Ursula Strozynski Explained

Ursula Strozynski (born 11 January 1954 in Dingelstädt) is a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Ursula Strozynski studied architecture at the Technische Universität Dresden from 1972 to 1976. From 1976 to 1977 she worked on the project planning of a large Berlin company. Since then she has lived in Berlin-Pankow as a freelance artist. In 1992, together with Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas, Elli Graetz, Annet Gröschner, Gisela Kurkhaus-Müller and Nuria Quevedo, among others, she founded the Künstlerinnen-Initiative Xanthippe e.V.

Through her studies and her work afterwards, she has a preference for graphics, etchings and paintings of industrial plants and buildings as well as other architecturally interesting themes. As a long-standing lecturer at the Marburg Summer Academy up to the present day (2012), she passes on her experience. Her works were part of the Marburger Kunstverein's group exhibition Bildersuchen.^[1] Since 1981 she has had regular personal exhibitions and has also taken part in international exhibitions.^[2] Her works can be found in the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Kunstarchiv Beeskow, the Kunstsammlung Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf, the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen and the Jüdisches Museum New York.

Representation of Ursula Strozynski in the visual arts (selection)

• Ellen Fuhr: Ursula Strozynski (etching, 1987)^[3]

Notes and References

1. 35 Jahre Sommerakademie Marburg (13. Juli – 23. August 2012)
2. Rede zur Vernissage: Manfred Butzmann & Ursula Strozynski im Kunstpavillon Heringsdorf, Juli 2019, Abdruck in: Matthias Thalheim: Fatzer im Radio - Begegnungen seltener Natur, S. 380–390, Verlag epubli, Berlin 2019
3. http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/80199670/df_bo-pos-03_0000446
4. http://www.berlin.de/ba-pankow/kunstundkultur/galerie-pankow/archiv/strozynski.php Information zur Ausstellung Ursula Strozynski - Arbeiten auf Papier in der Galerie Pankow, 2013
5. Laudatio Matthias Thalheim, siehe Fatzer im Radio - Begegnungen seltener Natur, epubli Verlag, Berlin 2019, S. 380–390
6. http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/80054501/df_hauptkatalog_0739298
   • Christian Borchert: The painter Ursula Strozynski in front of one of her works (several photographs; 1996)^[3]

   Works (selection)

   • 1979 Ostkreuz (Aquatint)
   • 1984 Jüdischer Friedhof (aquatint etching)
   • 1986 Mitropa-Pub (etching)
   • 1991 Wall II (watercolour)
   • 1995 Cemetery in Winter (drypoint etching)
   • 2002 Mountains (series, Monotype)

   Solo exhibitions

   • 1981 Berlin, Kleine Humboldt-Galerie
   • 1986 Frankfurt (Oder), Galerie Junge Kunst
   • 1990 Berlin, Galerie Eva Poll
   • 1994 Hamburg, Galerie Rose
   • 1997 Bautzen, Galerie Budyssin
   • 1999 Berlin, Galerie Inselstraße
   • 1999 Berlin, Forum Amalienpark
   • 2001 Berlin, Galerie Sophien-Edition
   • 2003 Berlin, Galerie 100
   • 2004 Berlin, Galerie Vagt
   • 2006 Berlin, Forum am Amalienpark
   • 2013 Berlin, Galerie Pankow^[4]
   • 2019 Manfred Butzmann and Ursula Strozynski, Kunstpavillon Heringsdorf^[5]

   Furthermore, her works were shown at numerous group exhibitions. At the IX. and X. Art Exhibition of the GDR in Dresden she was represented with several works.

   Literature

   • Strozynski, Ursula. In: Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexikon Künstler in der DDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9, p. 936

   External links

   • Webpräsenz von Ursula Strozynski
     • Häuser und Orte als Zeitzeugen, article by Harriet Schwerin in the Berliner Zeitung of 22 October 1996
   • Unterm blauen Notdach, article by Ingeborg Ruthe in the Berliner Zeitung of 5 August 2013
   • Biographical artist information of Galerie Laubbach in Ostrach-Laubbach

   References