County - The word "fragile" can also mean grandiose.
At least in the case of the fragile objects by Doris Trummer, who received this year's art prize from the district of Landsberg for her life's work.
However, the award winner herself is fragile in the sense of being fragile. Despite her MS handicap, she has made magical clothing and textiles from leaves, blossoms, seeds, wasp nests or even spider webs.
The object artist, who lives in Schondorf, wants to use these materials to draw attention to the simultaneous beauty and transience of nature.
Also because they are closely interwoven with their destiny.
As an aspiring artist and young mother, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) 34 years ago, but this has not stopped her from her creative work to this day, despite her wheelchair.
Since the renowned Bellerive Museum in Zurich bought Trummer's "moonlight dress" made from the fabric of the tree moth in 2000, the "magician of natural materials" has been invited to countless exhibitions.
The focus is on her cape made of oak leaves, a child's shirt made of dandelion umbrellas, haute couture and a blanket made of wasps' nests, gloves made of daisies or elegant women's shoes made of thousands of hydrangea flowers.
They also adorn the invitation to the art award ceremony on May 5th in the Landsberg district office.
The invitation was designed by Trummer's daughter Heidrun, who is also an artist and works as a communication designer.
The laudation for Doris Trummer will be given by the art and design historian Christian Burchard from Eresing, a long-time companion and fan of her art of “creating fragile clothing fragments from ephemeral or short-lived natural fabrics.”
For the musical design of the ceremony, Doris Trummer was able to win over the classical guitarist Laura Lootens, whose music enchanted her at last year's chapel day in Oberfinningen's St. Sebastian Church.
"I just called her and asked.
I was incredibly happy about her spontaneous yes," says Trummer.
Because her music, like the natural objects, is colorful, versatile, strong and yet fragile at the same time.
Laura Lootens has just won the world's most important guitar competition "Andrés Segovia" in Spain.
Doris Trummer considers it a great honor that she still stands by her Landsberg commitment with this boost in popularity.
Of course, objects by Doris Trummer will also be shown at the award ceremony and their complicated origin will be explained.
The hydrangea blossoms of the "Elegant Ladies' Shoes", for example, were carefully ironed smooth with the help of a friend and glued to transparent film with a great deal of sensitivity and patience using acrylic binders.
From this, the artist then formed the shoes, which always cause great amazement in her exhibitions.
As in the Schondorfer 'Studio Rose', in Dießen's 'Kleine Format', in the 'Lebensspuren' in Kempfenhausen Castle, in 'Art Keeps Watch' in Landsberg or in the Uttingen 'Kunstraum B1'.
Doris Trummer is currently working on pear portraits.
With watercolor paints and colored pencils, she draws every color nuance and every spot of her “models” from the meadow orchard or the supermarket down to the last detail.
The finished portraits are then mounted on white wooden cubes.
When hung on the wall, they look amazingly three-dimensional.
Doris Trummer, born in 1960, comes from Nördlingen.
She studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Professors Bernhard Weißhaar (Landsberg) and Rudi Tröger.
She was awarded a "studio grant" by the government of Upper Bavaria.
Her career as a freelance artist began in Schwäbisch Hall.
In 1991 she moved to Utting and in 2001 to her own little house in Schondorf.
There she works from a wheelchair, so to speak, in the home office, as she humorously emphasizes despite her handicap.
Always helpful at her side is her husband Heinrich Trummer, who has switched from teaching to being a nurse.
The Landsberg Art Prize is now going to the Ammersee for the third time.
In 2019 the painter Mica Knorr-Borocco from Uttingen received an award and in 2020 the Greifenberg glass painter and sculptor Helmut Kästl.
