Leni Winkelmann

Leni Winkelmann is in love with painting. The German artist (*1955 in Gronau) focuses on the landscape as her primary motif. She is, however, not interested in depicting the landscape realistically or true-to-life. Much more decisive are the atmosphere and the impressions, which have a direct impact on the viewer. Solitude, tranquillity, peace, and harmony, and even romanticism, are terms that adequately and best describe Leni Winkelmann’s landscape painting.
She has always drawn and painted. Constantly driven by a desire to become better, to find her own way, Winkelmann initially trained from 1995 to 2002 with the Iraqi artist Talal Refit. It was, however, only after visiting various seminars with Prof. Rolf Thiele at the Bundesakademie Wolfenbüttel that she turned her back on abstract painting and returned to her first love, namely nature and the landscape. Nevertheless, Winkelmann never depicts what she sees in a purely realistic manner. On her walks, she collects impressions and memories and brings these back with her to her studio, transforming them into pictorial concepts. Occasionally, she also uses photographs as mnemonic devices. Her painting process is ongoing and cumulative. At the beginning of each composition, the art...

In 1995 - 2005 education with
Talal Refit, Bad Bentheim/ Oskar Koller, Bern/
Pavel Richtr, Hamburg/ Prof. Rolf Thiele, Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung Wolfenbüttel/

Selection:
2023 "nah und fern - Landschaften", Kunstverein Klio, Linz am Rhein (Solo)

2017/18/19/20
"Grand Salon", Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen

2018
"Grünes Land", Bentheimer Atelier, Bad Bentheim (Solo)

2016
"Kunst in der Region", DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel

2015
„Kunstmesse B.AGL, Berlin, vertreten durch art goes public, Hamburg
„Entrückt“, Galerie Phoenix, Köln (Solo)

2014
„Landschaften – Malerei“, Kunstverein Nordhorn (Solo)
„Kunst in der Region“, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel
„Flucht“, Galerie Phoenix, Köln

2013
„Landschaften“, Galerie Phoenix, Köln (Solo)
„In der Landschaft“ Galerie Letsah, Osnabrück (Solo)
„BurgArt“ 2013, KAKTUS, Kulturforum Lüdinghausen

2012
„Kunst in der Region“, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel

2011
„Künstler im Dialog“, art goes public & Cultura Vivendi, Schleswig
Galerie Gegenwart, Rheine (Solo)

2010
Galerie O.C. Goosenaerts, Bad Honnef (Solo)

2009
Biomet Deutschland, Berlin (Solo)

2008
„Zurück in die Zukunft“, Kunsthalle Burgsteinfurt

2007
„Kunst in der Region“, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel
„In der Landschaft“, Bentheimer Atelier, Bad Bentheim (Solo)
„Winterausstellung“, Galerie im Frauenmuseum, Bonn

2006
„Parallel“ im alten Rathaus, ...