My Dark Mother,
1984Fine Prints
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ANN WOLFF Born 1937 in Lubeck, Germany; resides in Berlin, Germany
Ann Wolff studied first at the School for Fashion Design in Hamburg and then at the Academy of Design in Ulm, where she majored in visual communication. She entered the glass industry when she married the Swedish glass artist Goran Wärff. Accompanying him to Sweden, she worked from 1960 to 1970 as a designer of decorative and household glass, first for Pukesbergs Glassworks in Nybro, and then at Kosta Boda. After her divorce from Wärff in 1970 she established Studio Stenhytta with Wilke Adolfsson, a master glassblower from Orrefors, on the grounds of her home in Tranjö, Sweden.
During the 1970s Wolff's glass forms were multi-layers vessels which she sandblasted and etched with narratives relating to the experience of Woman as wife, mother and homemaker. In the 1980s she began to move away from narrative in favor of the depiction of female heads on large round plates. From the mid-1980s to the 1990s Wolff experienced a period of dissatisfaction with glass that resulted in her working more in drawing, painting and printmaking. She rediscovered glass in the mid-1990s as a sculptural medium through the technique of casting. The abstract, cast glass forms with which she now works relate strongly to her continuing interest in the female face and figure.
Ann Wolff has won many distinctions for her art. Among them were the Coberg Prize for Modern Glasswork in Europe, 1977; Central Switzerland Glass Prize, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1980; Gold Medal, International Glass Art, Kassel, Germany, Gold Medal, Bavarian State Prize, 1988 and the Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, 1997.
Museums that hold her work include the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; Düsseldorf Art Museum, Germany; Lobmayr Museum, Vienna, Austria; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio and Albert and Victoria Museum, London.
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My Dark Mother,
1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of 50
image size: 9 ½ x 9 ½ inches; paper size: 20 ½ x 15 inches $250*
The vitreograph prints done at Littleton Studios in the mid-1980s reflect a time when Wolff's glass sandblasting and etching techniques had been honed to their highest level. Wolff brought these techniques to vitreography in the formative years of the medium, demonstrating that glass plate intaglio prints could be as inventive and expressive as traditional printmaking media.
In her vitreograph prints Wolff continued her examination of Woman. The prints are peopled with goddesses, mythological figures, woman/bird creatures, sons, daughters and lovers engaged in enigmatic rituals.
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Small
Goddesses, 1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches Cover White, Edition of 50
image size: 9 ½ x 9 ½ inches; paper size: 21 x 15 inches $250*
Bird in Hand,
1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of 50
image size: 12 x 14 inches; paper size: 30 x 22 ½ inches $250*
Goddesses
and Vessels, 1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of 50
image size: 16 x 16 inches; paper size: 30 x 21 inches $350*
Lady of the
Fish, 1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches Cover White, Edition of 50
image size: 15 x 15 inches; paper size: 30 x 21 inches $350*
Two Small
Mothers, 1984
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of 50
image size: 11 ½ x 15 inches; paper size: 23 x 21 inches $300*
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