Dagmar Calais
Dagmar Calais (born 1966 in Bremen) is a German painter and installation artist.
Life
Dagmar Calais, after attending a technical secondary school, received her artistic training from the painter Professor Hans-Hendrik Grimmling in Berlin, and in Bremen from art historian Chris Steinbrecher, to whom she is also married. She is co-founder of the OGO-Kuenstlerhaus in Bremen.
Work
As a painter, Dagmar Calais is multifaceted. In her figurative-oriented, expressive and colour-saturated paintings, she has dedicated herself to representations of landscapes, mainly themes from the Antique, Mythology and the Old Testament, but also from recent German history. A further focal point of her creativity is in the concept and execution of large-scale installations. Themes displayed are the division of Germany and the crimes committed against Jews, for memorials and museums, like Gedenkstaette Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaustmuseum, Borderland Museum Eichsfeld and town hall of Bremen.
Publications (Selection)
- Magazin "Vital" 4/99, Regine Schneider: "Dagmar Calais, Malerin"
- Magazin "Der Stern" 15/2000, Kuno Kruse: "Ein Bild von einer Frau"
- Xzeit-Magazin 8/2001, Alexander Musik: "Die Leute brauchen etwas Heiliges"
- Bremen-Theresienstadt-Riga. 3000 Fates, 2015. book for the exhibition of Chris Steinbrecher
Public collections
- Gedenkstaette Deutsche Teilung Marienborn
- Terezín Memorial Museum
- Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth
External links
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