Dora Várkonyi

Dora Várkonyi (born September 18, 1953 in Debrecen ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Dora Várkonyi studied ceramics, art education and art science at the State Academy of Fine and Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In 1981 she passed the state examination and has been a freelance artist ever since. From 1983 to 2011 she was a lecturer at the Free Art Academy Nürtingen . Her studio is in Stuttgart.

Awards

• Competition of the Stuttgart Art Academy
• Sponsorship award for young artists and scientists, Rotary Club
• St. Leopold Peace Prize, Klosterneuburg - Vienna

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• 1981 to 2010, among other things, the works were created: Transitions in nature, birth, witch's dance, ruins, women on sofas, love, ruins, games, contact with flowers, travel, companions, tree of life, light beings, free will, the illusion of solidity Limits in time and space, war, collateral damage, change of dimensions, molting and wall diary.
• From 2010 to 2012, the life-size children's sculptures Breaks in the Biography (or two to twelve) were created. This work received the St. Leopold Peace Prize in 2010. Seven of them are in the Museum Klosterneuburg-Vienna.

Breaks in Biography, life-size children's sculptures, 2011

• In 2013 and 2014 the group of sculptures "timeless near" was created. The artist Dora Várkonyi has achieved something unique in several ways. To combine current topics and timeless archaic thoughts, to use the material clay in a unique way as a means of expression and to create life-size, standing woman sculptures from clay (height approx. 182 cm). All figures are unique. They are precious as a single piece but also as part of the whole, in which they act as an element of a large pattern. The titles symbolize the content: justice, courage, intelligence, beauty, strength, strength, pain, suffering, empathy, love, etc.

timeless, women sculptures, 2013/2014

timeless, detail

Works in public collections

• Accommodation building of the riot police in Göppingen
• Waldallee Remseck day care center
• District court Ravensburg
• Museum Klosterneuburg - Vienna
• Rock star Stuttgart
• Private homes

Memberships

• Association of Visual Artists Württemberg (VBKW).

literature

• Nina Blazon: life and death burned in clay. A look into Dora Várkonyi's studio in the east of Stuttgart
• New ceramics. The European Ceramic Magazine 2007, Issue 5, Pages 25-27
• Sven Koch (editor): Who's who in contemporary ceramic arts. A comprehensive bio-bibliographical guide to Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Munich 1996
• Gert K. Nagel: Várkonyi Dora. Swabian artist lexicon. From the Baroque to the Present, Munich 1986, page 120
• Saur General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical index A– Z, Volume 12, Munich 2009, page 167
• Dora Várkonyi: Werkheft 1 _ 2006/2007, Stuttgart 2007
• Dora Várkonyi: timeless _ 2013/2014, Stuttgart 2014

Web links

• Website of Dora Várkonyi [1] .
• Illustrated catalog raisonné 1977–2002 [2]
• gallery81 [3] .
• St. Leopold Peace Prize 2010 for humanitarian commitment [4] .