The name of the working group of Berlin architecture painter outlines the task: to hold the historical - official ones and the natural - growing in both parts of the city and in the surrounding countryside of Berlin. 1970 united some artists of Berlin painters to a working group, which connected a common request: to draw and paint the changing face of their city for those, which Berlin dear and for those, which will come to us. The members work predominant before nature. The group is not an association, but an independent exhibitor community, which finances and organizes their exhibitions completely themselves. Over 40 exhibitions with cityviews of Berlin single topics found a lively interest in the public, and in the press, broadcast and television. Numbers of visitors of 10,000 to 20,000 are not rarity. The importance of the task of the working group of Berlin architecture painter however was changed the documentary side of their works, which, although only in the last 28 years developed, today already show a historical condition, because houses, roads and landscapes were pulled down (Mrs. Professor Dr. Wirth). After the fall of the Berlin wall still further members of the working group "painter circle Berlin -Mitte" could be won as members. 1995 looked the working group back on to a 25-years old history, which was characterized by an extraordinarily large and noteworthy number of exhibitions in Berlin and in numerous West German cities (see press briefcase of the working group). In the Internet you find the AG-BA under www.architekturmaler.de.

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The working group of Berlin architecture painter (AG-BA) exists since 1970. It was created by a group of artists around A.K. Dietmann (died 1998) and Ruth Rieger (1.chairwoman 1970-1995, died 2005). 1962 there existed already a forerunner: the Kreuzberger picture markets (a kind of free light exhibition). 1965 were created the self-help of Berlin artist e.V. A goal of this group was it to show "the historically official" and "the naturally growing" locally before nature often before a building was pulled off. The AG-BA organized a large and noteworthy number of exhibitions in Berlin and numerous West German cities since its establishment (Aachen, Bamberg, Bonn, Stuttgart Stuttgart-Unterturckheim, Nuernberg, Munich, Erlangen etc.). Many of their works are in the museum of the city Nuernberg and in the Berlin museum, in the castle of Charlottenburg, in the Graphothek Tegel, as well as in the Staedt. Association of Bamberg. In the meantime further painters of the working group followed: Professor Trude Rein (died 1998), Fritz Tasché (honor member 1991, Rudolf Heltzel (honor member 2001, died 2004), Gerhard Koehne, Marga Breitschu Plepp (died 2004), Heinz Schneider, Juergen Rosemann (since 1996 in Sao Paulo/Brazil, died 2003), Heinz Sterzenbach (co-chairman since 1989), Wolfgang Schmidt, Renate Guth, Eberhard Franke (died 2004), Udo Jurgeit (died 2004), Werner Schulz Falkenburg (conductor of the "painting circle Berlin-Mitte") and its members: Barbara Kerwien (1st chairman 1996 -1998), Heidrun Linke, Hella Ziegelmann and Anke Giese. For the exhibition in the city hall Zehlendorf could be won still further painters: Marie Luise Bauer, Monika Fischer, Erhard Lange, Birgit Kinder, Ruediger Moegelin , Roswitha Pagel, Peter Juergen Roski, Michael Schlemme, Sanjay Sikder (India), Tanja Timofeeva (Russia) and Hildegunde Zeunert (Duesseldorf). For the anniversary exhibition "35 years Working Group of Berlin architecture painter" in the city hall Berlin-Zehlendorf could still be won further artists: Rolf Curt , Eckhard Ebert, Monika Fischer, Dieter Haase, Dr. Peter Hutter, Carsten Kaufhold , Fritz Kreidt , Monika Ottow, Michael Pogrebinski (Russia), Bernd Friedrich Schulz, Charlotte Schwenker, Roland Seidel, Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn und Barbara Tucholke . The working group is a free lance loose federation of mental and thematically closely connected painter and graphic designer, who united, to plan together exhibitions and to finance and accomplish this exhibition themselves. The motives and intentions of the artists of the AG-BA go back on the Vedute and ruin painting of the Italian Renaissance, their highlight was in Germany the painter Bernardo Belotto (mentioned: Canaletto). In the first half of the 19. Century (Biedermeier) and in the second half of the 19. Century solved the photography the task of the naturalistic reproduction of the city views. The exactness in the reproduction of the cityviews condenses into an individual statement of all painters (the tradition of the architecture painting of the Berlin Biedermeier obligates). The love for the detail, the experience of the reality (dialogue architecture - surrounding), the historically meaning, in addition, the small, unimportant places, places, roads, houses - even what constitutes Berlin - are the characteristic themes in the pictures of the artists. These pictures are often regarded and rated of the visitors of the exhibitions as document. The common topics are to be mastered more comprehensively free of doubts, as if an artist works alone on it. By their different handwriting they become often more interesting and more informative.