Jutta East

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Jutta Maria Helena Osten (born February 25, 1918 in Gleiwitz , † January 24, 2009 in Cologne ) was a German art teacher, sculptor, medalist and graphic artist.

Life

She spent her childhood and youth in Upper Silesia in an ethnic-cultural border area. She was the daughter of the lawyer Georg Osten and his wife Angela, b. Deposits. Her talent was already evident at an early age, which was supported by her mother, who was also artistically active. While staying with her relatives in rural areas, she discovered an interest in drawing animals and people. In 1938 he passed the matriculation examination at a grammar school in Opole . From 1939 to 1942 he studied at the University of Art Education in Berlin with Klinkert and Willi Maillard (1879-1945), and from 1942 to 1944 studied modeling and sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, with August Kranz , Wilhelm Gerstel and Fisher as well as geography at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University. In 1944 she began studying stone carving at the Czech School of Crafts in Prague with Foitek and at the University Institute for Fine Arts in Prague with Hofman. In 1946 she studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Joseph Enseling and worked as a stonemason assistant in the restoration of several church buildings. Due to the difficult economic situation, Osten decided to pursue a career as a teacher in 1948 and completed a legal clerkship in Düsseldorf.

In 1949 she became an art teacher at the Hildegard von Bingen State School in Cologne. From 1949 to 1953 she received further training at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne with Jaeckel and Gies. Since 1956 she has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad. From 1957 to 1980, Osten was Director of Studies and Head of Art Education at the study seminar for high schools in Cologne. In 1980 she received an early retirement in order to be able to devote more time to her sculpting activities. Between 1984 and 1996 he spent several months every year at the Academia Raffaello in Urbino for study purposes, primarily in printmaking techniques.

Cologne-based Jutta Osten worked artistically as a sculptor, medalist and graphic artist. In addition to the Christian faith, the examination of her life was particularly formative for her art. The horrors of the Second World War, especially its end, found their way into her art again and again. Your art can be attributed to post-expressionism. East mainly created medals, plaques and small sculptures, but also larger sculptures in the architectural space, especially for churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. A large part of Jutta Osten's artistic estate is in the Oberschlesisches Landesmuseum in Ratingen .

Quote

“We have already mentioned the artistic tension in the relationship between surface and space, two of three dimensions of representation. A fourth is the time that told a story to be told over and over again. This is one of the great strengths of Jutta Ost. She tells the stories, brings the past into the present. She often puts a whole life with its most important scenes, with additional texts and symbols on a board. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1989 - House of the German East, Düsseldorf "Jutta Osten - Sculpture and Graphics"
  • 1989 - Villa Ugolini, Pesaro "Mostra di Jutta Osten"
  • 1990 - Upper Silesian State Museum, Ratingen "Jutta Osten - Sculpture and Printmaking", exhibition on the occasion of the award of the Upper Silesian Main Culture Prize to Jutta Osten
  • 1995 - Casa Natale di Raffaello, Urbino "Jutta Osten - Targhe e statuette"
  • 1997 - Breslau / Opole / Kattowitz / Krakau / Gleiwitz, traveling exhibition "Jutta Osten - rzezba-medale-grafika"
  • 1998 - Upper Silesian State Museum Ratingen "Jutta Osten - Sculpture, Medals, Graphics"

Group exhibitions

  • 1971 - Kunsthaus, Bocholt "Annemarie Schwanitz - painting, Jutta Osten - sculpture"
  • 1974 - Porto, "Exposicao international de Medalhas de Arte"
  • 1975 - Overstolzenhaus, Cologne "Ars sacra - Church art of the present"
  • 1979 - Haus Oberschlesien, Ratingen and Haus des Deutschen Ostens, Düsseldorf “Exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier” - Jutta Osten, Günter Sockel, Christa Lopatta-Schneider, Traude Teodorescu-Klein
  • 1981 - Galleria Domus Barbara, Locarno, participation in the International Competition for Art Medals (CIMA)
  • 1992 - Basar de Cologne, Cologne "Artists against AIDS"
  • 1993 - State Gallery Moritzburg Halle and Women's Museum Bonn "Medal Artists in Germany"
  • 1994 - Glogau / Ratibor / Breslau / Görlitz, traveling exhibition "Artists from Silesia", organized by the Gerhart Hauptmann Haus Foundation
  • 1995 - Bonn Science Center "European Medal Art from the Renaissance to the Present" Exhibition on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Society for Medal Art
  • 2007 - Bode-Museum, Münzkabinett, Berlin “Medal art in Cologne in the 20th century”, exhibition on the occasion of the annual conference of the German Society for Medal Art

literature

  • Peter Mrass (eds.), Jan Sakwerda, Barbara Kozarska-Orzeszek and others: Jutta Osten. Sculpture, medals, graphics. Text in German and Polish, on the occasion of the 46th World Eucharistic Congress in Breslau, 1997; Exhibition locations: Wrocław, Muzeum Sztuki Medalierskiej ... Ratingen-Hösel, Upper Silesian State Museum Wroclaw 1997, Wrocław: Muzeum Sztuki Medalierskie; Ratingen: Oberschlesisches Landesmuseum, 1997, ISBN 83-86626-65-8 .
  • Beate Thiemer (Ed.): Jutta Osten. A daring life. For the 90th birthday (= Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland Volume 25), with contributions by Iris Benner, Jup Holter, Mechtild Lohmanns, Marcus Mrass, Prelate Josef Sauerborn, Werner Schäfke, Beate Thiemer, Joseph Ullrich, Eva-Maria Will, Eva Wipplinger. German Society for Medal Art , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937751-53-5 .
  • Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , part 2 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post of the Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde eV, volume 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 12f. (with 3 images) ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Osten. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ External website
  3. ↑ Werner Schäfke: Chiaroscuro. Of public sculpture and private graphics. In: Peter Mrass and Jan Sakwerda: Jutta Osten. Sculpture, medals, graphics. Breslau 1997, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME East, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osten, Jutta Maria Helena (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art teacher, sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2009
Place of death Cologne