Georgina Beier

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Georgina Beier (* August 1938 in London ) is a British painter , graphic artist , sculptor and graphic designer who, together with her husband Ulli Beier, did important pioneering work in promoting art in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea .

life and work

Georgina Beier was born Georgina Betts in Sutton, London, in August 1938. After studying art for two years, she left London in 1959 and went to Nigeria. In 1963 she moved from northern Nigeria to the south of the country and led art courses there, which became known as the "Oshogbo School". In 1967 Georgina and her husband, the German scientist Ulli Beier, moved to Papua New Guinea together. There she taught the patients of the "Laloki" psychiatry to paint. They also started a screen printing -Textilfabrik and taught women in the villages for their own livelihood to care by providing them knotting batiken learned. In 1978 Georgina Beier moved to Sydney . In 1981 the Beier couple returned to Germany. In the same year the Iwalewahaus was inaugurated in Bayreuth , which served to support the studies at the University of Bayreuth in the Africa focus and was intended to present non-European art and culture to a wider audience.

Works (selection)

Georgina Beier has shown more than 30 solo exhibitions as well as numerous participations in group exhibitions in Germany, England, America, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, India, Australia and the Philippines. Her works during her time in Nigeria are comic-like compositions with few characters. She brings the style of abstract woodcuts of the 1920s into harmony with the typical symbols of African art . She is also known for her large abstract wall paintings.

Her works can be found in the collections:

literature

  • SchmidtBank Hof (2001). Georgina Beier. Nuremberg: Modern Art.
  • Beier, U. (2001). New art from Australia and Papua New Guinea . Nuremberg: Modern Art

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SchmidtBank Hof (2001). Georgina Beier. Nuremberg: Modern Art. P. 9
  2. ↑ Beier, U. (2001). New art from Australia and Papua New Guinea in the SchmidtBank Selb. Nuremberg: Modern Art. P. 85ff.
  3. ↑ http://www.georginabeier.com/
personal data
SURNAME Beier, Georgina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betts, Georgina (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH London