Linda Schwarz
Linda Schwarz´ works are characterised by the conceptual adaption of other art forms and the innovative usage of experimental graphic techniques. The artist takes elements of music, literature and historic manuscripts and puts them into a new context with the help of her own artistic means. In her works, references to Eduard Mörike, Johann Sebastian Bach, Friedrich Hölderlin, Tilman Riemenschneider.
In her "Crosswords" series, the artist relates to Carolingian book paintings. The letters in these manuscripts are ordered in a grid, so that apart from the usual reading direction, there are also single vertical words. Linda Schwarz adopts this principle in her lithography: different names of rivers and seas in North America emerge from a seemingly senseless tangle of random letter sequences. Through the integration of map excerpts of the Renaissance, which border the texts, the connotation of geography is intensified. The title "Crosswords" points at the present age and the milieu of daily and tabloid press. This way, she forges a bridge between the Carolingian manuscripts and the artistic printed graphics of the presence on a formal and between the theological treatise about geographic graphic art of the Renaissance and the crosswords of today´s popular press.
Works in public and private collections:
Graphische Sammlung der Staatsgalerie Stuttgar; Daimler Benz Kunstbesitz, Stuttgart; Baden-Württembergische Bank, Stuttgart; Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg; Deutsche Bank AG, Berlin; Landesbank Berlin; Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz; Schiller Nationalmuseum Marbach am Neckar; Hölderlinarchiv Stuttgart; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Kupferstichkabinett; Städtische Galerie Albstadt; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; The New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum - New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Busch-Reisinger Museum Cambridge/ Harvard; Boston Museum of the Arts; Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts; Steinberg Museum - Washington University Museum, St. Louis; Faulcorner Gallery, Grinell; Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City; Wynn Kramarsky Collection, New York; Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Massachusetts
biography
lectureship and workshops at different institutions at home and abroad (e.g. Berlin, Leipzig, St. Louis, South Dakota, Boston, Wisconsin)
born in Stuttgart
studies at Stuttgart Academy of Art and Design - Painting and Sculpture (5 semesters)
studies at Berlin University of the Arts under Joachim Schmettau, Isa Genzken, Eva-Maria Schön, Christina Kubisch
scholarship Protestant Academic Foundation (Villigst)
scholarship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
assistent of Prof. Karl Bethke, University of Minnesota
one-year-long assistance in Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, printery of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns
master pupil, University of the Arts, Berlin
lectureship at HBKsaar, Saarbrücken
exhibitions
Studio Arts Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
"Music for the eye", Banfill-Locke-Center for the Arts, Fridley, Minnesota, USA
"Notenblätter", Galerie Burg, Musberg
Bach-Zyklen, Berliner Festspiele, Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin
"Small World - Small Works", Galerie + Edition CAOC, Berlin
"New York - Minneapolis - Berlin", Galerie Burg, Musberg
"Print Collection", The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, St.Paul, Minnesota
Städtische Galerie, Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, (catalogue)
"Sächsische Druckgrafik Symposion", Galerie der Universität Leipzig (catalogue)
"FKB", Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"Buchkunst Druckkunst", Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
"Aktuelle Druckgraphik, Baden-Württemberg-Dresden", Galerie Albstadt-Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Albstadt (catalogue)
"Hölderlin", Städtische Galerie, Bad Homburg
Bach Museum, Leipzig
"Montagsmusik - Klangbilder", Podewil, Berlin
Städtische Galerie, Krakau
"Print Collection", Museum of the Arts, Boston
Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, (catalogue)
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Art, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija (catalogue)
"prints", Richard Reed Armstrong Gallery, Chicago
Richard Reed Armstrong Gallery, Chicago, USA
Franciscan Church, Rothenburg o.T.
print exhibition, BMW Japan Corp, Tokio (catalogue)
Zeitzeichen, Otto-Richter-Halle, Mozartfest, Würzburg
Texte als Bilder, Museum Lauffen am Neckar
New Prints: 2001, International Print Center New York
Prints, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Works in progress, Jeff Hartz Gallery, St.Louis
prints, Highpoint Press, Minneapolis
Faulcorner Gallery, Grinell College, Grinell, Iowa
"PRINTS", The Gallery of South Orange, New Jersey, (catalogue)
The Kantonah Museum of Art, Kantonah, New York
"Vergegenwärtigung" Bilder aus Noten und Texten, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Spielräume, 50th anniversary, Kunstverein und Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen (catalogue)
new prints, Wildwood Press, St.Louis
"forgotten wisdoms", The Printcenter Philadelphia
"Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper since 1960", Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Ten years of prints from Highpoint Center for Printmaking, University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Visuelle Reflexionen zu Tilman Riemenschneider, Mainfränkisches Museum - Festung Marienberg, Würzburg (catalogue)
Ewge Zeiten-Fernen, Mörike Jahr, Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
New Prints 2004, International Print Center New York
"Heute", printed graphics, Hartmann collection, L-Bank, Stuttgart (catalogue)