Works on paper
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Biography
Elbzieta Woitas spent her childhood in the old German-speaking Hanseatic city of Danzig (Gdansk) where she was born, and later in Cracow.
Since 1982 she has been living and working mainly in Germany - in Bonn, Cologne and now Düsseldorf.
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Education
1970 -1976 classical training in painting, sculpture and interior decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with professors Zabkowski, Marek and Budzillo.
She finished her studies and graduated with a Magister Artium.
Foreign travel and studies
Her stay in New York helped her to establish close contacts with the American avant-garde, which for a time influenced her art.
In 1991 and 1992, she studied Christian art at the Gregoriana in Rome on a scholarship.
In the nineties, Elzbieta Woitas’s interest in Zen Buddhism provided the third formative element leading to new creative opportunities.
Thanks to her numerous contacts around the world, her works are found in many European countries as well as in Brazil, Japan, the United States and Taiwan.
Public opinion regarding her abstract art
Elzbieta Woitas’s informal and expressive works reflect a large spectrum of emotional perceptions ranging from lively outbursts of temper to a prudent and delicate approach to the inner world.
Her composition mediums are color, expressing the vibrancy of her paintings and instantly touching the observer’s soul, as well as the eye’s guideline, structuring its analysis, stimulating the mind with insightful experiences in the realm of form.
All her paintings reflect her belief in the world as a creation full of life and tension, depth and light. They are at times blissfully poetic but usually represent effervescent hymns to life at its fullest.
Exhibitions
- 1983 Deutsche Bank, Bonnexpo
- 1984 Institution des évêques allemands
- 1985 Galerie Nazional Brasilia, Brazil
- 1986 Planetarium, Bochum
- 1987 Institut Lindenthal, Cologne
- 1988 Historique Hôtel de Ville, Cologne
- 1989 Banque Delbrück, Cologne
- 1991 WBG, Düsseldorf
- 1992 Fondation Konrad-Adenauer Schwäbisch-Gmünd
- 1993 Municipal Soc. Education Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
- 1994 Galerie Lakes, Taipei, Taiwan
- 1995 Galerie Conzen, Düsseldorf
- 1995 Galerie Dobler, Essen
- 1996 Institut Maternus, Cologne
- 1995 Fine Arts Museum, Teipei, Taiwan
- 1996 Galerie Dell`Arte, Poznan
- 1996 AZK, Königswinter
- 1997 Cath. Soc. Institut, Bad Honnef
- 1998 Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Cologne
- 1999 ABS, Düsseldorf Sparkasse Gelnhausen
- 2000 Fondation Konrad Adenauer, Berlin
- 2001 Taskarena, Bonn
- 2001 Fondation Mainel, Valencia
- 2001 Foundation Mainel, Madrid
- 2002 Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Cologne
- 2003 Galerie Schwanen, Rapperswil, Suisse
- 2004 Prinzenpark, Düsseldorf
- 2004 Prinzenpark, Düsseldorf
- 2005 Galerie Conzen, Düsseldorf
- 2006 Prinzenpark, Düsseldorf
- 2007 Prinzenpark, Düsseldorf
- 2008 Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Cologne
