Rissa (artist)

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Rissa, The Secret, 1966

Rissa , actually Karin Götz , née Martin (born June 22, 1938 in Rabenstein near Chemnitz ), is a German artist and professor emeritus at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2003/2007 . In 1964 she adopted the stage name Rissa , derived from the Norwegian town of Rissa .

Life

Rissa, Rosenengel, 1992

In 1953, Karin Martin emigrated with her parents from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany for political reasons , where, after graduating from high school in Bochum in 1959, she studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Otto Götz . In 1965 she married her teacher, with whom she had lived in Niederbreitbach- Wolfenacker since 1975 , where Götz died in August 2017 at the age of 103. From 1969 Rissa taught first as a lecturer and lecturer, from 1975 as professor of fine arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 2003 she retired, but continued to teach there until 2007. In the early 1960s she drew all of Götz's raster images and the templates for the screen film Density 10: 3.2.1, which Götz conceived and produced in order to depict an (informal) apparent movement as opposed to a real movement. In the course of the 1970s she also carried out all series of tests for his scientific investigations in information theory, perception and personality psychology.

This research led to the book Problems of Image Aesthetics - An Introduction to the Basics of Visual Thinking in 1972 , which she and KO Götz wrote together. In 1977 she was the author of the manifesto and co-founder of the painter group Axiom , to which Astrid Feuser , Bernd Finkeldei , Udo Scheel and Norbert Tadeusz also belonged. Together with her husband, she founded the KOGötz and Rissa Foundation in 1997 . In 2002 she was co-editor of the handbook Artinvestor with Lothar Pues and Edgar Quadt . In 2009 she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf Art Academy by the Science Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the same year, Prime Minister Kurt Beck awarded her and KO Götz the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for their cultural commitment and their overall work in the Mainz State Chancellery. In 2012 Rissa became an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

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Rissa's representational painting is characterized by the stylistic devices of reduction and the emphasis on volume and form. From the mid-1960s she developed a style of painting that did not achieve volume through color transitions and light-dark gradations. Shapes are divided into individual inner colored areas, “color splinters”, which, when placed next to each other, only produce a spatial effect and a higher degree of abstraction in the representation when viewed from a distance. References to the Informel are made by brush strokes that break through individual areas of color.

The painter's themes are sexuality and eroticism, emancipation, environmental threats and the animal world. In the early 1990s, he produced works on the subjects of the Gulf War and Islam . Rissa paints veiled Bedouin men and women like Wüstensohn , 1991, oil on linen, 95 × 125 cm ( Ströher Collection , Darmstadt ) or Wüstent Daughter , 1993, oil on linen, 100 × 150 cm. The painting Am Golf , 1991, oil on canvas, 150 × 120 cm, shows fish jumping out of the oil-contaminated, burning sea. Her painterly work includes around 230 paintings to date.

In addition to the paintings, ink drawings and gouaches have been produced since the mid-1950s , which have appeared in volumes of poetry by Karl Otto Götz by Rimbaud Verlag and AWD Verlag, Alsdorf .

In 2013 the KO Götz & Rissa Hall was opened in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz , which presents a permanent selection of works by the artist couple.

Eminent students

Rissa worked as a lecturer or professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1969 to 2007 . A number of former students and master students are now active as artists themselves.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

994: Rissa. Painting 1964–1994 , Städtische Kunstsammlungen , Chemnitz

Group exhibitions (selection)

Collections

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Joe Orton . Tangier diary . May-June 1967 , Rimbaud Verlag , Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89086-797-9 .
  • KO Götz, asphalt thunderstorm . Poems 2003. With six gouaches by the author and seven drawings by Rissa, AWD Verlag, Alsdorf 2003, ISBN 3-937062-03-3 .
  • KO Götz, Ely . Seventy-one short stories with twenty-one drawings by Rissa, AWD Verlag, Alsdorf 2003, without ISBN.
  • KO Götz, vortex of light . Poems 2004. With eight gouaches by the author and eight drawings by Rissa, AWD Verlag, Alsdorf 2004, ISBN 3-937062-06-8 .
  • KO Götz, Trillermesse . With 47 drawings by Rissa. Poems 2000–2013, AWD Verlag, Alsdorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-937062-48-8 .

Monographs

Collective publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Rissa (artist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Daum, Peter Tepe, Karl Otto Götz as a scientist . Article from October 29, 2016 on the website of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf .
  2. ↑ See: Rissa. Paintings and drawings . Edited by Walter Smerling. With texts by Walter Smerling and Christoph Zusatz. Museum Küppersmühle , Duisburg 2003, pp. 14, 15, ISBN 3-88579-113-7 .
  3. ↑ See: Rissa. Paintings and drawings . Edited by Walter Smerling. With texts by Walter Smerling and Christoph Zusatz. Museum Küppersmühle , Duisburg 2003, p. 17, ISBN 3-88579-113-7 .
  4. ↑ Annette Bosetti: Until death do them part. In: Rheinische Post . June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ See: Rissa, Works on Paper 1955–1998 . Edited by Wolfgang Zemter. With texts by Klaus Weschenfelder and Christoph Zusatz. DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen 1998. ISBN 3-925608-55-9 .
  6. ↑ KO Götz & Rissa Hall in the Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz.
personal data
SURNAME Rissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Götz, Karin (real name); Martin, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Rabenstein near Chemnitz