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KARIN VOELKER
HOHMANN FINE ART
KARIN VOELKER
With a passion for paintings and a sense for color and texture, Karin Voelker has developed a style that made her easily distinguishable. Her female figures or still-lives and the occasional landscape are full of movement and intensity. The viewer can enter an imaginative and colorful world. With a background in Fashion, Karin Voelker studied Art at the prestigious “Hochschule Der Kuenste� (College of Fine Art) in Berlin for six years and 10 years with private art professors before she became a full time professional artist in 1998. Since then she has had a textbook career and her paintings have found their way into hundreds of collections in Europe and the US. Christian Hohmann
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TIME TO DREAM | Mixed Media on Canvas | 64” x 36”
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Born in 1958 in Kierspe, Germany, Karin Voelker studied art at the College of Fine Art in Berlin and has pursued her passion for painting as a professional artist living and working in Berlin. Karin Voelker’s creative works reflect a pleasure in powerful dance-like movement. Her focus is on naked and dancing figures full of energy and tension. The observer experiences how movement is sensuously felt and recreated as an intimate moment of a fleeting impression. The focal point of her pictures is the language of the body. The artist varies her technique by using rags in addition to pens, fine-tipped brushes and wide brushes. This means that, along with contours that delineate or insinuate forms, we also see forms which, through the interplay of light and dark areas, leave fold-like structures on the canvas that seem to create their own pictorial space. This, in conjunction with elements of spraying techniques as an aleatory mode of expression, as well as the bleeding together of colors on the canvas, gives each picture a more varied language of forms than those found in previous works. Since the perspective aspect of spatiality is increasingly reduced and the language of forms tends more and more toward the twodimensional plane, to some extent the impression of a collage like composition of pictorial elements is created. In all of these pictures the ratio of quiet elements to restless elements has shifted in favor of the moving ones. It is the phenomenological stream
of thoughts of which consciousness is composed – that is, the continual movement of thoughts that have externalized themselves and cover and register the body in a way that makes the silence seem suspended. And yet, it is preserved. Another consistent feature of the artist’s representations is a touch of sensuality. This drive-theoryrelated aspect, actually a prerequisite of good art, permeates the pictures in the form of a specific artistic sensitivity, for which Freud once invented the concept of sublimation. In her mixed media works on paper, the artist becomes lyrical. Here moods are released, but in a way that is different from that of impressionism or expressionism. The female bodies, partially abstracted, merge in a different way with matter. In a manner unique to the artist, they become transparent, and one with a nature that is in the process of losing its spatiality. Pictures of a – we might say – meditative feeling. Karin Voelker no longer works with a model. Her imagination defines the setting for the canvas. In her works on paper, she has developed her own particular technique. The sketch-like experimental mixed technique is frequently based on luminescent stain worked over with sweeping virtuoso pen-andink drawings, which in turn are overlapped by coats of oil color. Watercolor like glazing and pasty coats alternate; they are wiped furiously, dabbed, destroyed and rediscovered.
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FRIENDS IN THE GARDEN | Mixed Media on Canvas | 79” x 67”
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FAREWELL DANCE | Mixed Media on Canvas | 71” x 79”
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SUMMER MUSIC | Mixed Media on Canvas | 75” x 119”
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GETTING READY | Oil on Canvas | 47” x 63”
TROPICAL RAIN | Oil on Canvas | 61” x 49”
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THE BOAT RIDE | Mixed Media on Canvas | 36” x 63”
MIDNIGHT STROLL | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 45”
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VACATION DREAMS | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 118”
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WOMAN IN PAISLEY DRESS | Mixed Media on Canvas | 63” x 36”
RECLINING | Oil on Canvas | 55” x 79”
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THREE WOMEN AT WEDDING DANCE | Mixed Media on Canvas | 79” x 118”
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THREE WOMEN IN RED | Mixed Media on Canvas | 71” x 79”
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SUMMER MELODIE | Mixed Media on Canvas | 32” x 24”
GIRL WITH FRUITBOWL | Oil on Canvas | 44” x 36”
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THREE WOMEN OUTDOORS | Oil on Canvas | 75” x 63”
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EVENING SOUNDS | Mixed Media on Canvas | 79” x 71”
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TRAVELING | Oil on Canvas | 35” x 67”
THE BOW | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 51”
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THE DEPARTURE | Mixed Media on Canvas | 67” x 107”
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THE OUTING | Oil on Canvas | 32” x 57”
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DREAMING | Oil on Canvas | 71” x 79”
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SAMBA | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 32”
AFTER THE PARTY | Oil on Canvas | 49” x 61”
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SPANISH FESTIVAL | Oil on Canvas | 79” x 110”
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PREPARE TO CELEBRATE | Oil on Canvas | 35” x 71”
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OUTDOOR PICNIC | Oil on Canvas | 55” x 75”
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THE THREE GRACES | Oil on Canvas | 49” x 61”
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EVENING HOUR | Oil on Canvas | 55” x 47”
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THREE FRIENDS | Oil on Canvas | 32” x 63”
GIRL FRIENDS II | Oil on Canvas | 61” x 48”
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FLOWER DRESS | Mixed Media on Canvas | 61” x 39”
DANCERS | Mixed Media on Canvas | 51” x 63”
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BOWL OF FRUIT | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 47”
WHITE LILY | Oil on Canvas | 51” x 43”
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DANCER WITH FAN | Mixed Media on Canvas | 55” x 79”
FLUTE PLAYER | Oil on Canvas | 53” x 41”
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BENDING WOMAN | Oil on Canvas | 45” x 51”
BENT FIGURE | Oil on Canvas | 67” x 36”
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TWO DANCERS | Oil on Canvas | 43” x 40”
FRIENDS AT THE LAKE | Oil on Canvas | 51” x 57”
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DANICING IN RED DRESS | Oil on Canvas | 61” x 39”
THREE GIRLFRIENDS | Oil on Canvas | 39” x 61”
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BIOGRAPHY 66
1958 1978-1984 From 1985 Since 1998 2001
Born in Kierspe, Germany Studies at College of Fine Art, Berlin, Germany Works as designer and free-lance artist in Berlin Independent artist in Berlin, Germany Focused on art studies in Umbria, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1994 Bellevue Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1995 Spectrum Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 1997 Spectrum Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 1998 Art-Sud Gallery, Toulouse, France 1999 Zandi Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2000 Sophien Edition Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2001 Ednubalk Gallery, Aachen, Germany 2002 Sophien Edition Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2002 Artfair Kunstmarkt Dresden 2002 Hart Gallery, California (G.E.) 2002 Kunsthaus Hohmann, Walsrode (S.E.) 2003 Turmgalerie, Helmstedt (S.E.) 2003 Salle Roger Corbeau, Haguenau,France (S.E.) 2003 Hart Gallery, Chicago (S.E.) 2004 Hart Gallery, Carmel,California (S.E.) 2004 Hart Gallery, Palm Desert, California (S.E.) 2005 Galerie Art gluchowe, Glauchau (S.E.) 2005 Galerie Sophien-Edition, Berlin (S.E.) 2006 Hart Gallery, Palm Desert,California (S.E) 2006 Galerie Hyna, Rottach-Egern (G.E) 2010 Christian Hohmann Fine Art (G.E.) 2014 Christian Hohmann Fine Art (catalog)
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Christian and Kaarina Hohmann
CHRISTIAN HOHMANN FINE ART represents
almost 40 years of lineage in the art world by the Hart/Hohmann family founded in Germany and in 2013 Christian Hohmann celebrated his 20 year anniversary of entering the professional art world. Christian’s parents Werner and Ursula opened their first gallery in 1976 in the cultural tourist destination of Walsrode, which quickly became a success attracting cosmopolitan visitors from all over the world. In 1998, his aunt Eva Hart ventured to the States and opened a gallery in Carmel by the Sea, a premiere address for the California fine art world. She introduced art collectors to the best European contemporary artists, a relatively untapped market in the area, and one in which was found a thriving market. Only two years later the Hart family opened another location in the heart of Chicago. Back in Germany, 19-year old Christian was honing his own career by studying Art History and Economy at the University of Trier. In 1993, just a month before he began his studies, he founded Kunstverlag Christian Hohmann, a company that would publish lithographs, etchings and serigraphs by several artists, among them the acclaimed artist Prof. Rudolf Hausner, an important representative of the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism. Two years later he opened his first gallery in Hamburg at 21. In 1998 he partnered up with Thomas Levy, one of Germany’s premier art dealers and gallery owners, to open a gallery villa in Hamburg-Poeseldorf. The gallery highlighted artists such as Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, and Xenia Hausner and participated in art expos including Art Frankfurt and the prestigious Hamburg Photo Triennale. Three years later, Hohmann collaborated on a project gallery in Berlin-Mitte. In 2002 Eva Hart decided to open a flagship gallery in Palm Desert, CA. Located on the exclusive El Paseo Drive in the renowned playground for the Forbes 400, the gallery played host to visitors from all over the world looking for paradise weather, perfect golf and tennis and world-class art. Christian joined his aunt as gallery director and went on to facilitate stellar exhibitions from modern classics like Joan Miró, Chagall, and Gabriele Muenter to contemporary artists such as Paul Wunderlich, Eberhard Hückstädt and Karin Voelker. In the summer of 2009, the Harts retired and Christian decided to carry on the family tradition solo with a new 5,000 square foot signature space, also located on El Paseo Drive. Today, Christian Hohmann Fine Art reflects this rich legacy in the art world, which began in Germany in 1976, and now spans across the United States. With a longstanding tradition of presenting both European and national artists of the highest
View into Gallery II: Painting by Bob Freimark, Sculpture by John Helton
caliber to the discerning collector, the gallery’s strong figurative program is accentuated by diverse offerings in 20th century master works by both familiar and emerging names. The gallery features an exquisite selection of original paintings and sculpture by over 100 unique artists while also representing many artists’ estates. From the prestigious location on El Paseo and with a network of artists, collectors, galleries and institutions the gallery has built a strong internet presence that reaches far beyond the borders of the United States. By participating in art fairs across the US and by publishing books and catalogs, the gallery is trying to spread the word about their artists world wide. With a true passion for art, educating the client, and a devotion to its artists, the gallery has garnered a world-class reputation as a sophisticated destination for art.
CHRISTIAN HOHMANN FINE ART 73-660 El Paseo | Palm Desert, CA 92260 (760) 346-4243 | (877) 977-CHFA (toll free) www.christianhohmann.com
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