Catrin G Grosse
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Catrin G Grosse also known as Catrin Große, is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor.
at Uli Richter, Hans Scheuerecker und Dietrich Brüning, while obtaining her baccalaureate degree (abitur) in parallel. She studied from 1984 to 1989 painting and graphic design at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden and in 1991 received a diploma. 1991 to 1993 she was a master student of Prof. Günter Horlbeck. 1993-1994 she received the Philip Morris sponsorship of the arts, a residency at the Museum Schloss Moritzburg. 1994-1995 she obtained a DAAD scholarship for postgraduate studies followed at the Royal College of Art, London in the printing department, with Professor Tim Mara, where she developed the anvil print technology. Anvil print is an embossing process, which combines various printing techniques in a single print by rolling or cutting operations of the pressure. Printing is done with oil paint on very heavy cotton based handmade paper on a low-pressure roll press with very soft felt or rubber foam.
Since 1995 Catrin G Grosse works as a freelance artist, graphic artist and sculptor.
Since then she held numerous lectures and workshops (e.g. at the University of Art & Design in Coventry, Yale College in Wrexham and the University of Wales). Since 2002, she taught creative techniques designed to tender for the expansion of art education and the integration of artistic and aesthetic processes in the learning process (ARTuS! project). It focussed from 1997 to 2006 on ceramics in collaboration with the ceramicist Ilona Möbert, Cottbus and the companies Sachsen Porzellan, Freital und Arite, Meissen and with the jewellery designer Brit Kolleß, Dresden. Since 2004, she created film making projects (Film „Wahlwerbung“ 2004, „Blickwinkel“ 2004–2005, „Wechselspiel“ 2006, „Nationalhymne“ 2007).
Since 1998, Catrin G Grosse works mainly in the fields of printmaking, sculpture and installation. Since 2007 she also taught in the art painting and graphics at the music school "Gebrüder Graun" in Herzberg. She is a member of GEDOK.
Career
Catrin G Grosse began at 16 years of age with an evening class in painting and graphic design in CottbusCottbus
Cottbus is a city in Brandenburg, Germany, situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree. As of , its population was .- History :...
at Uli Richter, Hans Scheuerecker und Dietrich Brüning, while obtaining her baccalaureate degree (abitur) in parallel. She studied from 1984 to 1989 painting and graphic design at the College of Fine Arts in Dresden and in 1991 received a diploma. 1991 to 1993 she was a master student of Prof. Günter Horlbeck. 1993-1994 she received the Philip Morris sponsorship of the arts, a residency at the Museum Schloss Moritzburg. 1994-1995 she obtained a DAAD scholarship for postgraduate studies followed at the Royal College of Art, London in the printing department, with Professor Tim Mara, where she developed the anvil print technology. Anvil print is an embossing process, which combines various printing techniques in a single print by rolling or cutting operations of the pressure. Printing is done with oil paint on very heavy cotton based handmade paper on a low-pressure roll press with very soft felt or rubber foam.
Since 1995 Catrin G Grosse works as a freelance artist, graphic artist and sculptor.
Since then she held numerous lectures and workshops (e.g. at the University of Art & Design in Coventry, Yale College in Wrexham and the University of Wales). Since 2002, she taught creative techniques designed to tender for the expansion of art education and the integration of artistic and aesthetic processes in the learning process (ARTuS! project). It focussed from 1997 to 2006 on ceramics in collaboration with the ceramicist Ilona Möbert, Cottbus and the companies Sachsen Porzellan, Freital und Arite, Meissen and with the jewellery designer Brit Kolleß, Dresden. Since 2004, she created film making projects (Film „Wahlwerbung“ 2004, „Blickwinkel“ 2004–2005, „Wechselspiel“ 2006, „Nationalhymne“ 2007).
Since 1998, Catrin G Grosse works mainly in the fields of printmaking, sculpture and installation. Since 2007 she also taught in the art painting and graphics at the music school "Gebrüder Graun" in Herzberg. She is a member of GEDOK.
Exhibitions
- 2001 Gallery Beyer, DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
- 2002 Leonhardi-Museum
- 2003 Druckstöcke, "Erlebnisfest der Sinne" in the park of GroßenhainGroßenhainGroßenhain is a Große Kreisstadt in the district of Meißen, Saxony, Germany.-History:...
- 2003 Sieben hölzerne Kunstbänke, Gallery Roter Turm, Dresden.
- 2006 woodcuts, MTProject, MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
- 2006 In Bewegung, Produzentengalerie „M“ des BVBK e.V.
- 2007 Europäische Kunst, Il Ponte Gallery, NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, Italy - 2007 Grafikbiennale, Exhibition in Wales und England
- 2009 Engelsgeflüster, Doberlug castle
- 2010 Engelsgeflüster, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, SoestSoest-Places:* Soest, Netherlands* Soest, Germany** Soest , a district around the location in Germany-Organizations:*SOEST, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
Works in the Public Domain
- Musèe 2000, Luxembourg
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen der Landeshauptstadt Dresden
- Landtag Stuttgart
- Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
- Royal College of Art, Graphics Collection, UK
- Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
- German Embassy Bangkok, Thailand
Publications
- 1994 Catalogue „Vier in Dresden. Catrin Grosse, Caroline Kober, Katrin Kunert, Andreas Winkler“ (Exhibition of the Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Dresden 1994),
- 2004 Catalogue „Torf und Pantone“ (Kulturamt Dresden for the exhibition in Saite, Dresden),
- 2006 Catalogue „Druckstöcke“, (Kulturamt Dresden for the exhibition in Leonhardi-Museum Dresden),
- 2008 Catalogue „Lichtbogen“, (Vattenfall for the exhibition in the Vattenfall office in Cottbus)