Edith Oellers

Edith Oellers (* 1957 in Duisburg ) is a German painter and lives in Düsseldorf.

Life

Edith Oellers was born in Duisburg in 1957 and grew up in Linz on the Rhine. She comes from an artistic family from Linz on the Rhine. Her father is the sculptor Günther Oellers , her mother the painter Edith Oellers-Teuber and her brother the art historian Adam C. Oellers .

After graduating from high school, she studied art and art history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1975 to 1981 . Her professors there were initially Lambert Maria Wintersberger and Micha Ullman , later followed by Rolf Crummenauer and Gerhard Hoehme . In 1981 Edith Oellers completed her studies with the first state examination and from 1982 worked as a freelance painter with regular exhibitions. Between 1989 and 1992 she stayed with her husband Jörg Eberhard at the Villa Romana , Florence (1989 and 1992) and a scholarship to the Cité des Arts in Paris (1991).

From 1980 to 1989 Edith Oellers worked for the museum education department of the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, from 1990 teaching positions followed at the European Academy in Trier (1990/1991 and since 2000) and from 2000 also at the School for Art and Theater in Neuss. In 1991 Edith Oellers received the Düsseldorf City Art Prize

Since 1979, the artist has repeatedly undertaken study trips to Italy and the entire European Mediterranean area, so she says she feels very much influenced by the art of Italy in her artistic work. In 2006, an extensive study trip to China followed.

Edith Oellers has been teaching at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2007. Since 2008 she has been chairing the EIBE (Et In Barbaria Ego) association to promote artistic exchange between Düsseldorf and Bribir / Croatia.

Edith Oellers married the painter Jörg Eberhard in 1989 . Today she lives with her family in Düsseldorf.

The work

Edith Oellers writes:

“The theme of my pictures is the everyday life of people and the everyday life of painting. I constantly encounter the world as an abundance of situations that always have to do with people. Since I am also still on the move with myself, the world only exists as a reality reshaped by humans. People meet me, fleetingly or intensely, they communicate with each other or turn away from each other, they make faces and gestures and when nobody is around, I perceive myself in relation to the environment and its objects. Everyday life keeps telling stories; I just have to pick it up and try to understand it. To understand, however, translated into painting, means to continue telling it with pictorial means and to speculate on a viewer who comes along with his thoughts and feelings. In everyday painting, I have the task of formulating my ideas exactly, using paint and canvas as tools to create pictures. I use all the possibilities of the material. The paint is sometimes spread on, sometimes dabbed or wiped, thickly spatula or dripped. Here a face, there a hand or an object is precisely executed with a fine brush. Painting should be as varied as the perception of reality is diverse. The stories cannot be retold in words, they are complex images of experienced, remembered and felt reality that change and become reality again in the process of painting. "

- Edith Oellers, undated

literature

• Three Düsseldorfers: Anneliese Hermes, Jörg Eberhard, Edith Oellers. March 20 - April 17, 1983. Catalog of the exhibition in the Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren 1983. 90 pages.
• Edith Oellers: 11 charcoal drawings; Sponsorship award of the city of Düsseldorf 1991. Catalog of the exhibition in the Forum Bilker Strasse from November 16 to December 8, 1991 . Düsseldorf 1991. 15 pages.
• Edith Oellers: Of people and things. Catalog of the exhibition in the Maternus House in Cologne from December 8, 2008 - March 1, 2009 . Cologne 2008. 64 pages. ISBN 978-3-941100-48-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edith Oellers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Edith Oellers