Sabine Funke (born 1955, in
Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...
) is a German
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
who lives and works since 1987 in
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
.
Biography
Funke studied art history in
Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...
,
Germany
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free graphics at the University of Essen
Folkwang University
The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...
and painting as well as art theory at Academy of Fine Arts
Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. She graduated as a Master student under the painter . In 1985, she received a scholarship from the Arts Foundation of
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
. In 1995, she won the prize for painting of th
Westphalian Kunstverein Münsterand a grant from the
Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo
Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo ( it, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.
The fellowship of the German Academy in Rom ...
in
Olevano Romano
Olevano Romano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about east of Rome.
It is the probable birthplace of the composer Giovanni Gentile.
Culture
Starting from the early 19th centur ...
. In 2001, she received a scholarship from the
Foundation Cultural Fund Berlin, Ahrenshoop and in 2005 she was awarded with the
Hanna Nagel Prize.
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions among others at the
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany. It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.[Kunsthalle Mannheim
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those ...]
, in the
Orangerie at the
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The museum, created by architect Heinrich Hübsch, opened in 1846 after nine years of work in a neoclassical building next to the Karlsruhe Castle and the ...
, the show
Josef Albers Museum Quadratin Bottrop, the , and at th
Städtische Galerie Offenburg
The artist is concerned with the interaction of colour and can be situated in the tradition of colour field painting.
She paints using highly diluted
acrylic paints on wooden panels (panel paintings) and since 2018 on canvas. Since 1999, she also creates large format colour field compositions directly on interior walls. Her
mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
The word ''mural'' is a Spani ...
paintings focus in particular on the
spatial effect of the colours thereby the colour fields create a deep dialogue with the architecture and de-materialise the space.
Gallery
File:04 Sabine Funke Städtische Galerie Offenburg 2013.jpg, Städtische Galerie Offenburg, 2013
File:01 Sabine Funke Kunst am Bau Flughafen Köln-Wahn 2009.jpg, Kunst am Bau Flughafen Köln-Wahn, 2009
File:03 Sabine Funke Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung Bonn 2010.JPG, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung Bonn, 2010
File:Sabine Funke Gebeugtes Feld-2019-120 x 120 cm.jpg, Gebeugtes Feld 120 x 120 cm
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
* 2019 Sabine Funke. wie gemalt. Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe English/German
* 2013 FARBE. sabine funke; Städtische Galerie Offenburg; Städt. Galerie Offenburg (ed.). Karlsruhe/Engelhardt & Bauer (publisher), . English/ German
* 2009 Sabine Funke: diafan; Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe; Förderkreis Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (ed.); Karlsruhe/Engelhardt & Bauer (publisher). English/German
* 2006 Sabine Funke, Gemälde. Struktur. Ein Raum für Luis Barragán. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop ( ed.); Karlsruhe/Engelhardt & Bauer (publisher), d-nb.info/980384737.
* 2005 Sabine Funke Hannah Nagel Preisträgerin, cella; Badischer Kunstverein (ed.); Info Verlag GmbH LINDEMANNS BIBLIOTHEK (publisher).
* 1997 Sabine Funke, Tafelbilder und Papierarbeiten, raum für kunst, Frankfurt/M. und Galerie Rottloff (ed.), Karlsruhe; Karlsruhe/Engelhardt & Bauer (publisher).
* 1994 Sabine Funke Farbe : Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Tilo Ruppert (ed.), Landau/ Ev. Regionalverband Frankfurt/Main; d-nb.info/950831972.
* 1991 Sabine Funke, Lichtschichten und Schattenräume, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (ed.); Karlsruhe/Engelhardt & Bauer (publisher), .
* 1987 Sabine Funke : Wandskulpturen, Kunsthalle Mannheim; Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim (ed.); Arbeitskreis Stadtzeichner Alsfeld, .
* 1984 Sabine Funke, in-an, Objekte und Collagen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld 1984 (ed.), Bielefeld, Selbstverlag (publisher).
Group exhibitions and art-in-architecture
* Kunst am Bau: Projekte des Bundes 2006-2013 Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit Bundesministerium für Umwelt (ed.); Jovis Berlin (24. Juni 2014/ publisher).
* 30 Jahre gkg 1982 - 2012 : Katalog anlässlich des 30jährigen Jubiläums der Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung 2014; Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. (publisher), Bonn;
* chroma – Malerei der neunziger Jahre. Sabine Funke, Katharina Grosse, Susanne Paesler, Vero Pfeiffer, ap-picts-A.Pfisterer, Frances Scholz und Corinne Wasmuth, 1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (ed.).
*Schwerpunkte Skulptur und Papier: Eine Auswahl von Neuerwerbungen der Kunsthalle Mannheim seit 1983 : Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim 1990; Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim (ed.); .
* Standpunkte - Blickpunkte : 19 junge Bildhauer in Deutschland 1984/85; Skulpturenpark Seestern, Düsseldorf; Hans Albert
d.Peters (Author)
* Neue Kunst aus Frankfurt 1983, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Frankfurt am Main; Peter Weiermaier (ed.).
References
External links
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*http://ka.stadtwiki.net/Sabine_Funke
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*https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=sabine+funke+malerei
*http://www.kunstgebiet.ruhr/kuenstler/sabine-funke
*http://www.artfacts.net/de/kuenstler/sabine-funke-2729/profil.html
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20th-century German painters
Living people
1955 births
21st-century German painters
People from Bochum