Sarah Pelican
Sarah Pelikan (* 1947 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ) is an artist.
Life
Sarah Pelikan was born in Immenstadt in the Allgäu in 1947. After an apprenticeship as a glass and porcelain painter and attending the state technical school in Kaufbeuren - Neugablonz from 1964 to 1967, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1968 to 1974 . She has lived in Wuppertal since 1995 .
She was married to Tönis Käo (1940-2016), a professor of industrial design.
Work style
Sarah Pelikan paints with acrylic paints and has worked a lot with Formica since the 1980s . In her work intensely colored color plate spaces or pictures emerge, whereby the shape and size of the colored areas are design elements in the same way.
Awards and art prizes
- Schwabing Art Prize (1989)
- Working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation (1991)
- Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Munich (1992)
Exhibitions (selection)
She exhibited in Munich (various galleries, Lenbachhaus ), in Pillnitz Castle near Dresden, in Düsseldorf , Wuppertal , Remscheid, Berlin and Frankfurt , among others .
- Solo exhibition in the Kunsthalle Lingen (Ems) (2012)
Sources and individual references
- An unusual spatial experience - Gunther le Maire on Sarah Pelikan's exhibition in Lingen
- Sarah Pelikan in a short portrait by Gunther le Maire
- Art portal of the Sparkasse Wuppertal
- Art exhibition in Wuppertal (2005)
literature
- Literature by and about Sarah Pelikan in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on Tönis Käo
- ↑ Report in the NOZ about Sarah Pelikan, art exhibition in Lingen ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelican, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German object artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Immenstadt in the Allgäu |