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Damaris Wurmdobler (born January 6, 1949 as Damaris Heinz in Lich ) is a German artist . As a painter, she has artistically designed almost thirty sacred buildings.

life and work

Wurmdobler grew up in Wiesbaden , where she graduated from the Elly-Heuss-Gymnasium in 1969. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the Mainz Art School with a focus on "free drawing" with Hermann von Saalfeld. During an internship (1974 to 1977) at the Mainz Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Wurmdobler learned painting techniques like the old masters while restoring polychrome sculptures from the Gothic and Baroque periods, as well as canvas and panel painting. In 1977 she and her husband Vitus Wurmdobler opened a studio for restoration and painting in the “White Castle” building in Erbes-Büdesheim in Rheinhessen. In the following years the artist supplemented and deepened her knowledge of old masters painting through the practice of restoring and reconstructing wall paintings in sacred buildings.

Since 1987 Wurmdobler has been working as a freelance artist with a focus on wall painting and redesigning church interiors. Wurmdobler created numerous works in sacred rooms, wall and ceiling paintings and room settings, including in the cath. Church in Mölsheim (1989), the cath. Church of St. Nikolaus in Offenbach-Bieber (1991), the Protestant Church in Merkenbach , the Johanniskirche in Hofheim am Taunus , the Church of St. Martin in Offenheim (all 1992). This was followed by the complete painting of the interior of the church of St. Mauritius in Mülheim-Kärlich with a representation of the archangels in the vault above the altar (1993), wall paintings, panel paintings and room settings in Marienborn (1995), Hochborn (1995), Mülheim-Kärlich Maria Himmelfahrt , Hargesheim , Obertshausen (1996), Kür (1997), Neu Isenburg (1998), Obertshausen (1999), the complete painting of the Sacred Heart Church in Mayen (2000), as well as numerous other works and designs to date (2013).

Wurmdobler's main work includes the overall artistic painting of the interior of the Church of St. Ludwig (Darmstadt) (2003–2005) on the subject of "Heaven - Earth - Transcendence".

Wurmdobler lives and works in Erbes-Büdesheim in Rhineland-Hesse .

literature

Groblewski, Michael (Ed.): St. Ludwig in Darmstadt. From the pantheon idea to the church on the mountain. (Schnell & Steiner) 2005.
Wurmdobler, Damaris: The new church windows of the Ev. Gau-Algesheim church - meditative contemplation of a cycle of creation. (Protestant parish Gau-Algesheim) 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME	Wurmdobler, Damaris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinz, Damaris (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lich