Von Elm Charlotte – Paintings in the Studio

Charlotte was Born in Numberg, Germany, in 1957. She is a painter and a conceptual artist who gained her formal education relatively late (a summer term at Stadelschule in Frankfurt in 2004 and the Academy of Fine Arts in 2014), but practiced her painting skills and unquestionable talent much earlier. She has been presenting her works in exhibitions and other artistic projects since 1999, having participated in a significant number of individual conceptual and noted group shows in her home country. She graduated in the class of B. Lokai, specialising with the great Gerhard Richter. Culinary art is her second favourite passion from which she often draws inspiration for painting. She runs many cooking and culinary presentation workshops, as well as painting workshops which take place in her atelier and which she uses to promote painting as a creative discipline strongly influencing human mind and psyche. She favours landscapes and still life, frequently uses food items as motifs, while her works explore symbolism and signification as segments of national identity of the region in which she lives, focusing on objects from everyday life in the past, such as black cloth aprons or tin transport bowls. She includes tradition in her work by means of appropriation as well – of old objects, graphicsand illustrations of old books to which she gives finishing touches in the form of borrowing from, recycling or just reanimating our visual culture. Charlotte lives and works in Numbeig.