Heike Ruschmeyer

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Heike Ruschmeyer, 2011
Monologue XXVIII , 1988
Monologue XCVII , 1995
Monologue CXXXIX , 2003
Monologue CXL , 2005
Sleep child, sleep , 2006
Lalelu 3 , 2008
Lalelu 9 , 2010
Lalelu 16 , 2011
Lalelu 17 , 2011

Heike Ruschmeyer (born May 18, 1956 in Uchte ) is a German painter and draftsman who deals with death and violence in society in her work.

Life

Heike Ruschmeyer was born in Uchte / Lower Saxony in 1956. The father was a furrier and hat maker; he died in 2003 at the age of seventy-six. The mother died in 1988 at the age of fifty-nine of complications from cancer. In 1975 Ruschmeyer graduated from high school in Petershagen in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1976 to 1979 she studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with Emil Cimiotti and Alfred Winter-Rust. From 1979 to 1982 she studied at the Berlin University of the Arts as a master class student with Wolfgang Petrick . From 1983 a collaboration with the Galerie Dieter Brusberg began , exhibitions in other galleries followed. Heike Ruschmeyer lives in Berlin.

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Ruschmeyer uses photographs from criminology and forensic medicine as templates for her depictions of suicides or victims of violent crimes. In her paintings she tells no individual fate, biography or story, it is about being at the mercy and parting, about crossing boundaries and transitioning into another sphere. The painter often puts her protagonists larger than life in the format. A further alienation arises from the erection of the originally lying figures. They appear monumental, develop a life of their own beyond death and occasionally seem to sleep in security.

At the end of the seventies, the first works emerged that expressively free themselves from their photo templates. Various materials such as sand, scraps of fabric or paper are worked into the painting surface. Ruschmeyer deals with terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany, paints portraits of Jan-Carl Raspe and Ulrich Wessel . Portraits of victims of torture are created at the same time. From 1984 the monologue series was created, for which there are currently over 240 paintings in various formats that are numbered consecutively in Roman numerals. Since the mid-1990s, Ruschmeyer has increasingly devoted himself to portraits of children. From 2006 onwards, the Lalelu series was created, which thematically deals with family dramas and neglect of children. Another series from 2009 deals with around 180 small-format portraits of missing children.

Awards

Exhibitions and collections

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Participation in exhibitions

Public collections

The following public collections include works by Ruschmeyer:

Work documentation

  • Heike Ruschmeyer. The lookalike. Pictures from 1980 to 1987 . Edition Brusberg , Brusberg Documents 16, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87972-058-4 .
  • Heike Ruschmeyer . Exhibition catalog. Heffel Gallery, Vancouver 1992.
  • Heike Ruschmeyer. Immense time. Pictures and drawings 1978-93 . Exhibition catalog. Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin , Berlin 1993.
  • Heike Ruschmeyer (Ed.), Ulrich Haase in conversation with Heike Ruschmeyer , Berlin 1994.
  • Heike Ruschmeyer. The sleepless . Exhibition catalog. Kulturspeicher Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1995.
  • Heike Ruschmeyer. The other country . Catalog for the exhibition at Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin 2015, without ISBN.

Web links

Commons : Heike Ruschmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Ruschmeyer - The last picture - painting. An exhibition by the Reinickendorf Art Office in cooperation with Otto Berg . ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2017 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. Website of Otto Berg Bestattungen GmbH & Co. KG, 2007 [here: Heike Ruschmeyer, 2005 ], accessed on October 13, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ottoberg.de
  2. ↑ Dieter Ruckhaberle (Ed.), Heike Ruschmeyer (Ill.): Heike Ruschmeyer - immeasurable time. Pictures and drawings 1978–93 . Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin 1993, DNB 931907055 .
  3. ↑ Article by Manuela Lintl , about a studio visit to the Künstlerhof Frohnau in September 2013, accessed on February 8, 2020
  4. ↑ Article by Matthias Reichelt on Boesner's page from September 6, 2018, accessed on March 15, 2019
  5. ↑ Hans and Lea Grundig Prize Winners 2017 . Website of the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation, accessed on October 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Website of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien with the award winners, accessed on March 19, 2020
  7. ↑ Heike Ruschmeyer. The other country exhibition in the gallery floor in the Museum Reinickendorf . Reinickendorf district office, press release No. 6018, August 31, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2017.
  8. ^ Christian Schindler: Painting by Heike Ruschmeyer: New exhibition in the Reinickendorf Museum . In: Berliner Woche , September 28, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2017.
  9. ^ Work by Heike Ruschmeyer on the website of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , accessed on March 15, 2019
  10. ↑ The artists of the collection . Website of the art collection Jutta and Manfred Heinrich, accessed on October 13, 2017: "Also represented are excellent Petrick students like [...] Heike Ruschmeyer [...] and others."
personal data
SURNAME Ruschmeyer, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Uchte