Annegret Soltau was born in Lüneburg, Germany in 1946.1967-72 she studied with Hans Thiemann, Kurt Kranz, Rudolf Hausner and David Hockney at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg ,1972 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1973 she received a DAAD scholarship for Milan. Since 1973 she has freelanced, first in the sphere of painting and graphic arts, then from 1975 actions and first photo and video works. In 1982 she was awarded a working scholarship by the Arts Society of Bonn, in 1986/87 the Villa Massimo prize in Rome, in 1999 the Maria Sybilla Merian Prize and in 2000 the Wilhelm-Loth-Preis of the City of Darmstadt where she is living. A retrospective exhibition of Soltau`s work was be shown at the exhibiton halls of Mathildenhhe Darmstadt in spring 2006.My main interest is the integration of bodily changes in my work in order to connect body and spirit as equal parts A.S.Annegret Soltau`s work is distinguished by its unconventional and imaginative treatment of the medium of photography; in her large-scale glued or stiched photomontages, she puts tabooed themes up for discussion in a radically explicit manner. … Read More