Born in Halle, Germany. Lives and works in Breuberg, Germany as free artist.
1945 - 47 she visited the art school "castle Giebichstein" (class of Professor Herbert Post). After that she absolved in Berlin at the university for free arts four years studies to learn free and applied painting and graphic. She is active in the Odenwald since 1965 freelancely, but also overtakes lectureships in Hessian schools. She works from 1980 to 83 in the publicity department of a large concern.
In this fine interplay of striking lay-out and sensible nuances Inge Scholz-Stephan demonstrates her championship in technology and topic. Her dark hints nestle mysterious in her generous remarked impressions. Her "Without me"-series are a balance act between the social dimension of refusal of norms about own thinking to personal staffage. The offset printings of the series "without me" (in limited edition of 200 pieces per motive) after chalk-/charcoal drawings get a quite special and individual attraction by her varying soft pastel shades lets every hand-painted print become an one-off. Line, colour and area coincidences symbolize after her opinion the transparency of all things. She technically reaches this also in her color wood engravings by the harmony of lumbering grain and japanese aqua colours on gossamery japanese paper in which she orientates herself at Asian technology. The attraction of her work consists in the connection of realistic representation and the intellectual defamiliarization. Inge Scholz Stephan succeeds in these deep foundations again and again. The simplified forms of her color wood engravings are based into the concrete, like in "Nocturne". These hard rised up trees which cut into the sky like fingers, the flight of birds and the yellow moon leads into the unreal, into a room, only can be reached by feeling. A room, which can open unexpected to the "mirror of a winter". She is fascinating with her championship of drawing lines, with which the artist also in her drawings and etchings spins further the forms of the lives into the wide room, which includes past, presence and future at the same time.
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