Spitzenreiter II - (= Leader) Sculpture

Hello, I am Martina M. Altmann and I was born in 1974 at the beautiful Neukirchen b. Hl. Blut in the eastern Bavaria (Germany). I paint - with interruptions - since childhood. In 2005, at an art project in the Bavarian Forest, I got to know next to Prof. Peter Wayne Lewis, Prof. Stuart Diamond and Prof. Michael Rittstein the painter Pavel Roucka from Prague. With him I took then workshops in free painting before I began to study Painting & Drawing at Bochum in 2008. From studies and master class I graduated in spring 2014 with a degree in painting and drawing. At this time, I dealt with several years of implementing the experiences from my childhood at the Iron Curtain, the border with Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, into painting. My diploma theme was developed: GRENZWELT (World near the Border). The paintings out of the series "GRENZWELT" refer to experiences and perceptions in my childhood. Through my life close to the Czech border and thus the Iron Curtain I started in time to occupy myself with the theme "border". Especially with my completely abstract works, I offer the viewer the opportunity to reflect on their own use of natural, self-imposed or social boundaries and I raise the question whether the definition of a limit must always be negative connotations.