Gallery, Tübingen; Schaller Gallery, Stuttgart
- 1980Klus Galerie, Zurich, CH; Gallery November, Berlin; Hendrik Kling Gallery, Stuttgart
- 1979 gallery in the Horvath-Haus, Murnau; Margelik Gallery, Munich; Gallery Kreth d'Orey, Heidelberg; Small castle gallery, Munich
- 1978 Gallery November, Berlin; Galerie Ingrid Schuster, Munich; Galerie Moderne, Zwischenahn
- 1977 Lutz Gallery, Stuttgart; Galerie XX, Hamburg; Landshut Gallery, Landshut
- 1976 Margelik Gallery, Munich; Galerie Voigt, Nuremberg; Galerie Niemann, Bochum
- 1975 Galerie Blanche, Heidelberg; Reklau Gallery, Augsburg
- 1974 Jewelery Gallery, Munich Gallery 1900, Munich
Editions
- Venice , portfolio with 5 watercolors, edition of 20
- A day by the sea , portfolio with 5 watercolors, edition of 15
- Chez Gabi , cookbook, edition 50
Illustrations
- Christine Koschel: The end of the pigeon. Poems, Corvinus Presse 1992
- Ulrike Gies: sturgeon amoeba. Poems, Corvinus Press
literature
- Gisela Ecker: Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer - sculptures and pictures
- The Human Form in Clay Jane Waller. The Crowood Press
- Matthias Ostermann: The Ceramic narrative. A&C Black, London
Other articles:
"Architecture and Living", issue 4/1986
"From 40", issue 3/2007
"From 40", issue 10/1991
"Golf Aktuell" issue 9/2006
"American Ceramics", issue 10/2
"Ceramics, Art and Perception", issue 30/1997
"Phalaris 15", Marsilio Venezia
Web links
- Gallery Creativ Mind, Munich
- Galerie Laimböck, Langbroek, BL
- Bill Low Gallery, Atlanta, USA
- Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer: Painter and Sculptor - A Form of Happiness , appsolutegolf.de, Kulturforum
- Art installation about a sad piece of Lechfeld history , Augsburger Allgemeine
- Memories of the war - Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer - sculptures and pictures , Kreisbote, Kempten
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnitzenbaumer, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |