Valeska (painter)

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Valeska (* 1940 in Stettin ; actually Valeska Fuhrmann ) is a German artist .

Life

Valeska was born in Stettin in 1940. The father was of Polish descent, the mother came from a Huguenot family . Valeska grew up in Görlitz after the end of the war . After finishing school, she studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Arts in East Berlin and came to the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1960s.

In Düsseldorf , where she was one of the first women to be a member of the traditional, male-dominated artists' association Malkasten , her style of painting developed from "socialist realism" as dictated by the GDR regime to surrealism . From 1965, landscapes, animals and plants became “scale pictures” in which the motifs are broken up into individual cells. Today she describes her style of painting as "abstract expressionism" . What looks like abstract painting for her is an enlarged or reduced reality - the outgoing wave on the beach, the view from the depths of the sea, the sunset in the sky, the face of a person. Valeska lives and works in Munich and her studio in the countryside. She showed her works in over 100 solo exhibitions.

Laudators

  • Munich's cultural advisor Siegfried Hummel said in 1992 at the vernissage, which was organized by Galerie Brochier: "The viewer feels a deeper effect inherent in the pictures, which was worked out dynamically."
  • At an exhibition opening in 2005, Nuremberg's cultural advisor Julia Lehner drew an arc from Baroque painting by Rubens and van Dyck to artists of the 19th century such as Cezanne and Feininger: "With regard to their painting technique, Valeska's work is rooted in precisely this tradition."
  • The cultural director of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Sabine Scharnagl, said in 2006 at the vernissage in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs: "The artist is one of those painters who have gained their profile, their rank and their frame outside of an agreeable mainstream."

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1971 Popescu Gallery, Düsseldorf.
  • 1972 Duncan Gallery in Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
  • 1973 Galerie Schüle, Berlin.
  • 1976 Beethovenhalle, Bonn.
  • 1978 Malkasten, Düsseldorf.
  • 1980 El Almacen Gallery, Lanzarote.
  • 1980 Art and Space Gallery, Stuttgart.
  • 1983 Gallery Unit, Essen
  • 1992 Gallery Brochier, Munich
  • 1999 European Parliament, Brussels
  • 2001 Nürnberger Versicherung, Nuremberg
  • 2001 International Radio Exhibition, Berlin
  • 2003 Münchener Hypothekenbank, Munich
  • 2004 Andrassy University , Budapest
  • 2006 Munich Trade Fair, Munich
  • 2007 Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs
  • 2009 town house, Hersbruck

Prices

  • “Prix de Composition”, Paris
  • "Grand Prix de Peinture", Abidjan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New edition of the series Messe München Kunst: The artist Valeska presents “Harmony of Opposites”. ( 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. Messe München, press release September 2006 (PDF, 47 KB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.nmm.de
  2. ^ Valeska: "Moods in White-Blue". ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2010 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. brikada.de, December 9, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brikada.de
personal data
SURNAME Valeska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Valeska (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin