COLLECTION ZOOM

1996
Dagmar Jäger-Untitled 500
34x44
Acrylic on canvas
€ 300

Dagmar Jäger

BIOGRAPHY

Born
1953 Wuppertal, Germany

Residence
The Netherlands

Education
1970-1974 the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal, Germany

DAGMAR JÄGER – LEVEN EN WERK – LEBEN UND WERK – LIFE AND WORK

Dagmar Jäger, born 1953 in Wuppertal studied at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal from 1970-74. In her early career she worked as a fabric designer. Her profound experience in colour composition and in working with various materials led her to painting, which she dedicates herself for now than moreover than 30 years as an Amsterdam based artist. Her works of art are visual transcriptions of her daily life. They are fragments of daily events, observations and her special expression in regard of intuitive and cognitive processes.

DAGMAR JÄGER – WOMAN FACTS-SERIES

While Dagmar Jägers works from the early 1990’s still remind about the abstract expressionist art by Willem de Kooning, she comes to completely new pictorial findings in 1996. In this year she creates a series that cites well known paintings by Old Master artists and iconic works of the Modern Art representing female protagonists, among them Titian’s ‘Venus of Urbino’ , ‘Education of Maria de Medici’ by Rubens or Manet’s ‘Déjeuner sur l’herbe’. In these works she combines sections from the motifs that are displayed in screenprint technique overlaid with abstract and intuitive brush lines and stencil prints which give structure and rhythm to the composition.

DAGMAR JÄGER – ABSTRACTIES – ABSTRACTIONS

„Painting is kind of a mental process to me, which means to develop a non-verbal language that has its completely individual logic and independance. Through painting my own imaginary of the world gets sharpend both innerly as well as externly.

In terms of content I connotate space, movement, light and time. In a variable process between reality and fiction I apply the colours to the canvas so that a mystery results. To me this is the power of this medium.” (Dagmar Jäger)

DAGMAR JÄGER – ABSTRACTIES – ABSTRACTIONS

The technique I use was developed during a process that took me years. The base are various layers of colour, while the first layers are applied to the canvas with rough brush strokes or in a manner like wiping off the colour from the brush, this is done fast and by intuition. I try to maintain the translucidity of each layer still. Subsequently I paint a thick opaque layer in kind of a meandering movement. The final process is to overlay this ‘base’ with geometric shapes and lines which add structure to the composition.
I combine this indudual stylistic composition methods often together with screenprint and photography which can be figurative as well as non figurative.

I’m fascinated how seemingly contradictory pictorial elements interact and sometimes cause intense confrontation but in the end build a heterogenous whole together.” (Dagmar Jäger)

DAGMAR JÄGER – TRANSITIES – TRANSITIONS

Since the late 1990’s and even more up from the 2000’s Jäger creates series of monochrome works, in black and white or intense colours which are shaped in geometric forms. Through their interpenetration and their superimposition a three-dimensional space emerges. Jäger achieves these effects by a perfectionated stencil technique that applies several layers of spray paint to the canvas, some transparent, some opaque, that generate a perspective illusion. Unless geometric forms like dots, circles, verticals, diagonals, horizontal lines and threepasses are the main components of these creations they do not appear static since they follow an intuitive, almost dance-like melody .

DAGMAR JÄGER – RÉSUMÉ

Dagmar Jäger’s sensitive but no less intellectual use of artistic media shows her potential in the field of abstract art.
Emotion and ratio are an inseparable connection in her oeuvre. Her development as an artist is constantly shaped by her will to take the risks for experiments.

Both in her constantly varying techniques as well as in her choice of colours and motifs Dagmar Jäger remains a restless seeker who does not stand still at what she begins. Thus, on the one hand, her work gains a great diversity, on the other hand, however, it always remains individual and characteristic of itself, abstract or figurative. Cognitive and intuitive work is not a contradiction to the artist as is the juxtaposition of organic and modular pictorial elements that let her create exciting compositions between chaos and orderExhibitions

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

Mediated by Foundation Art & Communication ( ArtCircle, ArtCommunication and The ArtCommunicators )

-Ministery of Justice – Den Engh, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
-Gipsbouw, Utrecht, The Netherlands
-Congrex, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Ballast Nedam, The Netherlands
-Boston Consulting Groupe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-SmitsAir Uithoorn, The Netherlands
-Voorbij Groep Wilnis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Nationale Regiopers, Amsterlveen, The Netherland
-Eurobussiness Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Notariskantoor Bosman, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
-Weka Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Russell Reynolds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands


EXHIBITIONS

1988
-Open Ateliers Oud West, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Galerie Art Yard, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1989
-Art & Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Atelier 408, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1990
-Aschenbach Galerie, Kunst uit Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1991
-Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Congrescentrum RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992
-Galerie Valentine de Haan, Hoorn, The Netherlands
-Koninklijke Vermande, Lelystad, The Netherlands
-Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Rob van Reyntheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1993
-Collectie ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-NJHC-Stadsdoelen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1994
-Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Stadsdeelkantoor Zeeburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995
-Arti e Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Aschenbach Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996
-Collection ArtCommunication, Nissan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Open Haven Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1997
-Het Glazen Huis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-KunstRai – Collectie ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Galerie Jos Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Holland Media Group, Almere, The Netherlands

1998
-Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1999
-Collectie ArtCommunication, Ballast Nedam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Studio 3 Remise, Berlin, Germany
-Collectie ArtCircle/ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, Regio-Pers, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

2000
-Galerie De Sigarenfabriek, Delft, The Netherlands
-Collectie ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, Boston Consulting Group, Hilversum und bei Rijksinrichting Den Engh, The Netherlands

2001
-Kunst AHOY, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Galerie Art yard, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2002
-Arts Place, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Collectie ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003
-Collectie ArtCommunication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
bei Russell Reynolds Associates, The Netherlands
-Arts Place, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004
-Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
-Arts Place, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005
-Collectie ArtCommunication im European Business Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006
-Atelier Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Aschenbach / Hofland Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007
-Stichting KAAP / Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008
-‘t Hoogt, Utrecht, Film & M. Theunissen, The Netherlands
-Dijktheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2009
-Gemeente Museum Den Bosch, Videoinstallation, The Netherlands
-Museum S. van Gijn, Dordrecht & M.Theunissen & C. Baaten, The Netherlands

2010
-Stand v. Zaken Tetterode, Hofland Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Oranjerie Amstelpark Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011
-30 jaar Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2012
-Art4elkaar, Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013
-Kunstcentrum Zaanstad, Zaandam, The Netherlands
-Marmerenhal Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014
-Buiksloterkerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-ArtWest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015
-Kunst 227, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-ArtWest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016
-West Wednesdays, Studio exhibtion, The Netherlands
-Vrijburg, Moddermanzaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017
-Kunstruimte Bilderdijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Landelijke Atelierroute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2018
-Migratieroute Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MEDIA

Catalogue Dagmar Jäger – Abstract Developments – A Creative Choice

Produced in 2020 by Foundation Art & Communication (ArtCommunicators )