Martina Werner (artist)

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Martina Werner (born October 4, 1929 in Cologne ; † 2018 ) was a German writer and visual artist .

Life

She came from a family of artists, mostly painters, and grew up in Cologne and Vienna . Her father was a painter, her mother an actress. After graduating from high school and training as a journalist in Freudenstadt, she initially looked after her family with five children. She was married to the journalist and radio play author Peter Kuhweide. From 1959 she worked as a freelancer for newspapers, magazines and television. She got an insight into television production for several years at Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. In her artistic career she initially wrote poetry and short prose, from 1973 she was mainly active as a visual artist. From 1965 to 1972 she lived mainly in Spain, from 1970 she had her place of residence again in Germany in Bremen until she moved to the former Otterstein school in Grasberg near Worpswede in 1976 and to Nordleda in 2002 .

Works

Poetry

Martina Werner published her first poems in 1964 in the Lyrische Hefte series edited by Arnfrid Astel . In 1965, Hans Magnus Enzensberger included five of Martina Werner's monograms in his course book I , placing the poet in an international context. In the same year the band Monogramme followed in the Suhrkamp publishing house.

The monograms , a selection from Martina Werner's cycle Elegien , are long poems in free verse formation, numbered consecutively ( Monogram 1 - Monogram 30 ) and partly subdivided with Roman numerals. With line breaks in the middle of the context and in the word and indentations staggered in tabular form, they set the language and writing systems in contrast and create an overall flow in word and writing that connects the individual monograms . Quotes from modern poets, everyday statements and reflections create a metalyric over the poetry. Characteristic is the continuous repetition and variation of key words and images over long stretches, similar to an endless rondo form. Martina Werner later also applied the principles of layering, structure superimposition, sequence and variation in the fine arts, especially in the total work of art Señor Mendoza and the C-trunk .

In 1985 she set a number of the monograms to music as songs she sung herself and recorded them as a percussionist with the experimental musician and visual artist Claus van Bebber . She gave the cassette to her own new edition of her poetry book. Werner and van Bebber performed several times in the following years with the music-literature performance Monogramme , among others. a. in the sculpture museum Glaskasten Marl, in the Kunstverein Unna and in the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe.

In the years after 1965, Martina Werner wrote more poems. They were published u. a. in die horen , edited by Johann P. Tammen .

Visual arts

During a stay of several years on the Balearic island of Formentera , Martina Werner began to paint alongside her literary work and had her first exhibitions. She began her work as a freelance artist in 1973 in Bremen with a series of etchings. Until 1978 she created her graphic works. With her series Traces, large-format drypoint etchings, she took part in the Great Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1975 and 1976 , and in 1976 in the Bild-Text exhibition of the Albrecht Dürer Society , Nuremberg, the International Graphic Biennale, Frechen, and the International Triennial for Colored Printmaking, Grenchen CH.

Besides emerged from the 1976 pen and ink drawings Fund words and the series tropisms . In them she combined a copy of the novel The Golden Fruits by Nathalie Sarraute with elements of painting and pen drawing. In doing so, she incorporated handwriting into her work of art and established her concept of combining literature and fine arts.

In her exhibition at the Bremen Kunsthalle in 1979, Werner showed the tropisms as well as large-format panel paintings, some of which were composed of individual panels. In the same year she led with her exhibition Various containers of Señor Mendoza - El mundo del Señor Mendoza and the base object of the same name in the Bremen Produzentengalerie group green their artificial character of Señor Mendoza one. They also showed collages of the series drafts of tombs and objects in turn designs to victims worldwide . The Mendoza object subsequently became the nucleus of the total work of art Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe and accompanies all of its exhibitions.

Señor Mendoza and the C tribe

The total work of art Señor Mendoza and the C-trunk was first staged by Martina Werner in 1981 in the Schwedenspeicher Museum in Stade. It can be interpreted as a fictional ethnology with Mendoza as the ethnologist, the C-tribe as his research object and the work of art as a manifestation of the results, i.e. as an individual mythology with reference to conceptual art and for securing evidence .

Martina Werner described the amalgamation of the disciplines of science, literature and the visual arts, the combination of art genres and the staging of rooms and complexes as the actual artistic impulse. Through her work in series, sometimes over decades, and the transfer of parts of earlier exhibitions to the following ones, she introduced the dimension of time into her total work of art.

In 1987/88 she exhibited The Gray Fetish - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, including the finds and showcases from the Department of Prehistory and Early History in her staging.

In 2000 she founded the Mendoza Society in Worpswede , which has been in charge of her total work of art ever since. In the Mendoza Museum Otterndorf , which she established in 2001 , a baroque house in the old town of the North Sea resort, nine Mendoza exhibitions were held until 2009.

Art in the landscape, performance, video

In addition to the Mendoza complex, Martina Werner worked in the fields of art in the landscape, for example with her Worpswede project The Long Way. The wide country. for the 100th anniversary of the artist village , as well as performance and video.

Memberships

  • Association of German Writers
  • Founding member, board member and temporarily chairwoman of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Bremen (today BBK Bremen)
  • BBK Lower Saxony
  • Green Bremen group
  • GEDOK Bremen
  • Founding member of the Mendoza Society

Scholarships, honors

  • 1975 Scholarship from the Aldegrever Society, Münster
  • Scholarship from the Theodor Heuss Foundation , Bonn
  • 1984 scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony
  • 1994 Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo Rome
  • 2014 special award for the Paula Modersohn-Becker art award of the Osterholz district

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Exhibitions Señor Mendoza and the C Tribe

  • 1979: Various containers from Señor Mendoza , Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen
  • 1981: Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Schwedenspeicher Museum , Stade
  • 1984: Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Überseemuseum , Bremen
  • 1987: The Gray Fetish - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  • 2000: From the Mendoza Society's fund , Old Town Hall Gallery, Worpswede
  • 2001/2002: Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Mendoza-Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2002/2003: Broken Field - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe in 4 Generations of Landscape , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2003: The Second Mouse Museum - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2003/2004: The gradual darkening of the gaze - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2004/2005: Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe - epitaphs, writings, new works , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2005/2006: Labyrinths , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2006: From the fund , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2006/2008: Garden of Eden , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2008/2009: Nebenwelten , Mendoza Museum, Otterndorf
  • 2010: The 13th room - Señor Mendoza and the C-Stamm , Städtische Galerie Bremen
  • 2014: read - Señor Mendoza and the C-Stamm , Galerie Altes Rathaus Worpswede

Art in the landscape

  • 1981: Art Landscape , Barkenhoff , Worpswede
  • 1982: Art in the Landscape , Binnenheide / Kevelaer
  • 1983: Outdoor sculpture , Oldenburg Castle Garden
  • 1983: The Revier - Motive and Motivation , Zeche Carl , Essen-Altenessen
  • 1984: 2nd Symposium North Sea Coast , Cuxhaven
  • 1985: Symposium Four Seasons , Binnenheide / Kevelaer
  • 1985: Kunst im Park , Kleve, Schloss Gnadenthal
  • 1987: Tides , art in the Unterweser area, Schwanewede
  • 1988: Art-Landscape, Landscape-Art , Remscheid-Küppelstein
  • 1988: City center , Heilbronn symposium
  • 1989: the long way. The wide country., Worpswede. Project for 100 years of Worpswede
  • 1989: City center , Breminale , Bremen
  • 1991: Protecting, arming, indignant , Fort Kugelbake symposium , Cuxhaven

Performances

Since 1984 literature, video and music performances, a. a. with Andrea Werner, Claus van Bebber , Paul Hubweber .

  • Weserstrand , Bremen, Cuxhaven, Berlin
  • Monograms , Marl, Unna, Essen, Krefeld, Cologne, Münster, Osnabrück, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Bremen-Vegesack, Bremerhaven
  • Meditation automatique with TOXLOR, Witten, Krefeld, Cologne, Karlsruhe
  • Gesche Gottfried's power songs , Bremen
  • Visitors , Worpswede, Otterndorf
  • Puppet shows , Bremen, Otterndorf, Worpswede
  • Paper machine , Worpswede, Bremen, Bremen-Vegesack, Cuxhaven, Berlin
  • The long way. The wide country. , Worpswede

Works in public collections

  • State of Bremen
  • Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Graphothek Bremen
  • University Library Bremen
  • Graphothek Osterholz
  • Worpswede municipality
  • District of Cuxhaven
  • State of Lower Saxony
  • Art Association Unna
  • Art Association Lingen
  • Graphothek Düsseldorf
  • Graphothek Cologne
  • Veste Coburg art collections
  • Germanic National Museum Nuremberg
  • Albertina Vienna
  • New Berlin Art Association
  • City of Gdańsk

literature

  • Ursula Peters: Martina Werner - The gray fetish - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe. Exhibition catalog. Germanisches National-Museum, Nuremberg 1987/1888.
  • Guido Boulboullé, Michael Zeiss: Worpswede - cultural history of an artist village . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3770118472 .
  • Sigrid Wollmeiner: Nature - Art, artist symposia in Germany . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-935590-30-X
  • Alice Gudera, Donata Holz, Birgit Nachtwey, Bärbel Schönbohm: ... and they did paint! History of women painters - Worpswede, Fischerhude, Bremen. Lilienthaler Kunststiftung, Lilienthal 2007, ISBN 3000216693 .
  • Peter Kuhweide, Hans-Joachim Manske: Martina Werner - Señor Mendoza and the C-Tribe. Work overview. Mendoza Society, Grasberg, and Städtische Galerie, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030811-6 .
  • Sabine Muschler: artist as museum founder - staff museums for fine arts in Germany. Olms, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14462-7
  • Susanne Hinrichs: Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize 2014. Osterholz district, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniela Barth: No man, one work . In: TAZ of April 11, 2003. Retrieved on December 29, 2019
  2. ↑ Lower Saxony literary: 100 author portraits, biographies and texts . DP Meier-Lenz, Kurt Morawietz (Ed.), Wirtschaftsverlag, 1981, p. 498
  3. ↑ Galerie Altes Rathaus Worpswede: read - Señor Mendoza and the C-Stamm von Martina Werner . Retrieved December 29, 2019
  4. ^ Marikke Heinz-Hoek : AFTERGLOW martina werner 1929–2018 , obituary. In: Up Art Issue 57, Bremen Association of Visual Artists, p. 7
  5. ↑ a b c Martina Werner: Your works play with the past and the present . In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten of January 5, 2006. Retrieved January 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 2018