Draft:Annelies Feige

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Annelies Feige Ron (September 4, 1940 – December 24, 2022) was a pioneering female Latin American artist specializing in print making, engraving, photography and painting. She taught other aspiring artists as a tenured professor in Venezuela.

Born in Madrid, she lived in Caracas since 1947 where she took drawing classes in the free course of Martín Durbán at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts (1955-1956) and then studied Pure Art at Museo de Bellas Artes (1957-1961). She left Venezuela and studied under "Neue Gruppe" cofounder Ernst Geitlinger at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (Germany, 1961-1963). She also studied drawing and engraving with Heinz Battke and Christian Kruck at the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (1963-1964).

She taught at the Free Art Workshop of Caracas, at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts and at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Caracas. Collective exhibitions include the "Second National Exhibition of Drawing, Engraving and Monotype" (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UCV, 1960), the XXII Official Salon (1961), "Stipendiaten stellen aus" (Stadhalle from Bad Godesberg, Germany, 1962), "Die Städelschule stellt aus" (Frankfurt, Germany, 1964), the "Sixth National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving" (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UCV, 1964), the Salon of Venezuelan Engravers (Sala Mendoza, 1965), "7 Venezuelan engravers" (Washington, 1965) and the "Exhibition of Venezuelan engravings" (Salón Municipal de Exposiciones, Montevideo, 1966).

She dedicated herself to researching the aquatint technique and the application of color, with tonal gradations that resemble gouache. This printing technique consists of dusting a matrix with rosin and corroding to develop the expression. Much of her themes utilize the stylized human figure with sequences of movements, self portraits and abstract images. Her art has been exhibited in the United States, Venezuela, Spain, Germany, Cuba, Colombia, Uruguay and Aruba (her last residence).

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