Background
Charlotte Posenenske was born on October 28, 1930 in Wiesbaden, Germany. During World War II, her father committed suicide to avoid persecution.
Charlotte Posenenske was born on October 28, 1930 in Wiesbaden, Germany. During World War II, her father committed suicide to avoid persecution.
Shortly after the war, Charlotte studied art under Willi Baumeister. During that time, she also became particularly interested in painters, who explored the spatial qualities of a pictorial surface, in particular Cézanne and Mondrian.
Charlotte Posenenske worked as a theatre stage designer before her artistic career began in the early 1950s.
During the 1960s, Posenenske increasingly minimised her use of colour and shapes, indicating landscapes, for example, simply by horizontal lines, which denoted the sky and earth. As her interest in Constructivism grew, she began painting a series of simple black ink circles, reminiscent of musical notes. It was during this period, that she began her sculptural work.
In 1968, having come to the conclusion, that art ultimately can not have sufficient political impact, Posenenske took the radical step of giving up art. She went on to study sociology and worked as a social scientist.
During her lifetime, the painter took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the exhibition in 1961, 1966 and 1968 at the Galerie Dorothea Loehr, which is located in Frankfurt am Main, and others.
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