Sigrid Noack

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Sigrid Noack (born November 17, 1947 in Guben ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Sigrid Noack was born in Guben in 1947. Her artistic talent was recognized while she was still at school and Sigrid Noack got in touch with Lea Grundig . After completing school in 1964 and completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig in 1967, Sigrid Noack began studying wall painting at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . She studied with Herbert Kunze and Gerhard Kettner and graduated in 1972 with a diploma in building-related art. Sigrid Noack has been working as a freelance artist in Guben and Dresden since 1972. Between 1977 and 1979 she was a master student at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, first with Lea Grundig and later with Jürgen von Woyski .

Study trips

Sigrid Noack traveled to the Soviet Union and there often to Georgia. This region and its people impressed Sigrid Noack and gave her artistic activity significant impulses which, above all, had a liberating effect on the colors of Sigrid Noack's work. Another, perhaps the most important impulse for Sigrid Noack's artistic work was a study visit to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1983. Under the influence of the Orient, Sigrid Noack developed an artistic language that is characterized by rich ornamentation, strong colors and decorativeness. After 1989 he studied in Italy, Israel, Tunisia, Gran Canaria, Mallorca, Spain, southern France and Crete.

Awards

In 1991 Sigrid Noack was the 2nd prize winner of the “Voltaire in Potsdam” competition, and in the same year she was able to take part in the International Symposium “Fine Art and Music” in Civitella d'Agliano. In 1997 she won the Iduna Nova's “Blue and Green” competition. Sigrid Noack received a recognition and sponsorship grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 1999/2000 . In 2001, the Käthe Dorsch Foundation awarded her a scholarship and in 2006 Sigrid Noack was again supported by the Käthe Dorsch and Agnes Straub Foundation with a scholarship.

Artistic work

Sigrid Noack's areas of work include building-related art, panel paintings , graphics and small sculptures and, above all, artist books . Her color-intensive works are in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism . Sigrid Noack's works are currently (as of 2017) in 87 museums and collections in Germany, France, Switzerland, Slovakia and the USA. The state of Brandenburg presents work by Sigrid Noack in the German House , the permanent representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN in New York. The Fischkopf fountain (Klaus-Hermann-Straße in Guben ), built in 1984, was demolished in 2011 when a new shopping center was being built. In total, eighty percent of her works created for Gubens public space have been destroyed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Michel: Germany as a cultural nation? Polemic against modern vandals , Berlin 2013, p. 11
  2. ↑ Ida Kretzschmar: Dance of the island spirits with cheerful ancestors. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben