Theresia Hebenstreit

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Theresia Hebenstreit: Figure on Marktstrasse 12, Wiesbaden

Theresia Hebenstreit (* 1950 in Wiesbaden ; † October 20, 2015 ) was a German painter and sculptor . She brought up to 1001 naked women on stage at the same time and created a unique selling point for herself with her “voluminous, self-confident female figures made of clay”.

Life

Theresia Hebenstreit was born in Wiesbaden in 1950 and graduated from high school in 1968 . She studied from 1979 to 1981 Ceramics - Design at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden . In 1980 and 1984 she completed study visits to England and between 1995 and 2000 studied cultural anthropology , art history and ethnology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . She fell ill with bone marrow cancer in 2003 and lived until her death in the Wiesbaden district of Dotzheim , where her studio is also located.

Profession and honorary positions

Between 1986 and 1997, Hebenstreit was chairwoman of the Hessen Arts and Crafts Association and from 1993 to 1999 German delegate in the World Crafts Council . From 1998 to 1999 she held a substitute professorship at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and at the same time headed the Institute for Artistic Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen .

Memberships

Since 2008 Hebenstreit was a member of the Association of Visual Artists (BBK), the cultural initiative thalhaus Wiesbaden and for ten years until her death a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .

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Theresia Hebenstreit was best known for her voluminous female figures made of clay , which she shaped in sizes from 15 cm to one meter. In addition to paintings depicting their figures, these were also shown in book form and calendars. With these sculptures, the "blissful women", her oeuvre became "unmistakable". The exhibition 1001Naked that she organized at Tangshan University , People's Republic of China , was her major project "with which she presented her answer to the Terracotta Army internationally".

Exhibitions

Hebenstreit took part in various exhibitions, projects, trade fairs and symposia at home and abroad and is represented with her sculptures in many private and public collections.

Important exhibitions were:

  • 2000: EINMAL50 , Rathaus, Wiesbaden
  • 2003: Body with soul , Galerie Objekta, Kreuzlingen , Switzerland
  • 2003: Lilith project , Women's Museum, Wiesbaden
  • 2006: 1001nackt , Städtische Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach , Austria
  • 2007: 1001naked , Modern Art Gallery, Wroclaw , Poland
  • 2007: 1001 naked , Tangshan University, PR China
  • 2008: 1001 naked , Heller Gallery, Heidelberg
  • 2008: Lilith's smile , Altes Rathaus Musberg , Leinfelden
  • 2009: Quite, beautiful, naked. , Kunstkreis Hameln , Rolf Flemes Haus
  • 2009: Kunstmole Wiesbaden-Schierstein
  • 2009: New , BBK Wiesbaden, Kunsthaus am Schulberg
  • 2009: About Weighty , Kunstverein Osterholz, Gut Sandbeck
  • 2010: Sechz-ich pieces from my life , Wiesbaden, studio
  • 2011: DNT (Dotzheims Next Topmodel) , Wiesbaden, studio
  • 2011: Naked Facts , exhibition in Friedberg , Bavaria
  • 2012: From the face , painting of sculptures of medieval Madonnas, Wiesbaden Women's Museum
  • 2015: Large work exhibition in my own studio, Wiesbaden-Dotzheim

Publications

  • 1991: Gert Fischer (ed.): New earthenware. Painted forms in a liberated tradition. Catalog. Siegburg, ISBN 978-3-92555122-2 .
  • 1993: Crafts and design. Cheeky
  • 1994: Art Aurea , Ulm
  • 1996: New Ceramics , Berlin
  • 1996: Who`s Who in Contemporary Ceramic Arts , Munich
  • 2000: catalog EINMALfüNFZIG, Wiesbaden
  • 2001: Michael Flynn, Ceramic Figures , London
  • 2003: New Ceramics , Berlin
  • 2004: Vernissage Hessen
  • 2007: Das Magazin , Berlin
  • 2007: Der Spiegel , Hamburg
  • 2008: Catalog 1001nackt , Wiesbaden
  • 2008: New Ceramics , Berlin
  • 2011: Theresia Hebenstreit and Konstanze Streese: The Real WOMAN's Cookbook: A cookbook by and with female characters. Wiesbaden
  • 2015: Theresia Hebenstreit and Reinhard Berg (photos): Off through the middle. Large illustrated book with an autobiography in fairy tale form
  • 2015: Theresia Hebenstreit and Konstanze Streese: Writing Syntagma. Texts. Wiesbaden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Birgitta Lamparth: artist book by Theresia Hebenstreit. In: Wiesbadener Kurier , July 18, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e website of the artist
  3. ↑ Internet site artists in Wiesbaden , no longer available
  4. ↑ Internet site of the SPD local association Dotzheim
  5. ↑ Lilith's smile Theresia Hebenstreit. Website of the Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg, accessed on June 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ Website of the Women's Museum Wiesbaden
personal data
SURNAME Hebenstreit, Theresia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 2015