Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn
Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn (* 1948 in Bremen ) is a German painter.
Life
From 1967 to 1968 she did an internship in an advertising studio in Bremen. This was followed by studies at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1968 to 1973 and at the University of Education in Berlin from 1973 to 1976. Störmer-Hemmelgarn then worked as a teacher for art and biology in Berlin between 1976 and 1980. She has been a freelance painter since 1980. From 1980 to 1997 she was a member of the BBK Berlin.
In 1986/1987 Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn stayed in Costa Rica for 6 months . In 1989 she became a member of the group “Painters on site” and in 1990 she became the first female member of the Association of Berlin Artists. From 1994 to 2001 she was a member of the Künstleronderbund in Germany and from 1996 to 1998 first chairwoman there.
Since 1980 Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn has had regular exhibitions at home and abroad. She lives and works in Berlin and Bahrdorf .
In 2018, the Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn Foundation was established as part of a ceremony by the Board of Trustees of the State Foundation “City Museum”. The founders are the artist and her husband Steffen Störmer.
The aim of the foundation is to maintain and disseminate the work of Elisabeth Störmer-Hemmelgarn.
technology
Her technique includes acrylic on canvas , watercolor on paper, etchings with aquatint . In watercolor painting she has developed a technique with which she can create great darkness and depth. The technique consists of laying many layers on top of each other with lots of pigments on the brush and little water. This technique has the American painter Andrew Wyeth and dry brush ( dry brush called).
Oeuvre
Her complete oeuvre includes landscape pictures with architecture, often perspectives with intense light, strong shadows. The buildings or objects of civilization are always dilapidated, dilapidated, with peeled paint. The two competing and complementary elements nature and civilization almost always appear in her pictures . A book that she and her husband Steffen Störmer created together is entitled "Hope Principle". And this title says it all. In many pictures, nature seems to be reclaiming terrain.
Since she had an exhibition in the Bremen Cathedral, she has increasingly devoted herself to topics that have a religious reference. So this picture, the first of a triptych "Brich an du Schöne Morgenlicht", which shows the hill Golgotha with the three crosses symbolized by simple fence posts. As here, you should almost always take a second look at the pictures that reveals more than what you have seen.
She is pictorially close to romanticism .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Störmer-Hemmelgarn, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |