WALTHER FINEART GERMANY
Art comes from Making
Biography
Susanne Cäcilie Walther’s artwork centers on persons: Persons from real life. People. Currently, her focus is on the project "Family". A treasure of magnificent family fotos allows her to renew and deepen Walther's bonds to her late grandparents and parents, but also to aunts and uncles. As, in particular, her ancestors are concerned, holding them in treasuring bond is for Susanne Cäcilie not just any theme, but - just like in asian traditions - of spiritual dimension. However, Walther does not understand her artwork as "portraits". Rather, drawing on her exceptional ability to empathize, she puts forth soul visions and character studies. This said, It fits in that Walther's working method is fast and gestural, instinctively grasping the essential and intuitively throwing things out on canvas or paper. But the "family" theme goes beyond. Based on memories of a childhood with two younger siblings, but also inspired by day-to-day observations in public life, legendary artworks such as "Family of Five" and "Patchwork Family" - with a number of children - have been achieved. Walther's approach here is even more decidedly free, even more experimental.
Beyond the family themes, Walther oftentimes takes up character studies of public figures or celebrities, such as renowned authors and human rights activists. Beyond that, as a devotee of the famous British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a considerable part of Walther's artwork is inspired by Bacon's "Screaming Pope" theme. Another recurring theme turns on "friendship, love, suffering and dying" - all fundamental aspects of human existence. No surprise, therefore, that striking societal and political developments, such as catastrophe and war, enter her art work as well. Always, Walther's figures come across full of soul power that allow people to uphold their humaneness and dignity.
Given such emotionally laden subjects, Susanne Cäcilie oftentimes needs a retreat to find quietude again and new energy. She finds it in the meditative artwork of chinese ink painting, both classical and free styles, forms of art she particularly owes to her mentor Qi Yang. Since 2015, Susanne Cäcilie also, from time to time, exercises in the classical discipline of nude painting with a live model.
Susanne Cäcilie Walther masters a broad repertoire of techniques. She works on canvas and papers, oftentimes with spatulas. Her media are oil, acrylics, and ink, and occasionally self-made tempera and casein. Beyond that, Walther also masters aquarelle painting, a technique which is considered to be extremely difficult. In her drawings the prefers graphites, charcoal and pastels, but she uses markers and fineliners, as well. Susanne Cäcilie also likes to experiment with monotypes, as well as Japanese woodcut.
Influences
Qi Yang, Karl Otto Götz, Frank Auerbach, Pierre Alechinsky, Jonathan Meese, Alice Neel
Education
2010-2015 Regular Seminars, then 2013-2015 Guest Master Class Student With Professor Qi Yang Düsseldorf / Bochum, NRW, Germany
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2014 Freehanded Köln / Cologne, NRW, Germany
Collective Expositions
2025 Essen ist fertig - Food is ready Bochum, Germany
2025 Menschenbilder - Human Images Bochum, NRW, Germany
2020 Art At The Town Hall Nettersheim, NRW, Germany
2019 Art at the Town Hall Nettersheim, NRW, Germany
2018 Head, Heart and Hand - AKTuell - Views of the Body between Intimacy and Representation ArtForumEifel / Schleiden-Gemünd, NRW, Germany
2017 Hundred for Hundred KulturBahnhof KuBa / Nettersheim, NRW, Germany
2017 Art at the Town Hall Nettersheim, NRW, Germany
2016 All Colors of Snow - The Color White as Material and Metaphor ArtForumEifel / Schleiden-Gemünd, NRW, Germany
2016 Nice Perspectives ArtForumEifel / Schleiden-Gemünd, NRW, Germany
2016 Animalia 3 Art- and Gallery-House Bochum / Bochum-Wattenscheid, NRW, Germany
2015 Heimat - (k)ein Ort - Part 3. The Home. The Dress. The Skin ArtForumEifel / Schleiden-Gemünd, NRW, Germany
2015 Womens' Rights Art- and Gallery-House Bochum / Bochum-Wattenscheid, NRW, Germany
2014 Form and Color, Figure and Space Art- and Gallery-House Bochum / Bochum-Wattenscheid, NRW, Germany
2013 Red - A Color ArtForumEifel / Schleiden-Gemünd, NRW, Germany
2012 Behind Walls - Captivated Or Free Romanic House / Bad Münstereifel, NRW, Germany
2011 Presence and Eternity ArtRoom Academy Kloster Steinfeld / Kall, NRW, Germany
2011 Summer Academy Professor Qi Yang - Best Of ArtRoom Academy Kloster Steinfeld / Kall, NRW, Germany
2010 Paradise - A Metaphor for Happiness ArtRoom Academy Kloster Steinfeld / Kall, NRW, Germany
2010 Summer Academy Professor Qi Yang - Best Of ArtRoom Academy Kloster Steinfeld / Kall, NRW, Germany