Marianne Kühn-Berger
Marianne Kühn-Berger (born March 17, 1927 in Breslau ; † December 29, 2016 in Neuruppin ) was a German fashion journalist , designer and painter .
Life
Marianne Kühn-Berger was born as the first child of the independent sales representative Karl Berger and the housewife Johanna Berger. After the end of the war and expulsion, she studied from 1947 to 1950 at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts, among others with Max Schwimmer . During this time she met her future husband and artist colleague Kurt-Hermann Kühn (1926–1989). After completing her studies, she was briefly employed at the German Fashion Institute in Berlin, after which she worked as a freelance fashion journalist, including for the magazines " Wochenpost ", " Das Magazin " and " Für Dich ".
At the end of the 1960s, Marianne Kühn-Berger began with miniature painting , glass and interior design. After the death of her husband, she increasingly wrote larger picture formats. In the last phase of her life she created several graphic cycles, including "Fontane Women".
Since 1997 she lived and worked in Neuruppin. Here she took an active part in the citizens' movement " Freie Heide ".
Marianne Kühn-Berger has two sons. The Hamburg illustrator and comic author Antonia Kühn is her granddaughter.
plant
The artistic and journalistic work of Kühn-Berger is characterized on the one hand by an enormous variety of designs, on the other hand it has a central theme. “It shows women who face the challenges of their time and society, as mothers, beloved wives and professionals. But these women feel torn between their femininity, family and professional development. This is particularly evident in the graphic Multi-armed woman in today. These topics were a matter close to the heart of the artist throughout her life ”. In addition to her journalistic work, she is considered to be the co-founder of the GDR fashion magazine “ Sibylle ”.
Her work is characterized by miniature lacquer paintings, graphics and glass designs. She designed costumes for DEFA ballet films. In 1981 she designed the internationally acclaimed new uniform for the Interflug stewardesses.
literature
- “The great GDR fashion book” by Thomas Kupfermann (ed.), Eulenspiegel-Verlag Berlin 2010, pages 34–37 and pages 160/161, ISBN 978-3-359-02261-9
- "Artists in the GDR" Dietmar Eisold (ed.), Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 2010, page 495, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9
Web links
- Website Kühn-Berger
- Marianne Kühn-Berger , picture atlas: Art in the GDR
- Impressions from the opening of an art exhibition in Wustrau , double exhibition in the German Judges Academy, with works by Marianne Kühn-Berger and Kurt-Hermann Kühn
- INTERFLUG clothing in general & what goes with it , ddr-luftfahrt.de
- We will miss it very much , obituary for Marianne Kühn-Berger5
- A stele for Marianne Kühn-Berger
- Pictures by Marianne Kühn-Berger
- Miniatures by Marianne Kühn-Berger in the catalog of the German National Library: Miniatures
- Aquarelle by Marianne Kühn-Berger in the catalog of the German National Library: Aquarelle
- Culture in Berlin , exhibition in Galerie Ost-Art 2018
- Sighted and condensed , poster for the 2012 exhibition
- Marianne Kühn-Berger in the IMdB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silke Kreibich: Lecture on the commemorative event of the city of Neuruppin , March 17, 2017
- ↑ Harald Kretschmar: Paradise of Encounters . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2008, page 256 ff, ISBN 978-3-86730-082-7 .
- ↑ Documentary film "Mode für den Himmel" TV of the GDR 1982 in Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv-IDNR .: 03125-BC 4285
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kühn-Berger, Marianne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berger, Marianne (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fashion journalist, designer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 2016 |
| Place of death | Neuruppin |