Rita Ernst
Rita Ernst (born March 23, 1956 in Windisch AG ) is a Swiss artist .
Live and act
Rita Ernst attended the Basel School of Design from 1973 to 1976 . In 1982 she resided at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris . 1983/1984 she worked at the side of her father, the stone sculptor Othmar Ernst († 2006) in the restoration of the monastery church in Königsfelden . In 1987/1988 she stayed at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma . Since the mid-1990s she has had a second place of residence besides Zurich in Trapani on Sicily .
Rita Ernst works in the media of painting , graphics and drawing . She designs reliefs , object art , installations , conceptual art and art in architecture .
Awards
- 2006: Prize of the Fontana-Gränacher-Foundation
- 1996: First Prize Trevi Flash Art Museum , Trevi , Italy.
- 1990: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1979: Federal grant for applied arts
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2013: Constructive width. Chasa Jaura Museum , Valchava . (Opening speech: Iso Camartin )
- 2011/2012: Out and about in the cosmos. Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch.
- 2010: Project Mies van der Rohe . Mies van der Rohe house , Berlin.
- 2009/2010: The intuition of logic. / Painting in concrete terms. Constructive house , Zurich. (Pictures, drawings, collages)
Group exhibitions
- 2010/2011: very specific. Constructive house, Zurich. (With works by Max Bill , Camille Graeser , Gottfried Honegger , Johannes Itten , Verena Loewensberg , Richard Paul Lohse and others)
- 2009/2010: Specifically. The Heinz and Anette Teufel collection . Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (works by Max Bill, Rita Ernst and Richard Paul Lohse.)
- 1992: Rhythms I - XVI. Kunsthaus Zurich .
- 2017: Red comes before red , collection presentation of Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch, Waldenbuch (with Karl-Heinz Adler , Bernard Aubertin , Jakob Bill , Ad Dekkers , Günter Fruhtrunk , Rupprecht Geiger , Kuno Gonschior , Camille Graeser , Gotthard Graubner , Katharina Hinsberg , Johannes Itten , Rudolf Jahns , Thomas Lenk , El Lissitzky , Gerold Miller , Vera Molnár , François Morellet , Aurélie Nemours , Georg Karl Pfahler , Iwan Albertowitsch Puni , Alexander Rodtschenko , Karl Peter Röhl , Diet Sayler , Regine Schumann , HD Schrader , Nikolai Suetin , Ilja Grigorjewitsch Tschaschnik , Günther Uecker , Timm Ulrichs , Peter Weber , Birgitta Weimer )
Works in public space
- Municipal Tax Office, Zurich (100-part relief work, 1986)
- University of Zurich (1993)
- University Hospital Zurich (1981)
Works in public collections
- Aargauer Kunsthaus
- Graphic collection of the ETH Zurich
- Mondrianhuis , Ammersfoort
reception
- literature
- The writer Gerold Späth contributed a short novel to one of her books. For her part, Rita Ernst made an artistic contribution to Späth's project The handwritten books .
- music
- The composer Heinz Marti (* 1934) was inspired to write compositions of the same name for violoncello, vibraphone and percussion by Ernstsbedingungen I – IX (shown in 1996 in the Kunsthalle Winterthur ). In 2003 he created music for flute, mandolin and percussion under the title Mistura Siciliana for her picture cycle Progetto Siciliano .
Publications
- Marli Hoppe-Ritter a. a .: Rita Ernst. On the move in the cosmos. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88423-387-0 .
- Rita Ernst: Mies van der Rohe project. Form + Zweck, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935053-33-4 .
literature
- Sabine Arlitt: Rita Ernst. Edited by Viviane Ehrli. Cantz, Ostfildern / Ruit 1996, ISBN 3-89322-890-X . (German, English, Italian)
- Iso Camartin : The narrow, the wide. Rita Ernst. For the exhibition "Constructive Width." Museum Chasa Jaura, Valchava 2013. (German, Romansh)
- Thomas Müllenbach: "Rita with Ernst in the appropriation of the floor plans and ornaments as well as their delimitation of more or less colored structures." In: literature and art. No. 1, 03/2011. (on-line)
- Suzann-Viola Renninger: [angle symbols] instead of dhcmrlchtdj: the painter Rita Ernst. In: Swiss monthly books . Journal for politics, economy, culture. Vol. 89 (2009), No. 972, pp. 4 and 5 (text), 11, 18, 34, 35, 41, 47, 57, 65 (fig.) Doi: 10.5169 / seals-168322
- Urs Steiner: Mediation between the centuries - brilliant work show by the painter Rita Ernst in Haus Konstruktiv. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 28, 2009. (online)
- Dorothea Strauss: The intuition of logic - through Rita Ernst's “Think Tank”. (online) Catalog text in: Rita Ernst - the intuition of logic. Zurich 2010. (German, English)
Web links
Commons : Rita Ernst - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Rita Ernst in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sabine Arlitt : Seriously, Rita. In: Sikart (as of 1998)
- Website by Rita Ernst
- Rita Ernst in the art bulletin
Individual evidence
- ^ Ina Lockart: Curator's Favorite - Geometric Rhythms. In: Financial Times Deutschland , July 3, 2009. Retrieved from the artist's website on July 9, 2013. (PDF file, 221 kB)
- ↑ Rita Ernst - Prize Winner 2006. ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from the Fontana-Gränacher-Stiftung on July 7, 2013.
- ^ Rita Ernst in Zumikon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 12, 2008, accessed July 7, 2013.
- ^ Gisela Kuoni: Valchava : Rita Ernst. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Art Bulletin . 7/8 2013, accessed July 15, 2013.
- ↑ Gisela Kuoni: The Müstair Monastery inspires Rita Ernst to new work. Exhibition meeting. In: Southeastern Switzerland . July 16, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
- ^ Exhibition description on the website of the Museum Ritter, accessed on July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Exhibitions 2010. ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From the Mies van der Rohe-Haus website, accessed July 7, 2013.
- ^ Wita Noack: The holy of holies of architecture. Catalog preface. Retrieved from the artist's website on July 9, 2013.
- ↑ Simulation games. Exhibition meeting. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 3, 2010, accessed July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Guido Magnaguagno: Catalog text. Retrieved from the artist's website on July 9, 2013.
- ↑ Red comes before red. Collection presentation. In: museum-ritter.de. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Georg Leisten: Red comes before red in the Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch. At home in raspberry syrup. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. June 1, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017 .
- ^ Progetto Siciliano from Scheidegger und Spiess , accessed on July 7, 2013.
- ^ Rita Ernst - Progetto Siciliano. Press documentation for the 2003 exhibition, from IG Halle Rapperswil, accessed on July 8, 2013. (Word document, 70 kB.)
- ^ Gerold Späth's artist books - Finissage. ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) At kulturpack.ch , accessed on July 7, 2013.
- ^ Entry on WorldCat , accessed July 7, 2013.
- ^ Sabine Arlitt: Ernst, Rita. In: Sikart. 1998, accessed July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Index of works by Heinz Marti ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed from musinfo.ch on July 7, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seriously, Rita |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist of concrete art |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Windisch AG |