The German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist Dieter Goltzsche (*1934) was noticed early on for his artistic talent; he is known above all for his watercolours and gouache paintings, by means of which he makes colours glow and vibrate. The sculptor Sylvia Hagen (*1947) mainly works with portraits and torsos; since the 1970s, a gradual process of disappearance of clear contours and unambiguous shapes can be seen in her works. The Packhof of the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt (Oder), BLMK for short, will be dedicating an exhibition to the two artists from 28 November 2021. Dieter Goltzsche and Sylvia Hagen. Folge dem Auge - vertrau der Hand (Follow the Eye - Trust the Hand) shows 12 sculptures by Sylvia Hagen and around 40 paintings by Dieter Goltzsche, the selection of which is based, among other things, on Goltzsche's generous donation to the BLMK. Until 30 January 2022, the exhibition with its watercolours, prints and sculptures embodies the spatial and the planar and thus aims to enable visitors to engage in a dialogue sparked by intellectual affinity and formal difference.
Sylvia Hagen was born on 12 February 1947 in Treuenbrietzen (Germany) and studied sculpture under Fritz Dähn, Karl Lemke, Karl-Heinz Schamal and Werner Stötzer at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1971 to 1976. Stötzer and she married in 1998. Hagen has been working as a freelance sculptor since 1976. Until 1990 she was also a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR.
Dieter Goltzsche, who was born in Dresden on 28 December 1934, studied from 1952 to 1957 under Professors Hans Theo Richter and Max Schwimmer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Afterwards he was Schwimmer's master student for a time. Goltzsche has lived as a freelance artist in Berlin since 1959 and was professor of painting and graphic arts at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art from 1992 to 2000.
