Li Portenlänger
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Li Portenlaenger (b, 1952 in Eichstaett, Bavaria) is a German printmaker, painter, and performance artist.[1]
Li Portenlaenger studied 3 D design (printmaking and painting) in 1974-1978 at the Bremen Art Academy (Hochschule fur Kunste Bremen).[2] Subsquently she has studied modern dance under Gerd Leon at the Fachschule Freier Moderner Tanz.[3] She also studied lithographic printmaking at the RhoK Flemish Art Academy in Brussels under R. Broulim.[4] In addition, she studied historical dance and Chinese body-focused art on her own and with private (for instance Chinese) teachers.[5]
The main body of her artistic work consists of lithographic art works. Since 1998 she is in charge of the Lithographic Workshop Eichstaett that is supported by the city.[6] </ref>
She regularly invites international artists as artists in residence, and has taken part as a speaker and guest artist in international congresses on lithography in Britain, Belgium[7], China, the Netherlands and other countries. Her work was particularly admired by colleagues in the P.R. China when she was in Tianjin.[8]
Li Portenlaenger has curated several art projects that were reviewed favorably by art critics in the press, for instance the project Hortus-Wunder-Wanderkammer.[9] She also participated in a collective art project with a Canadian artist, a Belgium artist, and a poet that took up the artistic impulse of Alois Wuensche-Mitterecker, a sculptor and early creator of land art who had created the large Figurenfeld ensemble of sculptures placed in the lonely landscape of the Frankonian Jura Mountains near Eichstaett. This land art ensemble reminds people of the terrible Second World War unleashed by Nazi Germany. It is a warning against all wars. The project of the three artists and the poet, their art works and poems inspired by the Figurenfeld, were discussed in the South German press.[10]
Li Portenlaenger took part in lithographic projects and had group exhibitions and single exhibitions in many countries, including Austria, Italy[11], Belgium, the U.S., the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, China, Scotland; and of course Germany.[12] In addition she has realized several art projects in public space, for instance in Eichstaett[13] and in Bremen,[14] Germany, and was invited to do performances in art museums, art galleries, and churches. In 2014, the artist Doris Schöttler-Boll invited her to speak about her work as a visual artist and her projects as director of the Eichstaett Lithography Workshop and its international artist in residence program in the Art House Essen.[15]
References
- ^ See http://www.flyingcarpet.de/portenlaenger/vita.htm; see also
- ^ See: "Li Portenlänger è un artista tedesca. Ha studiato progettazione grafica e pittura presso la Hochschule für Künste di Brema", cf. the online information on her provided by the Italian publishing house Aracne Editrice: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/autori.html?auth-id=381038; see also the information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website that she studied "Painting and Graphic Art" and received a "Diploma at Academy of Art und Music Bremen"; http://www.s-s-a.org/member/?u=liportenlaenger
- ^ "Modern Dance with Gerd Leon/ Bremen, Diploma; information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website ibid."
- ^ She "specialized in Lithography at RHoK Academy, Brussels with Rudolf Broulim"; information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website, ibid.
- ^ "Baroque-Dance at Bremen Academy of Historical Music. Taiji Quan, Instructor-Diploma of International School of Central Equilibrium (NZ) with Wee Kee Jin"; information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website, ibid.
- ^ See the webpage on Li Portenlänger created by Kulturkanal Ingolstadt, the culture program of Radio Ingolstadt. Here she is mentioned as director of the municipal lithographic workshop ("Leiterin der Städtischen Lithografie-Werkstatt Eichstätt"). The webpage refers to the radio program on Li Portenlänger transmitted on Dec. 5, 2013 by culture channel Ingolstadt. The book by Helga Koenig (ed.), Vierzig Jahre Ausstellungen und Veroeffentlichungen der Universitätsbibliothek Eichstaett-Ingolstadt 1964-2004, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz 2004, also mentions her as director of the lithography workshop, editor of books or catalogues, and curator of projects, see for instance p.59.
- ^ See for instance http://www.centredelagravure.be/en/artists/2340-portenlanger-li.
- ^ She was invited to the "Sino-Europe Printmaking Forum Tianjin" in 2008; see the information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website, ibid.
- ^ See the “Hortus Eystettensis catalogue, Eichstätt 2008. See also EK, “Wahrlich wunderschöne Wunderkammer” [Truly beautiful chamber of wonders”, in: Donaukurier, Sept. 10, 2008. Also online: http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/eichstaett/Wahrlich-wunderschoene-Wunderkammer;art575,1937772. – The journalist 'EK' referred to the exhibition as a “the Eichstätt Hortus-Wander-Wonder-Chamber art project that received nationwide attention” (“deutschlandweit beachtete Eichstätter Hortus-Wander-Wunder-Kammer-Kunstprojekt”).
- ^ See: klf, Figurenfeld als Kosmischer Raum: International beachtenswerte Ausstellung in der Universitätsbibliothek”, newspaper article in: Donaukurier, Nov. 11, 2015. See also: “Prägnante und wachrüttelnde Schau über das Mahnmal im Hessental […]: Ausstellung in der Hofgartenbibliothek”, in: Donaukurier, Dec. 8, 2005.
- ^ See for instance the catalogue: Lithos Gabrieli: esposizione d'arte grafica Li Portenlänger, Museo Moesano San Vittore - Contone dei Grigioni, 16 marzo - 11 maggio 2013 ; Ausstellung Lithographie Li Portenlänger, Museo Moesano San Vittore - Kanton Graubünden, 16. März - 11. Mai 2013, n.p. : Kraek, 2013, 40pp,; cf. https://books.google.de/books/about/Lithos_Gabrieli.html?id=oqiwngEACAAJ&redir_esc=y.
- ^ See the information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website, ibid.; Art Facts Net mentions the following important exhibitions in Germany: Der Raum (The Space)- GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V. Bremen (Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen), 1987; Fliegender Teppich - Positionen (Flying Carpet)- kunstpavillion im alten botanischen garten (Art Pavillon in the Old Botanical Garden), Munich 2006.http://www.artfacts.net/fr/artiste/li-portenlnger-87626/profil.html.
- ^ One of the art projects realized in public space in Einstaett resulted in the book Der goldene Pfad; Vom Berg - zum Fluss - in den Wald (1997), edited by the artist. The project is described as a "Landscape-Project „The Golden Path“, a pathway to history, Eichstaett"; information given by the Society of Scottish Artists on their website ibid.; see also her book Zeit - Wege - Himmel - Pfade. Von der Höhle ins Haus auf die Straße zum Himmel. Ein Projekt im Öffentlichen Raum (2010). https://www.zvab.com/buch-suchen/autor/portenlanger-li/.
- ^ See the Bremen website "art in public space / Bremen" http://www.kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-bremen.de/kuenstler/kior_artist/show/li_portenlaenger.html.
- ^ http://www.atelierhaus-essen.de/neu11-14.shtml