User:IngaCharlottte

Inga-Charlotte Doerp maiden name Herrmann (5 March 1940 – 22 April 2018) was a painter who created contemporary art with acrylic medium as well as very colorful three dimensional sculptures in ceramic and wood. She was born in Berlin and graduated from a Berlin Fine Arts collage in 1964 as a graphic designer and illustrator. In 1965 she immigrated to the United States.

Early life and education
Born in Berlin, Germany during WW II on March 5, 1940, Inga-Charlotte. Her mother was Luise-Charlotte Herrmann, maiden name Duetzmann. Her father was Paul Georg Herrmann, engineer and entrepreneur for the production of electronic instruments in Berlin after WW II. She attended the college for applied Arts in Berlin Vocational training center Lette Verein from 1960-1964 and graduated as an commercial artist. Her heart desired and preferred, however, the creation of oil paintings from the very early age on. Career After college she immigrated to the United States in 1965 living in New Jersey. She married her boyfriend Dietrich J. Doerp, engineer by profession who immigrated one year earlier. She started to work as a commercial artist and illustrator at an advertising company in Manhattan New York city. In 1972 the couple moved to Suffern, New York, where she decided to work for a cosmetic and skin company “Lehn & Fink” again as a commercial artist and illustrator. This company was located in Montvale New Jersey only a short distance from her new townhouse home in Suffern, New York. With her close and best friend Arlene Kramer, they opened an Art studio in West Nyak, New York were both spend most of the weekends producing contemporary paintings with the acrylic medium. In 1980, her husband received a new position assignment in Hampton Virgina as the plant manager of Mercedes-Benz Truck company. Both moved from Suffern to Hampton and she decided to continue her career in her own studio to dedicate full time to creation new Art works. Inga-Charlotte developed into a known artist on the Peninsula with her creative acrylic paintings, ceramics and wooden sculptures. Her main medium was acrylic with abstract paintings and landscapes, although her favored paintings were nude abstracts with unique strong figurative movements. This technique she developed together with her best friend Luu Haeusermann from Germany in annual painting sessions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trier Germany. Between 1992-1994 she also spend some time in Germany and Vietnam but her heart was always in Hampton Virginia where she collaborated with many artist friends. She exhibited many time her work at the Boardwalk Virginia Beach Art festival, the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton, Peninsula Fine Art Center in Newport News and local Art galleries. Her art work can be found in Tokyo, Saigon, Bangkok, Berlin, Stuttgart, Mannheim, New York City, Suffern, Montauk, Miami, Naples, Seattle Hampton, Norfolk, Williamsburg, Smithfield Cypress Creek country club. Starting from 1994, she developed the creation three dimensional imaginary creatures made of ceramic materials. She was inspired by Professor Kwabena A Ampofo-Anti from the Hampton University Department of Fine Arts. She worked frequently with other students at the Hampton University Arts department. Some of her dedication was teaching others, which is memorialized in three videos inks as part of the website.