Background
Katrin Alvarez was born in Güstrow, Mecklenburg, Germany. Her father, an army officer, died months before her birth. Her mother was an architect who worked as an art teacher.
Katrin Alvarez was born in Güstrow, Mecklenburg, Germany. Her father, an army officer, died months before her birth. Her mother was an architect who worked as an art teacher.
University of Cologne.
She is a self-taught artist and has a background in journalism and writing. Growing up on a huge country estate, Katrin Alvarez developed a deep relationship with nature and animals. This experience has influenced her whole life.
At an early age, she found out that she was able to create a colorful and imaginative world of her own by drawing and painting.
In 1969, she received a degree in law from the University of Cologne, and started working as a journalist. As the author of "Studentin South." (1971) under the pseudonym Sybille Braatz, she created a complex psychological portrait.
Later she worked as a trainee at the Kölnische Rundschau for two years. She then decided to leave her writing career behind to focus on painting and drawing.
She has continued writing occasional poems and short stories as an additional form of expression.
Alvarez"s drawing skills caught the attention of a wider audience when her portrait of Lilli Palmer was chosen for the cover of the German Jewish actress"s autobiography "Change Lobster and Dance" in 1976, which became a bestseller. In 2004, Katrin had her first exhibition at the Agora Gallery, a contemporary fine arts gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. Afterwards Katrin started to show her artwork all around the world.
In 2008, Katrin Alvarez was included in Gerhard Habarta’s encyclopedia "Lexicon of Fantastic ists".
Cannes Azur exhibition. She was inspired from the outset by Michelangelo, but also by the Brueghels.
The German psychiatrist Doctor Th. Gosciniak has written of her work that, "K.A.S paintings do not try to explain, educate or teach, neither do they carry a mission.
They do however embed themselves deeply in anyone who gets attracted to them.
They are like a stone cast into a lake. The ripples felt by the individual may expand the horizon of feelings and dreams, clearing memories from debris, thus opening a new way to find one"s deeper and inner self". Alvarez exhibits her art all over the world.
Alvarez exhibits her art all over the world. She has received many awards for her work. 1968 – First group show, Cologne 1972 –First solo show, Cologne 1978- Basel, Switzerland 1978 – Sahra Kishon, Israel 2004 – Agora Gallery, New York 2007 – "Exorcism" received "Allan Edwards Award in the Painting on the Edge", Vancouver 2009 – "Borderline", selected for the "Phantasten Museum", Vienna 2011 – Red Dot, Miami 2011 - Museum Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italien – Katrin Alvarez received the Vivid s Network Award "Onore allá Creativá e l’eccelenza nella arti" 2012 – Solo show, Palais Palffy, Vienna 2013 - Chianciano Museum, Chianciano, Italien (Biennale 2013) – Katrin was awarded the first prize of the Leonardo Award for applied arts
