Mara Loytved-Hardegg

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Mara Loytved-Hardegg, 2018

Mara Loytved-Hardegg (* 1942 in Nuremberg ) is a German painter . She lives and works as a freelance artist in Berlin .

Life

Mara Loytved-Hardegg was born in Nuremberg shortly after the city was first bombed during World War II . Less than a year old, she left the city with her mother and older brother and found accommodation in Ulrichshusen Castle in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

After fleeing from the Russians, she spent the post-war winter of 1945/46 with her relatives in Berlin. In 1948 she started school at the Rudolf Steiner School in Nuremberg, the manager of which was her father Rudolf Löytved-Hardegg from 1948 to 1956 , and where she graduated from high school in 1962. In the same year she began studying graphic art with Fritz Griebel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. This was followed by studies at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, first in the basic class with Hans Jaenisch and Dietmar Lemcke, then in the painting class with Hermann Bachmann. This is where the series of pictures 'Damaged Cars', which is part of her early work, was created. In 1966, Mara Loytved-Hardegg went to Paris for almost two years, studied painting with Roger Chastel at the Beaux Arts and stage design with Félix Labisse and wall painting with Despierre at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. In 1968 she returned to Germany and in 1969 passed the state examination for art education at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. From 1972 she taught at the technical college for design and at the technical college for communication design in Nuremberg. She worked on several Rosemarie Blank films (montage, artistic advice).

Since 1983 she has also been working regularly in her studio in Italy. Since 2008 she lives and works in Berlin.

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In her youth, Mara Loytved-Hardegg was initially very impressed by the work of the German Expressionists and Picasso. Her car pictures from her student years in Berlin show elements of the collage. After dealing with Cubism during her stay in Paris and a first encounter with works by Piet Mondrian, the first non-representational, constructive or concrete pictures and objects were created in Munich in the late 1960s. From then on she was particularly concerned with color as a 'phenomenon' in all its manifestations. Works were created from color shadows and their mixtures, mostly based on the basic colors. (See color columns in the exhibition 'Women and Rational Art', Galerie Circulus, Bonn, 1975/76.) Mixtures of the three pure basic colors also dominate the gestural works of the late 1970s. The subject of shadows reappears later in her work, but here thematically as 'life-story' shadows. The large shadow pieces were created in the 1980s. They were subjective and collective memorabilia. She also made the move to portraits of destroyed heroes during this time. Since then she has repeatedly dealt with history and memory in her work. She often follows the traces of history directly in abandoned places or in crumbling buildings, collects and leaves traces herself. The search for traces of history also triggered a number of paintings. This is particularly true of the bunker pictures she painted based on small black and white photos from the Second World War. "This is how the dormant, not only threatening, but also mysterious of the bunker pictures emerge - nature, light, atmosphere eat away at the hardness of the concrete, at the threatening interior. That is pure painting ... These bunkers lie there so threateningly as they disintegrate in the fine web of paint. "

Awards / grants

  • 1966: Grant from the Franco-German Youth Office for three months in southern France, Séguret
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for one year in Paris
  • 1968: Prize for painting from the Center Culturel International de la Cité Universitaire, Paris
  • 1977/78: Working grant from the cultural group in the BDI (Federation of German Industrialists)
  • 2001: Award for wall design in the Jakobskirche in Nuremberg
'Camino', wall installation by Mara Loytved-Hardegg, Jakobskirche Nürnberg, year 2001

Works in public and private collections

Städtische Museen Nürnberg: Graphic collection and municipal collection in the Kunstvilla, Artothek Nürnberg; Franklin Furnace, Artist's Book Archives, New York; Women's Museum Bonn among others

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection from 1991)

  • 2017/18: “Layered Places”, Galerie Futura, Berlin
  • 2012: “light and tight”, gallery in Zabo, Nuremberg, with Gerd A. Zwing
  • 2011: "Oh children", Galerie Futura, Berlin
  • 2008: "as a child", KREIS Gallery, Nuremberg
  • 2008: "pittura", Spazio di Chiesa, San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy
  • 2007: “I hear with completely different eyes”, gallery in Zabo, Nuremberg
  • 2007: “From now on we should not stop day and night”, Heilandskirche Berlin
  • 2007: “Transient”, Galeriehaus Nürnberg, with Mireia Clotet Serra
  • 2005: "1 + 1 =?", Eckstein Nuremberg
  • 2004: “Seeing and being seen”, MoMu (Museum Frauen Kultur) Fürth, with Elisabeth Bala
  • 2004: “Drawings”, gallery in Zabo, Nuremberg, with Bernadette Delrieu
  • 2000: “Color pieces”, Palais Sutterheim, Erlangen
  • 1998: "pieces of heaven and hell", Dom Norymberski, Krakow
  • 1992: “From a free hand”, Stadtmuseum Fembohaus, Nuremberg
  • 1991: "Schattenstücke", Kunsthaus Nürnberg

Group exhibitions (selection from 2009)

  • 2019: "Art dies last", house on the Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg
  • 2018: “Urban Future”, Kunstvilla Nürnberg
  • 2017/18: “How feminine is the city”, Museum Frauen Kultur, Fürth-Burgfarrnbach
  • 2016: "New guests at the Hoffnungshotel", Perleberg (pictures)
  • "Gold?", Temporary room gallery, Berlin (peep boxes)
  • 2015 ´Women in War and Peace`, Women's Museum Bonn (´All my Heroes`)
  • "War socks and piecemakers", Museum Women Culture, Fürth (bunker pictures)
  • "Gold", house on the Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (objects)
  • 2013: "Am I blind, am I deaf", Kultur- und Wegekirche Landow / Rügen (installation and photos)
  • “Fifty centimeters” Schillerpalais, Berlin
  • "Years Won", Museum Frauen Kultur, Fürth (embroidered writing on fabric objects)
  • 2012: "see & be seen". Museum of Women's Culture, Fürth
  • 2011/12: "Identity, Autobiography and Self Narratives", MX Expai, Barcelona, ​​Belfast, Dublin
  • 2010: "The Human Cost of War", Towe Museum, Derry, Northern Ireland
  • "Of Disreadings", MX Espai 1010, Barcelona
  • 2009: "The Human Cost of War", St. Ethelburga's, London, Round Table Discussion, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Publications

  • “50 years of painting, mara loytved-Hardegg 1965–2015”, ed. Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm and Gerd Alois Zwing, Damm and Lindlar Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818357-2-4 .
  • "Aesthetics & Communication", images of works by Mara Loytved-Hardegg in these issues: Issue No. 169/170, 2015/2016, Issue No. 156, 2012, Issue No. 140/141, 2008; Issue No. 109, 2000, No. 73/74, 1990, No. 56, 1984.
  • “Catalog 2017 for the exhibition 'Auskocht'”, Museum Frauen Kultur, Fürth-Burgfarrnbach, illustrations of works, pp. 22, 23, 62, ISBN 978-3-935225-11-3 .
  • “Roberta Bacic: Bunker pictures by Mara Loytved-Hardegg”, in: Catalog for the exhibition war socks and piecemakers, Museum Frauen Kultur, Fürth-Burgfarrnbach, 2015, ISBN 978-3-935225-10-6 .
  • “Text about video film by Mara Loytved-Hardegg Mein Vater - der Held”, in the brochure of the Medienwerkstatt Berlin for the screening 2015 in the Kino Central, Berlin, p. 17.
  • “Catalog Winning Years 2014”, text and images on pages 44 and 45, ISBN 978-3-935225-09-0 .
  • "Peep boxes - Mara Loytved-Hardegg", in: Catalog for the exhibition 'See & Be Seen', Museum Frauen Kultur, Fürth-Burgfarrnbach, 2012, p. 24f, ISBN 978-3-935225-07-6 .
  • "As a Child - Mara Loytved-Hardegg", in: 'go 40', Frauenkulturmagazin 1/2011, pp. 96-103.
  • "Silvie Preußer: You can already feel ... Mara Loytved-Hardegg", in: Bildende Künstlerinnen-Lebensformen-Arbeitsweise, magazine for intercultural women's everyday research, issue 2/1999, pp. 62–65, FidEW in IKO-Verlag, ISSN  0937-5848 , editorial team Mara Loytved-Hardegg and Elisabeth Bala.
  • "50 Years of Peace?", Illustration and text in the catalog for the exhibition Nuremberg Artists at St. Lorenz, 1995.
  • "Schattenstück / Shadowpieces, Mara Loytved-Hardegg", catalog for the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Nürnberg, 1991.
  • "Rooms, Mara Loytved-Hardegg", catalog 1984/1987.
  • “Lavori dal 1986–1988, Mara Loytved-Hardegg”, catalog for the exhibition at the Galerie Steffanoni, Milan, 1988.
  • “The fairy tale of happiness or the story of the fleeting pink”, text and draft by Mara Loytved-Hardegg 1969/72, published in 1995 under the writings of the art education center in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, ISBN 3-924991-25-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, in: “50 years of painting, mara loytved-Hardegg 1965–2015”, ed. Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm and Gerd Alois Zwing, Damm and Lindlar Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Loytved-Hardegg, Mara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg