Barbara Quandt Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1947 -

Barbara Quandt worked from 1965 to 1970 as a technical illustrator at Siemens and then at Schering . From 1970 to 1976 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin with Hans Kuhn and Karl Horst Hödicke . During her studies she worked in the adventure playground Wutzkyallee , she built with. From 1976-81 she was socialeducational painting lessons at the juvenile prison Plötzensee . She found her own style in the 1970s, in the circle of " New Wild Ones ".

In 1978, she went with a DAAD scholarship to London at the St. Martins School of Art . In 1982, she was with a PS1 scholarship in New York . 1983-84 she received a studio scholarship at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. During this time, she made ??for the theater of the Freie Volksbühne , directed by Kurt Hübner set the stage for " Charley's Aunt ".

In 1986 she went for a few months after Tanzania and 1987-88 to Chicago , then she received from the gallery Walter Bischoff a scholarship in San José .

This was followed by work stays in Buenos Aires and Madrid , and in 1996 a scholarship to Apt in Provence . In 1997 she went to Alaska , after which the book 50 ° The expedition of Gertrude Kronthaler in Alaska was created in 1896 in 1898.

In 2003 she received a lectureship for design theory at the Burg Giebichenstein , University of Art and Design in Halle . From 2006 to 2008 she toured Russia. Since 2008, the artist works in Lehnitz and Berlin.
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Travel in the head and in the world are the basis of her art. Man forms the focal point. Each subject area is a closed cycle, which is defined by its individuality. The individual images relate to each other, complement each other in their motives.

Your painting is based on a representational narrative imagery and is characterized by a great stylistic variety. Expressions and styles are used as raw material. Ideas evolve from time and place. Emotion and sensuality are important to her, shapes, colors and concepts to be explicitly used.