Annelie Grund (born 28 June 1953,
Berlin
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) is a German artist,
stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
artist, artist and musician. She lives in
Wandlitz
Wandlitz is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Berlin, and 15 km east of Oranienburg. The municipality was established in 2004 by merger of the nine villages ''Basdorf'', ' ...
and is married to the architect Manfred Thon.
Biography
1976 she acquired the diploma at the
Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
in the subjects of art, painting and German language and literature studies. 1983 she got the master craftsman's diploma as stained-glass artist. Since 1979 she is a freelance artist and stained-glass artist in her own studio and workshop.
Music
Since her childhood she practices
overtone singing
Overtone singing – also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and diphonic singing – is a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract, in order to arous ...
. She received lessons by the choir director Christian Bollmann in
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
and for a long time took part in the Berlin
Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed by ...
-Orchestra. She performed music in the DUO Bernstein (1996–2001). Nowadays she makes music during projects of art with her husband.
Glass Art
She implemented many projects of
glass art
Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glas ...
which are displayed in public, mostly made of glass, but also of steel and stone, painted windowpanes in churches and freestanding objects of glass and glassware paintings.
In 2007 she created the monument (errant block) at the water divide between the rivers
Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...
and
Oder
The Oder ( , ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and ; ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows thr ...
at the
Wandlitzsee
The Wandlitzer See (colloquial also Wandlitzsee) is a lake in Wandlitz, Brandenburg, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after ...
. In 2012 she created ''The blue band of the river Panke'', a project of glass art at the staircase of the parking garage in Bernau.
Works in churches
* 2003 glass altarpiece in the church in the village of Lünow in
Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...
* 2003 Glass altarpiece in the church in the village of Lünow in
Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...
, ''Cross and Labyrinth''
* 1999–2002 painted windowpanes in the church in
Oderberg
Oderberg () is a town in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg in northeastern Germany. It is situated 16 km east of Eberswalde, and 27 km southwest of Schwedt, close to the border with Poland, and in close vicinity of Berlin.
Overvie ...
* 1999–2016 painted windowpanes in the church in Fürstenberg/
Eisenhüttenstadt
Eisenhüttenstadt (literally "ironworks city" in German; , dsb, Pśibrjog) is a town in the Oder-Spree district of the state of Brandenburg, Germany, on the border with Poland. East Germany founded the city in 1950. It was known as Stalinstadt ( ...
* 1999 glass – Sound – Installation in the church in Netzeband
* 1998 painted windowpanes in the church in Helfta
* 1998 ''Kraftfelder'' glass – Sound – Installation in Kloster
Chorin
Chorin () is a municipality in the district of Barnim in Brandenburg, Germany. It is most famous for its cloister and for being situated within the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. It is famous for its medieval Brick Gothic Chorin Abbey
...
* 1997–1999 painted windowpanes in the Catholic church in
Malchow
Malchow () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
Geography
It is situated on the river Elde, 25,5 km west of Waren, and 35 km north of Wittstock.
History
The site ...
/
Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg (; nds, label=Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin ...
* 1996 painted windowpanes in the funeral chapel of the Luisenkirchhof
Berlin-Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...
* 1995 painted windowpanes in a Catholic nurse hostel in
Berlin-Biesdorf
* 1994 painted windowpanes in the funeral chapel of the crematory in
Berlin-Baumschulenweg
Baumschulenweg () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Treptow. Its name means road (''weg'') of the plant nurseries (''Baumschulen''). It ...
* 1994 painted windowpanes in the New Apostolic Church in
Gifhorn
Gifhorn () is a town and capital of the district of Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the more industrial and commercially important cities nearby, ...
* 1994 painted windowpanes in a chapel in the Hotel Albrechtshof in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
* 1993 painted windowpanes in the church in Teschendorf
* 1991 painted windowpanes in the church in Radeland,
Berlin-Spandau
Spandau () is a locality (''Ortsteil'') of Berlin in the homonymous borough (''Bezirk'') of Spandau. The historic city is situated, for the most part, on the western banks of the Havel river. As of 2020 the estimated population of Spandau was 39, ...
Exhibitions
* 2014 Fachwerkkirche Glambeck, messages and symbols
* 2013 Berlin, Inselgalerie, glass objects
* 2012
Cottbus
Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with exten ...
, Städtische Galerie im Rathaus, glass objects
* 2011
Hobrechtsfelde, Acryl – LED – steles of glass and sound
* 2011
Eberswalde
Eberswalde () is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German State ( Bundesland / ''federated state'') of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42,144 (census in June 2005), geographic ...
, Städtische Galerie, glass objects
* 2010
Bernau, Galerie Schauß,
frottages, drawings
* 2009
Potsdam
Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
, Galerie Sehmsdorf, glass objects
* 2007
Müncheberg
Müncheberg is a small town in Märkisch-Oderland, Germany approximately halfway between Berlin and the border with Poland, within the historic region of Lubusz Land.
Geography
Prior to 2003 the area today covered by Müncheberg was organized as ...
, Stadtpfarrkirche glass objects, frottages, pastels
* 2006
Prenden, Dorfkirche, glass objects, frottages
* 2004
Fürstenwalde
Fürstenwalde/Spree (; Lower Sorbian: ''Pśibor pśi Sprjewje'') is the most populous town in the Oder-Spree District of Brandenburg, Germany.
Geography
The town is situated in the glacial valley (''Urstromtal'') of the Spree river north of the R ...
Kunstgalerie im Alten Rathaus, frottages and glass paintings
* 2003 Berlin, Galerie Form und Stil, glass paintings
* 2002 Grimme Kunsthof Barna v. Sartory, steles of glass
* 2002 Oderberg, Nikolaikirche, frottages and sound
* 2001
Wiesenburg
Wiesenburg ( official name: ''Wiesenburg/Mark'') is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 10 km west of Bad Belzig, and 34 km southwest of Brandenburg. It is located in the High Flä ...
, Galerie im Schloß, steles of glass
* 1998 Kloster Chorin, Installation Kraftfelder steles of glass and sound
* 1997
Templin
Templin () is a small town in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg, Germany. Though it has a population of only 17,127 (2006), in terms of area it is, with 377.01 km2 (145.56 sq mi), the second largest town in Brandenburg (after Wittstock) and t ...
Galerie im neuen Gymnasium, objects of glass and sound
* 1997 Berlin, Ölbergkirche, slides and sound
* 1996
Eberswalde
Eberswalde () is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German State ( Bundesland / ''federated state'') of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42,144 (census in June 2005), geographic ...
, Städtische Galerie, symbols and countryside
* 1995 Berlin, Galerie im Wartesaal, symbols and countryside
Monument for the victims of witch-hunt in Bernau
In 2005 she created the monument for the victims of
witch-hunt
A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. The Witch trials in the early modern period, classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and European Colon ...
in
Bernau with the support of the state of
Brandenburg
Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...
, the district of
Barnim
Barnim () is a district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) Poland, the district of Märkisch-Oderland, the city state of Berlin and the districts of Oberhavel and Uckermark.
History
The name "Barnim" emerge ...
, the city of Bernau and donations of citizens of Bernau.
Bibliography
* Herbert Schirmer: Annelie Grund. Objekt, Grafik, Malerei, in: ''38 Künstler in Barnim'', Hrsg: Sabine Voerster. Infopunkt Kunst. Netzwerk für Bildende Kunst und Kunsthandwerk in Barnim, Wandlitz–Prenden 2015, no pagination (Annelie Grund. Objet d'art, art design, painting)
* Anita Bauermeister: Die Bleiglasfenster, in: ''100 Jahre Kirche Sophienstädt 1914–2014'', Hrsg.: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Ruhlsdorf–Marienwerder–Sophienstädt, 2014, p. 18–20, vgl. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002017/http://www.kirche-ruhlsdorf.de/sophien.htm (stained glass windows in the church of Sophienstädt)
* Tom Norberg: Glas in Museen fotografieren in: ''Glashaus/Glasshouse, Internationales Magazin für Studioglas'', Krefeld, Nr. 02/ 2013, p. 18 (Taking photos of glass in museums)
* Gunda Hörner: Glück und Glas, in: ''Handmade Kultur Magazin'', Hrsg.: Handmade Kultur Verlag Hamburg (HKV Hamburg GmbH), Hamburg, Nr. 06/ 2012, pp. 52–55 (Happiness and Glass)
* Sabine Horn: Fernsehbeitrag rbb, Enthüllung des Denkmals für die Opfer der Hexenverfolgung Bernau – Ein Jahr danach, 30. Oktober 2006 (television report: One Year after the inauguration of the monument for the victims of witch-hunt in Bernau)
* Thomas Steierkoffer: Hörstück "Hexen" – Der Professor und die Künstlerin, rbb, 19. Februar 2006 (radio feature: Witches – the Professor and the artist)
* Klaus Lampe: Radio Essay zur Enthüllung des Denkmals für die Opfer der Hexenverfolgung Bernau, rbb, 29. Oktober 2005 (radio feature: Inauguration of the monument for the victims of witch-hunt in Bernau)
* Richard H. Gross: Stained glass in Germany, in: ''Stained Glass'', Hrsg.: Stained Glass Association of America, Lee's Summit, Spring 1996, p. 42
External links
Homepage of Annelie GrundExhibition at the Glasbrücke Berlin 2007Arts and Craft in Barnim (in German)Annelie Grund in: Organisation of Artists in Brandenburg (in German)
References
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1953 births
Living people
German stained glass artists and manufacturers
Artists from Berlin
20th-century German women artists
21st-century German women artists
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni