Lucie Beppler
Lucie Beppler (* 1961 in Wetzlar ad Lahn) is a German artist who creates abstract drawings .
Life
From 1981 to 1986 Beppler studied art and German at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1986 to 1993 she studied fine art at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt . In 2000 she was awarded the UBS Art Prize in Basel and in 2001 she received the Maria Sibylla Merian Prize from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art. From 2006 to 2010 she was a visiting professor for drawing at the University of Giessen. Since 2012 she has been a visiting professor for graphics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
Working method
“Lucie Beppler's drawings are abstract, surface-covering images of great diversity in terms of line formation and surface treatment. Monochrome, transcendent spaces emerge in concentrated succession, tangible through serial, informal or constructive, accumulated structures, in chiaroscuro, white, gray and black. Reduced, fine linear leaves on gesso ground, executed with silver pen, hard pencils and engraving needles, stand next to dark, deep layers of space worked with oil pens, graphite pencils and Indian ink. Damage to the surfaces, sharp markings of ridges and furrows result in a haptic, relief-like character.
The drawings are carefully worked through in several layers. Finely underlaid squarings, grid-like lineaments, coordinates and axial lines absorb the dense line knots, intersections, overlays and line networks. Open spaces are created alongside dense ones drawn through in the sub-millimeter range. The intensity of the drawings show radical technical as well as intellectual decisions that tie in with the reduced abstract American drawings, but also incorporate the universal graphic handwriting from the Renaissance to an expressive stroke of the drawing.
The material used and the type of processing are part of the thought process. When looking at it, the formal level is linked to existential content. The works imply an interference of emotion, ratio and matter, which are visualized in “physical abstractions”.
In dealing with concepts such as deduction, abstraction, aggregation, polyphony, metrics, filament, light, space, time, the form and content of the drawings are transformed. They are drawn "cognitive processes" in the form of compositions on paper that include vulnerability, damage and finiteness. "
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2016 Kunsthalle Hamburg, drawing rooms, Hamburg
- 2014 The Drawingroom , Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
- 2013 Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne
- 2012 New Lines, New Acquisitions of Graphic Art , German Bundestag, Berlin
- 2012 Collection Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
- 2011 20 years of the present , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt a. M.
- 2011 Abstraction, Deduction , Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
- 2010 Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris
- 2008 Drawings 2001–2008 , Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
- 2007 ING Belgium Collection, Brussels
- 2007 Kunsthalle, Basel / Liestal
- 2006 New acquisitions , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- 2006 Art Prize of Böttgerstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen
- 2005 pencil , Städel Museum , Frankfurt a. M.
- 2004 Saarbrücken City Gallery
- 2003 Lucie Beppler - drawings. Photographs. Sculptures , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- 2002 Deutsche Structured Finance, Deutsche Bank , Frankfurt a. M.
- 2001 Change of scene XIX , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt a. M.
- 2000 Hungarian Museum, Budapest
- 1995 Gallery at Lützowplatz, Berlin
- 1992 Medium drawing , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt a. M.
- 1989 Young Art in Frankfurt , Deutsche Bank , Frankfurt a. M.
Collections
- Art collection of the German Bundestag, Berlin
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
- Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt a. M.
- Graphic collection, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt a. M.
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
- Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt a. M.
- Hypo Vereinsbank, Munich
- ING Belgium Collection, Brussels
- Lhoist Collection, Brussels
- Deutsche Structured Finance, Frankfurt a. M.
- Museum of Photography, Seoul
- BNPParisbas, Frankfurt / Paris
- George Washington University, Washington
- Private collections
literature
- Art Forum, Drawing at the Time, Vol. 231/2015
- The Drawingroom, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, 2013
- Creative Germany, Sauter-Lackmann Verlag, 2012
- Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main: 10 years, Dumont-Verlag, 2011
- Art Forum, Drawing at the Time, Vol. 196/2009
- Lucie Beppler, drawings 2000–2008, Edition Dittmar, Berlin 2008
- Understanding and interpreting contemporary art, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Raven's book, 2008
- Kunsthalle Bremen, Art Prize of Böttgerstrasse, 2006
- ART Magazine, "Hand Made Secrets", Vol. 12/2005
- Lucie Beppler, drawings, photographs, sculptures, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 2003
- Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, 1990
Web links
- Overview of Lucie Beppler's works in the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
- Exhibition New Lines. New acquisitions of graphic art for the art collection of the German Bundestag
- Prize winners of the Maria Sibylla Merian Prize of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
- Information about Lucie Beppler at Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne
- Information about Lucie Beppler at Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
- Article Handmade Secrets by Boris Hohmeyer about Lucie Beppler in Art Magazin 12/2005
- Section about Lucie Beppler at the start of the season in Frankfurt 2013 in the FAZ
- About the solo exhibition Exhibition Lucie Beppler - Drawings. Photographs. Sculptures in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 2003 in the FAZ
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beppler, Lucie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar ad Lahn |