Luise Horwath

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Luise Horwath , née Zettler, (born August 11, 1952 in Judenbach , Sonneberg district . GDR ) is a German painter and restorer .

Life

She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden and obtained a diploma in panel painting in 1976 .

After studying in Dresden, she made a living from restoring and moved to the cities where she worked . She lived in Potsdam for a year when the paintings in the Nikolaikirche needed to be restored. Then she moved to Berlin to work on the painting of the concert hall in the theater and also to copy a picture by Schinkel . Luise Horwath received orders from the church building department, from the preservation of monuments and also from the GDR building ministry. Among other things, she painted a winged altar for the Gollwitz church near Brandenburg (new creation). In 1985, she was with her daughter in the Federal Republic of leave. From then on, she received no further assignments and her contacts were monitored. Finally, the application to leave the GDR was approved at short notice and she moved to West Berlin at Christmas 1986 . Here she was able to gain a foothold professionally.

She lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin until 2003, then moved to Falkensee to “get out of the big city”. Here she turned to portrait painting, in which she worked out the character traits of the people portrayed and did not focus on the external similarity. Horwath was involved in the reconstruction of well-known Berlin buildings.

Luise Horwath was married to the painter Michael Horwath (* 1948) from 1974 to 1981, and has a daughter and a son with him from another relationship. On November 1st, 2008, she opened the Horwath Gallery in Potsdam together with her daughter Sara .

Exhibitions

  • 1979: Together with several young artists, eight of their first works were exhibited in the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adalbert Behr, Alfred Hoffmann: The theater in Berlin . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, 1985, p. 149. (Concept of the artistic ceiling design Carljürgen Gertler)
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Heidi Jäger: Clear the stage. The Horwath Gallery opens on Saturday in the Dutch Quarter. In: Potsdamer Latest News of October 30, 2008 , accessed October 5, 2011
  3. ^ Joseph and Luise , in: Falkenseer Stadt-Journal 09/2011, p. 10
  4. ↑ Angelika Weißbach: Breakfast in the open air - free spaces in the official art business of the GDR. The exhibitions and actions in the Leonhardi Museum Dresden 1963–1990. From the Q series of the Humboldt University Berlin; 2009; here: page 169 + p. 305 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Horwath, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zettler, Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Judenbach , Sonneberg district . GDR