Gerlinde Beck

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Gate of Trust , 1974/76, Mühlacker

Gerlinde Beck (born June 11, 1930 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt ; † February 19, 2006 in Mühlacker-Großglattbach ) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life

Gerlinde Beck studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Karl Hils , Peter Otto Heim , Gerhard Gollwitzer and Willi Baumeister and also completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker.

Beck has made a name for himself with commissioned work for “Art in Architecture” and in public spaces. Her work has been exhibited many times and can be seen in numerous museums. She became known to a wide audience with the "Sound Road" created between 1973 and 1984, a series of twelve individual sculptures made of different materials that were used to generate sound. At the beginning of this work there was a listening experience when Siegfried Fink played on some of the sculptures by Gerlinde Beck as part of an exhibition at the Heilbronner Kunstverein (1973): "A first knock made me sit up and take notice, and then a whole series of sound sculptures were created" (GB ). In 1985 the metal sculptures, which were expanded into a “sound street”, were presented as a musical source of sound during the “Days of New Music” (Würzburg). The result was a 30 cm LP with compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen , Klaus Hinrich Stahmer , Christoph Wünsch and Anestis Logothetis . In 1992 the "Sound Road" was the focus of interest at an event organized by the Trossingen University of Music. The artist herself came up with the term room choreography to describe her sculptures and installations integrated into the room . Gerlinde Beck was a member of the German Association of Artists and GEDOK .

In 1996 she founded the Gerlinde Beck Foundation to support young artists in particular.

Exhibitions (selection)

Honourings and prices

gallery

  • Buttress , Nürtingen, 1964

  • Wibke OII / b , Freiburg, 1971

  • Standing figure , Stuttgart, (undated)

  • Friendship symbol , Leonberg, 1973

  • Square design , hall construction , Witten , 1975

  • Light joint stele , Singen, 1979

  • Homage to Oskar Schlemmer , Marl, 1985/89

Quotes

  • "With her captivating craftsmanship and her sensitive feeling for techniques and materials, Gerlinde Beck has repeatedly set her own accents and thus decisively shaped art and culture in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Prime Minister Lothar Späth at the awarding of the title of professor on April 18, 1989)
  • "She mastered the art of making steel dance." (Obituary Stimme.de February 24, 2006)

literature

  • Wilhelm Nettmann: "Gerlinde Beck" , 1975, ISBN 3764702710
  • Gerlinde Beck: "Catalog of works" , Hatje Cantz, ISBN 3893227806
  • Kuno Schlichtenmaier: "Gerlinde Beck. Sculptures, hand drawings, collages, prints" , Edition Schlichtenmaier 1995, ISBN 3892981035

Web links

Commons : Gerlinde Beck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerlinde Beck (ed.): Room choreography; Catalog of the work of Gerlinde Beck, Vol III (1992), p. 6
  2. ↑ "musique en tête"; Edition HKW 1985, produced and distributed by the "Recommended Music" label (Würzburg)
  3. ↑ Exhibition catalog 1970: Fig. 30 (Gerlinde Beck: Raumartikulation (7 parts), draft , 1969, V2A steel on wood, 215 × 200 × 80 cm)
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Gerlinde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart-Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 2006
Place of death Mühlacker-Großglattbach