Dorothea Decker

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Dorothea Decker (born January 21, 1926 in Wiesbaden ) is a German painter .

Life

Her parents, Leonie Opitz and Heinrich Decker, married in 1920 but divorced again in 1928. The mother moved with her two-year-old daughter to Hanover , where her family lived. The mother, who also had an artistic education, recognized Dorothea's artistic talent early on and encouraged her to the best of her ability. The Second World War initially prevented further development in this direction. After her school was bombed out, Dorothea Decker did agricultural labor from 1940 to 1945. After the end of the war, she returned to her mother in tiny makeshift accommodation in Hanover. This urged vocational training. But art had no place in bombed Germany in 1945, the art and master schools were destroyed or closed. Therefore, she initially worked in the arts and crafts . Dorothea Decker found a training position as a decorator in 1947 and at the same time was trained as a painter by Ernst-Erich Heidemann, a student of the Art Nouveau representative Franz von Stuck . Elements from this training period can be found again and again in her work.

From 1955 she was employed as a decorator for the Pelikan company (Hanover) and from then on looked after the district of south-west Germany, based in Koblenz until 1970. Encouraged by her artistic success, she founded the Karthaus artist house a short time later with Wilma Döring-Vitt . There she works independently.

Create

In 1955, her mother gave her a three-volume work on Emil Nolde . Inspired by this, Dorothea Decker drove to Klangxbüll in 1959 and from there to Seebüll, Nolde's place of work. At the Klangxbüll train station, she found that Seebüll was still 10 km away and apparently only accessible on foot. Decker ran to the Emil Nolde Museum, was the only visitor there and Mrs. von Lepel, wife of the then director of the Emil Nolde Foundation , devoted a lot of time to her. Dorothea Decker was impressed by the "unpainted pictures". She especially liked the coloring with colors from nature, which Nolde used and which she then used for a while. Her painting style was then based on Nolde.

In 1958 she went on vacation to Sylt for the first time , an important encounter for her that connected her with the island for decades. She was impressed by the alternation of light and shadow, colors and shapes, and she began to study landscapes.

In 1962 she met the journalist Wilma Döring-Vitt on a train journey. This encounter was so fruitful that it resulted in the establishment of the Karthauser Künstlerhaus . First Dorothea Decker moved into an apartment in Wilma Döring-Vitt's house, then they both bought a house together in 1970 in Koblenz auf der Karthauser .

From 1966 Dorothea Decker went on study trips that took her to various countries: in 1964 she went to Switzerland, 1966 to Greece, 1970, 1971, 1974 to 1978 followed by stays in France, and in 1972 she visited England. The impressions and suggestions that she gathered during these trips can be found in her work.

Her main inspiration remained the island of Sylt. Until 2009 she went there several times a year and painted.

The Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture dedicated an exhibition to Dorothea Decker in August 2014 at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz under the title "Midsummer Night's Dream".

Katharina Bornkessel, Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture, describes the works of Dorothea Decker as follows: Basically, the works of Dorothea Decker can be described as "abstract painting". "Sometimes, as in the work Midsummer Night's Dream, you go in the direction of impressionism, since many colors are placed next to each other and a fleeting moment seems to arise, in other cases the objects and figures are dissolved into surfaces and shapes and thus abstracted."

Solo exhibitions

In 1971 she opened her first exhibition with 50 pictures. Further solo exhibitions followed:

• Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
• Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz (multiple)
• Chapelle Ste. Marie, Nevers, France
• Museum of the City of Worms
• Elitzer Gallery, Saarbrücken
• Stadtgalerie Altena / Westphalia (multiple)
• Wermann Gallery, Ingelheim
• Small gallery Schmitz, Mayen
• Theiler Gallery, Zwischenahn
• Studio Gallery Bad Kreuznach (multiple)
• District Office, Bad Kreuznach
• Nümbrecht town hall hall
• Festhalle Wintergarten, Zweibrücken
• Kurzentrum Eberbach / Neckar (multiple)
• Studio Haus Rabenhoog, Kampen / Sylt
• Gallery H. u. H. Schwarz, Keitum / Sylt
• Gallery Sylter Kunstfreunde, Westerland
• Kamphüs, Kampen / Sylt
• Congress hall Westerland
• Franz Heat House, Münster / Westphalia
• Mainau Castle
• Maretsch Castle, Bolzano
• Königsklinger Aue, Eltville
• Art Association Brodenbach, Old Church
• Gallery Monreal
• Princely train station Bad Homburg
• Gruga Essen (multiple)
• Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main
• De Haye Foundation, Koblenz
• One-day exhibition for the reception of the delegation from the twin town of Koblenz Nevers / France in the Künstlerhaus Karthauser
• Mouseion patron cultural initiative, Eichenau
• Solo exhibition, organized by the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture, on the Ehrenbreitstein / Koblenz from 3. – 31. August 2014

Works

• with Wilma Döring-Vitt: Cycles, Themes, Pictures 1979–2012. Döring, Koblenz 2012, ISBN 978-3-923516-32-2 .
• Pictures 1973–2009. Döring, Koblenz 2010, ISBN 978-3-923516-30-8 .
• Sylt, jewel in the north. Döring, Koblenz 2012, ISBN 978-3-923516-31-5 .