• 1957: Born in Döbeln

• 1974 - 1982: Abitur with vocational training in Packisch/Köllitsch (74/77) and teacher training in Leipzig with art specialisation, art assistant

• 1982 - 2023: Teacher in Halle and Berlin, including "Fine Arts"

• 1982 - 1985: Member of the painting and drawing circle in Halle under the direction of the painter, graphic artist and drawing teacher of the M.L. University of Halle Ulrich Bewersdorff

• In addition to teaching - from 1990 three-year supplementary studies in mathematics at the Humboldt University of Berlin

•  In addition to teaching - 1998 / 1999: Art course "Random Techniques" at the Kunsthochschule Berlin - Weißensee

• 2011 - 2013: Painting with the artist Marianne Schäfer in the surroundings of Berlin - Köpenick

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•    Exhibitions:

• 1984/1986: Two exhibitions in Halle, market square "Red Tower/ Glass Extension until 2004" with graphic works -

• November 2015 – January 2016: Exhibition "Beate Bohne, Landscape - Portrait - Still Life, Oil Painting" in the village club "Alte Schule" Alt Müggelheim 21 (19 oil paintings)

• March - May 2018: Exhibition in the gallery "Landgalerie – Mark Brandenburg", 15236 Petersdorf, Briesener Straße 2

• 06.12.2019 - 22.12.2019: Exhibition "2.° Salon International de Arte" Berlin-Kreuzberg, Gallery "Kunstraum La Girafe" (group exhibition)

• 12.11. 05. - 24.06.2020 (postponed to: "after Corona"): Exhibition "Proximity - Painting in Oil" in the village club "Alte Schule" Alt-Müggelheim 2

• 1st participation in the Art Price Luxembourg 2020

• 2. Participation in the Art Price Luxembourg 2021

• 08.04.2022 / Dorfclub Müggelheimer: Participation in the charity event "Art at a small price". 12 of my paintings were sold for a total of 200 €. The entire proceeds of the benefit event were made available to Ukraine Aid.

 

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Since early childhood I was supported in my talent by my father, Siegfried Dittrich and my great-uncle, Alfred Pönisch, who drew and painted themselves. My great-uncle, who was intensively involved in photography, often took me into nature and taught me to look closely and to love nature. From 1974 to 1977 I had been selected and supported as an art assistant by my art teacher Mr. Schneider during my studies with art as an elective subject. Under the direction of Ullrich Bewersdorff, I primarily learned nude and portrait drawing, as well as the making of woodcuts and linocuts.

From 2011 on, I was on the road in the Berlin area with the Berlin landscape painter Marianne Schäfer, a student of the painter Ingeborg Grabowski and the sculptor and painter Karl Blümel. This resulted in many small-format oil paintings on canvas and painted on site (plein air) with brush and palette knife.

I still like to work in nature, but often also in the studio. If I like the motif, it won't let me go. I like to combine the glaze technique with the impasto painting style. In addition to the brush, I use painting knives, painting spatulas or simply my hands. Landscapes and portraits are my passion, but I don't want to fit into any pigeonhole, because I like to try out new things and am happy about successful change.

The most important thing in my pictures for me are the colors. If they don't create a certain tension, the picture is not finished for me. To prevent this from happening, I do color studies for the current motif in advance. 

I increasingly like larger formats, where I use the canvas stretched on stretcher frames as a painting surface. For example, a commissioned work on the Landungsbrücken - Hamburg  was already 100 cm x 50 cm in size.

In 2020, my painting of the Müggelheim church (100 x 70 cm) was finished and received a lot of positive criticism in a group exhibition in Müggelheim in 2022.  Other local motifs are to follow. My painting "Proximity-On-Distance-2022" deals with the very exhausting Corona period.  After that, I was so caught up in portrait painting that I first wanted to implement some ideas. The painting " Not without my (mask) owl" was finally finished in 2021 after a forced break of almost a year due to Corona.  The picture was honoured with a certificate at the "Luxembourg Art Prize 2021".  

In 2023, the completion of the portrait "Boy in Blue" in a portrait format 70 cm x 50 cm, in which I turn more and more to the human representation and the landscape only appears in the background.