Sabina Grzimek

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Report on Sabina Grzimek's exhibition “From the Times” at Galerie Pankow 2018

Sabina Grzimek (born November 12, 1942 in Rome ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Sabina Grzimek is the oldest child of the sculptor Waldemar Grzimek and the painter and ceramicist Christa von Carnap . The couple had married on September 17, 1941 in Berlin-Schöneberg . Sabina was born in Rome in 1942; her father had received the Rome price in 1942 and spent a study holiday in the Villa Massimo. Her brother, the later ceramicist Tomas Grzimek , was born in Berlin in 1948.

Her parents divorced in 1951. Her mother married the sculptor Fritz Cremer in 1953 and moved with the eleven-year-old Sabina and five-year-old Thomas to live with him in Berlin-Pankow . Christa and Fritz Cremer had a daughter in 1954, Sabina's first half-sister Katrine Cremer.

Sabina Grzimek's father, Waldemar Grzimek, lived in West Berlin on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall was built , and there married the doctor Lydia Schumann. In 1964 the couple had a daughter, who later became sculptor Jana Grzimek , Sabina's half-sister.

Sabina Grzimek was married to the restorer Peter Schwarzbach (* 1944) from 1973 to 1979 . She has a son Anton (* 1975) and a daughter Anna (* 1979).

Sabina Grzimek completed a practical year at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory from 1961 to 1962 . From 1962 to 1967 she studied sculpture at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . Subsequently, Sabina Grzimek lived and worked from 1967 to 1969 as a freelance sculptor, painter and graphic artist in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . From 1969 to 1972 she was a master class student at the Berlin Academy of the Arts with Fritz Cremer. From 1972 she lived and worked as a freelance artist in Erkner . From 1997 to at least 2006, Sabina Grzimek was a guest lecturer at the private higher vocational school, Graphic Design School Anklam .

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Sabina Grzimek created a large number of sculptures from bronze , plaster , terracotta and clay , which have been and are shown in her numerous exhibitions. Grzimek's sculpture Junge aus der Marienburger Strasse (1968–1970) is in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , and mother with child (1976–1981) in Berlin-Lichtenberg . The standing and reclining group (1980–1985), which was once exhibited in front of the Altes Museum in Berlin's Lustgarten , is now on Lützowplatz in Berlin-Tiergarten , the former seat of the Eva Poll gallery . The memorial in front of the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum Erkner (1992) and the Weinheim rider (1996) also came from her. Some graphics and paintings are also part of Sabina Grzimek's work.

Her awards include the Gustav Weidanz Prize (1972), the Käthe Kollwitz Prize (1983), the Prize of the Kunstförderverein Weinheim (1994) and the Ernst Rietschel Art Prize of the City of Pulsnitz (1996). On June 26, 2011, Sabina Grzimek was awarded the Brandenburg Art Prize in the presence of the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck , in Neuhardenberg Castle , which the Märkische Oderzeitung published in cooperation with the Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation . On the artist's seventieth birthday in November 2012, the first figure from Grzimek's group Seven Gestures of the Upright Walk was erected on Garrisonkirchplatz in Berlin-Mitte .

gallery

  • Works by Sabina Grzimek

  • Lying Couple (1981)

  • Bronze Boy from Marienburger Strasse (1983/84)

  • Detail from the standing and lying group (1980–85)

  • Mother and child (1981)

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Gerhard Grzimek, Rupprecht Grzimek: The Grzimek family from Oberglogau in Upper Silesia. In: German Family Archives. Volume 10, Degener, Neustadt (Aisch) 1958, DNB 451711351 . (2000, DNB 964274191 )
  • Sabina Grzimek: Heads. POLLeditions Vol. 50, Berlin 2000, DNB 959465502 .

Web links

Commons : Sabina Grzimek  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ingeborg Ruthe: Sabina Grzimek: Gestures of the upright walk. In: www.berliner-zeitung.de. November 11, 2012, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on December 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) - website. In: www.fritzcremer.kulturquadrat.net. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011 ; accessed on December 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Biography - Fritz Cremer. In: sites.google.com. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New video: Sabina Grzimek “From the Times” - Galerie Pankow. In: galerie-pankow.de. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Current exhibition: Sabina Grzimek in the Rössle gallery. In: galerie-am-gendarmenmarkt.de. 2010, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ graphics + design school. List of lecturers. In: www.grafik-design-schule.de. Archived from the original on February 26, 2006 ; accessed on December 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ J. Sandner: MOZ art award winners have been determined - MOZ.de. In: moz.de. April 27, 2011, accessed December 8, 2019 .

See also

personal data
SURNAME Grzimek, Sabina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy