Ursula Schultze-Bluhm

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Ursula Schultze-Bluhm (born Bluhm, artist name Ursula; born November 17, 1921 in Mittenwalde ; † April 9, 1999 in Cologne ) was a German painter and the wife of the painter Bernard Schultze .

life and work

Ursula Bluhm grew up in Mittenwalde ( Mark Brandenburg ) and attended the secondary school in Königs Wusterhausen . In 1938, after moving to Berlin-Lichtenrade , the first prose texts and language studies were written. During the Second World War , Bluhm was obliged to do office work. From 1945 to 1953 she worked in the culture department of the Amerika-Haus programs in Berlin and Hesse . In 1950, one year after moving to Frankfurt am Main , Ursula Bluhm began painting and writing poetry. She made her first trip to Paris in 1951, since then regular stays. In 1954 it was discovered by Jean Dubuffet for his Musée de l ' Art Brut in Paris. Since then she has been using the stage name Ursula.

First solo exhibition in 1954 in the Franck Gallery in Frankfurt am Main. In 1955 she married the German painter Bernard Schultze , a representative of the Informel art movement . Her real name was from now on Schultze-Bluhm.

The first assemblages were created in 1958. Since then Ursula has been working more and more realistically and developing an individual mythology. She began to work on small objects and, increasingly, on fur-oil assemblages with a shrine-like character. It was represented by Galerie Daniel Cordier in Paris and Frankfurt am Main and exhibited regularly.

Family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

From 1964 to 1967 she traveled several times to New York , Washington, DC and Paris. In 1968 she moved to Cologne with her husband. In the 1970s he made study trips to St. Petersburg , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Burma , Mexico , Guatemala , Hong Kong , Bali and Singapore . In 1971 she stayed in the United States for a few months and participated in group exhibitions. From 1974 onwards she began creating large-format drawings using the sepia pen technique, and from 1976 onwards she intensified her work on large objects. In 1977 she took part in Documenta 6 in Kassel and in 1979 she took part in the Sydney Biennale . From 1984 onwards, alongside her painting, more and more text and drawing works were created.

Ursula Schultze-Bluhm is listed under her artist name URSULA in the membership directory of the German Association of Artists . Between 1966 and 1989 she participated in a total of fourteen large annual DKB exhibitions.

Her grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 39).

Honor

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections (selection)

Estate and Schultze Projects

The Cologne Museum Ludwig manages a large part of the artistic estate of Ursula and  Bernard Schultze . In memory of the artist couple, the museum called in September 2017, the project series  Schultze Projects  to life . Every two years, an artist should be invited to create a work for the prominent front wall in the stairwell of the Museum Ludwig. The large-scale work format as a central aspect in the mature work of Bernard Schultze represents a substantial point of reference to the planned artistic positions of the  Schultze Projects  . The first artist in the project series is  Wade Guyton .

The estate of the painter and her husband Bernard Schultze has been looked after by the Van Ham Art Estate in Cologne since December 2018 .

Publications

  • Blooming poison. Texts & drawings. Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-87365-240-4
  • Mauritius. Letters made from word fur and picture monsters. Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87365-289-7

literature

  • Sabine Fehlemann (Ed.): Ursula. Retrospective. Works 1951–1992. Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-7774-6040-0
  • Marion Hövelmeyer: Pandora's box. Configurations of body and creativity. Deconstruction analyzes for the Art Brut artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm. Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-633-5
  • Theo Rommerskirchen (Ed.): Ursula. Remagen-Rolandseck 1993, ISBN 3-926943-33-5
  • ders .: Ursula. In: Viva signature si! 20 years of signature, letters and encounters with painting poets and poetic painters. Remagen-Rolandseck 2005, ISBN 3-926943-85-8
  • Peter Spielmann (Ed.): Ursula. Pictures, objects, drawings. Museum Bochum, art collection, March 24th – 6th May 1979. State Art Collections, Kassel, Neue Galerie, May 26–15. July 1979. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Modern Gallery, 1980. Museum Bochum, Bochum 1980, ISBN 3-8093-0046-2
  • Evelyn Weiss (Ed.): Ursula. With contributions by Heinz Althöfer , Barbara Herrmann, Christa Lichtenstern and Evelyn Weiss. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-9230-8

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evelyn Weiss (Ed.): Ursula. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / URSULA ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 23, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 23, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ^ Museum Ludwig: Schultze Projects. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2017 ; accessed on August 19, 2017 (German, English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-ludwig.de
  5. ↑ New estate at Van Ham Art Estate: Bernard Schultze and Ursula Schultze-Bluhm. (PDF) Van Ham Art Estate , December 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schultze-Bluhm, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bluhm, Ursula (maiden name); Ursula (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittenwalde
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1999
Place of death Cologne