Karin Witte

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Karin Witte (* 1939 in Hamburg ) is a German draftsman , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Karin Witte studied fabric design, painting, drawing and etching technology for 12 semesters at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts .

In 1974 she received the Edwin Scharff Prize . From 1978 to 1987 she worked as a lecturer at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in the field of design. In 1981 she opened her private painting school in Hamburg. A year later Karin Witte was accepted into the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg .

On her 80th birthday, the Cismar Monastery dedicated a large exhibition to her from April 14th to October 20th, 2019 under the title: Sometimes we dance .

The announcement said: The works of Karin Witte are like a journey into the individual perception of the Hamburg artist. Their view of the world is spontaneous, their observation is spurred on by the unexpected and is sometimes unexpected. In her paintings Karin Witte oscillates between figuration and abstraction. The way you work moves between spontaneity and calculation and is sometimes like dancing.

Karin Witte's works can be found in private and public collections: Cultural Authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein Kiel, Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Museum Quarter St. Annen , Hamburger Kunsthalle , Dresden State Art Collection ( Kupferstich-Kabinett ) , Collection Hapag-Lloyd AG Hamburg.

Karin Witte lives and works in Hamburg.

reception

“Karin Witte has created her own imagery, a formal language of figurations and symbols that are justified in themselves. In doing so, the painter has found certain condensed forms and signs that are repeatedly worked on over a long period of time and thus often recur in her motifs. "

- Jens E. Howoldt

"They overshadow, overlap and mystify one another: levels and layers play an important role in the seemingly abstract work of the Hamburg artist Karin Witte."

- Julika Pohle

Posts on television

  • 1985: NDR , N3 culture up-to-date
  • 1995: NDR, N3 Hamburg Journal
  • 1995: NDR, N3 art forays
  • 1996: ZDF, Kulturzeit
  • 1997: NDR, N3 Hamburg Journal
  • 2001: RTL, good evening RTL

Catalogs (selection)

  • 1991: Karin Witte, Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum
  • 2004: Karin Witte, pictures from four decades, Atelier im Bauernhof publishing house, ISBN 3-88-132262-0

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1971 Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1973 Hauptmann Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1974 Gallery des Philosophes, Geneva
  • 1975 Kunsthaus Hamburg (Edwin Scharff Prize)
  • 1975 Hamburg State Representation, Bonn
  • 1977 Hauptmann Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1981 Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1982 Hauptmann Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1983 Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1985 Hauptmann Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1985 Rolf Ohse Gallery, Bremen
  • 1988 Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1988 Walther Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1991 Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum
  • 1991 Municipal Gallery Peschkenhaus, Moers
  • 1992 B A T Art Foyer, Hamburg
  • 1993 State Museum Oldenburg
  • 1994 tammen & busch gallery, Berlin
  • 1995 Kampnagel Hall K3, Hamburg
  • 1996 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
  • 1997 Trost Gallery, Lippstadt
  • 1997 Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg
  • 1999 Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll
  • 1999 Galerie im Park, Bremen
  • 2000 Elmshorn Art Association
  • 2002 tammen & busch gallery, Berlin
  • 2005 Herold Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2005 Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 2007 State Museum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig
  • 2008 Gallery Christian Zwang, Hamburg
  • 2012 Schloss vor Husum, Husum
  • 2018 Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974 Graphic from Hamburg, B · A · T-Haus, Hamburg
  • 1977 Stadtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg
  • 1979 10 years Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg
  • 1981 13 plus 8, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1981 Drawings from Hamburg, House of the Artist, Leningrad
  • 1982 Drawings from Hamburg, Hamburg State Representation, Bonn
  • 1985 himself, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1987 Heartbeat, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1987/88 Landesschau Schleswig-Holstein, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, also in 1991 and 1993
  • 1988 art from German federal states, EG Brussels
  • 1989 7 x 7, Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel
  • 1989 20 years Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg
  • 1990 Small format, Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1993 the small format, tammen & busch gallery, Berlin
  • 1993 Animal Pictures IV, Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel
  • 1994 Separated - United, Leipzig City History Museum
  • 1994 Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1995 Northwest Art Drawings, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 1996 Art forays, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 1996 Hand drawings, Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg
  • 1996/97 The head / figure, Künstlerbund Steinburg, Glückstadt / Elbe
  • 1997 Drawings, Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1997 Gestural painting - special exhibition within the large art exhibition - Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 1997 NordwestKunst 97 - Prints & Small Sculptures - Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 1998 Most of the best, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
  • 1999 Vision 2000, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • 2000 50 years of the Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 2001 Horizons, Perspectives, Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg
  • 2002 From artist club to modernity, Galerie Herold, Hamburg
  • 2003 Modern Times, Herold Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2003 Northern Art, North Frisian Museum, Ludwig-Nissen-Haus, Husum
  • 2003/04 Nordkunst, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder / DK Kulturforum Burgkloster zu Lübeck, Lübeck
  • 2003/04 25 years Galerie Herold, Hamburg
  • 2010 From the Michael Hauptmann collection, renate chamber gallery, Hamburg

Bibliography (selection)

  • Young Hamburg artists - Karin Witte. Exhibition cat. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg 1970
  • Karin Witte, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Bremen, contribution by Thomas Werner, Bremen 1971
  • Graphics from Hamburg, 52nd B A T exhibition, Hamburg 1974, ill. No.86
  • Karin Witte, exhib.-cat. On the award of the Edwin Scharff Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, contribution by Heinz Spielmann, Hamburg 1975
  • Heinz Spielmann, Karin Witte, as well as a text by the artist about herself, in: Collage, magazine for literature and graphics, 1st year, issue 3/1975
  • Heinz Spielmann, Karin Witte - drawings and prints, in: Graphische Kunst, issue 7/2. Issue 1976
  • Propylaea. Total cat. of graphics, sculptures, art and picture books, Berlin 1980
  • René Drommert, In Lichtwarks Mill on Meier's Boat, in: Merian, Heft 8/34, Hamburg 1981, pp. 88–92
  • Drawings from Hamburg, house of the artist Leningrad, Hamburg 1981, ill.no.67
  • 13 plus 8, artist and writer from Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg 1981, pp. 66–69
  • Art for Europe, German Art Today, Brussels 1988, pp. 134–135
  • Hartmut Winde, in a yellow dress. Image and service, in: Workbook service, Hamburg 1990
  • Kulturstiftung Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Altenhof Kuhhaus, exhibition of the Free Academy of the Arts, Rendsburg 1991, pp. 72–75
  • Susanne Peters-Schildgen, Between Chance and Planning, with a foreword by Gerhard Gerkens, in: Exh. Cat. Karin Witte, Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1991
  • Hartmut Winde, The wretched see it and are happy, in: Art and Sacrament, 10 years of confrontation in the Hamburg Gnadenkirche. Documentation 1981–1991, Hamburg 1991
  • 20 years of the Städtische Galerie Peschkenhaus Moers, overview 1972–1992, Moers 1992, pp. 40–41
  • Helmut R. Leppien, Encounters, with an introduction by Peter Reindl, in: Exh. Cat. Karin Witte, Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1993. - Reprinted in: Punkt. Art in the Northwest, Issue 3/93, Bremen 1993
  • Separately United, Gedok Association, Painting, Plastic, Graphic Objects, Leipzig 1994, pp. 114–115
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf, NF, Vol. IV 1992/93, Neumünster 1994, p. 175 (Acquisition report, Heinz Spielmann, Karin Witte, picture "Wickelkinder I", 1990)
  • The Hapag-Lloyd-Hof, publication about the building, with four images of pictures by Karin Witte and texts by Hajo Schiff and Jens Howoldt, Hamburg 1995
  • Karin Witte, The picture transforms me, in: Kunststreifzüge, Hamburg 1996
  • Karin Witte, exhibition catalog, with a contribution by Jens E. Howoldt, Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg, Hamburg 1997
  • Uwe Hauptenthal, Images as a spiritual and vital metaphor for life, in: Exh. Cat. Karin Witte, Galerie im Park, XXI, Bremen 1999/2000
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf, NF Vol. VI, 1996–98
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf, NF Vol. VI, 1996–98, Neumünster 1999, p. 336 (Acquisition report, Heinz Spielmann, Karin Witte, drawing Schrag, 1997)
  • Patricia M. Räbiger, Karin Witte, pictures and drawings, in: Punkt. Art in the Northwest, Issue 4/99, Bremen 1999
  • Nolde to Schumacher Ð Kock to Kumrow. 50 years of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg. Two exhibitions of the visual arts section, Hamburg 2000, pp. 236-239
  • Thorsten Rodiek (Ed.), Gift - Donated - Bought, Art after 1945, from the collections of the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2003, pp. 252-253
  • From impressionism to modernity. Exhibition cat. Galerie Herold, Hamburg, with a text about Karin Witte by Friederike Weimar, Hamburg 2003, p. 169
  • Karin Witte, pictures from four decades. With a catalog raisonné of printmaking, Fischerhude 2004 (texts by Heinz Spielmann, Thomas Gädeke and Karin Witte)
  • Der neue Rump, Lexicon of Visual Artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area, Neumünster 2005, p. 499
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Gottorf Castle, NF, vol. X 2005–2006, Neumünster 2007, p. 157 (text by Thomas Gädeke, Karin Witte, 10 etchings)
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Gottorf Castle, NF, Vol. XI 2007–2008, Neumünster 2009, p. 129 (Text Magret Schütte, Karin Witte, 2 acrylic glass objects o. T., 2006)
  • Exhibition catalog 2010, gallery renate chamber. From the Michael Hauptmann, Karin Witte collection, 9 figs.
  • Yearbook of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Gottorf Castle, NF Vol. XII 2009/2010, Neumünster 2011, pp. 86, 87 (text by Margret Schütte pp. 114, 115, Thomas Gädeke, Karin Witte, 14 papers)
  • Karin Witte, letter to Volkwin Marg, in: Logbuch Volkwin Marg, ed. by Hubert Nienhoff, Altenburg 2011, pp. 502–503
  • Uwe Hauptenthal, Imaginative Presence of the Figural. Notes on Karin Witte's artistic work, in: Karin Witte. Through Views, exhibition cat., Husum 2012

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  1. ^ Catalog drawing on paper and canvas, Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg, 1997
  2. ↑ Die Welt , April 24, 2019
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SURNAME Witte, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist, painter and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg