Ursula Dittmann
Ursula Dittmann (* 1921 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German painter , graphic artist and collagist .
biography
Ursula Dittmann grew up in a middle-class commercial family. Her sister was the ballet master Erika Wolf-Dittmann . In 1923 she moved to Erfurt , where she attended the Königin-Luise-Gymnasium . From 1946 to 1948 she studied at the master school for applied arts in Erfurt. In 1949 she moved to Frankfurt am Main . From 1950 to 1955 she studied at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Professor Franz Karl Delavilla and as a master class student with Professor Ferdinand Lammeyer. A scholarship led her from 1955 to 1956 to continue studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
In 1958 she married the painter Karl Degener. In 1962 she founded together with him and six other artists such as B. Ev Grüger and Hermann Haindl and the support of the painter and collector Hanna Bekker vom Rath founded the Hofheimer Group . Here Dittman acted as managing director from 1966 to 1989. Since 1976 she has been a founding member of the painters and sculptors' association Frankfurter Kreis and since 1990 a member of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft .
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Within 60 years of intense painting, Dittmann moved from the "natural" image to expressive statements, material images and collages to symbols and logos. Her early works show conventional forms such as still lifes and landscapes in solid contours with mostly flat, distinctly coordinated colors and contrasts that are generously proportioned and only slightly abstract. Dittmann's abstract phase began in the 1960s with group and conglomerate-like, cryptically fantastic and technical structures and developed in the 1970s towards drawn and collaged, science-fiction-like machine monuments. At the end of the 1980s, Dittmann dealt with a transitional realm between reality and unreality in her oeuvre in a fantastic space of signs, symbols and mythical symbols. She moved idiosyncratically and with an unmistakable handwriting in the varied style change of modernism from Expressionism and Surrealism to Informel. In the 1990s, brushwork with a graphic effect became more and more meaningful for Dittmann. She saw a defining element of the picture in the abstract sign and used broadly applied strands of color in her works, reminiscent of Japanese calligraphy. In doing so, Dittmann removed the subjects of her pictures from real motifs and the figurative allusions receded in the harmony of graphics and painting. The subsequent works up to 2007 mostly show calm as well as pulsating, dancing, contrast and complementarity of shapes and colors. When interpreting her pictures and translations, Dittmann always gave the viewer a lot of freedom in terms of relational knowledge and interpretations.
Awards and grants
- 1955–1956 Accademia di Belle Arti Florence (scholarship)
- 1967 Study Prize from the Heussenstamm Foundation Frankfurt am Main
- 1993 Culture Prize of the City of Hofheim with the HOFHEIMER GROUP
- 1994 Scholarship from Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt am Main
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1954 "Ursula Dittmann & Gerhard Hintschich" Galerie Fahrig Braunschweig with Gerhard Hintschich
- 1957/1958 "Ursula Dittmann" Galerie FAC Prestel Frankfurt am Main
- 1961 "Ursula Dittmann - Oil Paintings" Gallery Walldorf Frankfurt am Main
- 1962 "Karl Degener, Ursula Dittmann, Gerhard Wittner " Universahaus Nürnberg
- 1962 "Painting and Graphics" (with Studio Haindl) Schwanenhalle in the Römer (Frankfurt am Main) am Main
- 1963 “Frankfurter Sezession - 10th Annual Exhibition” Steinernes Haus (Frankfurt am Main) am Main
- 1963 "Ursula Dittmann - Oil Paintings and Mixed Techniques" Galerie Defet , Nuremberg
- 1965 "Exhibition 65 Amsterdam-Berlin-Frankfurt" House of German Arts and Crafts Frankfurt am Main
- 1966 “Internationalism in Art” with the Heussenstamm Foundation Norrbotten Museum / Sweden
- 1966 “Art in exchange between Luleå and Frankfurt am Main” Länsmuseum Luleå / Sweden
- 1966 "Painting U. Dittmann / K. Degener" Studio Kaluza Bad Homburg
- 1967 "Ursula Dittmann / Thomas Zach " gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation Frankfurt am Main
- 1969 “Pictures + Collages” Globetrotter Distillery Gallery Frankfurt am Main
- 1972 "Ursula Dittmann - Pictures and Screen Prints" Studio Kaluza Bad Homburg
- 1972 "Contemporary Art" Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
- 1973 "U. Dittmann - Oil Paintings “Galerie Apfelbaum Karlsruhe
- 1975 "U. Dittmann - New Pictures “Studio Kaluza Bad Homburg
- 1976 "The Frankfurter Kreis - Painter and Sculptor" gallery in the Technical City Hall in Frankfurt am Main
- 1977 "The Frankfurter Kreis - Painter and Sculptor" Refectory of the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main
- 1978 "Ursula Dittmann - pawns - technically travested" Bad Vilbel district court
- 1978/79 "Topics - Title - Subtitle" Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst Frankfurt am Main
- 1979 "90. Salon de la Société Lyonnaise des Beaux Arts - Frankfurter Kreis eV “Lyon / France
- 1979 “The Frankfurter Kreis - Painter and Sculptor” Paulskirche Frankfurt am Main
- 1982 "The Frankfurter Kreis - Painter and Sculptor" Paulskirche Frankfurt am Main
- 1985 “The giant pandemonium” gallery in the Bad Homburg town hall
- 1987 "New Pictures" gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation Frankfurt am Main
- 1987 "Pandämonium-Noire" Studio Kaluza Bad Homburg vd Höhe
- 1988 "Art in Frankfurt 88" Römer (Frankfurt am Main) am Main
- 1991 "Transfigural - Pictures and Signs 88-91" City Hall Hofheim am Taunus
- 1992 "135 Years of Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft - 1857-1992" Römer (Frankfurt am Main) am Main
- 1995 "Ursula Dittmann - Painting" Gallery Scherer Miltenberg
- 1996 "Pictures and signs 1991 - 1996" for the 75th birthday, Hofheim am Taunus town hall
- 1997 "140 Years of the Frankfurt Artists' Society" Gallery Canvas House Frankfurt am Main
- 1999 "Alpha and Omega" gallery Hellhof Kronberg
- 2000 "Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft - today" Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main
- 2001 "Worlds of Pictures - the 90s" Galerie Leonardis Oberursel
- 2001 "Frankfurt art at the time of Walter Kolb 1946-1956" Gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation
- 2001 “Retrospective 1952 - 2001” for the 80th birthday, Hofheim am Taunus town hall
- 2001 "Ursula Dittmann - Pictures of the Last 10 Years" Gallery Das Bilderhaus Frankfurt am Main
- 2002 “Four Centuries of Frankfurt Still Life” 1822 Foundation / Frankfurter Sparkasse Frankfurt am Main
- 2003/04 "The Frankfurt Secession 1953 - 1966" 1822 Foundation / Frankfurter Sparkasse Frankfurt am Main
- 2004 “Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft - Today” Museum Giersch Frankfurt am Main
- 2006 "Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft" Museum Giersch Frankfurt am Main
- 2011 "Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft" Museum Giersch Frankfurt am Main
Works in public collections
- Art Museum Städel , Frankfurt am Main
- Wiesbaden Museum , Wiesbaden
- Museum Giersch , Frankfurt am Main
literature
- S. Tyroff, U. Dittmann, "Ursula Dittmann - Retrospective 1952-2001" exhibition catalog, Hofheimer Druck and Verlag Friedrich Müller
- FA Wagner, U. Dittmann “Ursula Dittmann - Transfigural” exhibition catalog, exhibition catalog, Hofheimer Druck- und Verlaganstalt
- J. Pick, U. Dittmann "Ursula Dittmann - Pictures and Signs 1991-1996" Exhibition catalog, Hofheimer Druck- und Verlaganstalt
- S. Schulze (Ed.), S. Mann: Das 20. Jahrhundert im Städel, pp. 41–42, Verlag Gerd Hatje, ISBN 3-7757-0707-7
- Heussenstamm Foundation (Ed.), Wilfried Ehrlich: 50 Years of Loyalty to Loyalty - The History of the Heussenstamm Foundation, pp. 110–111, printed by E. Imbescheidt KG, Frankfurt am Main
- City of Frankfurt am Main, Department of Culture, Office for Science and Art: The visual artists in Frankfurt am Main, p. 70, printing: Grafis KG, Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dittmann, Ursula. - Siegmar Tyroff (inlet). Ursula Dittmann - retrospective 1952 - 2001 for her 80th birthday. Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall Hofhaim am Taunus
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dittmann, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and collagist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |