Starnberg Art Prize goes to Entrachingerin
Created: 2022-11-28 09:04
By: Astrid Amelungse-Kurth
Three award winners, one winner (from left): Daniela Fugger-Antonacci, winner, Jeanne Dees, and Birgit Rörig, third, with their works in the Starnberger See Museum.
© Dagmar Rutt
Jeanne Dees is the name of the artist who won the 17th Art Prize of the City of Starnberg.
Second prize went to Daniela Fugger-Antonacci, third prize went to Birgit Rörig.
Starnberg – Anyone who wins the Art Prize of the City of Starnberg gets one thing above all: time.
And two years.
That's how long prize winner Jeanne Dees from Entraching (Finning municipality) can work in peace in the city's Paul Thiem studio on Josef-Fischhaber-Straße from January.
This experience has given many art prize winners an enormous boost in their artistic development, and most of them have found their very own signature during this time.
In addition, after these two years, the city organizes a solo exhibition for the art award winners, combined with the financing of a catalog with which the artists can present themselves professionally.
Daniela Fugger-Antonacci from Sibichhausen (municipality of Berg) received second prize.
According to the jury, her works convinced with their “gestural, powerfully dynamic painting”, which, with its graphic elements, leads to associative discoveries.
The interior designer has been in Juschi Bannaski's open painting group for 20 years.
Third prize went to Birgit Rörig from Gauting, an artist who makes structures float.
Art Prize of the City of Starnberg: The jury did not find it easy to make a decision
The decision was not easy for the jury.
"We had lively discussions and after six hours of consultation we were pretty much in agreement," said Katharina Kreye on the sidelines of the award ceremony and the opening of the exhibition, in which 69 artists each presented two to three works.
These can be seen in the next two weeks because of the renovation of the Schlossberghalle in the Museum Starnberger See.
This is the real main prize for art, artists, art lovers and the city.
Because the museum offers a much more dignified setting for art exhibitions than the functional Schlossberghalle.
In addition, the museum, which is close to the train station and the lake, also attracts visitors from outside who will certainly use the opportunity to discover the museum.
So a win-win situation.
Contemplation, calm, organic forms - these are the attributes of the work of the art award winner Dees, who previously shared a studio in Entraching with a colleague.
It will probably be lonely for her colleague in the coming year, Dees suspects.
She found her way to painting at Susanne Hauenstein's painting school in Andechs.
She later attended Aleksandar Kolenc's drawing studio in Munich and painting courses from Ingrid Floss before taking courses from Jerry Zeniuc for three years.
Today she says confidently: "I have the color palette in my body.
A spectrum of colors that keeps coming up.” Dees' approach to painting is her moods.
"Surface and line always harmonize with each other," she says, adding, "I paint slowly.
My paintings take a long time.
It's often a week-long process.
What does she expect from working in the Thiem studio?
"Not too much," she says.
But at least "the freedom to be able to paint freely in the studio."
Pictures of all participants are on display in the Starnberger See Museum until mid-December
The pictures of all participants can be seen in the museum until December 11th during the opening hours.
The variety of work is enormous.
It was deliberately "hung wildly", as regional manager Daniela Tewes emphasizes.
She didn't want an exhibition in the usual sense, but a presentation of diversity.
Once again it is true that you live in a creative district where there are numerous artistic talents to be discovered.
