Agathe Böttcher

Agathe Böttcher's paintings offer us a lyrical condensation of imagery that is rarely seen. They are, in the truest sense, painted poems, poems that have become images.

Agathe Böttcher

curriculum vitae

1929 born in Bautzen
1947-1949 student of application at the Hochschule für Werkkunst in Dresden
1950-1954 studied Textile Design at the Universities of Applied Arts in Dresden and Berlin-Weißensee
1954-1957 artistic aspirant at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1954-1964 marriage to the painter and filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher (later Strawalde) acquaintance with Ralph Winkler (later A. R. Penck), Peter Hoffmann, Peter Makolies and Joachim Dieske
friendship with Peter Graf
1958-1979 lectureship at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden, department of Architecture, interior design, special subject color
1979 since then freelance work as an artist
lectureship at the TU Dresden, teaching color in interiors
lectureship at the evening school of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK) Dresden, topics Color and Collage
1990 since then atelier in the farmhouse in Diehmen in Upper Lusatia
1992-1996 atelier in the Dresdner Künstlerhaus
1994 scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop