Hertha Miessner

 Hertha Miessner studied painting and lithography at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1990 to 96. At the same time she began to integrate the techniques of the new media into her work in order to gain new pictorial experiences. She belongs to the generation of female artists who, through painting, reached the medium of photography and new media. Her works stand alone in the tradition of classical painting through their pictorial content, which lies between painted draperies and photographic still life, but cannot be definitively classified. She uses - almost symbolically - waste material from her own painting processes and digital techniques to create new virtual image spaces. Cardinal red, mountains of fabric made of shimmering velvet and crackling silk, an alternation of light and shadow - Hertha Miessner uses this to create pictures that look like old master paintings. The baroque opulence, however, is a perfect virtual illusion produced by photographic means: The deceptive aesthetics of the digital image world is thus a theme of her artistic work. What remains of painting as a by-product becomes the starting point of an ever new work process that remains faithful to the painterly. She has thus found a very unique form of expression.