Gabriele Dahms
Gabriele Dahms (born September 21, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † April 17, 1999 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter .
Live and act
Gabriele Dahm's parents ran a textile wholesaler in Mannheim-Käfertal . She completed an apprenticeship at the textile school in Nagold with a degree as a textile manager and then worked in her parents' company. From 1965 to 1967 she studied painting with André Sangsué in Geneva, then with Heinz Trökes in Berlin and Salzburg and with Erich Kraemer in Luxembourg . After receiving a scholarship from the city of Mannheim in 1980 for a study visit to Sestola in Emilia-Romagna , she also traveled to countries in the Far East and dealt intensively with the philosophies of this region, in particular with Taoism , which shaped her artistic work .
Dahms had numerous solo exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Monaco.
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Since the late 1970s, her painting became more focused on "silent formulations" through the style of Tachism . Hans Gerke describes her works as "... meditation pictures (...) in front of which one becomes silent, thoughtful and finally thoughtless".
Her works are stylistically simple and the use of creative means reduced, whereby she also used materials such as earth and sand.
From 1983 she chose the title “Tao” (the way) for all pictures, which is indicative of her artistic intentions. Her paintings are assigned to meditative expressionism , in the tradition of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1989: Gabriele Dahms. New pictures . Brigitte Stemmle-Adler Gallery, Heidelberg
- 1991: Gabriele Dahms . Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
literature
- Gabriele Dahms . Exhibition catalog Ursula Blickle Foundation, with texts by Hans Gehrke, Kraichtal 1991
Publicly owned works (selection)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Mannheimer Kunstverein : Gabriele Dahms. In: Artists' bequests Mannheim. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahms, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1999 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |