Modern Art Paintings, C.Niehoff Abstrakte Landschaft I

• Work title: "Abstrakte Landschaft I"
• Artist Conny Niehoff
• Dimensions (portrait format): 90 x 90 cm
• Technique: Acrylic- mixed technique
• Material: finest acrylic paints on canvas (ready mounted real wooden stretcher)
• ready to hang delivery
• certificate of authenticity included
• signed and dated
• predominant colours: white, blue
  

The artist Conny Niehoff

Conny Niehoff, born in Wolmirstedt in 1968, found her visual language early on. The artist has defied fashions for years and persistently refines her elaborate painting in which material and motif complement each other. Niehoff lives and works freelance in her Studio in Colbitza rather sedate neighbourhood near Magdeburg. Niehoff enters it daily at set times, including weekends. A work discipline that she has continuously adhered to for 17 years in the same place.

From time to time she gives painting courses in the Munich area and holds workshops in her own studio. The knowledge of transience, visions of the world, the normal everyday life and the sensitivity for what surrounds us, are themes of the paintings of Conny Niehoff. Themes which she works out layer by layer to motifs on canvas. If these themes are initially intuitively subordinated to the color, they grow out of the picture again through the application of strong structures, without losing their abstraction. The implementation of this "negative technique" is particularly typical of Niehoff's paintings. In this way, layers that were originally applied are only partially covered up again. Selected sections of the background remain. These fixed areas of the picture reappear later as a spectacular focal point in the result and often prove significant for the overall composition.

Working method

Natural painting materials and acrylics are materials Conny Niehoff likes to work with. She applies thin glazes layer by layer on canvas. Each previously applied layer is covered over and is thus a thing of the past, but without being absent. Through the transparency inherent in this glazing technique, the working processes become visible as layers. In this way, almost deep-spatial structures are created, which make your works appear three-dimensional. Her choice of colours is rather limited. Conny Niehoff deliberately reduces them to friendly, light, completely natural colours, which nevertheless offer an "inexhaustible scope". The color white alone, the artist emphasizes, "offers a rich and ever new scope in my painting thanks to unrestrictedly free nuances and variations."
Many sketches precede Conny Niehoff's landscape and nude paintings, and even while the paintings are being created, the artist makes new notes before the motif, which, without the final result, seem like well thought-out, purposeful drafts.
Niehoff literally captures unbridledness in dialogue with the canvas and balances apparent tensions. Outside and inside, the foreign and the own are effective forces in her painting. The real and the unreal merge into one another. She allows the viewer to see through and ambiguity, lets him participate in the adventure of something new, unknown. Her pictures are diaries of her thoughts and views, show what she has experienced and seen, and yet leave enough room for everyone to make their own interpretation

Vita

    1968 in Wolmirstedt born
    1987 graduation Abitur
    1987 education studies in the field of history
    2000 business start-up seminar, since then freelance painter
    2012 Lecturer for abstract painting - Academy Wildkogel Kunstfabrik Vienna

National exhibitions (excerpt)

    Kultur 8bar Völklingen
    Kunstzentrum Berlin Tegel
    Haus für Kunst und Kultur Oldau/Hambühren
    Condor Digital Media (Berlin)
    Entre' Kultusministerium Magdeburg
    Strube Center/Art
    Romantik 2.0 Magdeburg
    Kunstkapelle Remplin
    Herbstsalon MDR Funkhaus Magdeburg
    Klosterkirche Grimma
    Galerie Abstrakte Momente Dresden

International Exhibitions

    Garibaldi/Mestre Italy
    Amiga Telecom Vienna
    Chagall Gallery Edmonton/Canada