Kerstin Franke-Gneuss

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Kerstin Franke-Gneuss , b. Gneuss, (born April 12, 1959 in Meißen ) is a German graphic artist , painter and installation artist. She lives and works in Dresden .

Life

Franke-Gneuss grew up in Weinböhla and passed the Abitur in Meißen in 1977. From 1975 to 1978 she completed an evening course at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Ursula Rzodeczko, among others . From 1978 to 1984 he studied painting and graphics there. Siegfried Klotz and Günter Horlbeck were among her teachers here . Since 1984 she has been working freelance in Dresden.

Franke-Gneuss was a co-founder of the Dresden Secession 89 in 1989 . In 1993 she received a grant from the St. Wendel Art Collection Foundation. Since 1993, Franke-Gneuss objects have been in public spaces in Dresden and Chemnitz, among others. She has been working in a studio in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz since 1995 and has been employed in the Altana Gallery, University Collections Art + Technology of the TU Dresden since 2003 .

Act

Sculpture Inner Center in Dresden (at the original location Gustav-Adolf-Platz)

Franke-Gneuss works in a wide variety of techniques, with etchings "in all technically possible combinations" dominating. Her drypoint etchings and paintings, including mixed media, take her inspiration from nature. This is how “dark webs emerge which develop as fragments of what has been experienced from the white of the picture background.” Franke-Gneuss's works are always abstract. In 1994 she published the artist book Schattenrosen, a collection of etchings based on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann .

From the mid-1990s, Franke-Gneuss also created installations and works for public spaces, including a large rear altar window in 1991 for a new church in Altenberg . Light sculptures can be found on Gustav-Adolf-Platz in Dresden and on the Hellerau festival grounds. In January 2012 Franke-Gneuss won the competition for the artistic design of the new district court in Dresden with a work made of curved waves. The artwork IUS_In Gottes Hand , which adorns a wall surface along the main staircase and a wall on the first floor, was acquired by the Free State of Saxony for 70,000 euros.

In addition, light installations that were not permanently attached were created. Among other things, she created the light installation Schattenglut made of acrylic glass on the roof of the Semperoper rehearsal stage on the occasion of the premiere of the one-act opera Die Bassariden in the Semperoper in 1997 . In 1997, as part of the Mnemosyne im fluss '97 art campaign , her work Kronenwirbel was on view below the Prießnitz Bridge near the Dresden Deaconess Hospital . In 1999 she created the installation Treiblicht on the Ernemannturm of the Technical Collections Dresden with colored acrylic rods . In her work for public space, Franke-Gneuss is primarily concerned with “the modulation of light and shadow”, based on the graphic work. In 2011, her porcelain works could also be seen in the show Now to X / I.

Works by Franke-Gneuss are owned by the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett and the Erfurt Angermuseum , among others . Since 1989 her work See (1988) has been part of the collections of the Galerie Neue Meister .

Awards

  • 2016: 9th Felix Hollenberg Prize

Working in public space

Several Franke-Gneuss installations are in public space:

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Felix Hollenberg Prize 2016: Kerstin Franke-Gneuß - GRATWANDERUNG , exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Albstadt , Albstadt 2017, p. 80, ISBN 978-3-934439-48-1 .
  • G. Söder: Franke-Gneuss, Kerstin . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 44: Franconi – Freyenmuth . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2005, pp. 79–80.
  • Kerstin Franke-Gneuss . In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang. Volume 1 . Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 1999, p. 47.
  • Fractals. Kerstin Franke-Gneuss , exhibition catalog, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden 1994.
  • Kerstin Franke-Gneuss , exhibition catalog, Galerie Mitte, Dresden 1994.
  • Earth. Works on plein air on canvas and paper, objects in clay, stone and metal by Gerda Lepke, Marion Kahnemann, Regine Buer, Kerstin Franke-Gneuss, Thea Richter, Wladimir W. Kratschmer, Valentin W. Tschikow , exhibition catalog, Dresden 1992.

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Franke-Gneuss  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Franke-Gneuss, Kerstin . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 44: Franconi – Freyenmuth . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2005, p. 79.
  2. ↑ Ingrid Roßki: 100 years Künstlerhaus residents today. Crown vortex by Kerstin Franke-Gneuss on the Prießnitz . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 8, 1997, p. 12.
  3. ^ Art in architecture . In: Lausitzer Rundschau. January 25, 2012, p. 16.
  4. ^ A novelty in the Semperbau: Opera premiere with an art project . In: Dresdner Latest News , January 10, 1997, p. 7.
  5. ^ Dresdner Latest News , July 9, 1999, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Susanne Plecher: Taken from the pedestal . In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 24, p. 21.
  7. ↑ Kerstin Franke-Gneuss . In: Saxon newspaper. August 16, 2010, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Franke-Gneuss, Kerstin . In: Gallery New Masters. Illustrated inventory . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2012, pp. 104–105.
  9. ↑ Karina Eyrich: What lies below comes to light. In: Schwarzwälder Bote , November 6, 2016, accessed June 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Birgit Grimm: Blue-red bundles of lines full of energy . In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 1, 2000, p. 18.
  11. ↑ Uwe Hofmann: Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe bring “Inner Center” to Altstrehlen. In: Dresdner Latest News , February 14, 2017.
  12. ↑ List of publications of the Art Museum of the City of Albstadt
personal data
SURNAME Franke-Gneuss, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gneuss, Kerstin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen