Ursel Kessler

Ursel Kessler (* 1944 in Bexbach ) is a Saarland pedagogue and artist . She is a member of the BKK and the Saarland Artists Association .

Until 2000, Kessler worked full-time as a teacher for mathematics and physics. Since around 1989 she began to sensitize herself to dealing with art. In her mining and industrial environment she began to make first drawings and photos and to exhibit them. As a result, she attended various courses and symposia. Her artistic works mostly show everyday objects from the working world in urban living space, mostly detached from the context, sometimes abstracted.

Kessler masters a wide variety of techniques. Her works represent both woodcuts and painting techniques with oil and acrylic, pencil drawings , etchings and the so-called mixed technique .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1991 St. Wendel Museum
• 1995 von Hausen Castle, Rehlingen
• 1998 Gallery in the courtyard, St. Wendel
• 1998 Historic town hall, Kleinblittersdorf
• 2000 Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken: "Wood cuts"
• 2006 "Between Green and Blue", Art Association Dillingen in the Old Castle, Dillingen
• 2006 Art in the LPM (State Institute for Education and Media): "Gray moves"
• 2009 Schloss Dagstuhl: "Urban Still Life"
• 2011 Gallery Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken: "On the power of buildings - painting"

Monographs

• Woodcuts. Exhibition catalog. Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken 2000.
• Between green and blue. Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein Dillingen in the Old Castle, Dillingen 2006.

swell

• Entry in the Saar lexicon of artists