Doris Weller
Doris Beate Weller (born October 2, 1952 in Würzburg , † July 14, 2013 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter .
Life
From 1970 to 1974 she studied painting at the Werkschule Würzburg and from 1980 to 1985 she studied pedagogy, sociology and psychology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a master’s degree .
From 1980 she was a freelance artist and participated in the founding of the free art school "Kunstquartier" in Nuremberg. The teaching of art played a central role for Weller. In the Kunstquartier, the focus was on creating a pedagogically fruitful situation, individual support and practical assistance, as well as the balanced mix of art theory / history and craft techniques. In 1995 the studios Klaus Neuper and Doris Weller were merged.
Works by Weller have been exhibited in galleries in Germany and abroad. Her later artistic work was characterized as follows:
“Your approach to creating a picture became fundamentally different, because in African art a picture is not created in the head, but painting is a process in which pictures are brought from the subconscious into the conscious: art as the interface between the conscious and the subconscious, the mind and Emotion, art as a mediator between the different levels of consciousness and as a mediator between the most diverse cultures. "
Weller took part in cultural and art projects in Nigeria as early as the 1980s. Weller lived in Nigeria for a year and a half and carried out projects to preserve traditional wall paintings with local artists as well as dance and painting workshops with international audiences. Among other things, the Nka Enume project, funded by the Federal Foreign Office in 1992 , for which Weller acted as project coordinator, should be mentioned here. In 1993 the Ama Dialog Foundation was founded in Nigeria together with her husband, the musician and cultural scientist Meki Nzewi . In the years 1997 to 1999 a project with traditional mask theater arose at the Ama Dialog Compound in Nigeria. In 1998 and 1999, Doris Weller organized an international conference on earth building together with the Goethe-Institut Lagos.
At the beginning of the 2000s she reduced her activity as a freelance artist and worked as a healer in the field of spiritual healing and radionics .
Exhibitions
- 1990-1995
- Gallery Forum, Nuremberg
- Philips Gallery, Nuremberg
- Gallery Capillus, Nuremberg
- Otto-Richter-Halle, Würzburg
- Kunsthalle Zellingen
- Gallery in the Förstermühle, Fürth
- Raeder Gallery, Erlangen
- Studio Mc, Glasgow / Scotland
- Spring Gallery, Springfield / USA
- Townhall Dallas / USA
- Goethe Institute , Lagos / Nigeria
- British Council, Enugu / Nigeria
- Nka Eri Center, Nsugbe / Nigeria
- 1996-1997
- Iwalewa House, Bayreuth
- Art Gallery, run
- Bastian Gallery, Munich
- Gallery W, Gunzenhausen
- Centro Friulano Arti Plastice, Udine / Italy
- Erlangen Art Association
- Renate Treinen Gallery, Saarbrücken
- Gallery Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart
- Four Seasons Gallery, Wrightwood, USA
- Culture in the Fürth Clinic , Fürth
- 1998
- Gallery Netolitzky / von Brandt, Munich
- Renate Treinen Gallery, Saarbrücken
- Atelier Brand, Munich
bibliography
Work catalogs
- Doris Weller painting, Alfred Meyerhuber sculptures (1997). Catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart, 33S. ISBN 3-00-001494-2
Fonts
- The art of teaching art using the example of Wassilij Kandinsky. (1988) Master's thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 186 pp.
- Together with Meki Nzewi: Earth view. Mural painting and decoration. (1992) Reads & Mark Ltd. In the collection of the Smithsonian Institution
- Together with Meki Nzewi: The Art of Mothers. (PDF; 897 kB) (1998) Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts Vol. 2 No. 3. P. 75 ff.
- Together with Meki Nzewi: Science of art in African creative cosmos: the Igbo creative logic. (2014) LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, 212 pp., ISBN 978-3-659-18106-1 .
Web links
- Works by Doris Weller in the Herrmann Gallery
- Works by Doris Weller in the Alfred Meyerhuber Gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice
- ^ Weller, Doris: The art of teaching art using the example of Wassilij Kandinsky. (1988) Master's thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 186 pp.
- ↑ "The educational scientist Dr. Edgar Birzer on the Art Quarter and the art education practiced there ” ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ http://www.doris-weller.de/pages/deutsch/dindex.htm
- ↑ van den Bersselaar, Dimitri: In Search of Identity Igbo. (PDF; 37 kB) (1998) Universiteitsdrukkerij Universiteit Leiden, Leiden
- ↑ Nzewi, Mechi and Weller, Doris: The Art of Mothers. (PDF; 897 kB) (1998) Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts Vol. 2 No. 3. P. 75 ff.
- ^ Weller, Doris: Coordinator of the Nika Emume Project funded by the Foreign Office. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (1998) Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts Vol. 2 Nos. 3 & 4.
- ↑ nTwo, Meki and Nzewi, Odyke: A contemporary study of musical arts - informed by African indigenous knowledge systems. Volume Four: Illuminations, reflections and explorations. (2007) African minds, Cape Town, 289 pp.
- ↑ Storb, Ilse: Jazz Meets the World - The World Meets Jazz. (2000) LIT Verlag, Münster.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weller, Doris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weller, Doris Beate (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 2013 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |