Nana Nauwald

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Nana Nauwald (born May 7, 1947 in Uslar near Göttingen ) is a German visual artist, painter, author and lecturer in rituals of perception.

Life

Nauwald did an apprenticeship as a church painter with her father, the freelance artist Heinz Nauwald. She studied art and works for teaching at the Braunschweig University of Applied Sciences . In 1975 she opened an antique shop specializing in old children's books and old toys. Attached to the shop was a workshop for restoring old paintings and frames. From 1982 to 1990 she had a studio for the restoration of paintings and gilding in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1987 she made seminar experiences in North American and Peruvian shamanism . In 1989 she traveled to Oshogbo, Nigeria and met the artist Susanne Wenger . In 1990 she moved to Südergellersen in the Lüneburg Heath and married the book publisher Bruno Martin. Since then she has been working as a freelance visual artist. In 1992 she got to know the anthropologist Felicitas Goodman , researched with her and in her institute in New Mexico the method "Ritual postures and ecstatic trance" until Goodman's death in 2005. Since 1998 she gained experience and researched shamanism among indigenous peoples in the Amazon. Territory of Peru , Colombia , Brazil, Chile, Nepal, Siberia. From 1998 to 2017 she came regularly to a village of the Shipibo-Conibo people on the Ucayali, Amazon. She researched the shamanic traditions, her plant knowledge and the geometric pattern art of the Shipibo, who u. a. flows into her books. In 2004/2005 she was visiting professor for "Rituals of Perception" at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Since 2012 she has been on the board of the German Felicitas Goodman Institute neV. Since 1996 she has been inspiring people in Europe and Russia through nature and trance rituals to be creative and gain access to their own inner knowledge.

The artistic work

The artistic work of Nana Nauwald has been shown in exhibitions and conferences worldwide: Switzerland, USA, France, the Netherlands, Romania. Many of her paintings have been featured as covers in book publications, books and magazines.

She sees her artistic work as "visionary color song", which she depicts through finely worked, color-intensive visions painted on black canvas. Her painting is determined by the question of the basic information of all life, which is why her paintings are often shaped by microcosmic structures.

The literary work

Her literary work is based on her experiences with traditional shamans in South America and Asia and her own ethnological research with indigenous communities. Her decades of work with people in seminars and research into European, cultural and historical sources of shamanism form the basis of her non-fiction books.

Narrative works

  • Under the sign of the jaguar . 2nd Edition. BoD 2015, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-7386-3299-6 . ( Online )
  • The song of the black jaguar - My life with the shamans of the Amazon. 2nd edition, Ullstein, Berlin 2007; ISBN 978-3-548-74356-1 .
  • The laughter of the spirits - My journey to the shamans - magic and rituals in the Amazon . 3. Edition. Bod, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7386-0391-0 .
  • The Shaman's Flight. Shamanic fairy tales and myths. 2nd Edition. BoD 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1594-2 .

Non-fiction

  • Bear power and jaguar medicine - the consciousness-opening techniques of the shaman according to Aarau 2002. ISBN 978-3-85502-778-1 .
  • Ecstatic trance. New Ritual Body Postures - A Workbook . Binkey Kok 2003, Havelte. ISBN 90-74597-63-7 .
  • Ecstatic trance - ritual postures, the workbook . 3. Edition. Aarau 2018, ISBN 978-3-03800-610-7 .
  • Shamanic rituals of perception - experiencing the spirit of animals, knowledge handed down from European traditions . 2nd Edition. Aarau 2010, AT-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03800-545-2 .
  • Firewoman and wind song - shamanic rituals for protection and strengthening. 2nd Edition. Aarau 2010, AT-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03800-465-3 .
  • My word is mighty: the power of words in healing rituals . Aarau 2015, AT-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03800-835-4 .
  • inner cosmos. Art folder with texts and paintings . Stiefenhofen 2010, artemisia edition. ISBN 978-3-00-031206-9 .

Text contributions in books

  • Joanna Sionkowski: Visionary Art - Art History Significance and Analysis. The visionary artist Nana Nauwald. BoD, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5182-0 .
  • David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill: Visionary Art and Shamanism, in: Women of Visionary Art . Rochester, Vermont (USA) 2018. ISBN 978-1-62055-693-1 .

Audio book

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nana Nauwald: CV, books and reviews at LovelyBooks. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Exhibitions / publications. April 15, 2017, accessed on March 26, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Nana Nauwald - Ghost Dance and Drum Sound on YouTube , accessed on January 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Nauwald, Nana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist, painter, author and lecturer for rituals of perception
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Uslar near Göttingen