Marlis Albrecht

Marlis Albrecht experimented with many artistic forms of expression and materials until she made her personal discovery of beeswax in 1994, thereafter turning to figurative painting. As of this time she has been working constantly and almost exclusively with this natural product. In concentrating on wax as a flexible medium, the artist has developed a highly sophisticated and unique mixing technique for warm and cold wax that has neither a direct role model nor any parallels with contemporary artists.
Empowered by her long-practised technical know-how, Marlis Albrecht applies her wax painting technique to both delineate precise details as well as to render blurred, vague, and imaginary shapes and images. She layers the melted beeswax, coloured with various pigments, by pouring, brushing, and lovingly applying it with a palette knife onto the painting's wooden or canvas surface. The term encaustic is too limited a word to describe this process: Marlis Albrecht has made a solemn pact with the medium wax to generate own worlds. Her complex creations, their waxen surfaces partially moulded in relief, are brought to life by the artist caringly scratching, scraping, and carving her chosen material, adding cold wax tempera and then reap...

Studies at Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart, Germany
since 1989 Independent artist

Exhibitions (selection)
2019 Museum für bildende Kunst Neu-Ulm, Germany
2018 Museum la Boverie, Liége, Belgium
2017 Gallery Anagama, Versailles, France
2016 Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim, Germany
2015 Gallery Kunstreik, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2014 Gallery Walravens, Leuven, Belgium
2013 Kunstnacht Schorndorf, Germany
2012 Gallery Schindel, Freiburg, Germany
2011 Lucas-Cranach-Art Avard, Kronach, Germany
2010 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
2009 Gallery de Cuyper, Bruxelles, Belgium
2008 Gallery Schortgen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2007 Amthof Feldkirchen, Austria
2005 Gallery Hell, Munich, Germany
1999 Ministry of Social Affairs, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Schloss Dätzingen, Grafenau, Germany
1993 House of Representatives, Stuttgart, Germany

2000 Award at the 20.Award of Art, Kreissparkasse Esslingen,Nürtingen, Germany

Since 2005 art fair participations in Europe

Works in public and private collections