Katrin Alvarez

Katrin Alvarez

Katrin Alvarez , pseudonym Sybille Braatz (born July 9, 1944 in Güstrow ) is a German painter .

Life

Katrin Alvarez was born as the daughter of a Wehrmacht officer and an architect and art teacher and grew up on a country estate in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In 1969 Katrin Alvarez passed the first state examination in law at the University of Cologne and began working as a journalist. Under the pseudonym Sybille Braatz, she published Studentin S. , a psychological portrait , in 1971 in the Ilmgau Verlag Pfaffenhofen . After a two-year internship at the Kölnische Rundschau , she turned to painting and wrote poems and short stories. Her portrait of actress Lilli Palmer was selected in 1976 for the English-language title of her autobiography, Big Lilli , Change Lobsters and Dance . Her miniatures, framed with gold, silver and precious stones, were shown in an exhibition at the Cologne gallery Kunst und Psyche in 1981. In 2004 the Agora Gallery in New York showed her work.

In 2007 she won the Allan Edwards Award from the Federation of Canadian Painters (SFCA) in Vancouver. In 2011 one of her works was selected for the " Phantastenmuseum " in the Palais Palffy in Vienna. In the same year she was awarded the Vivid Arts Network prize "Onore alla creatività e l'eccellenza nelle arti". In 2012 Alvarez received the Grande Médaille d'Or MCA Cannes Azur and was awarded the Leonardo Prize (painting) of the Chianciano Art Award 2012.

The German psychiatrist Thomas Gosciniak wrote about her work: “Katrin Alvarez pictures neither try to explain, educate or teach, nor do they have a mission. Yet they dig deep into anyone who is attracted to them. They act like a stone that is thrown into a lake: The ripples can expand the horizon of feelings and dreams and separate memories from ruins, in order to open up a new way to find the deeper and inner self. "

Exhibitions

• 1968 - first group exhibition, Cologne
• 1972 - first solo exhibition, Cologne
• 1978 - Art Basel , Switzerland
• 1978 - Sara Kishon Gallery, Israel
• 2004 - Agora Gallery, New York
• 2007 - "Allan Edwards Award in the Painting on the Edge", Vancouver (Canada), for the picture Exorcism
• 2009 - the Phantastenmuseum , Vienna, chooses Borderline for its permanent exhibition
• 2011 - Red Dot, Miami
• 2011 - Museum Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy - Katrin Alvarez received the Vivid Arts Network Award “Onore alla creatività e l'eccellenza nelle arti”
• 2012 - solo exhibition, Palais Pálffy , Vienna
• 2012 - MCA Cannes Azur Exhibition
• 2013 - Gagliardi Gallery, London, UK
• 2013 - Chianciano Art Museum, Chianciano, Italy (Biennale 2013) - Katrin Alvarez was awarded first prize in the Leonardo Awards for Applied Arts.

Works

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  Exorcism

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  Borderline

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  Different worlds

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  Parasites

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• International Contemporary Masters Volume II, 2009 (WWAB), ISBN 978-0-9802079-1-0
• International Contemporary Artist Volume I, 2010 (ICA Publishing), ISBN 978-960-93-2298-0
• Psychescapes, 2010 (Liz Afif), ISBN 978-0-557-46361-9
• International Contemporary Masters Volume VI, 2011 (WWAB), ISBN 978-0-980-2079-7-2
• Who's Who In Visual Art, 2012 (Art Domain Who is Verlag Leipzig), ISBN 978-3-9813474-4-9
• Lexicon of Fantastic Artists, 2013 (IFAA), ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ArtisSpectrum Magazine, Issue 19, May 2008 Page no longer available , search in web archives: Pages 12–13

Web links

• Katrin Alvarez Official Website
• Katrin Alvarez ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the ARTROM Gallery
• Katrin Alvarez on the Agora Gallery website
• Katrin Alvarez Psychological Portraits Art District