Her painting.
Marianne IgelAlthough a career — a business of my own — and a family were what mattered for many years, it was always a need of mine to express myself artistically and creatively.
Over time I developed my own manner, shaped above all by abstraction and by experimenting with different materials and techniques. Through laying on sand, structural paste or various papers, through the interplay of colours and forms and the appeal of contrast, charged works come about. My paintings are non-representational, and yet some people seem to find landscapes in them. That is no surprise: it is nature, and the images stored up inside me, that inspire my painting again and again.
Her story.
Marianne Igel paints abstractly and in layers. Anyone who would like to see the paintings in person is welcome in the studio — texture and layering can only be guessed at on a screen.
Life and training
Born in Prien am Chiemsee; resident in Au - Bad Feilnbach since 1956. Artistic work intensified from 1997.
Sustained study under a number of teachers, among them watercolour with Willi Reichert (Wasserburg) and Professor Heribert Mader (Vienna); acrylic, oil and mixed media with Heide Kornelson, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Hipp, Peter Mairinger, Alfred Darda, Beate Bitterwolf, Stefan Geisler, Bogdan Pascu, Jo Bukowski, R. Suess and G. Almbauer; intaglio printing and intagliotype with Helmut A. Zirkelbach and Rainer Kaiser.
A particular connection grew with the Akademie Bad Reichenhall, the Sommerakademie in Bruneck (South Tyrol) and the Internationale Malerwochen Hollersbach (Austria). Scholarship of the Akademie Bad Reichenhall.
Member of the Kunstvereine Bad Aibling and Prien am Chiemsee, and of AK 68 Wasserburg.
Exhibitions
Various group and members' exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Solo exhibitions from 2005 to 2015, among them: Rosenheim, Kaffee Dinzler and FMC-Finanzgruppe; Bad Feilnbach, Reithofpark-Klinik; Gstadt am Chiemsee, Haus des Gastes; Bad Aibling, Wilhelm-Leibl-Haus; Krottenmühl, Simsee-Stuben; Georgensgmünd, Margrafen-Schlösslein; Bad Endorf, Chiemgau Thermen; Bad Feilnbach - Au, "Kunst in Haus und Garten"; Raubling, Asmo Küchen; Rosenheim, Tam Ost; Laufen, Kapuzinerhof; Bad Aibling, Abriss im alten Rathaus; Miesbach, Firma Kroha; Munich, Botanical Garden; Rimsting am Chiemsee, Kulturbahnhof; Rosenheim, HypoVereinsbank; Kufstein, Kreativwerkstätte; Bad Aibling, Feuerwehrgerätehaus.
Publications
A cookbook with 17 watercolours on the theme "Kochen für Zwei" (November 2001). A book of cats, with text and watercolours, under the title "Glückliche Tage" (November 2005).
"Der wahre Künstler stellt sich die Frage garnicht, ob seine Werke verstanden werden oder nicht!" — Adalbert Stifter
