Opening event:
Tuesday, 21 January, 7:00 p.m. by Mrs. Dr. Birgit Joos
 
Exhibition dates:
22 January - 14 March 2003
 
GALLERY hours:
Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 
Address:
Hellabrunner Strasse 1
81543 Munich, Germany
 
 
Vast horizons, unnatural light and intensive colours are the dominant features in the landscapes created by Sigrid Nienstedt. Her paintings combine concrete with abstract perspectives of reality.

The artist dispenses with individualized details and recognizable surroundings. This underscores the general nature of the landscapes she portrays - beyond reality or abstraction - in a powerfully expressive way. Even if the earth in her paintings appears to be a forlorn and lonely place, devoid of all human life, it remains a place of captivating beauty - despite the frosty cold or feverish heat.   Nienstedt's paintings hover between abstraction and contemplation, rigidity and movement, representation and transformation. She consistently follows the famous maxim of Caspar David Friedrichs: a painter should paint not just what he sees before him, but also what he sees inside himself. And if he can't see anything inside himself, he should give up painting. Sigrid Nienstedt's landscapes can be regarded in relation to both the tradition of the romantic view of nature and the coloured field painting of the 1960s.