Angela Hampel

Angela Hampel (born February 16, 1956 in Räckelwitz ) is a German painter , graphic artist and object artist .

Life

After an apprenticeship and work as a forestry worker and driver, Angela Hampel studied painting and graphics from 1977 to 1982 at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Jutta Damme and Dietmar Büttner . Since 1982 she has been working freelance in Dresden . From 1984 she worked in Dresden and Berlin in the Wilfriede Maaß ceramic workshop . From 1987 she showed her first performances, installations and environments and published in the literary magazines Bizarre Cities and Sondeur . In 1989 she was one of the co-founders of the Dresden Secession 89 . In 1998, in a joint project with colleagues from Bonn, Hampel created the sculptures Undine comes and Undine goes , which are now on the Molenbrücke in Pieschen and on the banks of the Elbe in Johannstadt . She took part in numerous international competitions. She has been a passionate mountaineer since the 1990s.

Angela Hampel lives and works in Dresden.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

The plastic Undine arrives at the pier during the 2013 flood

• 1984 Dresden
• 1985 Berlin
• 1986 Dresden, Leipzig, Bonn, Rossendorf
• 1987 Gallery Comenius Dresden
• 1987 Kamenz, Leipzig, Potsdam, Munich, Galerie Döbele Ravensburg
• 1988 Hoyerswerda, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Erfurt
• 1989 Ilmenau, Forst, Bern
• 1990 Dresden
• 1991 Galerie Döbele, Stuttgart (with Gudrun Trendafilov)
• 1996 Galerie Mitte, Dresden; Small gallery Ilmenau
• 1997 Leo Coppi Gallery Berlin
• 2000 Galerie Mitte, Dresden
• 2005 artist posters at Galerie Drei, Dresden
• 2013 Heck-Art Chemnitz

Book illustrations

• Elke Erb : Tricks or Unexpected, informative relationships , Druckhaus Galrev , 1991, ISBN 978-3910161061 .
• Róža Domašcyna : The rabbit up your sleeve. Fairy tales from Spreewald and Lausitz , Janus Press, 1997, ISBN 978-3928942454 .
• Franz Fühmann : Prometheus. Die Titanenschlacht , Edition Büchergilde , 2005, ISBN 978-3936428445 .
• Monika Melchert , Christa Wolf Kassandra in front of the lion gate. The most beautiful scenes with Christa Wolf: A seducer to read , trafo Literaturverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3896268389 .
• Franziska Bessau : Simple bookkeeping for the self-employed: A basic book that is fun , 2013, ISBN 978-3000415685 .

Awards

The plastic Undine goes to the Elbe in Johannstadt

• 1986 Prize of the State Art Trade of the GDR
• 1990 Marianne Werefkin Prize
• 1998 Ohio Arts Council Exchange Scholarship, Cleveland
• 1999 Special prize 100 selected graphics
• 2002 Ring award of the Sun Sail Gallery, Brandenburg

literature

• Elke Erb , Bea Stammer , Bernd Rosner : Angela Hampel, An artist in Dresden 1982 to 1992 , Janus Press, 1993, ISBN 978-3928942058 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Angela Hampel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Angela Hampel's website
• Angela Hampel , Bildatlas Art in the GDR
• artfacts.de: Angela Hampel
• Short biography on sezession89.de
• Works by Angela Hampel