Under the title \u201cSabina Grzimek\u2019s World: People \u2013 Animals \u2013 Landscapes\u201c, the Galerie Poll is presenting in its eighth solo exhibition of works from a number of creative periods by the sculptor, painter, and illustrator, who was born in Rome in 1942 and grew up in post-war Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am not concerned with beauty, I start from truth, from comprehension,\u201d is how Sabine Grzimek articulates the principle that has guided her work for many years, drawing themes primarily from personal friends and experience. Her aim, though, has not only been to depict outward appearances. Rather, she is motivated by her engagement with things which are hidden, not immediately tangible. Her expressive and sensitive formal language can be situated in the tradition of sculptors such as Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Marino Marini, Alberto Giacometti, and Germaine Richier and their existential realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLooking at her work, one always gets the impression of being able to follow something \u2018behind\u2019 the surface that has become visible. Her works appear as delicate, endangered, always somewhat agitated, searching \u2013 like gusts of wind that suddenly spring up, only to vanish with equal speed,\u201d is how the art historian Fritz Jacobi puts it. The quality of Grzimek\u2019s works results from the carefulness of her formations and the truthfulness of her views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sabina Grzimek <\/strong>completed her studies in sculpture at the Berlin-Wei\u00dfensee Academy of Art (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Wei\u00dfensee) in 1967 and was a master student of Fritz Cremer at the Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der K\u00fcnste) from 1969 to 1972. Her works are held by in distinguished collections and museums, including the Nationalgalerie Berlin, which devoted a retrospective exhibition to her in the Altes Museum in 1992. The sculpture \u201cStanding and Reclining Group\u201c (1980\u201385), installed for this exhibition in Berlin\u2019s Lustgarten, is now located on L\u00fctzowplatz in Berlin-Tiergarten. She also created the Gerhart Hauptmann monument (1992) in front of the museum in Erkner devoted to Hauptmann, a playwright and author, the \u201cWeinheim Rider\u201c in the pedestrian zone of Weinheim (1996), and the portrait of Mildred Scheel in the National Center for Tumour Diseases in Heidelberg (2010). Honours such as the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Prize (1983) or the Honorary Award of the Minister President of the State of Brandenburg for a Lifetime Achievement (2011) are testimony to the recognition that Sabina Grzimek, who lives as a freelance artist in Berlin and Erkner, has garnered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2012, with the support of private and public sponsors, the Poll Art Foundation began installing the sculptural group \u201cSeven Gestures of The Upright Gait\u201c (1996) by Sabina Grzimek on Garnisonkirchplatz in Berlin-Mitte. The project will continue on 14th March 2019 with the installation of the sculpture \u201cThe Thinker\u201c, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under the title \u201cSabina Grzimek\u2019s World: People \u2013 Animals \u2013 Landscapes\u201c, the Galerie Poll is presenting in its eighth solo exhibition of works from a number of creative periods by the sculptor, painter, and illustrator, who was born in Rome in 1942 and grew up in post-war Berlin. \u201cI am not concerned with beauty, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":41867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"ausstellen-text.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41876,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41875\/revisions\/41876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}