Tina Juretzek

Tina Juretzek
Portrait, Tina Juretzek 2010
Born 25 November 1952 (1952-11-25) (age 63)
Leibzig
Occupation German female painter

Tina Juretzek (born 25 November 1952 in Leipzig ) is a German painter. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günter Grote. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Tina Juretzek, L 2015 1, 200 cm x 85 cm, Inner Landscape, painting collage on canvas


Life

Juretzek spent her first six years in Thale, Harz. Her mother was a sculptor, her father a merchant. The interest in art and literature is deeply rooted in her family, her great-grandmother having been an author and her grandmother a painter. 1958 the family escaped from the former East Germany (GDR)and moved to Essen. After her A levels in 1971 Juretzek took up her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günter Grote. At the same time she studied aesthetics with Heinrich Theissing, Werner Spies and Walter Hofmann. She dealt intensively with the works of Jan Vermeer, Francisco de Goya, Henri Matisse and James Ensor. In 1972, she began her studies of geography at the University of Dusseldorf focussing on physical geography (the origin of the Earth's surface). Her artistic work painted on Japanese paper since 1991 reflects this interest conveyed by the choice of material and landscape.

Tina Juretzel, L 2011 7, Tropical Glow, 120 cm x 160 cm, painting collage on canvas

Since 1979, Juretzek has been working as a freelance painter in Dusseldorf. Her work has been exhibited in numerous single and group exhibitions in galleries and museums. Of particular importance are her many years of intensive cooperation with the gallery Elke and Werner Zimmer in Düsseldorf. It were the Zimmers who presented Juretzek's work at quite an early stage of her artistic career in single exhibitions and contiunued to do so until the year 2000 when they closed their gallery. Juretzek's work is constantly displayed at various art fairs by many galleries.

Travels were of prime and initiating importance for the artist's work (India, USSR, Japan, South America, USA) In 1983, she traveled to the Lipari islands stopping on the active volcano Stromboli, where she stayed for some time and which inspired her to start an extensive line of works. It was after this yourney that she began her pen-and-ink drawings, having proved to be of paramount significance for her work until today. In 1985, she traveled from Moscow to Khabarovsk by Trans-Sibirian Railway. The journey covering 8,530 kilometers later found expression in the following lines of work: "World Landscapes", " Night Journey", and " wheel and rail. This journey inspired her to work on extremely long frieze paintings. In 2004, she traveled to South England and visited places such as Stonehenge that will shape her later work on such series as " Ancient Sites " (Sacred Mountains and places of power).

In the years 1999 and 2000 Juretzek's work was shown in a retrospective exhibition tour organized by the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, the Märkisches Museum Witten, the Heidelberger Kunstverein, the Städtische Galerie Gladbeck and the Stätisches Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2010, after having worked in the center of Düsseldorf for 26 years Juretzek moved her studio to the outskirts of the city.

Work

The work of Juretzek is characterized by abstraction in the fields of figuration and landscape. In this respect, the object always remains percetible despite its strong abstraction. Thus, in the 80s Juretzek created her first large figurative paintings, focussing on the relationship between human figure and space. Later she used vessels as metaphors for human beings and she employed the motive of the source to symbolize life. It was the first time that in these large-format works of art the painter made use of technique combining painting and collage.

Tina Juretzek, Die Glasschmelze (The Molten Glass) 1995, 180 cm x 252 cm, painting collage on canvas

Juretzek's journey to Japan (1991) inspired her to introduce a new line of work produced on Japanese paper. The artist turned to the theme "landscape" and created a range of paintings in which she employed the combination of painting and collage by means of Japanese paper on canvas. In these paintings revealing inner experience and scenic associations, Jurtzek created a new relation between color, light and space, exceeding the boundaries of informal painting.

The third line of works is composed of Juretzek's extensive thematic series of drawings. A journey to the Lipari Islands in the early 1980s, inspired the painter to create ink drawings ( Stromboli, Lilith, barrier landscapes, and others), the technique of which she has been using until today. In addition, Juretzek carried out numerous public commissions, such as the World Travel frieze of 1988 covering a length of 24 metres at the Federal Office Cologne-Chorweiler.

Tina Juretzek, Das Glühen (The Glow)1987, 165 cm x 242 cm, painting collage on canvas

Prizes and awards

Selected institutional solo exhibitions

Single exhibitions in Art galleries (since 1983)

Works in the public estate and museums

Bibliography (selection)

External links

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