Monika Brachmann

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Monika Brachmann in her studio (2017)

Monika Brachmann (born May 12, 1944 in Arnswalde , Pomerania Province ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After her father's death, shortly after the end of World War II , Monika Brachmann lived with her mother and grandparents in the bombed-out Berlin workers' district of Wedding . After completing secondary school , she attended a commercial school from 1960 to 1962 , then worked in the public sector until 1963, and after her marriage in 1964 she worked in retail for four years . From 1968 she studied with Hans Förtsch at the Berlin Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising (now the University of the Arts ) and graduated with honors in 1972. She completed further studies at the Free Department of the University of Fine Arts as a master class student of Hermann Bachmann in 1976. Until her studies in painting, she was a member of the artists' association " Die Rote Nelke - Westberlin ", a politically motivated student association of the 1968 movement . Since 1976 she has been working freelance primarily as a painter, but also as a graphic designer.

In 1973, at the time of the feminist movement in West Berlin , Monika Brachmann painted the work “Reclining Nude” (oil / canvas, 100 × 120 cm).

From 1978 to 1985 she was also a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Kreuzberg at Checkpoint Charlie . After German reunification , in 1994 she moved her creative focus to the Uckermark in the north of Brandenburg without giving up her place of residence in Berlin. In 2013 Monika Brachmann and her husband established the non-profit "Wolfgang and Monika Brachmann Foundation". She belonged to the GEDOK and is a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and the Artists' Association in Germany .

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Monika Brachmann: “Yourself à la Beckmann”, 1978, oil / canvas, 80 × 100 cm

Monika Brachmann chose her own path to realism and distinguished herself from Abstract Expressionism , Action Painting and Color Field Painting . Her role models are Max Beckmann , the "great French" - such as Édouard Manet , Paul Cézanne , Henri Matisse - as well as Paula Modersohn-Becker , Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch . This justified Brachmann's artistic credo: "Art comes from ability". During Monika Brachmann's time in Berlin until 1993, images of people and still lifes, and occasionally travel impressions, were preferred subjects of her painting. The female nude is a topic that the artist dealt with in the years before 1989.

With the new focus of work in the Uckermark, German reunification also led to a turning point in Monika Brachmann's work. A radical change took place here that left a painterly development of around 30 years behind. Having abandoned the traditional image structure of the years before 1989, the painter has since relied on dynamic rhythmization: a rapid sequence of interrupted lines. Their picture elements (sky, cloud shadows, winds) reinforce the impression of strong movement in the strictly constructed pictures. In 2017, Brachmann's painterly oeuvre comprised around 600 works, oil on canvas.

In addition, Monika Brachmann has cultivated her passion for the line and surface of the woodcut , which she has been pursuing since the early 1980s. Her graphic work now comprises around 150 works, mainly woodcuts, as well as etchings , copperplate engravings , mezzotin inks and lithographs . At the same time, a large number of works on paper - watercolors , gouaches , drawings - were created.

Works in public and private collections (selection)

Solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

Monika Brachmann: "Boisterfelde with rapeseed hill", 1999, oil / canvas, 120 × 130 cm
  • 1980 Galerie Färbergasse, Erding / Munich (award of the winter salon art prize)
  • 1980 "30 Years of BBK ", State Art Gallery Berlin
  • 1983 “Discoveries of Gallery II”, Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich
  • 1983 Pictures, drawings, graphics, black on white gallery, edition, graphics shop on Chamissoplatz, Berlin
  • 1984 Taube Gallery, Berlin: Pictures 1973–1983
  • 1984 Exhibition "Rationalization", Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin and Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK)
  • 1984 “The war hits everyone in the heart”, Palace of the Arts, Minsk
  • 1985 “The war hits everyone in the heart”, Haus am Kleistpark and Rathaus-Galerie in Schöneberg Town Hall , Berlin
  • 1985 "Art Impulse 4 / Landscape Playground", Upper Gallery in the house on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1987 Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich: Oil paintings
  • 1989 “Man and his work, exhibition by the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs”, Center for Employee Education, Königswinter
  • 1990 "Act. Berlin painters ”, Schwind Gallery, Frankfurt / M.
  • 1990 “Nine Berlin Artists”, Famagusta / Nicosia (Cyprus), Peter's Gallery / Goethe-Institut / Foreign Office
  • 1990 "Art & War", New Society for Fine Arts, House of World Cultures , Berlin
  • 2004 Müller gallery , Berlin
  • 2004 “A Festival of Art”, 10 years of the Multicultural Center Templin, exhibition at the Representation of the State of Brandenburg in Berlin-Mitte
  • 2005 Kunsthalle Wittenhagen, Wittenhagen / Feldberger Seenlandschaft: painting, graphics
  • 2011 Müller gallery, Berlin
  • 2015 Book Guild , bookstore on Wittenbergplatz, Berlin (graphic exhibition)
  • 2016 Evangelical Epiphany Congregation Berlin-Westend

Since 1998 regular participation in the annual exhibitions of the Künstleronderbund

Catalogs and publications

  • 1988 Richard Hiepe , "Breakfast with Paula - The Painter Monika Brachmann", tendenzen, magazine for committed art, issue No. 163, 29, on the occasion of the publication of the monograph
  • 1990 "Mensch und Arbeit", catalog of the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
  • 1992 Hannes Schwenger, "Intimacy and Pathos: Die Druckgrafik von Monika Brachmann", Graphische Kunst, Zeitschrift für Graphikfreunde Issue 37/1, Edition and Ed. Curt Visel, Memmingen
  • 1998 Catalog for the exhibition of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV, "Effi Briest and her sisters, on the psychography of women"
  • 2000 Friedrich Rothe , catalog for the exhibition, published by Ladengalerie Berlin and Galerie am Savignyplatz, ISBN 3-926460-74-1
  • 2003 Documentation "Torso of the Archive Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV"
  • 2005 Catalog for the personal exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wittenhagen
  • 2011 Catalog for the exhibition, published by Ladengalerie Müller GmbH, Berlin, ISBN 3-926460-92-X

literature

  • Michael Nungesser , Gerard Wenziner: "The painter Monika Brachmann", Munich: Neue Münchner Galerie, 1987, ISBN 3-924765-11-1 .
  • Friedrich Rothe, Rosa von der Schulenburg, Urban Kressin: "BERLIN-UCKERMARK - The painter Monika Brachmann", Berlin: Nicolai, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89479-931-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brachmann, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnswalde