Ortrud Sturm
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Ortrud Sturm (* 1959 in Altheim (Münster) ) is a German wood sculptor of abstract art .
Life
Sturm completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor from 1976 to 1979, followed by a degree in sculpture from 1984 to 1986 at the Werkkunstschule Flensburg . Since 1997 Sturm has participated in numerous sculpture symposia, most recently in 2010 in the sculpture symposium Binding - Connection in Schwerte / Ruhr, in 2011 in the sculpture symposium Luttach , Ahrntal (Italy) and in Sites en Ligne , artist symposium Silly (Belgium), 2012. Sturm lives and works in Rödermark -Urberach.
Awards
- 2008 1st prize winner of the WOAR Symposium, Bad Goisern / Austria
- 2002 1st Prize Winner Sculptures in the Park , Mörfelden-Walldorf
- 1989 Prize of the international competition Figure and Area of the German Ivory Museum , Erbach / Odenwald
Exhibitions (selection)
A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K". The exhibitions marked "E" are solo exhibitions.
- 2014 Damenbau, State Park Fürstenlager, Bensheim-Auerbach, May 2 to May 18, 2014 (with Joachim Kuhlmann)
- 2013 Heussenstamm-Galerie Stadtgalerie Frankfurt am Main E
- 2011 Lutago, Italy; BBK gallery in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg
- 2010 Evangelical City Academy Darmstadt E
- 2009 Wechterswinkel Monastery / Rhön (international exhibition Hungary / Germany)
- 2008 Gallery Sculpture Park Katzow E
- 2007 Artlantis Art Association, Bad Homburg E
- 2005 Gmunden, Austria; Art Gallery Giessen
- 2003 Remisengalerie, Hanauer Kulturverein E ; Municipal gallery, City of Mörfelden-Walldorf E
- 2002 State Park Prince Camp Bensheim-Auerbach E
- 2001 Goethe Institute, Frankfurt E ; Municipal gallery of the city of Darmstadt E
- 2000 Gallery K, Darmstadt-Weiterstadt E ; Galerie KunstWerk, Frankfurt am Main K
- 1999 Art Station Kleinsassen / Rhön; German Leather Museum Offenbach
- 1998 Ministry of Finance North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf E
- 1997 Gallery Hubert, Mannheim E ; Engel im Thal Gallery, Frankfurt am Main E.
- 1996 Institute for Media and Art in the Heinrich Hansen House of the IG Medien, Lage-Hörste E
- 1994 gold traces , barn gallery, Ober-Ramstadt E
- 1993 Juried exhibition Widerpart - Artists in Dialog , Kunstraum AB, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg K
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After working with Plexiglas, precious stones and cast iron at the beginning of her artistic career, Sturm has been concentrating on wood since the mid-1990s. It became known in particular for its towers, which - although they give the impression of being made up of individual elements in layers - have all been sawed out of the trunk with a chainsaw since around 2003. Sturm consciously uses the surface structures that the chainsaw leaves behind as a means of expression. The rhythmic structure of the towers is often in tension with a break in symmetry.
"'I follow the wood, not the other way around ...'"
Works in public space (selection)
- 2003 three towers . Seligenstadt
- 2003 Tower 1 + 2 . Walldorf town hall
- 2005 corner rooms . Bürgerhaus Mörfelden
- 2006 Sky River . Katzow Sculpture Park
- 2008 balance game . Bürgerhaus Mörfelden
- 2008 stack balance . Austrian Federal Forests, Neuwildenstein Castle, Bad Goisern
literature
- Gudrun Jäger: Ortrud Sturm - wooden sculptures . Galerie KunstWerk (publisher), Frankfurt am Main, 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Swords Sculptor Symposium , Ruhr Nachrichten, August 19, 2010
- ↑ Sites en Ligne - Sculptor Symposium
- ↑ WOAR - 1st wood sculpture symposium in Bad Goisern
- ↑ Dudenhöfer Straße in Seligenstadt (Art in the roundabout ..de)
- ↑ Ortrud Sturm - Works in Public Space: Sky River (2006) (World of Form)
Web links
- Artist's website
- The world of Ortrud Sturm (world of form)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sturm, Ortrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altheim (Munster) |