Claudia Blume

1955 born in Paderborn, Germany 1974-76 travelled through Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece and Israel 1976-84 studied painting, graphic design and sculpture in Michigan, USA; Kassel, Germany; and Edinburgh, Scotland Lives and works in Kassel, Germany Teaching in Germany and England Claudia Blume's works are represented in international collections. Compared to woodcuts by artists such as Dürer, Hukusai or the Brücke artists, Claudia Blume's woodcuts, which she has been working on for many years, are largely contour-free areas of colour, i.e. anything but woodcut-like. In her woodcut art she uses the white line cut, while her colleagues use the so-called black line woodcut. Blume's woodcuts are therefore not the negative forms of a printing block, but direct positive prints. Her expansive woodcuts have transformed the technique of painting into the woodcut. The impressive works of the Kassel artist have been shown in numerous galleries and museums - as German Woodcuts in America and Great Britain and in Germany in the only woodcut museum, the Spendhaus in Reutlingen, as well as in several galleries. The woodcut is Blume's medium in which, so to speak, "the world happens". In addition, Claudia Blume also works with her sculptures as woodcut...

1976-84 studied painting, graphic design and sculpture in Michigan, USA; Kassel, Germany; and Edinburgh, Scotland

2023 | open studio, studio tour, Kassel

2022 | Dragon slayer, performance, Theaterstübchen Kassel

2021 | Kihnu, Estonia (E)

2020/2021 | Sabbatical year, cycling trip from the Okney Islands via Scotland and England to... then Corona came: the trip had to be canceled.

2019 | Holy Communion installation, Cross Jugend Kirche, Kassel

2018 | Resumption of the woodcut project "Winners and Heroines", cycling trip for the project via Austria, Hungary, Slovakia to Bulgaria, Romania and the Danube Delta

2017 | "Land Art Project" in Berkpark Wilhelmshöhe, subsequent exhibition with pupils/students in the greenhouse, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel

2016 | Peregrino on the "Camino del Norte" to Santiago de Compostela for the book "Pilgrims"

since 2014 | Travels for the woodcut project: “Winners and Heroines” to India, Latvia and Estonia, ….

since 2014 | Teaching at the Arnold Bode School, Kassel

2011 | Teaching assignments at schools, universities and workshops

1988 | Freelance in Kassel

1985-87 | Freelance in London, England

1984-85 | Fellowship, Cheltenham College of Art, England - lectureship, scholarship with free studio

since 1982 | Solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Germany, England and the USA

1982-84 | Scholarship ...