Sabine Funke Explained

Sabine Funke (born 1955, in Bochum) is a German painter who lives and works since 1987 in Karlsruhe.[1]

Biography

Funke studied art history in Bochum, Germany free graphics at the University of Essen Folkwang University and painting as well as art theory at Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.[2] She graduated as a Master student under the painter .[3] In 1985, she received a scholarship from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg.[4] In 1995, she won the prize for painting of the Westphalian Kunstverein Münster and a grant from the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo[5] in Olevano Romano. 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, Kunsthalle Mannheim, in the Orangerie at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe,[6] the shown Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop,[7] the, and at the Städtische Galerie Offenburg.[8]

The artist is concerned with the interaction of colour[9] and can be situated in the tradition of colour field painting.[10] 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 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.[11]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions and art-in-architecture

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sabine Funke. Artist Biography to 2013. 4 May 2015.
  2. Web site: Sabine Funke: Artist Biography to 2014. 13 March 2017.
  3. Web site: Artist Biography to 2014. 13 March 2017.
  4. Web site: 1985 Scholarships. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125205/http://www.kunststiftung.de/stipendiatenarchiv-bildende-kunst-vor-2000.html?year=1985. 2015-04-02.
  5. Web site: Das Stipendium der Deutschen Akademie Rom Casa Baldi. 27 February 2015.
  6. Web site: Sabine Funke. 11 September 2019.
  7. Web site: Sabine Funke. Gemälde. Skulptur. Ein Raum für Luis Barragán. 27 February 2015.
  8. Web site: FARBE. sabine funke. 27 February 2015.
  9. Book: Liesbrock. Heinz. Josef Albers. Interaction of Color. DuMont Buchverlag. Cologne. 9783832192563. 2009.
  10. Book: Albers. Josef. Interaction of color. 2006. Yale Univ. Press. New Haven [Conn.]. 9780300115956. 1–160. Rev. and expanded. 26 February 2015.
  11. Web site: Sabine Funke Museum der 1000 Orte.
  12. Web site: Sabine Funke – wie gemalt. 30 July 2019.
  13. Web site: Farbgewichte äußerst subtil ausbalanciert. 26 February 2015.
  14. Web site: Sabine Funke – diafan. 26 February 2015.
  15. Book: Quirin. Peter. Sabine Funke, Tafelbilder und Papierarbeiten. 1997. Frankfurt, M. : Raum für Kunst Annemarie Taeger. 26 February 2015.
  16. Book: Funke. Sabine. Sabine Funke Farbe : Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Ruppert, Landau / [Ev. Regionalverband Frankfurt/Main ; Galerie Tilo Ruppert|date=1994|publisher=Frankfurt/Main : Ev. Regionalverb. Frankfurt/Main; Landau : Galerie Tilo Ruppert|pages=15|url=http://d-nb.info/950831972|accessdate=26 February 2015].
  17. Book: Vowinckel, Andreas. [Ausstellung und Katalog Sabine Funke|title=Sabine Funke, Lichtschichten und Schattenräume [12.10.1991 - 24.11.1991, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe]|date=1991|publisher=Badischer Kunstverein|location=Karlsruhe|isbn=3-89309-050-9|url=http://d-nb.info/920171699|accessdate=26 February 2015.
  18. Book: Kronjäger. [Katalogbearbeitung, Jochen|title=Sabine Funke : Wandskulpturen : [Ausstellung] : Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 11. April bis 8. Juni 1987 ; Arbeitskreis Stadtzeichner Alsfeld, 14. Juni bis 12. Juli 1987|date=1987|publisher=Die Kunsthalle|location=[Mannheim]|isbn=9783891650394|url=http://www.abebooks.de/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=7405158091&searchurl=$encodedSearchUrl|accessdate=26 February 2015.
  19. Book: Hülsewig. Jutta. in-an : Objekte u. Collagen von Sabine Funke. 1984. Bielefeld : Kunsthalle. 26 February 2015.
  20. Book: Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit Bundesministerium für Umwelt. Kunst am Bau. Projekte des Bundes 2006-2012.. 2013. Jovis Verlag. Berlin. 978-3868592467.
  21. Book: Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V.. 30 Jahre gkg : 1982 - 201[2]
    [anlässl. des 30jährigen Jubiläums der gkg]]
    . 2013. Ges. für Kunst u. Gestaltung. Bonn. 978-3-00-040906-6.
  22. Web site: Kunsthalle Nürnberg. CHROMA - Malerei der neunziger Jahre. 26 February 2015.
  23. Book: Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim. Schwerpunkte Skulptur und Papier: eine Auswahl von Neuerwerbungen der Kunsthalle Mannheim seit 1983 : Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 16. September 1989 bis 21. Januar 1990. 1989. Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim. 978-3891650646. Jochen Kronjäger. [Mannheim].
  24. Web site: Frankfurt: "Neue Kunst in Frankfurt". 26 February 2015.