Ludmila Seefried-Matějková

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Ludmila Seefried Matějková (2013)

Ludmila Seefried-Matějková (* 1938 in Heřmanův Městec ) is a Czech - German sculptor who lives in Berlin .

Life

Matějková experienced her childhood and the war years in Heřmanův Městec, Czechoslovakia . Her father, František Matějka, was a sawmill owner, her mother Ludmila took care of the family, the household and the garden - music, painting and literature were also very important to her.
After February 1948 the family was expropriated and the father was forcibly moved 250 km away from the family. The mother with two daughters was harassed by the new rulers. Traumas from this period of childhood made Matějková aware of injustice. In 1951 the company was forced to move to Marienbad .
From 1953 to 1956 she studied at the Music High School in Prague with M. Uchytilová-Kučová, in the sculpture class with a high school diploma. Several attempts to enter higher education were rejected for political reasons. Between the exams, she did a stonemason internship and got work in a porcelain factory in Dux . After one last unsuccessful attempt in Bratislava , she returned to Marienbad . From 1959 she worked for three years as an art teacher without any educational training in Marienbad and Eger . Then Matějková worked as a graphic designer at the Marienbad cultural center “KaSS”. She was connected to the small form theater “Kruh / Kreis” of the Kulturhaus; played theater, sang, wrote texts, portrayed friends.
In 1964 she tried to be accepted into the "Czech Artists Association" (CSVU) and was accepted. In 1965 the daughter Markéta was born. The marriage ended in divorce. During the “ Prague Spring ” period, there was the possibility of studying abroad with a scholarship in the newsletter of the “ČSVU”.
In 1967 she was accepted at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) Berlin , in the sculpture class of Joe Henry Lonas . In 1973 she finished her studies as a master class student. Since then she has been working as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. There she found her partner, Rainer-Maria Seefried, got married, got her citizenship and decided to live in Germany.
Since completing his studies, Seefried-Matějková had exhibitions in Germany and other European countries. In Czechoslovakia there was a first traveling exhibition in 1992 in Brno, Prague, Marienbad. Seefried-Matějková lives in Berlin and Malcesine .
In 1990 Seefried-Matějková was a founding member of the “ Artists' Association - Realism in Germany ”, Berlin. In 1994 she was accepted into the " Darmstadt Secession ". In 1998 she was a founding member of the international art association “ Pro arte vivendi ” in Berlin and Marienbad; the projects were supported by the embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the “German-Czech Future Fund”.

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Ludmila Seefried-Matějková studied figurative sculpture with Marie Uchytilová -Kučová in Prague. She was able to deal with abstract form with Joe Henry Lonas at the Berlin School of Fine Arts. Her sculptures from this period are stylized anthropomorphic or bioform compositions in plaster. However, she soon realizes that abstraction means a limit to her communication possibilities and returns to the figure.

Hanna, polyester (1973)
At the edge (1976-77)

The hyper-realistic, life-size polyester figure "Hanna" (final thesis for the master class at the HfBK 1973) outlines the further sculptural work of Ludmila Seefried-Matějková. The effect of the figures was reinforced by invironment installations: "Schrei" 1976, "Am Rand" 1977, "Vor der Tür" 1980. After that she had to part with the polyester material for health reasons and since then has been working with the classic materials clay, Stone and wood. Her motifs are provided by the life around her, the city with its variety of human types and their fates, the social contrasts up to “on the edge of society”. A series of heads / busts of different characters emerged from chance encounters, mainly in terracotta: "Turkish Woman" 1983, "Homeless" 1990, "Börsenfuchs" and "Girls from the Exhibition" 1996.

Her sculptures are based on reality, are transformed portraits, often of concrete people from everyday life, which the artist interprets with her own sculptural language: "Bettlerin" 1997, "U-Bahn" 2001/2. She portrayed herself in the sculpture “Father's Hat” in 1995.

Metro (2001-02)

Due to her experiences in childhood and early adolescence, pain, violence and aggression are topics for her. She works with expressive symbols: "Scream" 1976, "Choking" 1985, "Homo homini lupus" 1992/3, "Seed of hate" 1993. But also the world of the human soul with its quieter dramas such as self-torture, fear and loneliness ( "Solitudine" 2004) as well as inner experiences, self-experiences such as contemplation and meditation, she includes in her work: "Katharsis" 1979, "Meditation" 1980 and 2002.

In 2002 Seefried-Matějková received the order from the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin to design a Czech United Buddy Bear , which has since been shown at exhibitions on all five continents. A bear on which the Czech flag is divided into two strips under the blue wedge and knotted on the back. The white dove in the blue field on the back is supposed to symbolize the longing and hope for peace.

In summer, the sculptor spends most of the time in her Italian studio, where she works - outdoors - in stone and wood. The themes are partly biblically and literarily influenced: "Job" 2003, "Resurrection" 2008, "Ophelia" 1997, "Kafka / Metamorphosis" 2000, "Somnambul" 2013.

Job (2003)
(1997)

An independent part of Ludmila Seefried-Matějková's work are her drawings - from sketches in the pub, the subway or on the beach to portraits and elaborate studies of people, mostly in pencil, charcoal, pastel or ink.

As a representative of realism, Ludmila Seefried-Matějková was also successful in several art-in-building competitions: "Justitia" 1984, "Doppelganger Admiral" 1985, "Tanz auf dem Vulkan" 1988; there are also a large number of sculptural objects in the Berlin cityscape (see directory).

Represented in collections

  • Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • Municipal gallery, Berlin
  • Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London

Competitions and Realizations

  • 1964 "Harmonica player" Mariánské Lázně / Marienbad, Czech Republic
  • 1984 “Justitia” Criminal Court Moabit, Berlin
  • 1985 "Doppelganger Admiral" Admiralstrasse, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1985 "Ernst Heilmann" memorial plaque for the victims of fascism, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1987 "Four Seasons" relief for elementary school, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1988 "Carl von Ossietzky" monument, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1988 "Tanz auf dem Vulkan" Brunnen, Berlin-Wedding
  • 1988 "Police Machine" Police Berlin-Spandau
  • 1989 "Brunnenkopf" employment office - Kiel
  • 1991 “Reliefs for Fire Brigade” Berlin-Zehlendorf
  • 1993 "Theodor Lessing" memorial plaque, Mariánské Lázně / Marienbad, Czech Republic
  • 1993 "Prayer" Malcesine / Italy
  • 2002 "Archangel Michael" relief for the Chapel of San Michele, Malcesine / Italy

Exhibitions (selection)

Own exhibitions

Doppelganger Admiral, Berlin-Kreuzberg (1985)
Dance on the volcano, fountain on Nettelbeckplatz, Berlin-Wedding (1988)
  • 1964/68 Mariánské Lázně / Marienbad, Czech Republic
  • 1981 Artist of the Month , Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
  • 1987 house on Lützowplatz, Berlin
  • 1992 Heritage and Future , Brno Town Hall, Czech Republic
  • 1992 Heritage and Future , Mánes Praha / Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1992 Heritage and Future , Kolonády Mariánské Lázně / Marienbad, Czech Republic
  • 1996 Palazzo dei Capitani, Malcesine / Italy
  • 1998 Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich
  • 1998 Between Two Worlds , Communal Gallery, Berlin
  • 2000 Aeras Gallery, Herrnhut
  • 2000 Čáslav House of Culture, Liberec Small Theater, Czech Republic
  • 2001 Theater in Erbach Castle
  • 2001 Anglican Chapel in Mariánské Lázně / Marienbad, Czech Republic
  • 2002 Galerie Rutzmoser, Munich
  • 2002 Třebíč Castle, Czech Republic
  • 2003 Palacký University, Olomouc / Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • 2003 Náměšť na Hané Castle, Czech Republic
  • 2004 Slovak Museum, Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
  • 2005 Plzeň Diocesan Museum, Czech Republic
  • 2005 Sculptures and drawings by Ludmila Seefried-Matějková, Sculpture Forum Isernhagen
  • 2007 Images of People - Sculptures and Drawings , Berlin-Tempelhof
  • 2011 Between Two Worlds , with Zuzana Richter (photography), Czech Center Praha / Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2013 Am Rand , Topičův salon Praha / Prague, Czech Republic

Group exhibitions

  • 1973 Exhibition of the students of the HfBK , Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
  • 1973 Annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Berlin
  • 1974 annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Mainz
  • 1976 Pictures of people , Schwetzingen and Cochen
  • 1977 annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Frankfurt / Main
  • 1977 Artists International 1877–1977 , Frankfurt / Main and Berlin
  • 1978 The Seventies meet the Twenties - Ugly realism , London
  • 1980 New Darmstadt Secession , Darmstadt
  • 1981 Large art exhibition in Munich , House of Art , Munich
  • 1983 Sculpture Symposium St. Margareten , Burgenland, Austria
  • 1984 Women's art at womensworld , Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Denne Hill, Kent
  • 1986 Death and Life , with Waldemar Grzimek , Carl Hofer , Käthe Kollwitz , Alfred Kubin , Heinrich Richter-Berlin , Georges Rouault - Carola Dewor, Galli , Franz Gutmann , Manfred Henkel, Lizzie Hosaeus , Claus Korch , Ingo Kühl , Volker März , Sigrun Paulsen , Günter Scharein , Erika Schewski-Rühling, Hans Stein , Renée Strecker u. a., Upper Gallery - House on Lützowplatz, Tiergarten Art Office, Berlin
  • 1988 Berlin artists , Narni, Italy
  • 1988 Berlin artist , Odense Town Hall
  • 1989 Städtische Galerie, Schloss Oberhausen, with Sarah Haffner and Maina-Miriam Munsky
  • 1993 Realism Triennale , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 1993 Contemporary sculpture , Mánes Praha / Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1994 7 Berlin realists , Wendhausen Castle
  • 1997 I am a Berliner , Matthäuskirche, Berlin
  • 1999/2005 Bautzen Salon, New Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt
  • 1999 Gallery at the Palais Potsdam, Salon d'automne Paris
  • 2000 6 Berlin realists , Wendhausen Castle
  • 2001/04 Künstleronderbund in Germany , Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
  • 2002 Parliament gallery in the Reichstag, Berlin
  • 2005 12 positions by artists of the Darmstadt Secession , Graz
  • 2006/2007 Dialogue of Generations , Berlin Kommunale Galerie, Praha Diamant Galerie
  • 2008 Realism from 1968 to 2008 , Sculpture Forum Isernhagen
  • 2009 Czech art yesterday and today , with Otto Gutfreund , Rudolf Valenta , Zuzana Richter, Berlin
  • 2010 20 years of the Künstleronderbund in Germany , Berlin-Wedding
  • 2011–2014 Nord Art , artwork Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf

  • Ernst Heilmann memorial plaque, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Brachvogelstraße 5 (1985)

  • Carl von Ossietzky memorial plaque, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Blücherstraße 45 (1988)

  • Father's hat (1995)

  • Memento mori (1995)

  • Solitudine (2004)

  • Resurrection (2008)

  • Somnambul (2013)

literature

  • art No. 7 / July 1981, Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg
  • Artist talks , Galerie Apex, Göttingen 1983
  • Sex Female, the art of contemporary occupation artist , Denne Hill, Womensworld Kent, Nicholas Treadwell publications, 1984
  • art No. 4, April 1985, Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg
  • Death and Life , Obere Galerie, Haus am Lützowplatz, Tiergarten Art Office, published by Paul Corazolla , Berlin 1986
  • Das Verborgene Museum 1 , Berlin, Edition Hentrich, 1987
  • Art and Artists , Municipal Gallery and Museums, Wilmersdorf Art Office, Kupijai Prochnow, Berlin 1989
  • Remembrance and learning in historical places , a guide to memorials for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin, Stefanie Endlich, 1998
  • Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova, Between Two Worlds , Wilmersdorf Art Office, published by Udo Christoffel, Berlin 1998
  • Ilona Víchová: “Ludmila Seefried-Matějková. Na pokraji “, in: Ludmila Seefried-Matějková. životopis k výstavě. Na pokraji , Topičův salon, Prague 2013
  • Karina Türr: Realism. 45 years of German sculpture , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2014
  • Jenny Schon, Die Punkerinnen vom Hohenzollerndamm - The sculptor Ludmila Seefried Matejkova , in: Berlin including Schmargendorf, Halensee, Ku-damm and the surrounding area, 7/2014/15

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludmila Seefried-Matejkova, Between Two Worlds , editor Udo Christoffel, Kunstamt Wilmersdorf, Berlin 1998
  2. ^ Eva Herlitz, Klaus Herlitz: United Buddy Bears - The Art of Tolerance . Berlin 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029417-4 , page 329

Web links

Commons : Ludmila Seefried-Matějková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Seefried-Matějková, Ludmila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matějková, Ludmila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Heřmanův Městec