Isolde Wawrin

Isolde Wawrin (* 1949 in Altdorf ) is a German painter and draftsman.

life and work

From 1971 to 1974 Wawrin studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Horst Egon Kalinowski and Markus Lüpertz , from 1974 to 1977 with Klaus Rinke at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She married Yoshiyuki Kakedo in 1987, with whom she has a daughter. After the renovation of the Old Synagogue, she opened the Altdorf Art Gallery there in 1999 . On October 24, 2017, Yoshiyuki Kakedo died of cancer.

Isolde Wawrin's paintings are on the border between representational and abstract representations and are very independent.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2011 Isolde Wawrin and Yoshiyuki Kakedo, Kunsthalle Altdorf
• 1995 Heidelberger Kunstverein , Heidelberg
• 1988 Isolde Wawrin painting, Kunsthaus Essen , Essen
• 1984 Westphalian Art Association , Münster
• 1982 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
• 1980 Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn

Group exhibitions

• 1976 Wiesbaden Museum
• 1997 eyewitnesses. The Hanck Collection, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
• 1984 Zig Zack, Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Bielefeld
• 1982 Documenta 7 , Kassel
• 1981 MoMA PS1 , New York City

Awards

• 1977 Scholarship from the city of Düsseldorf for Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
• 1980 Scholarship from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
• 1980 Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 1980 Bonn Art Fund Foundation for the promotion of contemporary fine arts
• 1981 Scholarship from the city of Düsseldorf for PS1, New York

literature

• Bernd Fäthke, Isolde Wawrin, in exhib. Cat .: Rinkes class in "Room 27", 10th action in "Room 27", last time you said that you were not doing any art. Museum Wiesbaden, March 21 - March 28, 1976.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel; Vol. 1: Visual biographies of the artists; Vol. 2: Current works by the artists; S. 357, Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920453-02-6 .
2. ↑ Isolde Wawrin. In: DanyKellerGalerie.de. Retrieved February 24, 2015 . 
3. ^ Bonner Kunstverein Artothek: Isolde Wawrin. ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 24, 2015.
4. ↑ Mittelbadische Presse: A sacred space as an object of art. May 26, 2003, accessed February 21, 2015.
5. ↑ us [Bruno Russ], Rinke and his students, 10th action in room 27. Wiesbadener Kurier, March 22, 1976.
   us [Bruno Russ], Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie - and what emerges from it. Wiesbadener Kurier, March 24, 1976.
   Düsseldorf Happyning in the Wiesbaden Museum. Wiesbaden Courier, March 27, 1976.