Karin Gilliam

Karin Gilliam framed from her pictures 2020

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The tides of the moon

Karin Gilliam , actually Karin von Jutrzenka Trzebiatowski -Gilliam , formerly known as Karin Wiesmann (* 1939 in Reichenbach in the Eulengebirge ) is a painter and illustrator .

Life

As a painter, initially known by the name of her first husband as Karin Wiesmann , Gilliam has had over 100 exhibitions since the 1970s, a third of them abroad, and although she started painting as an autodidact , she won four art prizes. During the time she worked at S. Fischer Verlag, she wrote and illustrated children's stories for other publishers such as Beltz & Gelberg , wrote a small play and the screenplay for the surrealistic children's film Princess Horsehair or The Song of the Leopard , for which she wrote 42 pictures painted, mostly animal and jungle scenes.

She lived for a long time in Frankfurt am Main , where she ran a gallery for contemporary art, Galerie Grüner Panther, for 17 years, and presented the works of domestic and foreign painters, sculptors and photographers.

Between 1985 and 1992, after winning several competitions advertised by the State of Hesse, she devoted herself more to painting walls in public buildings (State Chemical Investigation Office Wiesbaden, Karben vocational training center, gym, lounge, discotheque). Bauscher -Hutschenreuther gave her the chance to paint two series of porcelain plates for exhibitions and to design samples for the factory. Her pictures were reproduced on postcards, calendars, posters and art prints.

In 1985, together with her second husband, the American sculptor Franklin Gilliam, who had died in the meantime, she found the Mulino Rotone , an ancient building, former oil and grain mill, "the largest ruin that could be had" in Tuscany . Her book Mulino Rotone - The dream of a house in Toscana reports with many bizarre incidents of the years of search for a house in which one could live and work and the discovery and restoration of the natural stone buildings and the property in Castagneto Carducci .

Exhibitions

1970: Galerie Lambrette, Frankfurt Peinture Naive , 5. – 31. December

1970: Palette, Rathaus-Römer, Frankfurt and Frankfurter Messe Olympics for recreational painters April 10–10. May

1971: Museum Rade, Hamburg Copenhagen

1971: Galerie Lambrette, Frankfurt Peinture Naive , November 27th – 18th. December

1971: Ostheimer Gallery, Frankfurt

1971: Nassauischer Kunstverein, Städt. Museum, Wiesbaden Hobby painter of the Nassau Art Association December 12th – 2nd January 1972

1972: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, selection of the competition for the illustrated Stern Theater Offenbach miniature exhibition

1972: Kunsthalle Recklinghausen Ships and Harbors , November 5th – 3rd. December

1972: Galerie Erkens, Nettetal International contemporary naive painting and sculpture , November 12th – 10th. December

1972: Forum Galerie, Stadtsparkasse, Frankfurt Schlaglichter 72 - Modern Art in Frankfurt , December 11th

1973

Museum Rade, Hamburg The first graphics that are European naive
Kleine Galerie, Bad Godesberg Ten winners of the Stern competition January 19–17. February
Atelier Mensch, Hamburg spring exhibition March 28–25. April
Karstadt Gallery, Essen (Gallery Zimmer, Düsseldorf)
Galerie Rincklake van Endert, Dortmund and Münster, naive painting
Galerie Zimmer, Düsseldorf, solo exhibition of Princess Horsehair May 8–15. June
Galerie Ostheimer, Frankfurt, solo exhibition PP film images, 4. – 30. May
Galerie Buchhandlung Schlegl, Weiden
Galerie Walther, Düsseldorf Naive Art, July 3–1. September
Paula Modersohn-Becker-Haus, Museum, Bremen, solo exhibition 4. – 26. August
Böcker Art Cellar, Moers Garden of Dreams , November 28th
Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken Naive painting in Germany , November 12–23. December
Altkönigstift Oberhöchstadt
Studio Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, presentation of the illustrated book Garden of Dreams

1974

City of Frankfurt, Frankfurt artists exhibit, purchase of a cemetery picture
Galerie Im Fenster, Berlin Naive Bilder , 1. – 29. April
Seehausener Naive Press, Seehausen
Festivale dei due Mondi , Spoleto / Italy, May
Comune Circeo, San Felice-Circeo / Italy, 1st Mostra Internazionale dei Pittori Naifs, April 13th
Fiera Internazionale die Pittori, Riccione / Italy, May
Stampa Estera International Press Club and German Library Rome / Italy, solo exhibition from October 2nd
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, solo exhibition, June Art-Adress Verlag, Frankfurt Kunst aktuell, November 29th
Museum Rade, Hamburg, Adam and Eve , December 5th
BBC edition, offset litho, Matin vert , autumn 74
Galerie Krull, Krefeld, IKS collective exhibition European Naive, October

1975
- Galerie Krüll, Krefeld Naivenmarkt , May 10–13 . June

1976

Kunsthandlung Rusch-Ireland, Neustadt Naive painting , individual exh. March 13th
House of the Ruhr Festival, Recklinghausen, May 6th
Gallery for Free and Applied Art, Goslar "Naive Painting", August 21–2. October
Galerie Grüner Panther, Frankfurt "Dream City, October 15th
Dresdner Bank, Kassel “Art in the Bank”, solo exhibition, November 24–17. December
Galerie am Kornmarkt, Schleswig “Christmas Art Market”, November 26th – 24th. December
Kleine Galerie Lange, Siegburg, December 5–15. January 1977
Bruchköbel Medical Center, December

1977

Book cover, Roman Ota Filip, February
Municipal Gallery of the City of Frankfurt Naive Painting , March 31–29. April
Böcker Gallery, Moers, March 20–20. April
Edition Contur, Frankfurt, hand-signed graphics
Galleria d Arte Contemporanea Bandini, Cecina / Italy, 11. – 22. June
Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt “Pictures” solo exhibition, September 10–14. October (with sculptures by Dieter Wender, Pietrasanta)
International group exhibition, Bulgaria

1978

Galleria La Feluca, Rome / Italy “Grafica Internazionale degli artisti naifs”, January 31st
Stadthalle Hattersheirn "Naive Painting", solo exhibition with pictures by her mother Herta von Trzebiatowski, March 22nd – April 4th
Kunsthandlung Osper, Cologne, solo exhibition "Pictures and Painted Objects", November 3rd – 17th
Galerie Ritter Huhn, Waldbröl “Pictures and Painted Objects”, December 1st

1979
- Lesczczinski Gallery, City Tower, Frankfurt, May 13th
- Galerie Mamy, Munich, solo exhibition, June 12–28. July
- Gallery in the BMW Tower, Munich, Naive Tierbilder, December 6th – 26th. January 1980
1980
- German Medical Center Consulting Company, Frankfurt “Oil Paintings and Graphics”, solo exhibition, November 21–19. December
1981
- "Art in the hospital", traveling exhibition Düsseldorf, Dortmund a. a.
1982
- Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt “Frankfurt Naive Painting”, January 18–12. February
- Galerie Crest Hotel, Neu Isenburg, solo exhibition
- Galerie Crest Hotel, Lüdenscheid, solo exhibition
1984
- Michael Schulte Gallery, Bisbee, Arizona / USA
- Galerie Clementine Dijkstra, Friolzheim, Christmas exhibition, November 8–23. December
- German Clinic for Diagnostics, Wiesbaden, large solo exhibition with loans “Pictures and Objects” October 6th – 9th. January 1985
1985: Galerie Monika Beck, Homburg Karin Wiesmann Gilliam "Pictures", Franklin Gilliam "Sculptures", March 24th – 25th. April
1986: Gallery in the studio, Heidenheim “Oil paintings”, January 25th – 28th. March
1993: Comitato Turistico, Castagneto Carducci, collective exhibition
1993: Avignonesi store, Montepulcano "Weinbilder"
2012: Biblioteca del Ospedale Cecina
2014: La Tana, Marina di Castagneto Carducci
2014: Galerie Paul, Nuremberg

Awards

1970: 1st Prize Museum Rade, Hamburg
1971: Competition of the Stern und Altonaer Museum 1972 San Felice, Circeo / Italy
1974: 1st prize in the Riccione competition in 1979

literature

Fritz Faist (Red.), Karin Gilliam: Mulino Rotone. The dream of a house in Tuscany . Codex, Ursberg / Oberrohr 2002, ISBN 3-936353-23-9 .
Hanns Hubmann (ed.): Garden of dreams. 23 naive painters . Bruckmann, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7654-1546-4 .
Tilmann Moser: Art and Psyche. Pictures as a mirror of the soul . Belser, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7630-2572-5 , pp. 129-134.

Individual evidence

↑ Mulino Rotone ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 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. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Gilliam, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Trzebiatowski-Gilliam, Karin von Jutrzenka (real name); Wiesmann, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dzierżoniów

[1] Mulino Rotone ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 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. @1@ 2