Udo Gottfried
Drawing is an activity using tools that leave traces and are suitable to visualize the elementary original forces in a unique manner that are often beyond any possibility of being voiced. As one of the ancient means of mankind, drawing is able to display and project hence is an essential instrument of conclusion, to describe and comprehend the WORLD and MYSELF.
ART-MAKING
is like a never-ending SOLILOQUY
To help students get into contact with themselves is my number one task.
Target: Find and express the individual artistic vision.
At the beginning of the semester we specify subject and materials used. Within these parameters students develop their own visual answers and their conceptional framework. In a continuous dialogue with lecturer and fellow students formal questions and those with regard to content are communicated to find their �shape� in a final presentation and their oral �justification�.
Education and Career:
1952 born in Waldmichelbach in the Odenwald
1976-1980 Study Communication Design, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden
1980�1985 Study Philosophy and Art History, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
since 1989 Lecturer for Free Drawing at the Institute of Ceramic and Glass Arts as part of the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz
1993 �1994 Lectureship for Drawing, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
1994 Co-founder of the PRODUZENTENGALERIE WIESBADEN
Works in public collections:
Kulturamt der Stadt Wiesbaden, Landeszentralbank Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutsche Bank Wiesbaden, Nassauische Sparkasse Wiesbaden, Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822 Landesmuseum Rheinland-Pfalz Mainz, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbadener Volksbank
Distinctions:
1. Prize winner Kunstpreis of the town of Kirn for Painting 1985 1. Prize winner ESWE Kunstpreis of the Stadtwerke Wiesbaden AG for Painting 1987
Contact:
UDO W. GOTTFRIED
Seerobenstr. 5
65195 Wiesbaden
tel-fax 06 11 - 52 66 81
mobil 01 62 - 4 24 58 54
