“Letter O (Buchstabe O)” | special limited edition | printed graphic
The works of artist Dorothee von Windheim are concerned with the depiction and documentation of time and reality. She became known for her prints and copies of famous Italian frescoes. She materializes history and preserves architectural, social or personal traces. Furthermore, she also uses cloths and jacquard fabrics, for example, and weaves faces into fabrics.
During her working stay in Florence, she intensively studied the artistic technique of fresco. In the Koenigshof Collection, she is represented with a work that depicts the imprint of such a work of art and thus formulates a historical alphabet, here with the letter O.
Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection
VITA DOROTHEE VON WINDHEIM (short form)
Dorothee von Windheim was born in Volmerdingsen 1945, district of Minden | 1965-72 Hochschule für bildenden Künste Hamburg with Prof. Gotthard Graubner | 1971-75 working in Florence, restorer of frescoes in the Palazzo Pitti, Italy | 1977-1980 working in Paris, France | 1980-1981 visiting professor at the University of Essen | 1987-1988 visiting professor at the University of Giessen | 1988, 1996 and 2001 International Summer Academy Salzburg | since 1989 Professor of Old and New Artistic Media at the Kunsthochschule Kassel
AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS AND WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE (selection)
1971-72 DAAD Scholarship Florence, Italy | 1975 Guest residency at Villa Romana Florence, Italy | 1977 Scholarship Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, France | 1978 Böttcherstrasse Art Prize, Bremen | 1982 Project funding from Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn | 1988 Willi-Grohmann-Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin | 1996 Maria-Sibylla-Merian-Prize of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, Wiesbaden | 1998 Gebhard-Fugel-Art-Prize of the German Society for Christian Art, Munich
1977 documenta 6, Kassel | 1979 Kunsthalle Kiel and Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein | 1991 Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach | 1995 Kunstverein Augsburg | 1996 Museum Wiesbaden | 2002 Heidelberger Kunstverein | 2003 Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen | 2007 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund | 2015 Schloss Rheinsberg
1982 “Burial of a chunk of wall stone in the Podio del Mondo per l’Arte, Middelburg, Netherlands | 1987-88 “On Transience”, Street of Sculptures – Street of Peace, St. Wendel district | 1990 “Work for Hanau” Sculpture Park Philippsruhe Castle, Hanau | 1993 “Shadow Line” Carrara marble Aegidien church ruins Hanau