Day of open studios: Wörthsee artists give an insight into their work

Created: 2022-07-25Updated: 2022-07-25 09:09

As part of the open studios day, visitors were able to look over the shoulders of a number of Wörthsee artists.

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Wörthsee - Wörthsee wants to offer its numerous artists a broad platform.

On Saturday, the "Open Studio Day" invited a diverse audience to look, marvel and even participate.

Between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., 15 Wörthsee artists presented their work on site in their own workshop, studio or garden.

Already on Friday, the vernissage allowed first insights - each artist brought one of his works to the town hall. "We are proud that so many are taking part.

If you look at all the artists in Wörthsee as a whole, then you already have a large number," says Juliane Seeliger-von Gemmingen, cultural officer of the municipality and is happy about the second event of this kind, as is Mayor Christel Muggenthal: "It didn't exist before , we can be happy about that.

You can talk to the artists and ask questions.”

Seelinger-von Gemmingen emphasizes: "Discussions, networking - that's what it's really about.

Art creates encounters, art enriches.” The two skilled craftsmen Maximilian Allgaier (wood) and Alex Erb (metal) have a pioneering position in the pool of artists.

In Allgaier's Walchstadt workshop, woodwork mutates into inspired art objects.

His illuminated stele made of old wood in the foyer of the town hall made an impression on Friday.

The worm-eaten wood undoubtedly has history, coming from an old post in Venice, attacked by salt water and with a touch of nostalgia.

While the community would like more craftsmen for their studio day in the future, the Raistingen artist Max Mirlach also explained: “In my eyes, every creative person is an artist.

No matter what he does.

Every art is a craft.

Where does craftsmanship end and where does art begin ?.” At the vernissage, Mirlach presented the model of his spindle, which as a sculpture over five meters tall had already made a name for itself at the Birkenweg bathing area and was unfortunately recently damaged.

Claudia Harbauer presented colorful richness in acrylic mixed media with her picture "Bud".

During the Corona period, she only drew in black and white.

“After that time I really needed color, the inside came out again.

Red, pink, orange,” says the painter, who, together with her colleague Susanne Ehrlich, offered workshops on monotypes at the Etterschlager Handwerkerhof on Saturday.

With her act "Good Vibes" in acrylic mixed media, Ehrlicht also brought good vibes to the town hall on Friday: "I'm a rather calm painter, the orange is daring because there has to be a bit of fire involved." 

On Saturday, Anselm Freytag invited people to actively design his pottery in his mother Beatrice Sichart's garden in Steinebach.

"Vases and plates that are glazed can be painted on yourself," says the artist, who showed an unconventional vase using the construction technique in the town hall: "It sinks in, should give itself its shape." Freytag's love of art became, so to speak, a love of art in the cradle - by mother Sichart, who has been painting since she was young and presented a dream of light and air in watercolor at the vernissage.

"It was important to me to capture light and shadow, the picture was taken outdoors on location in Greece."

Professional photographer Biene Ulrike Schmid created a connection to her homeland in her barn.

Full-time firmly anchored in the field of food photography, her real passion is water.

The Steinebach resident deliberately set the XXL eye-catcher for the barn exhibition: "This is water from Lake Wörthsee."

Nilda Frangos