Helma (painter)

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Helma, Silence, 1998

Helma , also Helma Petrick , née Helma Hartmann , (born May 8, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German painter who makes references to Surrealism , Art brut and Magical Realism in her work .

Life

Helma's father is a businessman, the mother comes from Thuringia . Due to the war, Helma grew up in Wurzbach . In 1948 the family returned to Berlin. After completing secondary school, she studied from 1959 to 1961 at the vocational school for technical drawing in Berlin. In 1964 she married the painter Wolfgang Petrick . The daughter Nina , born in 1965, emerges from the marriage. The first paintings are made in the early 1970s. She adopts the stage name Helma . From 1979 to 1985 she worked with Galerie Brusberg , exhibitions in other galleries followed. Helma lives and works in Berlin.

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Around 1974 he made his first oil-technique paintings on linen that tell of dreams, fairy tales and visions. In her early pictures cats appear looking at the viewer. Helmas large formats often extend over two canvases. Some works arise from contact with other arts, under the impression of poetry. Trees, primeval forests, heart shapes, animals and gravestones are shown.

Together with the artists Christiane Meyer, Matthias Müller, Andreas Knäbel, Werner Liebmann and Wolfgang Ludwig , she works on the subject of "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka . You are the first artists to exhibit in the Parochialkirche after the reunification in 1992 .

The Serbian writer Bora Ćosić dedicated the poem The Origin to Helma in 2008 . In a text referring to Max Ernst , Eberhard Roters describes the oppression emanating from Helmas dream worlds, which at the same time represents a liberation: “It is the liberation inward to oneself. It is found in the depths at the bottom of consciousness . Helma has thus advanced into districts that are far behind and below the regions of social communication, namely into the layer of the existential ground of consciousness. "

Selection of works

  • Cats in a Landscape , 1975, oil on canvas, 80 × 68 cm, Ulla Pietzsch Collection, Berlin
  • Mördergrube , 1988, oil on two canvases, a total of 200 × 250 cm
  • Verrat , 1989, oil on two canvases, 200 × 250 cm in total
  • Im Märzen der Bauer , 1990, oil and paper on two canvases, a total of 200 × 250 cm
  • Behind the Trees is Another World , 1993, oil on canvas, 158 × 104 cm
  • Deep Sleep , 1993, oil on linen, 200 × 125 cm
  • Stiller Winkel , 1993, oil on canvas, 120 cm × 90 cm, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin
  • Voodoo , 1994, oil on linen, 100 × 140 cm
  • At the tree line , 1995, series, mixed media on paper, 89 × 60.5 cm
  • Falling Angel , 2001, plexiglass, various materials, 51.5 × 31.5 × 35 cm
  • Paradies , 2002, oil on linen, 150 × 100 cm
  • Zorn , 2006, oil on linen, 81 × 60 cm
  • The Flower of Evil , 2006, oil on canvas, 81 × 60 cm
  • Metamorphose , 2008, oil on canvas, 150 × 100 cm

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1979: Between , Galerie Brusberg , Hanover
  • 1982: Nature morte , Brusberg Gallery , Hanover
  • 1985: Galerie Hermeyer, Munich
  • 1987: Loulou Lazard Gallery, Berlin
  • 1989: Views of the 1990s , Künstlerbund Kiel
  • 1989: Homage to Egon Schiele , Epikur Gallery, Wuppertal
  • 1991: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
  • 1991: Asperger Gallery, Knittlingen
  • 1992: The Metamorphosis , Parochial Church , Berlin
  • 1993: Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne
  • 1994: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
  • 1995: Asperger Gallery, Strasbourg
  • 1996: Municipal Museum, Engen
  • 1998: Lagard Gallery, Buenos Aires
  • 1999: Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
  • 2000: Art in space , installation with Susanne Wehland, Berlin
  • 2001: Tammen & Busch Gallery, Berlin
  • 2002: Joslyn Art Museum , Omaha
  • 2006: Zorn , Asperger Gallery, Maulbronn
  • 2007: Schöner Wohnen , Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin
  • 2007: Natural History Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2011: Winner - Silberfisch & Ruderwanze , Asperger Gallery, Berlin
  • 2015: Treasures from private ownership II , Pforzheim Gallery , Pforzheim
  • 2016: Helma. A new day , Holthoff-Mokross Gallery, Hamburg

Work documentation

  • Helmet . Exhibition catalog, Galerie Hermeyer, Munich 1985.
  • Franz Kafka , The Metamorphosis . With an introduction by Wolfgang Ludwig and a text by Eberhard Roters . Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1992.
  • Helma, pictures . Exhibition catalog, W. Asperger Gallery AG, Zug 1992.
  • Helma, at the tree line . Exhibition catalog, Asperger Gallery, Strasbourg 1995.
  • Helmet . Leporello for the exhibition in the Lagard gallery. With numerous illustrations and a text by Jorge Glusberg , Buenos Aires 1998.
  • Helma, anger . Exhibition catalog, Asperger Gallery, Berlin 2006.
  • Helma, beautiful living . Exhibition catalog, Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin 2008.
  • Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch (eds.), Run, ladies, a man is in the rose garden. Artists. The Ulla Pietzsch Collection , Prestel Verlag , Munich 2009, pp. 52–55.
  • Bernard Schultze , Helma . In: Art Collection Jutta and Manfred Heinrich, ed. by Jutta and Manfred Heinrich, Maulbronn 2014, pp. 82–87, ISBN 978-3-00-043933-9 .

Literature (selection)

  • John Brunetti, Helma. Fassbender Gallery . In: New Art Examiner, April 1997, Chicago 1997, pp. 43, 44.
  • Helmet . In: Tools as Art. The Hetchinger Collection, 2002, p. 50, ISBN 0-9662859-1-3 .
  • Homage to a fashion drink . In: Der Spiegel , No. 9, February 24, 2003, p. 61.

Works in public collections

Book illustration

Web links

Commons : Helma Petrick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cats in a Landscape, 1975, oil on linen, 80 × 68 cm, Ulla Pietzsch Collection
  2. ↑ See: Alaska! Poems for Lida . With etchings / printing by Wolfgang Petrick , painted over by Helma. Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-926433-45-9 .
  3. ↑ See: Helma, Schöner Wohnen . Exhibition catalog, Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin 2008, no page number.
  4. ↑ See: Franz Kafka , The Metamorphosis . With an introduction by Wolfgang Ludwig and a text by Eberhard Roters . Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1992.
  5. ↑ See: http://www.kunstsammlung-heinrich.de/
personal data
SURNAME Helmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrick, Helma (full name); Hartmann, Helma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin