Rosalie (artist)

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Rosalie , in self-chosen spelling rosalie [ ʁoˈzaːli̯ə ], (born February 24, 1953 in Gemmrigheim as Gudrun Müller ; † June 12, 2017 in Stuttgart ) was a German set designer , painter and light artist .

Live and act

Flossi sculptures at the Roggendorf House in the Medienhafen, Düsseldorf
Sit and run bunnies on the transition from the Plärrer high-rise to the N-ergie-Zentrum, Nuremberg
Entrance area of ​​the FILharmonie in Filderstadt with the sculpture group Im Regenbogen (2004)

From 1974 to 1978 rosalie studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Stuttgart and from 1975 to 1982 painting, graphics and sculptural work at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , including stage design with Jürgen Rose from 1977 to 1982 .

Since 1979 she has been a freelance artist. She designed experimental room and figure concepts and worked as a painter, installation artist and sculptor . In addition, she took on assignments as a set and costume designer for opera, drama, ballet, experimental music and film. The set designer Thomas Jürgens has supported her in her work since 1992.

Since 1995 rosalie has been a professor at the Offenbach am Main University of Design with her own chair for stage and costume design . In 2003 she led a master class for stage design as part of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg . From 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the jury for the Bavarian Theater Prize and, in 2002, a founding member of the Hessian Theater Academy in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1982 rosalie received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation , in 1988 the first prize for the best stage design at the 1st Munich Biennale and a prize for the best cultural poster in the city of Munich. In 2008 she was awarded the European Culture Prize for artistic life's work by the European Cultural Foundation “Pro Europa”. In 2009 she received the Walter Fink Prize of the ZKM Karlsruhe for intermedia disciplines. On April 20, 2013, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

“... what rosalie was able to do to perfection was dealing with space, which she filled with illumination and illusion skills in such a way that you couldn't help but be enchanted. To do this, rosalie used the latest technical developments in lighting and computer technology, and in recent years she has given her installation art new dimensions ... "

- Andreas Platthaus

Rosalie last lived and worked in Stuttgart; she left a daughter.

Stage work

Exhibitions

  • 1988: 26 figures - aluminum sculptures , 1st Munich Biennale for new music theater
  • 1989: Dear May, come and do ... , installation in 3 parts, gallery of the city of Stuttgart
  • 1996: My dear swan. Posters. Small poster museum Bayreuth
  • 1996: Type 1 DIN 67520 , Kunstverein Bayreuth
  • 1997: brilliantly trivial , Ludwigsburg residential palace
  • 1998: Le Souffle de la Vierge - In the Garden of Dandelions , installation of twenty kinetic objects, Kunsthalle Göppingen
  • 2003: In the thunderstorm of roses , installation in 3 parts, Grassi Museum Leipzig
  • 2007–2009: HELIOS , Kinetic Light Sculpture at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2008–2009: HYPERION_Fragment , kinetic light sculpture at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2008–2009: HELIOS - La nube luminosa , kinetic-interactive light sculpture, BIACS3, 3rd international biennial for contemporary art Seville, Spain
  • 2009–2011: CHROMA_LUX , kinetic light sculpture at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2013: Richard Wagner, Max Klinger, Karl May - WORLD CREATOR - with rooms by rosalie . Kinetic-interactive light sculptures in 3 rooms, Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2015: Light Flow | Light Stream , temporary kinetic light sculpture, Hamburg State Opera
  • 2016–2017: Vortex of light , accessible kinetic light sculpture, Sindelfingen exhibition

literature

  • rosalie - Come on, May and do… Foreword by Johann-Karl Schmidt on the exhibition in the Stuttgart City Gallery, Cantz Edition, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-106-9 .
  • rosalie - TYPE 1 DIN 67520. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern, 1996
  • rosalie - brilliantly trivial. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern, 1997
  • Kunsthalle Göppingen: rosalie - Le Souffle de la Vierge - In the Garden of Dandelions. Goeppingen 1998
  • Uwe Schweikert, Thomas Jürgens: rosalie - images and spaces, Metzler-Musik, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000
  • Oswald Georg Bauer, Thomas Jürgens: rosalie: pictures for the ring. Bayreuth Festival 1994–1998. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2000
  • rosalie - pleasure garden. Installation in 3 parts, Quantum Books, Ostfildern Ruit 2002
  • Johann-Karl Schmidt : "Everyone is a rabbit." In: Lustgarten. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-935293-31-3 .
  • rosalie - In the thunderstorm of roses. Installation in 3 parts, Quantum Books, Ostfildern Ruit 2003
  • Peter Weibel : rosalie: Lichtkunst / Light Art - The universal theater of light. Scheidegger-Spiess, Zurich, 2010
  • Peter Weibel: rosalie: LightScapes. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: Like the sun louder, its light shone for us . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 13, 2017, p. 12 (obituary)

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personal data
SURNAME Rosalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Gudrun (maiden name); rosalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and costume designer, painter and light artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemmrigheim
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2017
Place of death Stuttgart