Kathinka Collin-Schönberg

Multi-layered, seemingly transparent oil pastel paintings in the LAUDA FactoryGallery
Kathinka Collin-Schönberg shows us a profile of her large-sized paintings

01.10.2008 - 30.11.2008

The artist, Kathinka Collin-Schönberg, who lives in Wendelstein near Nuremberg, was born on 24 June 1953 as, what she herself terms, a “black sheep in the swallow’s nest or a cuckoo in the herd”. Soon after, she started “collecting, painting and drawing earthworms“. She enrolled in the Nuremburg Academy of Art where she was taught by Professor Margarethe Zimmermann, Professors Hans Wiedemann and, in particular, by Hermann Wilhelm, who supervised her work in painting class for many years. She finds her work “in painting, in dance and in horses“, (the order is chronological) as she says, and these are expressions of her gratitude to the animals and people, here and beyond, who helped her fashion life in a way that makes it worth living. Moulded by personal experiences, her environment and its influences, she tries to reflect all of these things in her large-sized oil pastel paintings. The seemingly transparent, multi-layered translucent applications with colour-relevant shading and somewhat cryptic subject matter, including optical illusions, give the viewers something to contemplate. Puzzles can be found embedded in a number of her works, which seek their own individual solutions. In her work, the artist is looking to strike a balance between figure-bound expression and free pantomime. The intensity of the colours and expression as well as the playfully light arrangement of her paintings are evidence of Kathinka Collin-Schönberg’s unmistakeable signature style. Titles like “Auf und davon” (“Up and Away”), "In Paradiesum" (“In Paradise”), "Vor? Oder zurück?" (“Forwards? Or Back?”), "Die nackige Meia" (“The Nude Meia”) and "Heilige Elisabeth oder Pferdeharfe“ (“Holy Elizabeth or Horse Harp”), to name but a few, inspire the viewer with their intense, almost philosophical depth of expression. Interested art-lovers can view the multi-layered oil pastel paintings, which are on display during company opening hours, in the LAUDA FactoryGallery until the end of November 2008. Please register first by calling +49 (0)93435030.

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