Jolanda Walther

JOLANDA WALTHER Contemporary, multidisciplinary artist from Germany Watercolors, oil, acrylic, drawings 26 individual and group exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria Jolanda Walther was born in Romania. Graduated from the Fine Arts High School in Timisoara. In addition to studying Romance and German, she completed training as a make-up and wig artist at the State Opera in Timisoara. She has lived and worked in Germany as a freelance artist and make-up artist for TV, film and theater for over 35 years. Between 2002 and 2010 she was a lecturer at the Rhine-Palatinate District Adult Education Center and taught drawing and painting. Excerpt from a laudatory speech on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition: "Jolanda Walther shows herself from two sides: It is less the two faces like that of the ancient Roman god Janus, but rather two aspects of her painting that she needs and uses to satisfy her urge for artistic implementation and to convey it to the outside world . On the one hand, she is a very spontaneous painter, and you can see this in her watercolors. They tell a lot about her high-energy working days when she paints the thin and fast-flowing paint quickly and with great skill watered paper because the difficulty here lies in the willfulness of the water, whose flowing power must be tamed, but according to its requirements, must be designed as if the motif itself were flowing over the paper, like the people who are standing are not statically frozen. It captures spontaneous feelings and sensations; it does not produce well-thought-out and constructed images. Above all, people are the focus of these works. Whether as an individual, in a group or in a crowd, the artist expresses a wide variety of perceptions and feelings. But faces are nowhere to be seen; on the one hand, they refer to the fleeting encounter with people or people with each other, and on the other hand, this anonymization makes it possible for anyone to be this person. What was "seen at some point" is painted as if she just wanted to leave fleeting traces as she passed "en passant" over the page with her brush and paint, as if she had not had time to linger any longer. This type of painting reflects For Jolanda Walther, our age reflects, everything goes by quickly, you don't have time to pause, to stand still. The reduction fits in with this, the stored memory is compressed to the essentials. Oil painting is the second side of Jolanda Walther. In contrast to the quick application of watercolor, she can take her time with oil. She applies the paint layer by layer to the canvas, can improve it, or paint over the whole thing again, even completely. She doesn't need to be afraid of doing something wrong; she can correct the emerging image at any time. She relaxes, thinks - she meditates (Exhibition with pictures by Jolanda Walther in Kleinniedesheim Castle / Introduction to Paul Platz, Kultur-Kv RPK)