Katja Nordmeyer

Biography Born in 1967 in Hamburg, Katja Nordmeyer lives and works in her hometown. Even as a child, she was enthusiastic about art and painting. Her father was an amateur painter and was interested in painters like Paul Gauguin and Franz Marc. Katja Nordmeyer's career initially took her into the world of fashion, but painting never left her, and she always felt that painting was what she was destined to do. This was followed by studies with the artist Lothar Schulz-Goldap, who was himself a student of Prof. Fritz Mackensen, co-founder of the Worpswede Artists' Association and director of the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Katja thus has proper training in portrait and landscape painting, which characterise her early work. Her interest in people's emotions prompted her to take additional training in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 2013. The fascination that the basic emotions such as joy, surprise, fear, anger, disgust, sadness, and contempt are cross-cultural according to research by Paul Ekman (an American anthropologist and psychologist) prompts her to paint people of different origins & nationalities, thus showing the connectedness of all people. She has developed her own style inspired by Pop Art, with which she creates expressive compositions, preferably portraits. She uses a special putty, which is applied to perforated aluminum sheeting or canvas for her motifs, and develops cracks of different sizes after some time. These cracks symbolise the transience of the motifs and have relief-like and individual characteristics. The technique is reminiscent of the fresco technique, but here the recessed perforated sheets make the works appear even more three-dimensional. She addresses the transience of beauty, emotions, and moments that live on in her paintings. The chosen motifs and colours, combined with the unusual material and the special painting technique, leave a deep impression of passion and emotion on the viewer. Katja Nordmeyer is internationally represented as an artist. She captures the spirit of the times with her impressive and individual art.