Ruth Tesmar

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Ruth Tesmar (born April 8, 1951 in Potsdam ) is a German artist and university professor.

Career

Tesmar studied art education and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his doctorate in 1981, he studied painting and graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . In 1983 Dieter looked after Goltzschethe diploma thesis in which Tesmar dealt artistically and theoretically with the subject of "book illustration". From then on, dealing with literature and writers had a decisive influence on Tesmar's artistic work. Accordingly, she has worked on publication projects as an author and illustrator. The process of writing itself was often reflected artistically. As an artistic professor, Ruth Tesmar headed the "Menzel-Dach" (seminar for artistic and aesthetic practice) at the Humboldt University in Berlin between 1993 and 2015.

"Menzel roof" of the Humboldt University in Berlin

In the course of the restructuring of the Humboldt University after the reunification of Germany, the seminar for artistic and aesthetic practice was re-established in 1992 under the title "Menzel roof". In an updated form, it “ties in with the tradition of a practical art debate at German universities. The courses deal with the history of drawing, printmaking and other forms of artistic expression in both an art-practical and art-historical way. "Tesmar headed the" Menzel roof "from its foundation until her retirement in 2015.

Artistic activity

  • 1983 drawing, nature studies and painting
  • 1983 Woodcuts, etchings, lithographs based on suggestions from texts by Celan, Rimbaud, Hölderlin, Arendt, Márquez, Lasker-Schüler, Bachmann, Kleist and others
  • 1986 Cooperation with various publishers, Cycles on Lasker-Schüler, Celan, Rimbaud
  • 1991 colored woodblock prints: Genesis, Cosmologia, Endangered Dialogues, Nocturne, Obscurus, Apotropaios
  • 1993 colored woodblock prints: Camelot, Threatened Mythos (catalog)
  • 1994 colored wood print series, wood sculptures and assemblages: Arche, Anna Blume, Afternoon Dream of a Faun, in collaboration with the Brusberg Gallery; The ascent of Chimborazo I - collages about Alexander von Humboldt
  • 1995 Places - colored wood prints on Gertrud Kolmar
  • 1996 Eyelands - pictures and wooden objects
  • 1997 Letters to Leibniz - Collages, project with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (catalog)
  • 1998 Medea - pictures and assemblages (catalog), Effi Briest or the language of things - pictures and collages (catalog) on ​​behalf of Galerie Brusberg
  • 1999 The Ascent of Chimborazo II - colored series of sheets on Alexander von Humboldt (catalog), exhibition in the Casa Humboldt in Havana; descriptio - sequence of images and scriptural installation for Ovid; Encounters - animal pictures and wooden objects in the Museum Haus Cajeth , Heidelberg
  • 2000 The Language of Things I - colored collages, symposium - large-format colored wood prints for the Brusberg Gallery (catalog); excerpere - scriptural installations on Helmholtz
  • 2001 work for Edition Stuttgart Märchen der Welt - book illustrations, 8 volumes
  • 2002 Lapis lazuli and pharaoh gold - colored wood prints for Else Lasker-Schüler; Work on the sequence of images for Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy: Hell, Der Läuterungsberg, Das Paradies - 3-volume splendid edition, Berliner Wissenschafts Verlag, 2006
  • 2003 attributions - pictures for literature Tieraden - illustration of own poems (art book)
  • 2004 Illustrations to Shame by JM Coetzee, Kindlerverlag; Dialogues - pictures and collages about Karoline von Günderrode and Christa Wolf
  • 2005 ante portas - wooden objects, large colored wood prints in the cast collection in Berlin; The language of things II - colored collages
  • 2006 From the Ark - wood prints and objects; Building-related work on glass for the Helmholtz Association Berlin and for the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2007 Magic Light - colored series of pages on poems by Sarah Kirsch, exhibition in the poet's place Limlingerode and in the literature forum in the Brechthaus; Berlin, 2008
  • 2008 Correspondences - series of images and exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Paula Modersohn Becker's death, Irsee Monastery; Penultimate questions - sequence of images and book design for the text by Jochen Hörisch, Omega Verlag, exhibition in Neuhardenberg Castle
  • 2009 Itinera litterarum - On writing paths with Wilhelm von Humboldt - assemblages, art book for the 200th anniversary of the Humboldt University in Berlin; Collaboration on the Galilei project of the art historian Horst Bredekamp
  • 2010 The ascent of Chimborazo - collages on Alexander von Humboldt, exhibitions in Latin America: Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia. El ascenso al Chimborazo - Spanish art book on Alexander von Humboldt
  • 2012 Dante: A Legacy - Exhibition in the Heiligkreuzerhof in Vienna, pictures, collages, objects, scriptural installations
  • 2013 CORRESPONDENCES I In the case of pictures and words - exhibition at the Kunstverein Paderborn
  • 2013 PICTURE LETTERS - Exhibition in the Profil gallery in Weimar on the West-Eastern Divan by JW v. Goethe
  • 2013 SEH-PIECES ... life goes on ... Dedicated exhibition for Egon Hassbecker with a view of Ondrej Sterberl in the Museum Haus Cajeth , Heidelberg
  • 2014 That's when I started to sing - woodcut for an art book to honor Christa Wolf's 85th birthday
  • 2014 Alpensong - preparation of the print edition for the music archive in the Eisenach cultural area

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad. Works owned by museums, public and private collections. Illustrations and book designs. Art in public space (Helmholtz Association, Grimm Center Leibniz Association, etc.)

Stage sets and costumes

1996 & 1999 Undine - ETA Hoffmann, Orphée et Euridice - Chr. W. Gluck, open-air operas at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Awards

In 1986 the book " Die Frau ohne Schatten " (Kiepenheuer Verlag Leipzig 1988), illustrated by Tesmar, was awarded the title "Most Beautiful Book". In the same year she was awarded the "1st Prize for Graphics" as part of the exhibition "100 selected graphics" for her colored wood prints on Else Lasker-Schüler . In 1993 the school book "Augenreise I", developed and illustrated by Tesmar and her husband Lutz Tesmar (Volk und Wissen Verlag GmbH Berlin), was recognized as the "Most Beautiful Book".

Publications

Literature about Ruth Tesmar

  • Simone Damis, Pay Matthis Karstens, Ulrike Koloska (eds.): 60 letters to Ruth Tesmar. (Festschrift for the 60th birthday), Berlin 2011.
  • Pay Matthis Karstens: Ruth Tesmar. The catalog raisonné. Volume 1: The Lithographs , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813957-2-3 .
  • Christa Wolf : Letter to Ruth Tesmar. In: Christa Wolf: Speak that I can see you: essays, speeches, conversations. Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42313-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/oa/books/reHcZTxrd0gLw/PDF/27ayidvVn8of2.pdf Volume 1: The lithographs
  2. kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de
  3. http://www.kultur-marzahn-hellersdorf.de/Tesmar-Prof-Dr-Ruth.429.0.html