24 portraits of the DFB women

Created: 01/07/2023 13:06

Soccer women in pop art: Wesslingen artist Stefan Negele with a portrait of player Linda Dallmann.

In addition to their ability, they convinced me with their outstanding fairness.

Stefan Negele on the DFB soccer players © Andrea Jaksch

The Wesslingen artist Stefan Negele has created 24 portraits of the DFB soccer players.

The proceeds will go to youth work.

Individual players have already discovered the pictures on his Instagram page.

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– Stefan Negele (62) is a die-hard 1960s fan – and has been an ardent admirer of the German national team since the Women's Soccer Championship in Great Britain.

The Wesslingen artist decided to process the faces of the 24 players in pop art style.

He would like to give the paintings to the athletes – or exhibit and sell them in the home clubs.

In turn, he would like to donate the proceeds to promoting the talent of young footballers.

Forms flowing into one another, predominantly in soft blue tones, separated from one another by white lines, result in powerful portraits that are particularly effective from a distance.

The likeness of coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, for example, gets the aura of a chief's wife, the player Linda Dallmann gives the painting an almost fairy-like appearance, in her hair there is - so one believes - a red rose.

Stefan Negele came up with the idea after the game against France.

That same night, the man from Wessling picked up his paintbrush and began to photograph every single DFB woman.

The 62-year-old only gets creative after 11 p.m.

He worked on each painting for two to three days, going to bed at four in the morning and soon picking up his brush again during the day.

The result is mosaic-style art that appears alive.

Lina Magulls throws her fist in the air in the frenzy of victory, the exertion of the game is written all over her face.

Giulia Gwinn, on the other hand, winks happily and Sophia Kleinherne's braid springs like a leafy branch over the jersey.

One portrait after the other flowed from the brush, always following the example of pop artists like James Rizzi, but with the painter's very personal handwriting for a long time.

The result was 24 eye-catchers, for which the publishing salesman Negele sat down at the easel every free minute after work.

In the Christmas exhibition he presented the works to the audience for the first time (we reported).

Once upon a time, the father of two sons started with colorful fantasy figures made of wood, which gradually replaced the rotten fence slats on his property on Lilienweg.

Step by step he expanded his working area.

Stories were painted on the furniture and the guitars, until he finally took to the canvas and created mosaic-style pictures in acrylic.

Impressed by the fairness in the game and the technically and tactically excellent way of playing "the pretty girls", the portraits of the soccer women were created.

He uploaded each of the pictures to the Instagram photo platform and tagged those portrayed, whereupon even some DFB women put a “like” underneath.

On the platform he also shows a kind of “making of”: the pictures are created there step by step.

And there are many enthusiastic comments.

He will soon write to the players' clubs, such as Wolfsburg or Bayern.

With the offer to give them the paintings and the idea of ​​an exhibition.

The idea was that the proceeds from the sale should then flow into the youth work.

Because women are no longer inferior to men, says Negele.

On the contrary: "In addition to their ability, they convinced me with their outstanding fairness." Many a men's team could learn a lesson from that.

More about Stefan Negele is available at www.instagram.com/negelestefan/ or by email to stefan.negele@blues-pages.com.

Michele Kirner