Ulla Walter

Ulla Walter , also Ulla Gottschalk-Walter (born April 10, 1955 in Meiningen ), is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. It belongs to the Leipzig School .

Life

Walter graduated from high school in 1974 and trained as a skilled worker for computer construction. From 1974 to 1976 she also worked as a dishwasher, stoker and night watchman in the Dresden Zwinger. Furthermore, she began studying at the TU Dresden (work sciences). From 1976 to 1978 she began studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where she was a student of Janusz Kaczmarski. Ulla Walter studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig with Bernhard Heisig from 1978 to 1981. From 1981 to 1984 she was a master class student with Bernhard Heisig. From 1981 she regularly took part in art exhibitions. From 1986 to 1988 she was a founding member of the artist group INSTABIL. From 1990 it was a time of reorientation for Walter and she created non-representational pictures and strongly colored landscape associations. From 1990 to 1992 she worked at the painting-music performance AKUKARTON with, among others, the saxophonist Andreas Merkel. From 1993 to 1997 she was a founding member and headed the Förderverein Kunstschule Z1 eV. Concepts developed by Walter led to art campaigns and workshops in the industrial area of ​​limestone mining and cement production (in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ). In 2000 she received a work grant from the state of Brandenburg for a group of moving objects with light and a work grant from the Käthe Dorsch Foundation. 2004 Brandenburg Art Prize of the 'Märkische Oderzeitung'. Ulla Walter lives in Schöneiche near Berlin .

Exhibitions and projects

• 1992–1996: KALKBILDER series / beginning of “tectonic painting” with objects and three-dimensional images - e . Some with acoustics (by Andreas Merkel) and light.
• 1996–1999: FUTURE-FOSSILS and COMPONENTS-EARTH series ; Fire exhibitions with Kain Karawahn, Kunstzins project with the Berliner Volksbank on Potsdamer Platz.
• 2004: International art project GOETZEN in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice / two light installations; Brandenburg Art Prize of the 'Märkische Oderzeitung'.
• 2005–2006: Galerie Ruhnke / Potsdam; Concept drafts for the city of Görlitz; Painting with concrete and oil; Light sculpture; Pictures & balance sheets - participation in the Berliner Volksbank art collection.
• 2007: Concrete and Oil - Pictures from Two Times - ver.di-Haus, Berlin.
• 2008: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus / participation with Günther Uecker , Max Slevogt , Willi Baumeister , Hermann Glöckner , Emil Schumacher u. a.
• 2009–2010: Freedom of Idea - Potsdam Museum and Gallery Ruhnke, Potsdam; “9/11 - 11/9” - Hewitt Gallery New York City (participation)
• 2011: Under the Skin - Color Stations - Solo exhibition at the Meiningen Art House .
• 2012: Diva & Heldin - Automobilforum Unter den Linden Berlin (participation).
• 2014: roughened - Institute for Media and Art, Lage-Hörste.
• 2014–2015: Stadt-Bild / Kunst-Raum Potsdam Museum (participation).
• 2015: Four ways ahead of now - painting and objects Burg Beeskow .
• 2016: Country, City, Country - Views of Berlin and Brandenburg - Pictures from the collection of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , with Otto Antoine , Ralf Berger, Manfred Besser , Lutz Brandt , Manfred Butzmann , Christo , Klaus Fußmann , Rolf Händler , Thomas Hartmann , Ingo Kühl , Harald Metzkes , Arno Mohr , Kurt Mühlenhaupt , Karl Oppermann , Barbara Raetsch , Frank Rödel , Karin Sakrowski , Hans-Otto Schmidt , Herbert Tucholski u. a., Art Gallery Old Town Hall, Fürstenwalde 2016.
• 2017: The wild 80s in German-German painting , with Elvira Bach, Ina Barfuss, Rainer Fetting, Hubertus Giebe, Bernhard Heisig, Klaus Killisch, Markus Lüpertz, Helmut Middendorf, Neo Rauch, Hans Scheuerecker, Stephan Velten and others. a., Potsdam Museum (participation).
• 2019: Point of no return , turning point and upheaval in East German art, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, (participation in exhibition), with Hartwig Ebersbach, Lutz Dammbeck, Hubertus Giebe, Sighard Gille, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, Arno Rink, Hans Scheuerecker, Clemens Gröszer, Sabine Herrmann, Klaus Killisch, Helge Leiberg, Walter Libuda, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Neo Rauch, Strawalde, Werner Tübke, Trak Wendisch, Doris Ziegler, Gudrun Petersdorff, Bernhard Heisig, Harald Metzkes u. v. a.

literature

• Ulla Walter: The pleasure of art. Picture stories . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle adS, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96311-244-7 .
• Gottschalk-Walter, Ulla In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 270-271.

Web links

• Ulla Walter at galerie-ruhnke.de
• Biography on verdi.de (pdf)
• Own web presence on ullawalter.de
• Ulla Walter in the project Bildatlas Art in the GDR