Tina Juretzek
Tina Juretzek, born 25 November 1952 in Leipzig, is a German painter who lives in Düsseldorf. She spent her early years in the Harz and moved with her family from East Germany to Essen in 1958. Her family has strong artistic roots: her mother was a sculptor and her grandmother a painter.
After finishing school in 1971, Juretzek studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günter Grote and also studied aesthetics. In 1972 she began studying geography at the University of Düsseldorf, a field that later influenced her art, especially when she started painting on Japanese paper.
Since 1979 she has worked as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf. Her work has been shown widely, and she built a long-running relationship with the gallery Elke and Werner Zimmer.
Travel has shaped her art: India, the USSR, Japan, South America and the USA; in 1983 she visited Lipari and Stromboli, which inspired a pen-and-ink line; in 1985 she rode the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Khabarovsk, inspiring works like World Landscapes, Night Journey and Wheel and Rail, and leading to long frieze paintings. In 2004 a trip to Stonehenge inspired the Ancient Sites series.
From 1999 to 2000 her work was shown in a retrospective tour at several German museums. In 2010 she moved her studio to the outskirts of Düsseldorf after 26 years in the city center.
Her art is mainly abstract, though figures and landscapes often remain recognizable. She has used vessels as metaphors for people and the motif of the source to symbolize life. Large works combine painting and collage. A 1991 trip to Japan opened a new line of work on Japanese paper, blending painting and collage in landscape scenes with color, light and space. She also produces extensive ink drawings, inspired by Lipari and Stromboli, such as Stromboli and Lilith. She has completed public commissions, including a 24-meter World Travel frieze for the Federal Office in Cologne-Chorweiler in 1988.
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