Constanze Wagner (artist)

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Constanze Wagner (* 1943 in South Africa ) is an artist who has lived in Germering since 1973 .

Constanze Wagner studied art and German literature. She has been a lecturer at the adult education center since 1978. In 1984 she founded the Art Circle Germering (KKG), of which she was chairman until 1998. In 1988 she received the Germeringer Culture Prize.

She is the initiator of the art concept “Agenda 21” with the title “The Red Thread - The Red Line”, which has since found many imitators. Her contribution are eight steles with a self-developed symbolic language, which are in the green area on Planegger Strasse in front of the former Unterpfaffenhofen town hall. In the entrance area of ​​the health center on Streiflacher Straße hangs a movable wall object made of metal as a symbol for "restoring mobility". With her large format pictures in different techniques she was represented in many exhibitions.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1991 “Na Ostoschej” cultural center, Moscow
  • 1993 Germering town hall
  • 1995 Preussag Hannover, Völkerkundemuseum Vienna , Copenhagen, installation “Signs of Intolerance”, Germering town hall
  • 1996 South African Embassy in Bonn
  • 2001 “Signs and Marks” as part of the “Art Conservation” exhibition of the Munich State Zoological Collection
  • 2002 Deloitte and Touche, Munich

Art in public space

United Buddy Bear for South Africa , designed by Constanze Wagner, here: Exhibition in Warsaw 2008

Solo exhibitions

  • 1994 Kinetic wall object made of metal on the administration building of the professional association for restaurants and food in Germering
  • 1997 Eight steles "Voices of the Earth", as part of the Agenda 21 art project on the green area in front of Unterpfaffenhofen town hall
  • 2000 Installation of a water feature made of steel and aluminum in the foyer of the Germering town hall

Group exhibitions

  • United Buddy Bears : Berlin (2002 and 2003), in the following years among others in: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Tokyo, Sydney, Cairo, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, St. Petersburg, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

Prices

  • 1961 Dr. B. Kretzmar Art Prize, Kimberley, South Africa
  • 1962 William Humphries Art Museum Prize, South Africa
  • 1964 NCAS Art Prize, South Africa
  • 1988 Culture Prize of the City of Germering

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 20, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Constanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH South Africa