HANNELORE FISCHER M.F.A.
BIO
Hannelore Fischer was born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. Currently she lives and paints in Mariposa, California. She is best known for her bold, gestural and colorful abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas that are inspired by nature and remind the viewer of exotic plant or microbe life or distant galaxies. In recent years she has honed her technique into a neo-impressionistic approach reminiscent of pointillism. However, she claims more freedom with her not so evenly applied dots, circles and marks that together synthesize into shapes in a symphony of colors, in her own authentic style.
In 1973 she began making art in Munich, Germany, where she joined the art group “Gruppe J’73” and exhibited in their basement gallery. Their mentor was Fritz Baumgartner, a German-Austrian Modernist painter and graphic designer influenced by the Bauhaus Era. In her late 20’s she emigrated to the US and continued her career in graphic design, as an illustrator and fine artist.
In 1987, she began her formal art education at the Sacramento City College and the UCDavis Craft Center, where she also taught Batik. From 1994 to 1998 she was enrolled in the Fine Art Program at UC Davis. She studied painting with Wayne Thiebaud, mural design with Malaquias Montoya, and ceramics with Annabeth Rosen. She also took classes in lithography, aquatint etching, loom weaving and glass blowing. She earned her BFA in 1998 at UC Davis. In 2000, she began graduate studies in Transformative Art/Department of Arts & Consciousness at John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley and completed her MFA in Studio Arts in 2004.
She taught several Art & Design classes at the Napa Community College (2005-2006) as well as her own series of “Art & Soul Journeys” (until 2007) as a transformative art practice out of her studio in Oakland and Art Centers in the Bay Area in California. In “Walks In Nature” (2006) she documented her own transformative painting process in which one of her larger abstract paintings “Both Worlds” is featured in stages. The video provides insight into her intuitive, visionary and explorative way of working.
Hannelore has exhibited her art in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas and Montana and has won numerous awards. She paints in her newly built octagonal studio and is active in the local and national art scene. She is currently represented by Williams Gallery West in Oakhurst, CA, and Golden Pine Gallery in Idyllwild, CA. She has been a member of the Sierra Artists Co-op Gallery in Mariposa since 2017. She is also an active member of Yosemite Sierra Artists, Carnegie Center for the Arts and the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. In addition to painting she is fond of clay and enjoys pit firing her hand-built ceramics.
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