Agathe Böttcher

Agathe Böttcher's paintings offer us a lyrical condensation of imagery that is rarely seen. They are, in the truest sense, painted poems, poems that have become images.

Agathe Böttcher

curriculum vitae

1929 born in Bautzen
1947-1949 student of application at the Hochschule für Werkkunst in Dresden
1950-1954 studied Textile Design at the Universities of Applied Arts in Dresden and Berlin-Weißensee
1954-1957 artistic aspirant at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1954-1964 marriage to the painter and filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher (later Strawalde) acquaintance with Ralph Winkler (later A. R. Penck), Peter Hoffmann, Peter Makolies and Joachim Dieske
friendship with Peter Graf
1958-1979 lectureship at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden, department of Architecture, interior design, special subject color
1979 since then freelance work as an artist
lectureship at the TU Dresden, teaching color in interiors
lectureship at the evening school of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) Dresden, topics Color and Collage
1990 since then atelier in the farmhouse in Diehmen in Upper Lusatia
1992-1996 atelier in the Dresdner Künstlerhaus
1994 scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop

further exhibitions

1969 Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden
1962/1963 Fifth German Art Exhibition, Dresden (participation)
1972 Galerie Kunst der Zeit in the Cabinet, Dresden
1976 Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden
Textil ´76, Bad Frankenhausen (participation)
1978 Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig (participation)
1979 Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
Neue Dresdner Galerie, »Miniaturtextil« (participation)
1980 Savaria Museum, Szombathely (participation)
1982 Museum des Kunsthandwerks, Leipzig (participation)
1983 Niedersächsischer Handelskammertag Hannover (participation)
Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg (participation)
1985 Galerie West, Dresden
Kreuzkirche, Dresden
Textil '85, Kunsthalle am Theaterplatz, Weimar (participation)
1992
1994 Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop
2000 Stadtmuseum Bautzen
2009 GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden
2010/2011 Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus, Moritzburg (participation)
2013 Architekturbüro Baarß + Löschner, Radebeul
2016 GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden
2023 Biesdorf Palace, Berlin (participation)