Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling

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Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling (born May 8, 1924 in Insterburg , † February 24, 2014 in Darmstadt ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Life

Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling was the daughter of the art educator Paul Schmolling and his wife Hulda (born Eckloff; † May 1, 1954 in Mühlen ), a craftswoman.

After completing her Abitur , she completed various services in the Reich Labor Service before, thanks to the mediation of Norbert Dolezich , began studying at the Königsberg Art Academy in 1942 ; there she was taught by Eduard Bischoff in the portrait and figural composition class ; She had further lessons from Wilhelm Heise .

The flight from East Prussia in the autumn of 1944 led her first to Brandenburg , from there to Lüneburg and on to Emsland . In her escape diary, she recorded the events of her escape promptly in lively, water-colored pen drawings with text that gave an exclusive insight into the events of her escape stages via Brandenburg to East Friesland .

In 1948 she settled as a freelance artist in Elmshorn and in the following years various solo exhibitions took place in Elmshorn, Pinneberg and Uetersen .

After moving to Frankfurt am Main in 1950, she met the graphic artist Wilhelm Heise again, who gave her important technical suggestions for her graphic work. She now dealt more intensively with different printmaking techniques ( linoleum and woodcut , lithography , screen printing as well as weaving , batik and application of tapestries ). In 1956 she received her first orders from the city of Frankfurt for art in architecture , which was followed in 1961 by orders from the state of Hesse . In 1959 she made several trips to Paris and Holland and had a longer stay in Italy ; in the same year the company moved to Darmstadt.

Since 1970 she has been working on large-format linocuts and developing her own printing techniques. From 1974 onwards she worked on smaller collages , which she developed from linocut prints, and from 1980 onwards it was large-format collages.

From 1995 she drew new pictures in acrylic colors on paper, some of which were collaged.

In addition to participating in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, individual exhibitions have taken place in Frankfurt am Main (1957), Bremen (1957), Karlsruhe (1957), Krefeld (1969), Darmstadt (1987) and Dieburg (1990) since 1957 .

Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling was married to the sculptor Helmut Brinckmann and together they had two sons, who were born in 1963 and 1964.

Artistic work

In the course of her long life as an artist, she was reluctant to commit herself and so the most diverse works, representational and abstract , tapestries, mosaics , sgraffiti and formica paintings , linoleum and woodcuts, screen prints and lithographs and, more recently, acrylic paintings on paper; she once said: “A picture has a completely independent existence in the world. It is a structure of colors and shapes that must be put in tension with one another so that it becomes an unmistakable whole ”.

Prizes and awards

  • In 1956 she received the 3rd prize for painting in the German Olympia competition in Munich .
  • In 1991 she received the silver medal in the Premio Agazzi competition in Mapello .

Memberships

She was a member of various artist communities:

Works (selection)

literature

  • Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling . In: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 78 f.
  • Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling . In: Jörn Barfod: The Ostpreußenblatt v. March 21, 1998, p. 7.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling | The Darmstadt Secession - 1919 - 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brinckmann-Schmolling, Ute
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmolling, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2014
Place of death Darmstadt