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Emerita Pansowová

Biography

1946born in Vrakúň (Czechoslovakia)
1962-1966Studies of Wood sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, with Ludwik Korkoš and Anton Drexler
1966Moving to East Berlin
1967-1972Studies at the Academy of Art Berlin-Weissensee, with Prof. Karl-Heinz Schamal and Arnd Wittich
1974-1977Master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR, Berlin, with Ludwig Engelhardt
1977Study visit to Azerbaijan, Working as a freelance sculptor in East Berlin
1992Founder of the “Berliner Fraueninitiative Xanthippe e.V.” in Berlin
2012Installation of the life-size sculpture “The Great Palucca” on Garnisonkirchplatz in Berlin-Mitte

Emerita Pansowová lives and works in Prenden (Brandenburg).

Awards and grants

2009Art prize for sculpture of the Märkische Oderzeitung
1992Working scholarship of the Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin
1991Scholarship from the Senate Department for Culture, Berlin
1989Art Award of the Free German Trade Union Federation
1st Prize for the Foyer design of the Kleist Memorial Frankfurt (Oder)
1985Will Lammert Award of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, Berlin
1975Gustav Weidanz Award for Sculpture, Halle-Saale