Rita Mühlbauer

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Rita Mühlbauer (* 1941 in Immenstadt ) is a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Rita Mühlbauer studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Xaver Fuhr and Karl Fred Dahmen and lives as a freelance painter and illustrator in Munich. In addition to numerous books, Rita Mühlbauer illustrated cover designs for book and magazine publishers, occasionally advertising and industrial contracts. She also designed posters , brochures , murals and picture cards for private and public institutions.

Books illustrated and designed by her include a. with Hanno Rink sky tent and snail shell , a book about living cultures in the world, as well as the life of the North American Indians . She painted pictures for buffalo and berries, the kitchen of the Blackfoot Indians by Beverly Hungry Wolf and for a scientific fairy tale The Black Stone by Frank Baer, ​​oil paintings in Still goes out the fairy herb , poems by Hubert Weinzierl, tree portraits in pen and ink for tree Paths, ways to special trees by Eva Schneider . She created card images for an astro tarot with the astrologer Hermine-Marie Zehl.

Since 2002 she has been creating monthly picture cards of animals, plants and mushrooms on behalf of Hofpfisterei Munich in cooperation with the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria . In 2009 there was a special exhibition and a book of the same name under the title Treasure Chamber of Nature. About the diversity of native species in the “Museum Mensch und Natur” Munich. As a result, four quartets were created from these picture cards. In 2012, pen drawings for Zoooo ... Living Poems for Children by Hugh D. Loxdale were published, in 2018 twenty-five portraits in ink and color of native plants in The Plant That Takes Somersaults ... by Ewald Weber.

Mühlbauer has been painting in and after nature with oil and watercolors since the late 1970s , initially mainly on the subject of mushrooms . She carried out extensive watercolor studies in native forests, then increasingly in the rainforests of the Brazilian Amazon - and the Atlantic coastal region, etc. a. in the research station "Estação Científica Ferreira Penna" in Caxiuanã and in the rainforest academy Salve Floresta , Tapiraí . Since 2007 she has spent four study visits to the Panguana research station in the Andean Amazon lowlands of Peru.

Rita Mühlbauer organizes workshops and watercolor courses on the subject of art and nature , etc. a. with the research workshop in the Palatinate Museum for Natural History Bad Dürkheim and Lichtenberg Castle , u. a. on the occasion of the exhibitions Maria Sibylla Merian , artist and natural scientist and Georg Flegel . She held workshops at the invitation of the University of Pará and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD for the German Culture Week in Belém , Brazil . In 1999 she organized workshops as part of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in Harare , at the invitation of the Culture Department of the City of Munich and the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2004 workshops at the Feira do Livro, invited by the Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre , Brazil. Watercolor courses and workshops also took place in the environmental center Schloss Wiesenfelden, through the educational organization Bund Naturschutz in Bernhardswald, Eastern Bavaria, Benediktbeuern and Wessling.

Exhibitions

Awards

  • International youth book award "Premio Grafico" for sky tent and snail shell .

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personal data
SURNAME Mühlbauer, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt