Agnes Auffinger
Agnes Auffinger , also Agnes Auffinger-Fischer , (born July 13, 1934 in Munich ; † January 2014 ) was a surrealist German painter and sculptor.
Life
Agnes Auffinger was born in Munich and grew up there. She married Anton Auffinger, Professor Kirchner's master class student, and moved with him to Gunzesried for 20 years . Agnes Auffinger studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professors Elmar Dietz , Georg Brenninger and Heinrich Kirchner . She passed her apprenticeship ceramics examination with the later professor Franz Eska. From 1975 she lived in Dossenheim near Heidelberg .
Agnes Auffinger's style of painting is plastic-surrealistic. As a sculptor, she used clay, bronze, wood and stone, also soapstone , and for a few years also wire. Most recently she has been working almost exclusively as a painter with oil, and from 1999 she also makes computer pictures.
family
Her son Magnus Auffinger (* 1960) is a freelance German sculptor and painter. Auffinger lives and works in Gunzesried . He participates in the annual exhibition Die Südliche (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010/2012). At this art exhibition he received the Johann Georg Grimm Prize in 2009 .
Exhibitions
Agnes Auffinger had exhibitions in Munich, Trier, Berlin, Aachen, Krefeld, Essen, Heidelberg, Speyer and Kempten.
Public works
- Wall frescoes at the school in Blaichach im Allgäu
- Wall frescoes at the school in Fischen im Allgäu
- 14 stations of the cross for a chapel near Seifriedsberg
- Relief angels on the high altar and mosaic floor of the church in Schwandorf
Awards
- First prize of the Bavarian Ceramic Guild
- Art Prize Swabia (1969)
- Citizen Award of the Allgäu Festival Week (1970)
literature
- The emigrants. In: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt. April 18, 2009 (No. 89), p. 43. (Series by Gunther le Maire : visual artists with reference to southern Oberallgäu)
Web links
- Literature by and about Agnes Auffinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the works of Agnes Auffinger at Galerie Pich
- Agnes Auffinger in the Speyer old town gallery
- Pictures by Agnes Auffinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Köhl: Narrow, noble and delicate. In: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt , April 20, 2010
- ^ List of the winners of the City of Kempten's Citizens' Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auffinger, Agnes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auffinger-Fischer, Agnes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor of surrealism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2014 |