Dörte Goldammer is a German artist living in Ireland since 2001. Born in 1971 in Stralsund (East Germany) she grew up surrounded by an artistic family and developed a passion for painting at a very early age. However, on leaving school, she surrendered to East German society pressure and chose a career in business instead of art, but pencils and brushes were never too far away.
Her love for art had taken a back seat for several years during which Dörte concentrated on a business career and family but back in 2005 she picked up the brushes again and has been painting ever since. Her paintings are inspired by the Irish landscape:Connemara, Kerry, the Mourne Mountains and of course by the beautiful Irish coastline, reminiscent of her own hometown Stralsund on the Baltic Sea.
Dörte’s works also include a large selection of still life paintings as well as portraits and paintings of golf courses (another passion of hers). Over the past few years Dörte has been experimenting with different techniques. She loves working in acrylics. Loose layers of paint, often created with the palette knife, give her paintings a certain vibrancy, an abstracted feel and her skies a turbulent movement.
The choice of colours give an atmospheric sense of the ever-changing Irish landscape.In 2017 and 2018 Dörte’s paintings were selected for The Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival and international Art Exhibition in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Since then she has had solo shows in Luttrellstown Castle Golf, Dublin and in The Red Stables, Clontarf. Dörte has also been a regular exhibitor at Dublin’s annual Art Source. A further selection of her paintings can currently be found in The Russell Gallery, Co.Clare, the Draíocht Art Gallery Adare, Co. Limerick and in the Kilkenny Art Gallery. In the past she also exhibited in Green Acres, Wexford and the Kildare Gallery at Carton House, Maynooth. For future exhibitions check Dörte’s regular updates on Instagram or Facebook.
