Dagmar Calais
Dagmar Calais (* 1966 in Bremen ) is a German painter and installation artist .
Life
After attending college, Dagmar Calais received her artistic training from the Berlin painter Prof. Hans-Hendrik Grimmling and in Bremen from the art historian Chris Steinbrecher, with whom she is also married. She is co-founder of the OGO-Künstlerhaus in Bremen.
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As a painter, Dagmar Calais is thematically diverse. In her figurative, expressive and colorful painting, she devotes herself to depictions of landscape motifs primarily to the fields of antiquity , mythology and the Old Testament , but also to recent German history. Another focus of her work is the conception and implementation of large-scale installations. She addresses the German division and the crimes against the Jews for memorial sites and museums, such as the Marienborn memorial , the Ghetto and Holocaust Museum , Riga , and the Eichsfeld Borderland Museumand the Bremen town hall .
Public collections
- Memorial of the division of Germany in Marienborn
- Theresienstadt Memorial
- Bad Salzdetfurth Art Association
Publications (selection)
- "Vital" magazine 4/99, Regine Schneider: "Dagmar Calais, painter"
- Magazine "Der Stern" 15/2000, Kuno Kruse : "A picture of a woman"
- Xzeit-Magazin 8/2001, Alexander Musik: "People need something sacred"
- Bremen-Theresienstadt-Riga. 3000 fates, 2015. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name by Chris Steinbrecher
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calais, Dagmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and installation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |