Marianne Tralau

Marianne Tralau (born November 4, 1935 in Rostock ) is a German artist and gallery owner .

Marianne Tralau spent her school days in Wolfenbüttel and Cologne . Her father was the Cologne city building director Walter Tralau , a student of the Bauhaus and Walter Gropius . She completed her art studies at the Cologne factory schools and the Hamburg state art school (from 1954 to 1957), followed by training as a hand weaver. Since 1957 Tralau was married to the artist Will Thonett . After his death in 1973, she began studying to be a teacher and then worked from 1978 to 1981 as a teacher of art and mathematics. 1981 to 1998 she works as a freelance video designer for the KAOS Film and Video Team Cologne. She founded and directed the KAOS gallery in Cologne. In 1986 Tralau married the journalist Peter Kleinert . Since 2000 she has been running a gallery and cabaret in Eckernförde .

effect

International appearances with the “red cloth” campaign (mostly non-public), long-term campaigns such as “secret gifts”, “first picture from the film” etc. show an understanding of art in which the art market cannot participate and the public does not necessarily have to participate. Increasingly strong external effect on younger colleagues through their clear, superficially sometimes seeming drawings and the well-composed installations. Is heavily involved in promoting colleagues, for example in connection with the Schleswig-Holstein Künstlerhaus Eckernförde.

Own exhibitions (selection)

• 1987 Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool , 4 Cologne artists
• 1989 Leipzig , EIGEN + ART gallery (before the fall of the Wall), solo exhibition
• 1992/1993 USA, Charlotte and Atlanta , 7 Cologne artists
• 1996 Fluxus , Frauenmuseum Bonn , solo exhibition in connection with Yoko Ono a . a.
• 1997 Performance Conference Bangkok

Exhibitions by other artists (selection)

• 1987 and 1993 Carola Willbrand
• 1987 Thomas Hirschhorn
• 1994 Joa Iselin and Christoph Ranzenhofer: "Porte Rouge"
• 1990 Erwin Stache
• 2004 Holger Späth

Awards

• 1973 North Rhine-Westphalian State Prize for Textile Design
• 1993 Otzenrath scholarship
• 1997 2nd prize of the "Golden Mop", Leipzig
• 1999 scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
• 1999 scholarship at the Schleswig-Holstein artist house in Eckernförde
• 2000 scholarship in St.-Mathieu-de-Treviers, France

Web links

• Literature by and about Marianne Tralau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marianne Tralau homepage and breakfast stage