Beate Wagner

Born on 25. April 1958 in Hagen (D), Beate Wagner’s creative history began in preschool with crafts with paper and cardboard using colorful pens. As an apprentice of a packaging manufacturing company, she was trained as a font lithographer and repro photographer, where she made print templates in the graphic department. From there, she ventured the financially unsecured leap to study painting and graphics at the Free Art School in Stuttgart, followed in 1982 by admission to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Kassel to the Department of Visual Communication.

Her immersion in mural painting took place in Civitela d’Alliagno in Italy and was funded by the scholarship of the state of Hesse, the Ministry of Science and Art, as well as the Foreign Office. This in turn led to the three-year occupation as a stage painter at the Staatstheater Kassel. Attention to the work of Beate Wagner, the German research community at the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim engaged the young artist for museum design by means of inscriptions and murals, where she was engaged as a plan and excavation artist after successful large-scale designs for archaeological finds of scientific excavation reports and books in the Egyptian Quantir.

The curious artist indulged in a three-month trip to Southeast Asia, during which she tried out the element of wood in Bali with a wood carver. Following her academic degree, she worked for an event and concert promoter, where her areas of responsibility included magazine layouts, logos, poster designs and advertising.

The artist compares her CV with the Willem de Koonings. The numerous artistic influences and experiences have been incorporated into the painting of Beate Wagner and have already shaped her distinctive style: freshly discovered finds, colorful excavation fields, gardens, scratches, secret information traces, covered and excavated, organic forms of flora and fauna can be found in her works, which can look back on a rich international exhibition history: Amsterdam to Japan, from the German Embassy in Cairo to Italy and the Czech Republic, from the Papy

In addition to numerous realized projects for well-known directors on backdrops for theatre and films, the experienced artist can look back proudly on the successes of her protégés in the theatre painting school she founded in Vienna and led for 18 years, as well as the 15 years of porcelain painting lessons at the Volkshochschule in Vienna.