Allershausen's artist Renate Vogt - the way of a fighter

Created: 2022-02-07, 21:00

By: Andreas Beschorner

The place of creation: Renate Vogt in the painting room in the basement of her house, where the “Art an der Glonn” group has been meeting for years.

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Life writes beautiful stories.

And moving.

This becomes very clear in the CV of the Allershausen artist Renate Vogt.

Allershausen

– People like to put it that way: an eventful life.

But that really and truly applies to Renate Vogt's CV.

The 77-year-old describes herself as a "travelling aunt", was highly successful professionally, but had to cope with a few strokes of fate in her private life.

The woman, who found a new home in Allershausen in 1990 and lives with a direct view of the gently rippling Glonn, is an indispensable part of Allershausen life as an artist and cultural organizer.

She has allowed the Freisinger Tagblatt access to her house – the place where she works, where you can follow the stages of her life based on the pictures and take a trip around the world.

"I've been there too": Renate Vogt's house is a gallery with her own pictures from distant countries.

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Renate Vogt is someone who is interested. Not only for art, but also for the political life in their community. And because she follows both areas of life with passion, she first has to vent her frustration a little: the parking situation in the housing estate annoys her, but also that the art exhibitions she created and organized in the Allershausen town hall are not really appreciated. Example: If one of the pictures falls down, there is nobody in the municipal administration to hang it up again.

In addition, there have been the corona-related restrictions for two years: The painting circle that she created and which enjoys a good reputation under the name "Art an der Glonn" can no longer meet regularly.

The core of around six people usually comes together once a week in Renate Vogt's basement to work together.

In the lockdown, all meetings were canceled and then only started very hesitantly.

So you can hear the frustration that Renate Vogt sometimes feels.

But Vogt is – in all areas of life – a fighter, has survived and worked through many crises.

In between, Renate Vogt from Allershausen has no time for art

Renate Vogt spent a long time in Mannheim, where she began painting in oils in a circle of artists in her late 20s.

In 1972 she went to Argentina with her first husband and two small children for a year.

After a short time she became seriously ill, returned to Germany and the following year her husband died.

A cut, art had to take a break.

Renate Vogt then studied sociology, but also a little bit of business administration at the University of Mannheim, worked part-time as a faculty clerk and raised her two daughters.

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In 1984 she took up a full-time job as administrative manager of a Max Planck Institute in Mainz, and once again there was no time for art. This task was exhausting, Vogt recalls. Too tiring. In 1988 she moved to the headquarters of the Max Planck Society in Munich, where she was an auditor in the organization department and was able to pursue what she is good at and what she enjoys, as she says herself: organizing. This will also help her later, for example when she contributes to the design of the Christmas market as a member of the culture working group in Allershausen, when she organizes the two big art weekends in the Ampertalhalle in 2014 and 2017, many exhibitions for the artist group “Art an der Glonn “ organizes when she tries to form Allershausen car pools to concerts – keyword:"Experience culture" and much more.

In 1992, the joy of painting returned to Renate Vogt's life: During painting courses at the Goldegg Castle painting academy and subsequent painting trips, she discovered watercolor painting for herself.

For around ten years she has been traveling in the Mediterranean region.

But that's not enough for Renate Vogt at some point.

In 2006 she began to paint with acrylic, took painting lessons from Gabriele Beer, among others, and was able to acquire new techniques and knowledge.

And because she is such a "travel aunt", she processes impressions of her many trips in collage-like pictures.

“I want to capture what I consider typical of a country,” says Vogt.

And so her house is full of pictures with motifs from Japan, Greece, Spain, Vietnam, Austria, Cuba, Africa, and and and.

Is there a country she hasn't been to yet?

Vogt thinks about something.

Then:

She travels with her second husband, Holderich Mager, who is a great mountaineer and ski tourer, but also likes to travel.

In addition, he is - just like Vogt - an enthusiastic sailor, the two experience various sailing trips and provide Vogt with further motifs and impressions for her pictures.

But Vogt also paints the spectacular mountains that they have climbed (Kilimanjaro, for example) or mountains that he has skied down.

From 2004, Renate Vogt has organized the annual exhibition "Art on the Glonn" in her house in the district of Reckmühle, in which, in addition to a few of her own pictures, works by other amateur artists from Allershausen and the surrounding area are presented.

Until 2014 this was a fixed date in the cultural life of the community, but then it became too much for Renate Vogt and her husband due to their age, there is too much work involved, the preparations for such a festival are too strenuous.

But the name "Art on the Glonn" remains for the circle of artists, they design a homepage and give themselves a logo.

She processed her grief for her husband in art

On June 1, 2021, Holderich Mager died at the age of 86. It is art that helps Vogt to come to terms with this latest stroke of fate - and in a very unusual way. The coffin in which Holderich Mager is to be cremated is delivered to her home in the painting room in the basement. Vogt and some painting friends set about painting the coffin - with motifs that depict the life of Holderich Mager, his mountains and the shared experiences. And that's not all: Vogt later paints the urn in which the ashes are buried.

Vogt admits that was an experience of her own when the coffin was in her basement, but it helped her a lot to process the grief.

But even if the exhibitions don't go as Vogt imagines, if Vogt can't say exactly how things will continue, one thing is certain: she will remain true to art.

And she will travel.

The next sailing trips are already firmly planned.

Renate Vogt is a fighter.

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