Inge Gutbrod

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Inge Gutbrod (born November 28, 1963 in Nuremberg ) is a German artist.

Life

From 1983 to 1990 Inge Gutbrod studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, since 1988 as a master class student with Werner Knaupp .

Gutbrod has been working as a freelancer since 1990 and has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 2008 . She lives in Fürth.

Works

General

Inge Gutbrod thinks and works less in conventional categories and genres. Rather, her work is essentially determined by one material: wax . Based on this, in her artistic practice she explored the interplay and the limits of the transparent, translucent and opaque, i.e. of transparency, translucency and opacity.

Sculptures

One of the most direct ways of dealing with the plastic, malleable material wax is kneading by hand. The vase and vessel shapes created in this way form Gutbrod's initial vocabulary as a sculptor. They go through countless transformation processes, are grouped into large ensembles or are made in a simultaneously reduced and monumentalized form as sculptures made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic. Gutbrod's window and showcase works are derived directly from the vases and vessels: milk glass or semi-transparent foils in “opaque” quality are combined with silhouettes cut from cardboard and paper to create often large-format installations that always succeed in suggesting round, three-dimensional forms . By clouding the view, the outline becomes the pseudo-spatial. The boundary between two- and three-dimensional image objects is abolished in an illusionistic way. Innumerable other sculptural forms exist in Gutbrod's oeuvre; Particularly noteworthy groups of works are the spheres floating in space and partly rotating in a motorized manner and the "water lilies" floating freely in basins, pools and ponds.

Architectures

The creation of a garden path with wax slabs, as well as some massive furniture sculptures made of industrially manufactured paraffin blocks can be regarded as preliminary stages; Gutbrod's sculptures find their actual architectural expression at the moment when she combines these white paraffin plates with support structures made of iron. From this she creates movable walls used as room dividers (in analogy to forms of Japanese paper architecture , so-called shoji ) - but above all, accessible wax rooms in the elementary forms of gate, tower and room. These architectural sculptures are either used in public spaces or in the vicinity of public buildings such as B. Airports installed ( My world , 1999–2001), in a protected museum space or inside a church ( wax room no. 5 , 2004). The light permeability of the material creates a peculiar floating spatial experience in the viewer within the wax rooms.

Light boxes

With the use of the light box medium (since 2001), the color in Gutbrod's oeuvre also comes into its own. Initially only in warm red and yellow tones, later also in colder colors from the green-blue range of the spectrum, the artist produced square wax tiles with which the fronts of electrically illuminated boxes are designed. The result is luminous mosaics with a lively surface structure that reinterprets the light box, which was originally used for advertising and photography purposes, in a constructive, painterly sense. In combination with beanbags, carpets and music, these light boxes are expanded into room installations (cf. Take a seat in my sunnyside lounge , 2007), which can be apostrophized as color-light spaces of experience with a feel-good character.

Wax pictures - material monochrome

Another large group of works since 2003 are the wax pictures, monochrome panels made of insulation panels that taper towards the rear (which gives them a character that floats in front of the wall), covered with numerous layers of colored wax. Actual and suggested spatial depth, color intensity, lively surface structure and the lightness of the material characterize these works.

Screen prints

The screen prints (since 2005) represent the further development of the monochrome principle in Gutbrod's work. They are the first larger group of works that can do without the material wax. The modular layout of square single sheets is taken over from the light boxes, which are put together to form a grid-like overall picture. In the series of works begun in 2010, screen-printed images with vase motifs and translucent foils are interwoven to create new, seemingly spatial illusions.

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995: Kohlenhof, Institute for Aesthetic Boundaries, Nuremberg (E)
  • 1996: Wax in the Revier, Kunsthaus, Essen (E, K)
  • 1996: Junge Kunst International´97, Overbeck Society , Lübeck (K)
  • 1999: have a look ...! Railway keeper's house, gallery of the city of Esslingen (E, K)
  • 1999: Galerie L'H du Siège center d'art contemporain associatif, Valenciennes, F (with Gisèle Grammare)
  • 2000: my world - part one, Nuremberg Airport
  • 2000: my world - part two, Eppley Airfield, Omaha / NE, USA
  • 2000: les vitrines de la bourgeoisie, zeit, Kulturring C, Fürth (K)
  • 2001: art agents / gallery, Hamburg
  • 2001: my world - part three, BAA Glasgow International Airport, UK
  • 2002: world made of wax, lounge in zumikon, Nuremberg (E, K)
  • 2002: the glasgow-paisley-project - works in public space, Glasgow and Paisley, UK (E)
  • 2003: positions + tendenzen, Art in Franconia 2003 (K)
  • 2003: color fidelity, Galerie Kunst im Gang, Bamberg (E)
  • 2004: cire-pure, art-space-academy of the diocese Stuttgart-Rottenburg, conference house Weingarten (E)
  • 2004: wax room no. 5, St. Sebald, Nuremberg (E)
  • 2006: warm room, Heidelberger Kunstverein (E, K)
  • 2006: elephant ear stand, art gallery fürth (E, K)
  • 2006: muSEEum, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt (E, K)
  • 2006: art.fair 06, Cologne, booth Alexa.Jansen.Galerie, Cologne
  • 2007: Wasserwelt 2, Kunsthaus Potsdam
  • 2007: New Friends - Current Positions on the Square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
  • 2007: Into a wide vessel, Alexa.Jansen.Galerie, Cologne (E)
  • 2008: Galerie Kunst im Gang, Bamberg (with Anita Stöhr Weber)
  • 2009: The Infinite Loop, zumikon Nuremberg (K)
  • 2009: keystone / vessels / pillars, Sigismund Chapel, Regensburg (E)
  • 2009/2010: Focus Franconia - Triennale Schweinfurt for contemporary art (K)
  • 2010: HWP scholarship holders 2008/2009, Akademie Galerie, Nuremberg
  • 2010: The poetry of everyday life is only sometimes made of wax, Neue Galerie Dachau (E)
  • 2011: Sicilia mangia, German Shepherd Museum, Hersbruck (K)
  • 2018: Inge Gutbrod "roundabout about round" - installations and objects, Flottmannhallen , Herne

Awards, grants, awards

  • 1993: Railroad attendant scholarship, Esslingen
  • 1995: Sponsorship award from the sponsorship group for fine arts Nuremberg eV
  • 1997: Scholarship from the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Cismar Monastery
  • 1998: Culture Prize of the City of Fürth
  • 1999: Culture Prize of the City of Nuremberg
  • 2000: Artist in Residence, BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha / NE, USA
  • 2000: Workshop Prize from the Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil
  • 2001: one-year scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
  • 2002: Artist in Residence, Glasgow, UK
  • 2002–2004: Bavarian studio funding
  • 2004: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • 2005: Sponsorship award from the Middle Franconia district
  • 2007: Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program, Toronto / Ontario, Canada
  • 2008: Otto Grau Culture Prize
  • 2008–2009: HWP grant from the Free State of Bavaria
  • 2009: Luber scholarship, Kallmünz

Works in public collections (with purchase date)

  • 1986: Bayer AG, Munich
  • 1987/88/92: Artothek Nürnberg
  • 1988: Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt
  • 1988: Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
  • 1988: Hypo-Bank headquarters, Düsseldorf
  • 1993/99: Graphic collections Villa Merkel, Esslingen
  • 1994/96/97: Stadtsparkasse Nürnberg
  • 1997: Bavarian State Chancellery, Munich
  • 1998: State Building Department, Munich
  • 1999: City of Fürth
  • 1998: Municipal Collections, Schweinfurt
  • 1998: Fürther Kunstfreunde eV
  • 2002: Museums of the City of Nuremberg
  • 2006: Artothek Nuremberg
  • 2008: Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "G" / Inge Gutbrod (accessed on August 10, 2015)

literature

  • 1999: "have a look ...!", Exhibition catalog Esslingen
  • 1999: Inge Gutbrod - Meide Büdel - Karin Blum, Pictures & Objects, City Collections Schweinfurt
  • 2000: Inge Gutbrod - Hans Schüle, Workshop Prize 2000 from the Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil
  • 2002: Inge Gutbrod - world from wax, publishing house for modern art Nuremberg
  • 2006: inge gutbrod 1,2,3, art gallery fürth
  • 2007: New friends - current positions on the square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg

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personal data
SURNAME Gutbrod, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg