Impressions of the Southwest in Watercolor
by
Margarethe Brummermann
Thanks to her mother, an avid art lover, she had access to museums and collections of the European art centers at an early age. As a teenager, she studied life drawing and etching at the Academy for Photography and Design in Dortmund, illustrated articles for an equestrian magazine, and experimented with many different media: sculpture, batik, oil paintings, and photographs. Today, watercolors and oils are her preferred media. In Arizona she refined her skills through studies at the Scottsdale Artists School, with instructors like Jim Kosvanec, Kevin McPhearson, Raleigh Kinney, and Matt Smith. She also spent three years in Laguna Beach, where she studied the work of the California Impressionists and Plein Air Painters. In 2002 she and her husband Randall Kaul settled with three dogs and two cats in the pristine desert of the Tucson Mountains. By 2008 the number of dogs had increased to five!Her paintings are hanging in private and corporate collections in Europe, Israel, India, Japan, Australia, and the USA. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions in most western states. She has received numerous awards from, among others, the Western Art Show of the Phippen Museum, the Grumbacher Gold Medallion Show in Prescott, and “The Best and the Brightest” of the Scottsdale Artists School, The Western Art Sales of the Empire State Ranch in Sonoita and the Mountain Oyster Club of Tucson. .Margarethe Brummermann-Kaul, born and raised in Dortmund, Germany, received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from the Ruhr University of Bochum and the Max-Planck Institute in Bad Nauheim, Germany. She worked as a researcher and teacher at universities and field stations in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Norway, New Zealand, and the United States.In Arizona she is represented by the Lodestone Gallery of Scottsdale. Prints of her work can be found at the Old Town Artisans, the gift shops of the Tucson Museum of Art the La Pilita Museum, the Desert Museum, and in California at Dakota’s Place in San Juan Capistrano..
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When not busy painting, Margarethe is following her other passion: Studying the local Fauna and Flora. She is currently working on a Photographic Field guide to Beetles of Arizona. Arizona is home to more than 8 000 beetle species. The Book will show photographic images of about a thousand . Some of these beetles will be depicted for the first time in print or digital medium. You can find a selection of these images organized as decorative Tableaux of Insects here
