Over the years. Rose Marie Schnorrenberg on her 100th birthday.

Rose Marie Schnorrenberg was the youngest of the so-called Höri artists in 1954, who had settled on the idyllic peninsula by Lake Constance since the 1930s. With her passing in 2021, a witness to history, a charismatic painter, a passionate educator, and a socially engaged Christian woman, who remained full of vibrant creative energy into old age, has left us. Rose Marie Schnorrenberg was born 100 years ago on February 22, 1926, in Düsseldorf. After completing her Abitur, she studied at the State Art School in Hamburg and was a scholarship student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. As a master student of Ferdinand Macketanz, she first came to the Höri in 1952. Here, inspired by the former director of the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, Dr. Walter Kaesbach, a kind of artist colony had formed before, during, and shortly after the war, whose members pursued their own stylistic paths. Rose Marie Schnorrenberg permanently joined this community in 1954 at the age of 28. Friendships developed among the members, they undertook joint painting excursions, inspired each other, and yet remained unmistakably "peculiar." In 1959, the painter Rudolf Stuckert opened a gallery in Constance, where he also hosted exhibitions of his fellow painters. In 1962, he and Rose Marie Schnorrenberg co-founded the artist group "Der kleine Kreis" in Constance. The two married in 1967 and ran the gallery together until 1972. The couple moved in 1974 from Wangen am Untersee to a listed building in Bettnang on the front Höri. They lived in the lovingly restored property together with their daughter Judith, born in 1972, and Rose Marie Schnorrenberg's daughter Corina, who was born in 1955. From 1972 to 1992, Rose Marie Schnorrenberg taught art at the Evangelical Boarding School Schloss Gaienhofen, a role that was very dear to her. Even after the death of her husband in 2002, Rose Marie Schnorrenberg remained artistically active. The exhibition showcases paintings from the artist's private collection and provides a representative insight into her oeuvre "Over the Years." The focus is primarily on landscape representations, which at the beginning still show the influence of Rhenish Expressionism with strongly luminous complementary colors, later becoming more objective, flat, and line-oriented, while increasingly developing a lightness, becoming more abstract, yet always remaining unmistakably her own. Accompanying program for the special exhibition: Sun. 15.03.26, 11 AM, Vernissage at the community center; Sun. 15.03.26, 3 PM, guided tour; Tue. 14.04.26, 11 AM, guided tour; Sun. 17.05.26, 3 PM, guided tour (International Museum Day); Tue. 09.06.26, 11 AM, guided tour; Sun. 12.07.26, 3 PM, guided tour.