Artist Biography Sieglinde Wagner
Born in 1961 in Ampflwang/i.H., Upper Austria
Dipl. Visual Artist, Dipl. Art Therapist, Socialworker and Psychotherapeutin in Ausbildung unter Supervision
- Exhibitions since 1984
- Workshops in Painting since 1995
- Workshops with the theme "Art and Therapy" since 1998
- Art Therapy in process and focused on a solution with individuals and groups with youngsters, grown ups, and for men with special demands since 1994
- Workshops with the themes centered in painting, graphics and drumming
- Courses in "Art and Sensitivity" since 1995
Artist in Residence
- Diploma in painting from Paul Rotterdam, New York
- Wood engraving by Prof. Donin
- Human body study by Mag. Art Morawitzky and Zeeger van Soest
- „Visions“ by Yolanda Tabanera, European Artist Academy Trier
- Whole-body sculpture in a plaster figure by Peter Rübsam, European Artist Academy Trier
- Drawing and body study intensive by Zeeger van Soest, Holland
- Northern Germany, France, Italy, Mexico and Northern England
- In 1999 official announcement from the Austrian Government to be a Visual Artist
- Diploma from ÖAGG for being an Art Therapist and for working in this field
- Member of IG Visual Aritsts International
Press Release from the New Yorker Art Magazin "ArtiSpectrum"
Sieglinde Wagners mixed media work runs the gamut from full abstraction to figurative paintings. Her careful, focused attention to her subjects and themes is surpassed only by her fine-tuned sense of rhythm, color, and movement. Wagner´s lines have a pulsing, vibrating quality. Her abstracts on daringly thin vertical canvases leap from the surface with jittery, frenetic, yet somehow graceful movement, charged with electric emotion. Even when her work is figurative and less attentive to individual lines and strokes of pigment, energetic lines within the piece still remain. The rhythms these lines create are the hallmark of her work. The dialogue is most important between me and my work, "explains Wagner. "My hands are doing, and at the same time I am lost in contemplation." The result allows the artist to engage her audience with her inner dialogue through her art, sharing with them a part of herself and her process.
Sieglinde Wagner was born in Ampflwang, Austria. She lives and works in Vienna.
