Ann Wolff

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Ann Wolff (* 1937 in Lübeck ) is a Swedish artist .

Life

Bojou Bowl, 1977

The Swedish artist Ann Wolff was born in Lübeck in 1937. After completing her training at the Ulm School of Design, she moved to Sweden; she works as a designer mainly for Kosta Boda in Sweden. From the late 1970s she set up her own studio: she becomes one of the important names in the European studio glass movement that began in the USA. She changes her name from Ann Wärff to Ann Wolff. For the next 20 years she has been holding workshops in Europe, the USA and Japan; between 1993 and 1998 also with a permanent professorship at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg . Ann Wolff works today as a freelance artist with her own studios in Sweden and Berlin. In 2008 she founded the Ann Wolff Collection (AWC), a foundation under civil law based in Berlin.

On December 12th, 2011 the artist will receive the European Culture Prize of the “Pro Europa” foundation as an award for her extraordinary artistic achievements. The award is one of the most important European cultural prizes that are given to high-ranking personalities for their sustained commitment to European culture.

“Glass is matter and at the same time non-matter, it is real and non-real. The relationship to the surrounding space and to the interior, the reflection of the z. Partly polished surfaces that enable new perspectives, the effect of the light itself when looking through the sculpture - color as a carrier of an invisible mass - that is glass. That is exciting and exciting for a sculptor ”. (Ann Wolff, 2011)

Exhibitions

  • GalerieB October 17, 2011–29. February 2012
  • Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin, March 9–14. April 2012

Awards

  • 1968 Lunningspriset / S
  • 1974 WCC Award, Toronto / CN
  • 1977 1st prize, Coburg Glass Prize, Coburg / D
  • 1980 1st prize, Central Switzerland Art Glass Prize, Lucerne / CH
  • 1981 Special Prize International Glass Art Kassel / D
  • 1982 Lessebo Kommuns Kulturpris / S
  • 1984 WCC Glass Prize, Bratislava / CSSR
  • 1988 Bavarian State Prize with Gold Medal, Munich / D
  • 1997 Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY / USA
  • 2005 Jurors Award, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH / USA
  • 2006 Jurors Award, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon MI / USA
  • 2007 Jurors Award, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY / USA
  • 2008 Award of Excellence, Smithsonian Renwick Collections, Washington / DC / USA
  • 2009 the Flint Institute of Art Award, Flint, Michigan / USA
  • 2010 Award of Excellency, Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA / USA
  • 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, GAS Glass Art Society, Seattle WA / USA

literature

  • Alfons Hannes (with contributions by Wolfgang Kermer and Erwin Eisch ): The Wolfgang Kermer Collection, Frauenau Glass Museum: Glass of the 20th Century; 50s to 70s . Schnell & Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1989 (= Bavarian Museums, Volume 9) ISBN 3-7954-0753-2 , pp. 126–127 with illus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.galerieb.de/de/ausstellungen/40-ann-wolff-2011.html Galerieb
  2. ↑ http://www.galerie-seitz.de Galerie Seitz
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck