An artist of colors and contradictions

The multifaceted and thrilling artist Gisela is herself a product of a hard and yet endearing background. She grew up in a small town on the German North Sea coast. Her family emigrated from Sweden to Germany during the famine in the late nineteenth century. Gisela was born a few years before the Nazi regime cam into power. Her mother was a rebellious woman who opposed the regime, which put her and her family in great danger. At this time Gisela started to find refuge in her imagination and in painting. By chance she spotted a paint-box and some paintbrushes in the attice and started to paint on cardbords, newpapers etc. No drawing papers were available.

After the war she moved to Stockholm, and started to take courses in painting and drawing. One of her teachers, Peter Weiss, who later became a world renowed playwriter, was a Jewish-German immigrant who understood and took a special interest in her fascination with the human nature and contradictions.

At this time she worked as an assistant to the wife of the Swedish ambassador to NU and moved to New York with his family. In New York she met her future husband, a young Swedish architect. The eventually moved back to Sweden and raised three children. Later with more time on her hands, she was educated at an Art School in Stockholm and developed her skill through continuous studies and painting.

Her main motivation is her imagination and fascination with human relations, which she often express in interrelated allegories. She is always seeking new ways of expression; her technique, colors and motives changes continuously. The only permanent feature is her imagi- nation and her intense colors. Still today most of her works starts with; imagines, ideas, symbols and contradictions in her own mind.

Her paintings have been exhibited many times in Stockholm (e.g. The Stockholm Art Fair and Art Gallery ) and around the country. 2006 she exhibited at Montserrat Gallery, and in spring 2007 at Agora Gallery, both in Chelsea, New York. She was also invited to exhibit at Biennale Internazionale Dell´ Arte Contemporanea Dec. 2007 in Florence, and at The Halland International Art Festival, Sept. 2007. She is presented in the book “FAMOUS Contemporary Artists” ( World of Art, London 2007)

Paintings from above:
1. Locked Up
2. Cornelis Vreeswijk
3. Våräventyr