Heidrun Borgwardt
Heidrun Borgwardt , b. Lindner (* 1934 in Stettin ) is a German draftsman and painter .
Life
Heidrun Borgwardt is the daughter of the visual artist Matthias Lindner (1895–1987). After fleeing towards the end of World War II , the family stayed in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1951 to 1955 Heidrun Borgwardt studied at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel . Then she worked as a draftsman for excavations of prehistory and early history in the Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf until 1958 . From 1955 to 1958 she worked as a textile engraver in Wesel . She returned to Schleswig-Holstein and married Bernard Borgwardt, her former teacher at the Muthesius Art College. In 1959 and 1960 their two daughters were born. Heidrun Borgwardt only began her artistic career in 1969 when they were 9 and 10 years old.
From 1969 to 1977 she drew strongly colored pictures with pencil. When she thought this form of representation was complete, she looked for new ways of artistic expression in large-format watercolors (100 × 150) and Chinese ink drawings in A4 format . From 1988 she also paints with oil paints .
In addition to her own artistic and creative work, Heidrun Borgwardt has been teaching drawing and watercolor at the adult education centers in Flintbek and Kiel since the 1970s . In 2001 she began to write poetry - as a second means of artistic expression - and has so far published 12 volumes with drawings from the current production.
In 2013, Heidrun Borgwardt left her entire graphic work as well as selected watercolors and oil paintings to the “ Forum for the Legacies of Artists eV” in Hamburg-Niendorf.
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The early large-format drawings make it difficult to “read” them because of the unusual shape of the subject and its arrangement in the pictorial space. The artist begins with independent abstract lines and shapes, which she slowly develops into concrete representations through various intermediate stages. Subjects are people in their relationships with other people, often in everyday situations.
Heidrun Borgwardt repeatedly emphasizes that she does not start from any (pictorial) idea in any of her works, nor does she follow any direct suggestions. The impressions and experiences must first slowly mature and become fruitful. She compares it to horticultural composting. In her drawings from 1980 onwards, which she then creates entirely with the rapidograph on A4 writing pads, this maturing and remembering becomes a method. She starts the block from below, so that on each new sheet something of the previous drawing shines through and gives the artist the impetus to create new ones, born from “the audacity of the line that asserts itself infinitely” (title of a drawing from February 15, 1999) .
In the oil paintings that she paints from 1988 after a period of large-format watercolors, the colors become the determining element. “Colors can do everything. For those who let them. ”Becomes Borgwardt's credo. The lines, the contours dissolve into lines of color. But “in Heidrun Borgwardt's oil paintings, the resistance of the figurative [...] is strong enough to allow faces to appear. Visions of primal reflexes, of fundamentally necessary feelings [...] ”.
Only at an advanced age does Borgwardt give in to her talent and love for the artful formation of language and states: “At the age of seventy, I was surprised by writing poetry. Since then, I have been walking through the fields every morning, writing verses. Art is not so much something of being able to do with likeness, or even perspective ... but rather an enthusiasm must be at play; it's about having the loose spirit beside you that accompanies everything. That's it. ”In“ Mein Kunstbuch ”, Borgwardt proves that linguistic compression and pictorial design do not take away from each other, but rather reinforce each other, with interspersed exemplary images from her long artistic career. As proof that age has neither weakened nor weakened her pictorial potential, the volume includes 20 current portraits (all from 2017) copied in a handy format in the “art book”.
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In 1988 Heidrun Borgwardt wrote "Suchbild Mensch I - V" as the motto for her exhibition series:
- Mirror is person for person
- There is nothing as much to it as to people
- Nothing is so exciting - from the abundance of possible sights.
Solo exhibitions
(Short selection)
- 1980 "Drawings, Watercolors, Textiles" Galerie Michael Neumann Düsseldorf
- 1985 "Four Evas" in St. Marien Lübeck
- 1987 “Suchbild Mensch III”, Flensburg City Museum
- 1987 "Suchbild Mensch IV" subway painting in Hamburg
- 1989 “Personally” Gallery Beethovenstraße Düsseldorf
- 1999 "New Pictures" Schleswig-Holstein State Library Kiel
literature
- Harm Paschen: hand drawings by Heidrun Borgwardt. Exhibition catalog, Kiel 1977.
- Jutta Glüsing: Introduction to the catalog for the exhibition "Heidrun Borgwardt - Antje Marczinowski - Ellen Sachtleben", Städtisches Museum Flensburg, undated (1979).
- Ilse Behl: Image of the human being. In: Heidrun Borgwardt - works from 1985 1986 1987 1988. , catalog, Kiel o. J. (1988).
- Bärbel Manitz: Pictures of Life. In: Heidrun Borgwardt New Pictures 1996-1999. Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel 1999.
- Bärbel Manitz: ICH and ICH In: Heidrun Borgwardt - My art book, painting, drawings, language 1967 - 2017 , Kiel 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlev Kahl: Heidrun Borgwardt. In: Discovered and Preserved! 10 years forum for artists' bequests with a cross-section of the collection. Hamburg 2013, p. 35
- ↑ a b c Bärbel Manitz: Heidrun Borgwardt New Pictures 1996-1999. Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel 1999
- ↑ Heidrun Borgwardt: My art book Painting Drawings Language 1967 - 2017 Kiel 2017, p. 5
- ↑ "Heidrun Borgwardt - Works from 1985 1986 1987 1988", Kiel 1988. Text on the watercolor "Mensch" from 1987.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borgwardt, Heidrun |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindner, Heidrun (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |