Artist

Schramm Ragna

[ my artwork ]

1973
born in Hamburg, Germany

1993
Abitur

1993-1995
„Free school of painting and graphic“ Christian Friedmayer

1995-2000
Studies illustration- and communication design university of art, Hamburg
1995 excursion Spain/ Andalusia with Prof. Glasmacher
1996 excursion Spain/ Andalusia with Prof. Glasmacher
1996 Pentiment assistant „Free summer academy” Hamburg
1997 excursion USA/ San Diego
2000 finished as Diplom Designer

1998-2000
art sponsoring contract with H. Hirschl paying all material cost and providing an atelier

2001-2003
Heye & Partner, Hamburg advertisement agency (junior art director)

2003 till today
freelance artist
travelling and living between Marseille, south of France and Hamburg, Germany

16 exhibitions in and around Hamburg, and since two years also in south of France, for example:
1996 major house, Rellingen
1996 collective exhibition, Albertinen Hospital
1997 “Elbart”, collective exhibition, Hamburg
1997 “Pentiment”, collective exhibition, Hamburg
1998 art for life gallery, Elmshorn
1999 as sign Consulting GmbH, single exhibition, Hamburg
2000 Conilexpo, university of art, Hamburg
2002 Jean-Luc gallery, single exhibition, Marseille
2004 Virgin Megastore gallery, single exhibition, Marseille
2005 Levantehaus gallery, single exhibition, Hamburg

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my inspirations:
(To write or talk about myself and my art is somehow strange. If it cannot be prevented I would describe it as follows:)
harmony, power and aesthetic is what I look for –
and sometimes I find it in forms of earthy nature or bony animal forms,
those I reproduce sometimes in the curves of very feminine women who not at all possess the current model measures, sometimes in eyes and mouths of fish heads and perhaps tomorrow in entirely different forms.

To my relief paintings:
encouraged through animal trophies out of the time around 1900 which decorated the walls of my grandma’s house, a fascination begins for all bony.
For others morbid, (dead) bones radiate power for me and possess an exemplary aesthetics in their forms.
Since I live more and more in the Provence of south of France I receive in addition many inspiration through the barren rock landscapes, stone formation and again and again through the different forms of earth.
Those are the elements findable in the motives of modulated relief paintings.