On Monday, November 18 from 14-17 will be a hands-on practical arts and history „Passing the Paintbrush“ workshop about Toni Ebel at the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft. Participants will discover Ebel, the draftswoman, portrait artist, and painter who in her later life created socialist realism works in the DDR.

In the discussion of her biography and work, we will explore her time working at the Institute for Sexual Science, her conversion to Judaism, and helping to save her girlfriend Charlotte Charlaque from deportation. We will replicate her techniques with oil pastels.

Our Guest art teacher is Annelisa Leinbach. Raised in Arizona in a family of geologists, Annelisa drew her first creative inspiration from camping in the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest. She seeks a deeper connection to nature via an interplay between scientific rationalism and spiritual mysticism.
Working predominantly in oil on canvas, she first develops her ideas by sketching from life in the outdoors. Constantly seeking sacred meaning in the everyday, she creates visual mythologies that help viewers find a sense of wonder in their relationships with the land and ecosystems around them. She explores the poetry and eroticism of the human figure through portraiture, playing with vibrant color relationships. Drawing from Renaissance oil painting technique, folk art, and illuminated manuscripts as well as digital modeling and photo collage, Annelisa builds links between the distant past and an imagined future. Her love of travel and constant movement drives her to visually capture a sense of freedom and adventure. She also has extensive experience working as an editorial illustrator for publications revolving around nature, science and technology, and philosophy. https://www.annelisaleinbach.com/

Covid tests and masks are mandatory and provided. You can listen to the audio documentary about her which will be released in early November here : https://open.spotify.com/show/1TDYzc4HSAYCtxWpKpbcXG?si=J3au2g7PTaOkYrJqxDY5vw

Sign up for the event via beratung@spinnboden.de or via this link :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMIP6MPVcF2F_Rbzy3HeS69z30YxiTBWz8EVw2C7Wd0iNa-A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Illustration of Toni Ebel by Hani Esther Indictor Portner.

The project is supported by Aktionsfonds von Demokratie in der Mitte.