Antje Tesche-Mentzen

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Antje Tesche-Mentzen (* 1943 in Kiel ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

As early as 1957, at the age of 14, she received a scholarship for painting from Werner Rieger (* 1921) in Kiel, completed a ballet in Munich from 1961 to 1963 - and from 1963 to 1969 she studied singing at the Munich University of Music and also took ceramic courses in 1970 . In 1972 she did a traineeship in the M. Wehner ceramic workshop (Munich).

From 1973 Tesche-Mentzen had her own workshop in Munich and Venice and made her first ceramic sculptures, since 1975 she had held public studio days with readings and concerts by international artists, and from 1982 she made life-size sculptures in ceramics and bronze. From 1990 she runs another studio in Hafendorf, a district of the municipality of Söchtenau am Simssee in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim . Today she has her first place of residence in Munich-Solln , is a member of the artists' group “Munich South”, has run Germany's oldest children's painting school there since 1962 and teaches children from the age of three in painting, pottery and crafts .

Working method and work

“She never works abstractly, but also not consistently depicting, rather fragmentary and symbolic. Committed to beauty. "

The size of their figures has sparked admiration for their craftsmanship and artistic abilities: “Large and larger than life clay sculptures are masterful in their craftsmanship alone. Hardly any artist has dared to make clay figures of this size. ”(Dr. Walter Flemmer).

Her works in the form of larger fountains, sculptures or mosaics can be found in public spaces, while smaller objects can also be found in private and public collections. So she made z. B. the 80 square meter glass mosaic with the motif of the story of creation on the floor of the Catholic Academy in Munich from the 1980s, which is in earth tones, gold and blue.

For her, art is “the combination of spirit and craft”.

Exhibitions

Tesche-Mentzen has participated in various group exhibitions at home and abroad since 1975, but also in individual exhibitions every year.

literature

reception

The composer Wilfried Hiller created a six-part piece with singing entitled Sculptures of Love for Antje Tesche-Mentzen . It is a musical portrait of the artist, has her sculptures as the theme and was premiered in December 2014 by the Wilde Gungl Munich Symphony Orchestra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Buchwald: Soul mate. Music meets visual art: Wilfried Hiller composed a work for Antje Tesche-Mentzen in six parts that deals with her sculptures. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 279, December 4, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 , page R8.
  2. ^ Announcement from the Münchner Künstlerhaus on the vernissage of an exhibition by Antje Tesche-Mentzen: Antje Tesche-Mentzen sculpture exhibition in the courtyard on the occasion of Richard Strauss' 150th birthday. Sculptures based on works by Richard Strauss & Wilfried Hiller , accessed on December 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Antje Tesche-Mentzen, in: Sabine Buchwald: Seelenverwandt. Music meets visual art: Wilfried Hiller composed a work for Antje Tesche-Mentzen in six parts that deals with her sculptures. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 279, December 4, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 , page R8.
  4. ↑ Sabine Buchwald: Soul mate. Music meets visual art: Wilfried Hiller composed a work for Antje Tesche-Mentzen in six parts that deals with her sculptures. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 279, December 4, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 , page R8.
personal data
SURNAME Tesche-Mentzen, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel