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Natascha Ungeheuer (born Ursula Rosa Ungeheuer in Blumenfeld on December 27, 1937 ) is a German painter .

life and work

Natascha Ungeheuer grew up in Biederbach (Black Forest) and Freiburg im Breisgau . After graduating from high school in Stuttgart and studying, she passed her teaching exams at the Lüneburg University of Education in 1959 . She then attended Harald Kreutzberg's dance academy in Bern for a year . In 1961 she traveled alone through England, Ireland, France, Italy and Finland with poems by Else Lasker-Schüler .

Following her talent for drawing, she began to work as an autodidact with oil painting. She gave no name to her painting style in the manner of the old masters with the finest brushes. From 1969 to 1975 she also played in the Kreuzberg street theater, painted stage sets and made masks. Ungeheuer has illustrated books by well-known authors, including those of her friend Edgar Hilsenrath , Jaroslav Hasek's Von Scheidungen and other comforting things , Christian Morgenstern's Esring in Professor Stein and Wolf Biermann's The Fairy Tale of the Girl with a Wooden Leg .

Natascha Ungeheuer has lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg since 1962 and works temporarily in the artist village of Worpswede . She was the partner of the writer and poet Johannes Schenk, who died in 2006 . In Worpswede she sometimes works with the sculptor Waldemar Otto with unusual materials such as tar and chippings.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Gallery Brockstedt, Hamburg (1980, 1999)
  • Small Orangery Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin (1993)
  • House on Lützowplatz , Berlin (1994)
  • Galerie Cohrs-Cirus, Worpswede (2005).
  • Galerie Netzel, Worpswede (1982 and 2008)

literature

  • Gaston Salvatore : The long way to the Natascha Ungeheuer's apartment. Poems . Luchterhand, Neuwied and Berlin 1971 (template for the vocal piece of the same name by Hans Werner Henze ).
  • Catalog raisonné . Elefanten Press Galerie, Berlin 1975.
  • Natascha Ungeheuer - Catalog raisonné. Oil paintings 1964–2013 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1516-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Monsters, Natascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monster, Ursula Rosa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Field of flowers