Kathrin Landa

Kathrin Landa, 2019

Kathrin Landa (* April 1980 in Tettnang , Bodenseekreis ), grew up in Ravensburg , is a painter and is considered a representative of the New Leipzig School .

Life and career

Kathrin Landa studied painting and graphics with Friedemann Hahn at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz from 2000 to 2002 , before moving to Sighard Gille from 2002 to 2006 at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art and graduating with a diploma. During this period she also made an excursion to Lyon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon . From 2006 to 2009 she completed a master's degree with Annette Schröter at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, where she held a position as a lecturer in 2008.

Landa has been a freelance artist in Berlin since 2011 and a lecturer at the Leipzig Summer Academy and the Weingarten University of Education . Landa began to gain public fame through commissioned works by the cities of Leipzig and Ravensburg, for which she portrayed the mayors at the time, Wolfgang Tiefensee and Hermann Vogler . Several solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, so u. a. a permanent presence in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie of the Georgium Palace in Dessau and in the City History Museum Leipzig are the cornerstone of Landa's artistic career; she is a supraregional representative of the  New Leipzig School .

In June 2015 Kathrin Landa founded the painterinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig . In 2016 the network, whose aim is to increase the national and international reception of female painters, became a non-profit association. In 2019 Landa created the works of art for the film "The Life of My Daughter" by director Steffen Weinert. The movie was produced by Alexander Funk .

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Landa is characterized by the precision craftsmanship and the preference for objectivity of the modern Leipzig school . Her expressive portraits, half-figures, shoulder pieces and depictions of heads - often reduced to the face of the sitter - are characterized by expressive, dynamic brushwork and strong and bright colors. An intensive preoccupation with the models and in particular the ability to convey an emotional depth is what defines Landa's previous work.

Solo exhibitions

• 2019: VOIX - Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (together with the MNW)
• 2018: Layered Worlds - Art Hall of the Kreissparkasse Ravensburg
• 2014: Head and Tree - Städtische Galerie Markdorf
• 2013: Longing, the same - Städtische Kornhausgalerie Weingarten
• 2012: Nora in Berlin Kathrin Landa - painting art space “Ex-L & G Security” Berlin
• 2011: Kathrin Landa-painted time Galerie Josef Filip, Leipzig
• 2010: Lasting moments - Kathrin Landa and Nicole Schuck Kunstverein Ravensburg
• 2010: The brightest day is dawning around us. Galerie Jens Goethel, Hamburg
• 2009: party Galerie Jürgen Kalthoff, Essen
• 2008: fragile heroes Josef Filipp Gallery, Leipzig
• 2007: Sorry, I'm just a medium - Galerie Jens Goethel, Hamburg

Selection of works

• Woman in stripped dress (Isabelle) / Woman in striped dress (Isabelle). 2018, illustration on the artist's website
• Roman Knižka. 2018, illustration on the artist's website
• Golden wounds 19 (Lena in the studio) / Goldene wounds 19 (Lena H. in the studio). 2013, image on the artist's website
• In the bathroom 3 (Noémie) / In the bathroom 3 (Noémie). 2009, image on the artist's website
• Wolfgang Tiefensee (former Federal Minister) / Wolfgang Tiefensee (former federal minister). 2009, image on the artist's website

Awards

• 2015: Culture award of the cities of Ravensburg and Weingarten (sponsorship award)

Catalogs and publications

• Barbara John, Andrea Dreher, Enrico Meyer, Kathrin Landa: Layered Worlds. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-191-8 . Details on the publication on the publisher's website .
• Kathrin Landa. In: Hahn class. Arsenal HKM 1 Mainz (Ed.), Big Bopp, Modo Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 2007, ISBN 3-937014-69-1 , pp. 135-136.
• Kathrin Landa. In: Two-dimensional, competition for visual art 2008. Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig (ed.), (Cb) Saxon works of art, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-940328-01-4 .
• Kathrin Landa. In: W. Renn: crime and image. Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen (ed.), Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86895-163-9 , pp. 132-133.
• Kathrin Landa. In: Joachim Poznanski (Hrsg.): Fine arts in Leipzig, an art guide. art.media Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034343-8 .
• Kathrin Landa. Skin and canvas. ed. v. Kunstverein Markdorf, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9807093-5-4 .
• Kathrin Landa. In: Art of Upper Swabia, 20th century, 1970 to today. Society of Upper Swabia for History and Culture (Ed.), Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-845-6 .
• Kathrin Landa. In: The better half painters from Leipzig. Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig (Ed.), Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815840-5-9
• Kathrin Landa. In: class reunion. Master student of Annette Schröter. Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig (ed.), Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815840-7-3
• Kathrin Landa. In: Painting XX. Kann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-943619-49-2
• Kathrin Landa. In: Unleashed! Contemporary painters. Achberg Castle (Ed.), District Office, Ravensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-944685-05-2
• Kathrin Landa - LAYERED WORLDS . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Kreissparkasse Ravensburg (2018), Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2019, ISBN 978-3-95976-191-8

Web links

• Kathrin Landa's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handover of the “Tiefensee portrait” to the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig in the presence of the former OB WOLFGANG TIEFENSEE and the artist KATHRIN LANDA on December 1st, 2012 ( lotter-gesellschaft.de , accessed on March 6th, 2019).
2. ^ New Leipzig School. Career engine or obstacle to creativity? Deutschlandfunk , report from April 14, 2007, accessed on March 6, 2019.
3. ^ Website of the MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig , accessed on March 6, 2019.
4. ↑ “It's about our voices”. About women and feminism in art. A conversation with the painters Kathrin Landa and Verena Landau, members of the MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig. In: Friday. Blog, February 19, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019.
5. ↑ A strong performance: 28 female artists in the Leipzig Picture Museum. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. February 27, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019.
6. ^ Website of the film My Daughter's Life , accessed June 21, 2019.