Monika von Starck

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Monika von Starck (2011)

Monika von Starck (* 3. February 1939 in Cologne as Monika Helen Hußmann ) is a German contemporary artist , with their paintings in the style of expressionism became known.

Life

Monika von Starck is the daughter of the draftsman and graphic artist Heinrich Hußmann , her mother Simone was a painter.

Monika von Starck studied philosophy and German at the University of Cologne and free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . According to her own statements, her most important teacher was the abstract painter Joseph Fassbender , who supported her ambitions of figurative representation against the trend of the direction propagated at the time. In 1964 she moved to the University of Fine Arts in Berlin for a year in order to complete her studies in art education at secondary schools in addition to painting with the state examination. From 1969 to 1973 she taught art at two high schools in Cologne and from 1978 to 1980 she was the head of painting and drawing at the Volkshochschule Cologne. She has been working as a freelance artist since 1970.

After completing her studies, she married Burkhard von Starck in 1966, and their son Adrian was born in 1970.

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“Mother's love and care, developed from evolution to the preservation of species, is taking increasingly absurd paths with man in our time. While the woman devotes herself to the dog, the science of the human embryo takes on. ”Monika von Starck

Monika von Starck paints in the tradition of Expressionists such as George Grosz , Max Beckmann and Otto Dix . The focus of her large-format oil paintings is always the person. She wants to show “the different ways in which people are at the mercy of their environment and how they try to protect themselves, how they try to cope with it or to evade it. The painter uses her own symbolic language and thus merges the elements of various myths with her fantasies. "( Wibke von Bonin )

Since 1966 Monika von Starck has shown her work in numerous group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. Works can be found in private and public collections, for example in the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in Cologne and in the Cologne City Museum , the Museum of the Wuppertal Historical Center , and the Hannover-Langenhagen Municipal Collection.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1966 Galleria Numero, Venice, Casa della Cultura, Livorno, International Art Center del Elba
  • 1968 Brunner Gallery, Lucerne
  • 1974 K - Gallery Mülheim / Ruhr
  • 1975 Gallery Das Fenster, Düren
  • 1978 Frechen Art Association
  • 1984 Pulheim Town Hall
  • 1991 Municipal Gallery Wesseling,
  • 1993 Gallery Art Counter Cologne
  • 1994 Oberbergischer Kunstverein / Theater Gummersbach
  • 1995 Jahnhorst und Preuß Gallery, Berlin, traveling exhibitions
  • 1996 Rathausgalerie, Brühl / Rhineland
  • 1998 Benninger Gallery, Cologne
  • 1999 Club Culturel Tahar Haddad Tunis; / Kunstkabinett Knauf Cologne; Benninger Gallery.
  • 2000 Cologne Art Salon
  • 2001 Langenhagen Women's Culture Days, Langenhagen Town Hall; Redeemer Church in Cologne-Sürth, -Apocalypse-; Art Cabinet Knauf
  • 2003 KDA Cologne
  • 2004 Kunstverein Wesseling: Urania, Berlin
  • 2006 Cologne Art Salon
  • 2008 Celebrities , Cologne City Library
  • 2010 Mururoa , Kulturbunker Cologne
  • 2011 Kunsthaus Rhenania
  • 2012 Kraftfeld canvas , work exhibition in the Museum Historisches Zentrum Wuppertal
  • 2014: LINIENLUST , Monika von Starck - drawing books , art and museum library of the city of Cologne
  • 2014 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne: "Istanbul" exhibition and reading
  • 2015 Phoenix Gallery Cologne "In tune with the times"
  • 2016 Gallery Hartung-Cologne: "Existences"
  • 2016 Gallery Timeless-Art-Cologne

Group exhibitions

  • 1967 Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1968 Art Association Cologne
  • 1975 August Macke Prize, Meschede
  • 1976 Beethovenhalle Bonn
  • 1982 Arteder Muestra International de Obra Grafica, Bilbao
  • 1987 Interart gallery Cologne
  • 1997 Wesseling Art Prize
  • 1998 Benninger Gallery, Cologne; Cologne City Museum; Art Prize Wilhelm Fabry Museum , Hilden
  • 2000 art and pray, Alte Lederfabrik, Cologne; Art fair Cologne
  • 2001 Kunstkabinett Knauf: Really - Unreal; / Benninger Gallery: Pia; / Art fair Cologne
  • 2002 "In situ" Anatomical Institute of the University of Cologne; / Art Cabinet Knauf; / Museum fortified tower Porz: “United Art” elementary structures; / Deutsche Welle Cologne; / Hamburg art fair; / Cologne Salon.
  • 2004 University of Cologne (through Cologne Salon): Self-portraits
  • 2007 Gallery Benninger Cologne
  • 2008 Baden-Baden for the award of the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize / Robert Bosch Foundation
  • 2010 Kunsthaus Rhenania-Köln, Kunstverein Wesseling anniversary exhibition, participation in the exhibition Josef Fassbender in Cologne with 1 large portrait
  • 2012 Exhibition Katowice city partnership: Cologne-Kattowitz
  • 2013 2nd art market at Kunsthalle Köln-Lindenthal
  • 2014 International Art Exhibition Altes Pfandhaus, Cologne

Art awards

  • 1990 International Prize for Painting Premio Agazzi, Bergamo, Italy - Gold medal for the picture CITTA
  • 1991 International Prize for Watercolor Painting Premio Agazzi, Bergamo, Italy - Silver medal for the picture VANITAS
  • 2011 Art Prize Rhenania Cologne

Memberships

literature

  • Uta Gerlach-Laxner (Ed.): Monika von Starck. Pictures and drawings 1992-1997 , Verlag Schuffelen, Pulheim 1997
  • Wibke von Bonin : (Ed. And author): Monika von Starck. Pictures and drawings from 1998 to 2011 , Neuer Kunstverlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-938023-66-2
  • Bridge pictures, three artists show their work on the Rodenkirchener Bridge , with works by Tong Hon Sang, Clemens Hillebrand and Monika von Starck, Cologne 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Monika von Starck, Art Rhenania eV
  2. ^ Force field canvas, Wuppertal Historical Center
  3. The pulsating power of life Kölner Stadtanzeiger from February 14, 2008
  4. Dr. Wibke von Bonin: About the worlds of Monika von Starck , art and museum library of the city of Cologne
  5. Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists, De Gruyter 2007, pp. 1357f.
  6. Historical Center Wuppertal, archive
  7. ^ Monika von Starck, exhibitions
  8. ^ "Force field canvas" in the historical center, Westdeutsche Zeitung