Diana Kiehl

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Diana Kiehl (born August 14, 1957 in Sindelfingen ; † July 6, 2015 there ) was a German artist .

life and work

Kiehl was born in Sindelfingen in 1957 as the daughter of a US soldier and a German mother. After completing secondary school, she attended the Free Art School in Stuttgart and from 1977 to 1981 studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim , where she graduated as a designer. She then studied from 1982 to 1988 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart Free Painting at Moritz Baumgartl and Paul Uwe Dreyer . Even before that time she had received impulses from Bernd Berner , which she could use in Paul Uwe Dreyer's class for her further painting training. Ultimately, their development culminated in a work of non-representational painting that worked on ornament as a theme and subject .

Diana Kiehl received several awards and in 1987 she participated in the exhibitions of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , Bonn, "art students are exhibiting" and in the exhibitions of the "Young Forum Art", in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart part . In 1988 she received a three-month scholarship at Villa Vigoni on Lake Como in Italy . Diana Kiehl died on July 6, 2015 in her house in Sindelfingen.

Testimonies from contemporaries

“Diana Kiehl's works exploit the entire range of her artistic possibilities, both in terms of form and color, as well as in the compositional area. But Diana Kiehl's imagery is not the result of a purely painterly task, the investigation of surface, color, compositional elements and spatial effect in the two-dimensional canvas or paper. In spite of all the painterly tasks, it is the drafting of one's own worldview, meaningful in terms of content in the creation of forms that could arise from a macro- as well as microscopic view, but are more the products of an imaginative mind. "

- Otto Pannewitz, director of the Sindelfingen gallery

“Creating your own alphabet - an unusual, pragmatically rather useless, artistically but extremely productive process - your characters, the sign languages ​​of your designs, put together a pictorial alphabet as a repertoire, the forms and formulas of which arouse extensive associations. This is a substantial process, as the artist appropriates a language of expression that does not thrive on artificial, formalistic attitudes, but on everyday forms of language and thought. She enters a quasi-initial stage with which she introduces her creative world. Your pictures stand for your own free spaces in which artistic ideas can move. "

- Tilman Osterwold, curator and author

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989: around the dome , Württembergischer Kunstverein and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (with Susanna Messerschmidt and Olaf Probst)
  • 1990: Solo exhibition in the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen in the old town hall of Maichingen
  • 1991: Participation in Grenz Jumpes , Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen, solo exhibition in the Burg Gallery, Musberg
  • 1995: Debut exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
  • 1996: Double exhibition in the gallery of the city of Sindelfingen (with Klaus Olbert)
  • 1998: Solo exhibition in Palazzo Pretorio, Sondrio, Italy
  • 1999: Participation in the past is now , Villingen-Schwenningen Art Association in the Franciscan Museum
  • 2002: Double exhibition Kulturkreis Grafenau, Schloss Dätzingen (with Klaus Olbert)
  • 2004: Solo exhibition gallery in the Oberlichtsaal Sindelfingen
  • 2008: Double exhibition in the Weil im Schönbuch town hall
  • 2010: Galerie Burg, Musberg
  • 2011: Four artists from Germany , Turgenev Museum, Vladivostok and Grodekova Museum, Khabarovsk (Russia)
  • 2012: Double exhibition in the gallery contact , City of Böblingen (with Karl Heger)
  • 2012: Solo exhibition in the space for art , in Horb am Neckar

literature

  • Diana Kiehl, painting: 15.9. – 10.11.1996, Gallery of the City of Sindelfingen / Text: Otto Pannewitz
  • Diana Kiehl, painting, publisher: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1995, 40 pages, ISBN 978-3-931485-01-6
  • Art students exhibit. Federal Minister of Education and Science, 1987, funding reference: C 8092.00
  • Around the dome. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1989 (catalog)

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personal data
SURNAME Kiehl, Diana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sindelfingen
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2015
Place of death Sindelfingen