Luise Kimme

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Luise Kimme (born March 4, 1939 in Bremen as Marie-Luise Kimme, † April 19, 2013 in Tobago ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Kimme spent her childhood in Berlin. At the age of 16 she went to Plymouth as an au pair . From 1957 to 1958 she worked as a secretary for the German car manufacturer Borgward in London and modeled for art students. Modeling started her interest in art. From 1959 to 1965 she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin , including in the master class for sculpture with Paul Dierkes . She heard about Dierkes from Yves Klein , whom she visited in Paris in the early 1960s . She became one of the women who served the artist as a “living brush” for his anthropometries . Klein painted her body in blue and pink and let her press the fresh paint onto a sheet of paper. From 1966 to 1968 she studied at St. Martin's School of Art in London with Anthony Caro , from 1967 to 1968 with a grant from the British Council Scholarship. From 1968 to 1972 Kimme was a lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and maintained a studio in London. First sculptures made of fiberglass were created. In addition, she gave lecture tours at English universities on German Expressionism . In 1972 she worked at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and had an apartment in New York City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . From 1975 to 1976 she was visiting professor at Stanislaus State College (now California State University, Stanislaus ) in Turlock , California . During these years she made trips to the Navajo Indians , to Honduras , Guatemala and Mexico . In 1976, Kimme was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she supervised the first semester in the so-called "orientation area". She taught there until 2002.

Already influenced in childhood by the reading of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , Kimme settled on the Caribbean island of Tobago in 1979 and built The Castle , a small sculpture museum, there from 1986 . Originally only during the semester break, she has lived on Tobago since 2002. Luise Kimme died of complications from cancer in her museum, where she was buried.

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From 1967 onwards the first reliefs and sculptures made of fiberglass such as "Plumtree", 1967, 150 × 150 cm, "Silvestress", 1969, 227 × 117 × 86 cm or "Big Circus", 1969, 236 × 149 × 122 cm. Occasionally, hanging and floating individual forms by Kimme were arranged as a room installation, such as “Baby Charlotte Passes Through” from 1970.

After her travels to Indian tribes and to Mexico, she began creating paintings, relief images and ceramics from 1976 on, which are based on the color and shape patterns of South American cultures. The mixed media paintings were produced in series, numbered in the same format 183 × 122 cm and with titles such as " Navaho ", "Huipil" (traditional dress in Central America, which is worn by women) or "Serape" (poncho-like Mexican scarf, worn by men).

In Germany, Kimme had studios in Kronenburg in the Eifel and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . The first wooden sculptures were created from 1976, the central motif of which is the human figure. The oak or cedar wood for the sculptures was felled in the Eifel and transported to Tobago for further processing. Kimme did not always knock the figures out of a block. If necessary, she put individual body parts such as B. Arms on. After completion, the figures were painted in color. Only black people are shown . In addition to dancers, religious and mythological themes, Kimme also suggested characters that relate to the spirit world of Tobago such as "Mama de l'au - The Water Snake", "Papa Bois - Guardian of the Forest and Protector of Animals" or "La Diablesse - The Devil “( Tony Cragg Collection , Wuppertal). There are around 100 wooden sculptures in her museum in Tobago. Bronze casts were made according to these templates, among others in the Herbert Schmäke fine art foundry in Düsseldorf.

Retrospectives

Work documentation

  • Young German plastic . Catalog for the exhibition in the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum from June 29th to September 22nd, Duisburg 1968.
  • Luise Kimme, pictures and ceramics . Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Kellergalerie Düsseldorf Palais Wittgenstein from January 18 to February 15, 1978. With a text by Siegfried Salzmann .
  • Luise Kimme, chachalaca . Travel diary Tobago. Edited by Herbert Ganslmayr , Übersee-Museum , Bremen 1985, ISBN 3-88299-044-9 (hardcover, 200 pages, with photos and drawings by Kimme).
  • Luise Kimme, Sculpture. Escultura 1980-86 . Benedict Press, Münsterschwarzach Abbey 1986, without ISBN (96 pages, texts in English and Spanish, numerous images in black and white).
  • Luise Kimme, Sculpture 1987–91 . With biography and a text by Luise Kimme and text excerpts by Rainer Maria Rilke , Colette and from Mambo Kings by Oscar Hijuelos . Edited by Jeremy Taylor, Media & Editorial Projects Ltd., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 1991, without ISBN.
  • Luise Kimme, Sculpture . Photographed by Stefan Falke, F. Baruth, Reinbek 1998 (48 pages).
  • Luise Kimme, Sculpture . Prospect Press, Trinidad / Tobago 2002, ISBN 976-95057-3-0 (94 pages. With numerous illustrations, biography and portraits of Kimme).
  • Luise Kimme, Bolero . Photos: Stefan Falke. Prospect Press, Trinidad and Tobago 2010. ISBN 978-9-76950-825-5 (autobiography, 185 pages).
  • Seven sculptors. Slete escultores: Santiago de Cuba . Edited by Marino Wilson Jay, Daisy M. Villalón Bonne, Kimme Museum. Lexicon Trinidad Ltd., Trinidad an Tobago 2010, ISBN 978-9-76631-061-5 (176 pages).
  • The sculptors. Art Academy Düsseldorf, 1945 until today . Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-789-6 .
  • Luise Kimme, Carribean Oak / Caribbean Oak . Catalog for the exhibition in the Sculpture Park Waldfrieden , Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047521-4 (128 pages, 116 four-color images).

Literature (selection)

  • Luise Kimme. Native wood . In: Galeri, Vol. I - Art and Design Magazine of the Caribbean, 1990.
  • A portrait of the Düsseldorf sculptor Luise Kimme, who lives on Tobago . In: Düsseldorfer Hefte, May 6, 1991.
  • Sculptor Luise Kimme . In: Düsseldorfer Illustrierte, No. 6, June 6, 1991.
  • The Wild Mix of Trinidad and Tobago - Palette of people . In: National Geographic , March 1994, pp. 78, 79.
  • Anna Brenken, Luise Kimme. Tobago is an island in the heart . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 5, May 1995, pp. 5, 78–83.
  • Blue doors in the sky. Luise Kimme creates unique wooden sculptures . In: Caribbean Beat, January / February 1997.
  • Cornelia Zetsche, dance in the paradise of rhythms. Stories about love, art, life on Tobago: How the German sculptor Luise Kimme commutes between two worlds . In: AD Architectural Digest, August / September 1999, pp. 123-129.
  • Portrait of the sculptor Luise Kimme . In: Brigitte , No. 18, Gruner + Jahr, August 2000.
  • Julie Feiner, Larger than life. Luise Kimme . In: Caribbean Travel & Life, July 2003.
  • Princess with a chainsaw . In: Island Life No. 20, Issue 2, 2003.
  • Beyond the Pink Flamingos . In: Maco. Caribbean Living, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2003, pp. 58,59,64.
  • Renowned German sculptor dies in Tobago . In: Trinidad Express Newspapers, April 20, 2013
  • Died: Luise Kimme . In: Der Spiegel , No. 18 of April 29, 2013, p. 142.

Film (selection)

  • Albert Prince and Luise Kimme. Documentary. Gayelle TV, Trinidad and Tobago, September 6, 1990.
  • Luise Kimme . In: Caribiscope, Tobago, April 1991.
  • Luise Kimme. Sculpture . Deutsche Welle , 1992.
  • Weltkulturspiegel, WDR , 1996.
  • Wolkenlos, Vox , April 12, 1997.
  • Portrait Kimme , Vox -Tours, April 8, 2001.
  • Luise Kimme - "I always wanted to hit Apollo anyway" . Director: Eike Schmitz, Atlantis-Film 1994–2012 (55 min.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Luise Kimme, Sculpture 1987-91 . With biography and a text by Luise Kimme and text excerpts by Rainer Maria Rilke , Colette and from Mambo Kings by Oscar Hijuelos . Edited by Jeremy Taylor, Media & Editorial Projects Ltd., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 1991, without ISBN.
  2. ↑ See: Anna Brenken, Luise Kimme. Tobago is an island in the heart . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 5, May 1995, p. 82.
  3. ↑ See: Luise Kimme, Sculpture . Prospect Press, Trinidad / Tobago 2002, p. 93, ISBN 976-95057-3-0
  4. ↑ See: Luise Kimme, Sculpture 1987-91 . With biography and a text by Luise Kimme and text excerpts by Rainer Maria Rilke , Colette and from Mambo Kings by Oscar Hijuelos . Edited by Jeremy Taylor, Media & Editorial Projects Ltd., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 1991, without ISBN.
  5. ↑ Luise Kimme , April 29, 2013, Der Spiegel 18/2013
  6. ↑ See: Luise Kimme, Pictures and Ceramics . Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Kellergalerie Düsseldorf Palais Wittgenstein from January 18 to February 15, 1978. With a text by Siegfried Salzmann .
  7. ↑ See: Luise Kimme, Carribean Oak / Karibische Eiche . Catalog for the exhibition in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park , Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047521-4
  8. ↑ sculpture park Waldfrieden: Luise rear sight - Oak Carribean . Retrieved November 24, 2014
  9. ↑ Interview on the exhibition with Dr. Arie Hartog, Director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus on youtube .com, accessed on May 9, 2019
  10. ↑ I always wanted to sculpt Apollo on youtube.com, accessed May 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rear sight, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kimme-Brown, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2013
Place of death Tobago