Gisela Breitling

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Gisela Breitling (born 27 May 1939 in Berlin ; died 12. March 2018 ibid) was a German painter of realism and author. Together with Evelyn Kuwertz , she founded the Berlin Hidden Museum . In addition to painting, she has campaigned for the recognition of women in art since the 1960s . She was also active in research and teaching. In addition to painting, her oeuvre also includes books, technical essays, lectures, lectures in international institutions and the creation and organization of exhibitions and their concepts.

Life

Breitling studied from 1960 to 1962 at the textile engineering school in Krefeld , now the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, with Elisabeth Kadow, a master student of Georg Muche . Then she was at the then West Berlin University of Fine Arts , today Berlin University of the Arts in the class of Hans Jaenisch . In 1963 she moved to Friedrich Stabenau's class and completed her studies with him as a master class student . She then received numerous grants and grants to work in Italy and France. In 1977/1978 she worked at the Villa Massimo on a grant from the German Academy in Rome .

Gisela Breitling was a member of Group 70 and from 1976 onwards with Akanthus . Her pictures, drawings and graphics in the style of Fantastic Realism were created during this time and were also published there. She was best known for her portraits of strong and self-confident women. From the beginning of the new, autonomous women's movement , Breitling has referred to this and also expected the emancipation of women artists within its framework: "Women in general have to show solidarity and form pressure groups." But she also saw fundamental conflicts between the egalitarian, collectively-related personality ideal of the women's movement and the distinctly individualistic self-image and work of women artists.

Breitling's research as an artist in art history dealt with the biographies of forgotten artists and the whereabouts of their works since the Renaissance period . As a result, in 1980 her book The Ship's Traces in the Waves was written: An autobiographical search for women in art history ; In 1986 it was re-published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag in a revised and expanded form and thus reached a wider audience.

In 1985/1986 she was given a teaching position at the Berlin University of the Arts, after which she was a visiting professor at the University of Kassel . In 1988, together with the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Berlin , she published a comprehensive documentation on the art of women in public Berlin collections. An exhibition of these works, also from the facilities' depots, was shown in 1987/1988 under the title Das Verborgene Museum in the Akademie der Künste Berlin . Gisela Breitling founded the Hidden Museum together with the Berlin artist Evelyn Kuwertz in Berlin-Charlottenburg , in which since 1987 mainly works by forgotten European artists have been exhibited.

Gisela Breitling recently lived in a senior citizens' residence in Berlin-Lankwitz because of her dementia .

Prizes and awards

Artistic work

Her pictures are represented in well-known collections. In 1987/1988 she won the competition to design the tower of the St. Matthew Church in Berlin at the Kulturforum .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A full list of her solo and group exhibitions can be found on her website.

Fonts

  • The ship's tracks in the waves: An autobiographical search for women in art history . Oberbaumverlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-87628-173-3
    • Revised and expanded edition of the Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / M. 1986, ISBN 3-596-23780-7
  • The hidden eros: femininity and masculinity in the distorting mirror of the arts . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt / Main 1990, ISBN 978-3-596247400

Breitling also published several articles in professional journals.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Breitling died at 78 , monopol-magazin.de, accessed on March 13, 2018
  2. ^ Website with information about E. Kadow
  3. ↑ a b Berlin artist Gisela Breitling died at 78. In: sueddeutsche.de =. March 13, 2018, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Gisela Breitling, by and in: Cäcilia (Cillie) Rentmeister : "Der Kaiserin new clothes? The painter as a divided being in the age of manliness, the women's movement and the reproducibility of works of art. Pressure against censorship", special print Berlin 1977, im Full text and in connection with its creation with the exhibition "Künstlerinnen International" on the web platform "feministberlin.de" Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; there also a direct link to the full text [1] , quotation from p. 22 ibid. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / feministberlin.de
  5. ↑ Berlin-Women: Gisela Breitling. with information on the life and work of the artist.
  6. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Gisela Breitling. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 15, 2001.
  7. ^ Exhibitions by Gisela Breitling ( Memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Omaggio a Ingeborg Bachmann
personal data
SURNAME Breitling, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of realism, art historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2018
Place of death Berlin