Art has been with me for as long as I can remember. Maybe even earlier, who knows. In art, I am very interested in women's issues, politics and ecology. I work on my pieces in my office studio in the Schlachthofviertel. You can also often find me doing research at the Stabi (Bavarian State Library).
Small light study in oil on cardboard with a scene on the Inner Alster: Three seagulls hovering over the glass roof of a stall just before dusk. The curved glass roof reflects the blue mood of the sky and the movement of a seagull hovering over the roof as it approaches.
Beautiful handmade art print from copper plate with wooden glas frame. Drypoint combined with aquatint etching, framed in classic wooden frame. Handprinted on high quality traditional printing paper, acid free, natural white, mould-made, 310gsm. Motive size approx. 12 x 12 cm (4.7 x 4.7 in) on beautiful high quality etching paper (full format 7.9 x 11.8 in).Original artist print in limited edition of 6 original prints.
Beautiful handmade art print from copper plate with wooden glas frame and matching passepartout paper frame to support the beauty of this artwork. Motive size approx. 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 in) on etching paper, complete with frame (format 8 x 8 in) and passepartout. Drypoint combined with aquatint etching, framed in classic wooden frame. Handprinted on high quality traditional printing paper, acid free, natural white, mould-made, 310gsm. Original artist print in limited edition of 6 original prints
The knobbly beetle moves nimbly on a petite bicycle, which is probably a racing bike. He pedals hard with four of his six legs, as his bike is a special model with two pairs of pedals, the single tandem for the six-legged friend. He stretches out his feelers and heads forwards. Where do you think the journey will take him? His wings shine dark blue and light blue, the lines of ink are strong in places and stand high. You could almost feel this carapace, as if it were made of real chitin.Delicate ink drawing on a small sheet of drawing paper. The motif measures approximately 15 x 15 cm.
High-quality art print on a 20 x 20 cm sheet, the motif measures approx. 15 x 15 cm. Signed by the artist, numbered and limited edition of 100.The knobbly beetle moves nimbly on a petite bicycle, which is probably a racing bike. He pedals hard with four of his six legs, as his bike is a special model with two pairs of pedals, the single tandem for the six-legged friend. He stretches out his feelers and heads forwards. Where do you think the journey will take him? His wings shine dark blue and light blue, the lines of ink are strong in places and stand high. You could almost feel this carapace, as if it were made of real chitin.
Original ink drawingThe artist is using a steel nib and black and yellow ink. Delicate lines create an impression of depth of the scene. A small cup in front of a wall, lightened by an old-fashioned lamp, creating sort of a stage for the coffee cup.What comes to your mind when you think of "dark"?When she thinks of the word "dark", coffee spontaneously comes to mind: dark, strong, powerful. The drawing shows us a small cup with the fine hot drink in the spotlight of an imaginary street scene with a nostalgic street lamp. A dark wall forms the frame. The bright yellow of the ink shows that the artist herself is very fond of black coffee.
For "Dizzy", the artist associated the well-known jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and draws him practising his art with a moving, swinging nib. With yellow details that make the drawing seem so alive. Framed in a black lacquered wood and glass exchangeable frame with matching passe-partout in cream white. Motif size approx. 14 x 19 cm
Frame size 24 x 30 cm
What enchants you? The frog is enchanted by the wonderful tunes of the accordion in a tango dance … so he starts moving his feet and dreaming of a tango with his frog partner.
The artist isn't afraid of inventing grotesk moments when thinking about the daily drawing prompt - an "enchanting" result!
This ink drawing was created under the term "frail". The artist remembers a trip to southern Italy: a lighthouse is enthroned on the remaining rocky remains of Strombolicchio and still gives orientation to ship travellers today. The small rocky island off Stromboli looks fragile when you sail around it by boat, even though it rises steeply out of the Mediterranean from pure volcanic rock.
The ink was used to great effect on the rock formation. The black passe-partout underlines the fine drama of the small scene. Framed in an exchangeable glass frame with black wood (pine) - 7.9 x 7.9 in (20 x 20 cm)
matching black passepartout with white core.
Classic coffee pot, cup, mug - all in gold with engraved lettering: Hidden Championne. A hidden champion is a woman, read female, who is dedicated, committed, takes on care work, has created, invented and contributed great things - and yet is neither seen nor sufficiently appreciated for it, not to mention not rewarded.
There have been many hidden champions since people have been living in societies. In the art project "Hidden Championnes", artist Roxana Panetta aims to make a few of the many hidden heroines visible: with paintings in the style of the era in which the woman worked, with portraits in her own style and with this golden cup. A gift for a woman to herself or to another woman who needs to be seen. #hiddenchampionnes Limited series Mug features: make visible who you are with every sip Filling volume: standard 350ml Dishwasher safe: no (gold coating doesn't like the heat, better to wash by hand)
"I affectionately call it Warnie," explains S. (Landscape near Warngau, South Bavaria) A dramatic cloud formation hovers over the rolling hills near Warngau, reflecting the last rays of sunlight of the day. At dusk, we can see a farmhouse on the horizon, blades of grass bending in the evening breeze at the edge of the path ahead. The artist herself attributes the idiosyncratic, very narrow portrait format for a landscape depiction to her social media - namely Instagram - consumption.
The notion of "injured" infused the artist's inspiration to draw this peculiar scene with an injured heart laying in a hospital bed. Will it be cured? What will be the cure?
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) was a Danish geophysicist and the first dedicated seismologist. She observed deviant waves after a major earthquake in New Zealand in 1929 and then proved in 1936 that the earth must have a hard core - and not, as previously assumed, a liquid magma core. Inge Lehmann researched and published throughout her life, most recently in 1987, when she was almost 90 years old. In an interview, she once soberly stated: "You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with in vain." The painting technique of this work The basis is a white canvas, which initially was colored with ink in a random process. In the next step, the artist paints the portrait on these colored areas. The idea behind this type of representation is the fact that women and their contributions are not seen clearly and unambiguously. The portrait series aims to make women and their achievements - like Inge Lehmann - more visible and thus better known. About the portrait This portrait is based on a historical photo of Inge Lehmann from the 1930s - the very time in which she made and proved her most important groundbreaking discovery. The choice of green as the color for her jacket is an artistic interpretation. Who was Inge Lehmann? Lehmann, who had studied mathematics at the Universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge, investigated how the energy released by earthquakes moves through the earth. While examining data from a major earthquake in New Zealand in 1929, she discovered that energy waves in the earth's layers, known as seismic waves, occurred in unexpected places.She suspected that they must have been deflected by some kind of boundary in the earth's core.This led her to theorize in 1936 that the Earth's core consists of two parts: a solid metal core surrounded by an outer liquid core, disproving the common theory of a completely liquid core.Despite her success, Lehmann recounted how she struggled against the male-dominated research community, once remarking: "You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with in vain." In addition to numerous awards and honors for her scientific achievements, a beetle species Globicornis (Hadrotoma) ingelehmannae was named after her in 2015.
A view over the rooftops of Haidhausen in Munich, Bavaria, just before a thunderstorm. A few last rays of sunlight graze the gables and chimneys. A dark weather front is building up behind the skyscrapers and the Ferris wheel at Ostbahnhof.The artist herself attributes the idiosyncratic, very narrow portrait format for a landscape depiction to her social media - namely Instagram - consumption.
Trota de Salerno (~1090-1160) was a physician and gynecologist from Salerno (Italy), where a large community practiced medicine in the 11th century. Trota de Salerno summarized the knowledge about the female body and the treatment of female ailments in a large collection of writings, later known as the "Trotula". This book was the standard work on gynecology for centuries and was distributed throughout Europe. A monk once changed her name to "Trotulus", as he probably thought a female name was a mistake. Later, in the 19th century, a historian wanted to know Trota not as a doctor but as a midwife. The fact that women and their abilities were considered untrustworthy and that they "should actually be men" is not uncommon in historiography, which has been dominated by men right up to the present day. The painting technique of this workThe basis is a white canvas, which was colored with ink in a random process. In the next step, the artist paints the portrait on these colored areas. The idea behind this type of representation is the fact that women and their contributions are not seen clearly and unambiguously. The portrait series aims to make women and their achievements - like Inge Lehmann - more visible and thus better known. About the portrait This portrait is based on the image of Trota de Salerno in a manuscript from the 12th century.It is therefore not a portrait in the usual sense - there are no sources about Trota's appearance.
The word "Trotulus" is crossed out on the picture, below which is written: Trota de Salerno - in a medieval calligraphy. Who was Trota de Salerno? Trota de Salerno (also known as Trocta) was a doctor and medical writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the first or middle decades of the 12th century. She propagated cleanliness, a balanced diet, exercise and the avoidance of stress - a very modern combination. Her book "De curis mulierum" on women's illnesses was very progressive for the time.Her fame spread as far as France and England in the 12th and 13th centuries.After that, apart from a distorted image of her work that survived in the Trotula treatises, her work fell into oblivion until it was rediscovered in the late 20th century.How did Trota come to write down these texts? The literacy of women in southern Italy at this time is not well documented, which raises the question of why the "De curis mulierum" was written down at all.One scholar, Dr. Monica Green (Professor of Modern Early History, Arizona State University), now suspects that "De curis mulierum" may not have been written down for the benefit of women in Salerno, but for an audience in England who wanted general information about medical practices in distant Salerno. Both England and southern Italy were under Norman rule at this time, and the transfer of southern Italian medical writings to Normandy and especially to England is well documented for this period. The manuscript in which we find the earliest copy of the original version of De curis mulierum (from the early 13th century) appears to have been written in both Italy and England.
Margaret Crane (*1941 in the USA) is a graphic designer and inventor of the pregnancy test for home use. Her idea and prototype were recognized in 2 patents (1969).However, the home pregnancy test was not successfully launched on the US market until much later (around 1977). Despite its success, Margaret Crane never saw a penny for her patented invention. The painting technique of this work The basis is a white canvas, which was colored with ink in a random process. In the next step, the artist paints the portrait into the resulting areas. The idea behind this type of representation is the fact that women and their contributions are not seen clearly and unambiguously. The portrait series aims to make women like Margaret Crane more visible and thus better known. Who is Margaret Crane? At the age of 26, Crane was hired by the pharmaceutical company Organon in 1967 to work on a new line of cosmetics for the company.When she visited the company's laboratory one day, she noticed a lot of test tubes.She asked curiously, and to her surprise, they were pregnancy tests - for use by doctors. Each test tube contained reagents that, when mixed with the urine of a pregnant woman, indicated pregnancy by forming a red ring at the bottom of the test tube. Inspired by this, Crane saw the possibility of using this as a home pregnancy test.She thought it was so simple that women could perform this test at home without medical supervision, and in a quicker way.Crane had no prior scientific knowledge, but she wanted the pregnancy test to be a private matter for every woman. So Crane took matters into her own hands and began working on her prototype at her home in New York.She designed her first model, which resembled the tests she had observed in her laboratory.Her idea and the prototype were rigorously rejected.Nevertheless, her employer Organon applied for patents on her behalf in 1969, which were accepted.Years later, in 1977, the model proposed by Crane was sold throughout the USA under the name "Predictor".
Although her name was on the patents for the device, Organon licensed the product to three over-the-counter pharmaceutical companies, and Crane never received a penny for her design. She had to sign away her rights for a dollar and never saw that dollar.
Crane and her partner Ira Sturtevant, who supported Crane in her endeavors, later formed an advertising and design firm called Ponzi & Weill.
The ornament in Tango Argentino is a free decorative movement of the female dancer – or more correct: the follower. It occurs when the leader leaves time and space for her to express her idea of the music in this very moment. In this ink drawing we see a couple from above and the different stages of movement of her leg. Her yellow dress makes the scene ever more so lively. Created in October 2019, at the occasion of a (now) famous ink drawing challenge on instagram.
Drawn with a steel nib … and composed of thousands dots. A pattern of migrating birds over a wide sky.
Black and yellow ink on drawing paper. Framed in beautiful glas frame with light oak finish, with matching passepartout. Frame size: 9.4 x 12 in. Art size: 7.5 x 5.5 in.
Henrietta Vansittart, née Lowe (1840-1883) was a British engineer. After the death of her father, she developed his propeller design to patent maturity. Without attending formal school or university, she achieved what her father had previously failed to do: she was awarded a US patent (1868) and numerous other patents for the invention, which saved fuel and thus made shipping more efficient at the time. The technique of this workThe artist mixes oil paint with ink, which forms the basis of this depiction in an experimental process. First, a fine preliminary drawing is made on the canvas with light, thinly applied oil paint. (Some of these contours can be seen below right.) After the underpainting has dried, the canvas is randomly colored with water and ink. This creates surfaces and areas that are not wetted by the ink. In the final step, the artist fills in all the remaining areas with oil paint. About the portrait There is only one documented depiction of Henrietta Vansittart that actually shows her: On a newspaper page, you can see her holding a greatly reduced model of her ship's propeller. The original image is black and white. The artist imagines a color scheme for the engineer's clothing and hair color.
Enjoy the Ride! A simple prompt turned into a scene full of energy and thrill. An imaginary roller coaster with a rider to enjoy the speed and acceleration … see how the wind distorts the riders facial expression …
A humorous scene: The artist associates the term "sling" with a chameleon that catches a fly with its tongue. Like a slingshot, the tongue "flicks" so fast that it catches the fly completely by surprise. The expression of the fly is clear. Small original ink drawing in black and white with accents in bright yellow ink. Framed in a glass interchangeable frame with white wood (7.9 x 7.9 in / 20 x 20 cm) and modern medium grey passe-partout, which nicely accentuates the approx. 5,1 x 4.3 in (13 x 11 cm) motif.
A storm moves across the landscape and whirls the last leaves from the tree, which bends under the force of the wind. A cyclist moves across the landscape. The clouds drift ominously over the scenery.
The interplay of ink on wet paper creates an effective stormy atmosphere. Small details like flying leaves are drawn with the steel pen. Framed original with anthracite passe-partout in a glass interchangeable frame with matching dark grey wooden frame on 7.9 x 7.9 in (20 x 20 cm).
Swing! The spontaneous association with this term is not the musical style, but a forest dweller swinging through the branches full of joie de vivre. The deliberately chosen naive style underlines the childlike joy of this movement. Original ink drawing in matching glass interchangeable frame with black lacquered wood (pine) Motif size: approx. 19 x 14 cm Frame size: 30 x 24 cm
A woman sits at a table with a starched tablecloth and keeps her eyes closed. A waiter stands behind her and gives the woman a hair wash with the expensive champagne of a very well-known brand. However, this seemingly surreal scene could take place in exactly the same way; nothing in this painting contradicts reality or the laws of physics. Only our ideas of what we consider appropriate make this scene surreal.
Artist drawing with steel nib, using black and yellow ink.A great amount of detail invites the viewer to endulge into that moment of finding a "treasure" in an unexpected place: the office container. Here the treasure is a bar of chocolate. Artist ink drawing A true treasure is the one you discover: for example, the forgotten bar of chocolate in the drawer in the roll container next to your desk. For some, a promising treasure in the afternoon to get the energy back up at the computer. The artist obviously knows this moment too and shows us the view from above into this drawer, where the chocolate beams at us as if with a halo. Ink drawing with many details, water meets ink colour effects and details drawn freehand with the steel nib.
In this picture, the graphic details of the steel pen are combined with the two-dimensional effects of watercolours. Painted on acid-free watercolour board with a coarse laid paper texture. A bunch of tulips sway under an invisible breeze. Full flowers with red petals that fade into red-yellow at the base of the stems. In the background, like shadows, blossoms without colour that only reveal themselves through light blue spots - like missing parts.
Many very fine, short strokes give the motif rhythm and depth. Lines follow the contours of the natural forms almost hesitantly.
The artist takes up the fine ramifications and in places deep dark areas created with the indigo blue ink to associatively establish a sky behind the colour edge with light blue. The foreground is dominated by red, brown and rust tones. The eye moves over the surfaces, loses itself in the finest facets of the dried ink and then glides further over contrasting flat areas of colour. Is depth created here? Or not in the end? The use of chance and colour creates a motif that searches for forms in our eyes. "Clouds over the glacier" is the artist's own association. What do you see?Motif 1 from the "Wastelands" seriesFor this series the artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work.
The intuitively perceptible landscape in the present motif "Perhaps on Mars" is revealed by looking at the bright green centre: around this centre, various areas of colour run their course, interrupted here and there by dabs of ultramarine blue. Rust-brown cloud-like shapes float through the foreground on the left, pointed edges protrude coolly - is this the view from a shelter out into a barren, inhospitable environment?Motif 3 from the "Wastelands" seriesFor this series the artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work.
Stories move our thoughts - so it happens that just one element in the title is enough to go in search of how this storm has shaped the forest, as in "Storm in the Forest". Where do the branches and trees sway and bend under the storm, are leaves and dust flying, is my view of the sky obscured? This small oil painting was created by chance, intentionally without any recognisable forms of our imagination. What do you recognise? What mood does the picture create in you?Motif 4 from the "Wastelands" series For this series the artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work. There is nothing to recognise here, the motif is deliberately placed on the edge between the abstract and the figurative.
In this motif "Red Rocks", a large red-orange shaded ink area characterises the overall colour scheme: a dark blue-grey-blue colour surrounds this centre in a strong complementary contrast. Golden ochre-coloured traces are spread across the rock-like structure, which tears away towards the bottom right and provokes completely different associations: a cat that has been run over? A lizard crawling down towards the centre? A human in a forward bend yoga pose? Step by step, our eyes scan the shapes, transitions and lines to find meaning. It's almost as if it can't come to rest any sooner. Try a meditation exercise in front of the picture: look at it, let the colours and shapes work their magic on you, but at the same time let any thoughts of recognition slip away.Motif 5 from the "Wastelands" series For this series the artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work. There is nothing to recognise here, the motif is deliberately placed on the edge between the abstract and the figurative.
Motif 6 from the "Wastelands" series The artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work.
In the motif "Floating green cloud with castle tower", a large green surface - created with ink using a random process - forms the centre. On the outside, a skin tone contrasts with it and makes it seem to float like a cloud. At the top left, the weather seems to be deteriorating. And at the bottom centre, a bird seems to be in a dive, directly towards a heron or rooster making itself large. And isn't that a dog on the right, sticking its nose up into the sky? Our brain wants to find meaning and spins a meaningful form out of random colours, gradients, brightness, lines and surfaces. As humans, we have been conditioned to the figurative world. What do you discover in this painting?
"Ruby mountain in darkness" is the only painting in this abstract landscape series that was created purely in oil paint and painted on a wooden panel. A dark, shimmering red draws the eye to the centre of this abstract scene, which is covered in dots in the foreground, with a warm, almost white band floating above. Dark, muted shades of green create the illusion of a mountainous landscape. A dark fairy tale could have found its place here.Motif 7 from the "Wastelands" series For this series the artist chooses random processes in order not to throw away colours left on the palette at the end of a session, but to incorporate them into a new work.
A natural scene with a diver and a whale shark. Sumptuous effects with melting ink in beautiful, deep indigo tones. Small art print with a fine level of detail. Printed on high quality 100% cotton paper with a very subtle, soft surface quality and impressive sharp details. You almost can't tell it's not painted but printed.Limited Edition (10 prints)
