After training as a wood sculptor, Beate Debus (*1957) studied wood design under Prof. Hans Brockhage at the Technical College for Applied Arts in Schneeberg from 1978 onwards. She has since remained faithful to wood as her artistic medium, complementing it with bronze sculptures, drawings, and prints.
Her work primarily focuses on the human figure, which she interprets in essential and dynamic forms. After an initial figurative phase close to the Cubist style, she began developing her characteristic figures carved from massive tree trunks in the 1990s. Often employing two-tone, burnt, and lightened sections, she creates tension-filled figures that strike a powerful balance between statics and dynamics, body and space.
The artist lives and works in Thuringia.
1957: Beate Debus is born in Eisenach.
1973–1977: Professional educations as a wood-sculptress in Empfertshausen.
1976–1980: Studies of wood designing at the College of Applied Art Schneeberg in the class of Prof. Hans Brockhage.
1980: Admittance to the Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR (Artist’s Association of GDR). Freelance sculptress and graphic artist in Dermbach/Rhön.
1981: Moves to Suhl/ Thuringia where she establishes her first own atelier.
1982–1984: Heads a circle for creative work in the House of Culture in Suhl.
1990: Heads artistic classes for children and young adults in Suhl.
1992: Moves to Zella-Mehlis/Thuringia.
1994: Member of the board of VBK (Association of Visual Artists) Thuringia.
1995: Moves to Oberalba/Rhön.
1996: Fellowship of the Thuringian Ministry of Science, Research and Culture.
1997–1998: President of the art club “Phönix F.” and initiator of the exhibition projects „Balancen“.
1998: Fellowship in Basel; the Thuringian Ministry of Science, Research and Culture supports the catalogue of her work.
2000: Awarded the art prize artthuer 2000, sponsored by SV Sparkassenstiftung.
2005: Exhibition award of the municipal gallery Galerie Ada in Meiningen and exhibition in Tann and Kleinsassen.
Beate Debus lives and works in Dermbach (Rhön).
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