Petra Kaltenmorgen

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Petra Kaltenmorgen (* 1964 in Hirschfeld , Hunsrück ; † January 25, 2019 in Hanover ) was a German photographer and installation artist .

Life

Kaltenmorgen completed a glass painting training from 1983 to 1986. From 1989 to 1995 she studied fine arts at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences with Rolf Bier and Ralph Kull and was a master class student with Heinrich Riebesehl . Her focus was the photographic work and installation developed from 1994 onwards.

From 2000 to 2001 she taught at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences for Artistic Photography before she worked in Australia as a visiting professor at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 2003 . Subsequently she lived and worked as a freelance artist in Hanover.

Around two years before her death, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover dedicated an exhibition to her. Often a black color dominated in the center of her photographs of flowers, the flower pictures heralded the gift of life and its transience.

Petra Kaltenmorgen died on January 25, 2019 in Hanover after a long illness.

Awards

  • 1996: Art Prize Artistic Photography , Gifhorn District ,
  • 1997: Grant at Künstlerhaus Meinersen
  • 1997: Prize of the Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1999: Lower Saxony annual scholarship
  • 2001: Barkenhoff Scholarship Worpswede
  • 2003: Artist and Residence at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne / Australia
  • 2003: Scholarship from the ZF-Kulturstiftung Friedrichshafen AG

literature

  • Clasp and mirror . Petra Kaltenmorgen. Scholarship holder of the district of Gifhorn in the Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Braunschweig: Orphanage, 1997
  • Eckhard Schneider (ed.), Stephan Berg (text): Petra Kaltenmorgen . Catalog for the exhibition for the Prize of the Kunstverein Hannover, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9805041-6-4 and ISBN 3-9805041-6-6
  • Klaus Dierßen, Hanne Zech (text): Kaltenmorgen - Déjà vu . Catalog for the exhibition, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-935729-02-2
  • Gaby Sand: A Staircase for Art 6 , Volume: Couples . Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, Hanover 2001
  • Regina Michel: Kaltenmorgen - GegenLicht seascapes . Exhibition catalog, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, 2004, ISBN 978-3-86136-086-5 and ISBN 3-86136-086-1
  • Ralph Kull : Cast off! . Exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-934421-19-6
  • René Zechlin : Petra Kaltenmorgen (= contemporary art from Lower Saxony , volume 72), Wallstein Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3028-3 and ISBN 3-8353-3028-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d o. V .: Kaltenmorgen, Petra in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of January 13, 2011, last accessed on May 21, 2019
  2. a b c Ronald Meyer-Arlt: Culture / death / artist Petra Kaltenmorgen died ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 27, 2019, last accessed on May 21, 2019