Bettina Hachmann was born in 1967 in Geldern.
In 1996 she founded the art school "Malwerkstatt", and started to give art classes and workshops.
Since 1999, she has participated in many exhibitions.

In Bettina Hachmann’s work the colors white, gray and black are dominating. These colors for her are not only dark or signs of depression. They are rather a phase in the cycle of nature, where the energy is going inwards and reflection is able to happen. They are symbolizing a period without which the germination and fertilization, and the birth of new life would not be possible.

Despite the spare use of color her paintings do not appear monotonous. With energetic surface machining, color fills and blurring she creates a complexity that takes the viewer into the depths. In many of her works there is a clear reference to the landscape but more and more often these signs of landscape are reduced to the horizon area. Hachmann is interested in the question how much a landscape really needs to be recognized as such, therefore recently even the last indications are removed, with only gentle gradients remaining.

www.bettina-hachmann.de

Dieter Ladewig was born in 1953 in Blankenburg.
His first artistic training began in 1970 as a two-year internship
in the painting studio of the theatre of the city Cottbus.
From 1974-1977 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden,
and from 1977-79 he was involved in stage painting in Cottbus.
Since then he has worked as a freelance painter.

Dieter Ladewig is interested in the paradox of the figurative and the abstract, and in the balance of objects and non-objects. His paintings are created as stable as necessary and as open as possible. By looking at his pictures, both visual and sensational spaces open up.

So Ladewig dissolves the world into sensations. The artist and work of art create an indivisible unit. Ladewig searches for the right expression, and so his paintings reveal his inner and outer experiments, inspired by music he heard while painting. Ladewig is a painter of truthfulness, without any compromises in using color and form.

http://dieterladewig.eckpunkt.de/

Ulrich Krämer was born in 1963 in Dusseldorf. From 1989-92 was his artistic training and work with the sculptor Herbert Lungwitz. After that his freelance work as a sculptor began. Since 1995 he has worked as a lecturer in the field of steel sculpturing.

The material of the sculptor Ulrich Krämer is steel. Krämer was born in a "steel-region," the Ruhr. His material, which is usually reserved for industrial processes, unfolds in surprising new forms by the playful and passionate hand of touch of the artist. In spite of the hardness and impact of the material, Krämer manages to create delicate surfaces and soft, vulnerable designed shapes.

This contrast is one of the intentions of Ulrich Krämer’s work. The rough surfaces are the result of degradation, an energy that fascinates the artist. Destruction is a prerequisite, and thus part of any transformation, and is celebrated with joy by Krämer. By the process of destruction, the differences and contradictions of life become integrated. His sculptures convey an unconventionality that is beyond smooth and decorated surfaces.

www.stahlmetz.de