Gabriela Dauerer is a contemporary

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 German painter

Painting

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. She is representative of a kind of minimalistic

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

 painting.

Life

From 1979 to 1886, Dauerer studied painting and graphic arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg (Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg) with Professors Ernst Weil and Christine Colditz. During this time, she won the Academy's award and a scholarship of the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (German-French Youth Promotion) for a stay of three years at Villa Arson

Villa Arson

The Villa Arson, also referred to as the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson , is a French art museum, elite school and research institution for contemporary art, located in Nice, France...

 in Nice

Nice

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 (France

France

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).

From 1984 to 1986 she passed a diploma study in Nice at Ecole Pilote Internationale d'Art et de Recherche with Professor Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier , also known simply as Ben, is a French artist.Vautier lives and works in Nice, where he ran a record shop called Magazin between 1958 and 1973...

, among others.

In 1986 Dauerer won the Bavarian Award of First Appearance for young littérateurs and visual artists. One year in Florence

Florence

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 followed in 1988 in the course of Villa Romana Award.

In 1992 Dauerer spent one year in New York

New York

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 and Tucson in the USA due to a scholarship of the Bavarian States Ministry of Science and Arts.

She represented Monaco

Monaco

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 together with Barbara Sillari

Barbara Sillari

Barbara Sillari is a painter of contemporary art of Italian origin, born November 1, 1963.-Biography:Barbara Sillari lives in Monte-Carlo and works in her art studios in Roquebrune Cap Martin and Modena ....

 at the 50th Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

, in 2003, with their project work Il sogno que risorge dalla vita ("The Dream that Rises from Life").

Awards

• 1988 Villa Romana prize
  Villa Romana prize
  The Villa Romana Prize, which has been awarded since 1905, is the oldest German art prize.The Villa Romana was acquired in 1905 by Max Klinger for 60,000 gold liras....
  
  
• 1989 Bayerischer Kulturförderpreis (Award of Cultural Promotion)
• 1991 Promotion award of Stadtwerke Mönchengladbach
• 2003 Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Förderpreis (promotion award)
• 2004 2nd Arts Award of the Nürnberger Nachrichten

External links

• Homepage Gabriele Dauerer