Wolfgang Stratmann

INTRODUCTION

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"The work of the trained set designer, studied art historian and now retired teacher Wolfgang Stratmann is very lively.

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Using various printing techniques, he brings collections of motifs rich in images onto paper in a collage-like manner, always trying out new processes and compositions and thus creating series of images that are worth examining in detail for differences and similarities. Relief and intaglio printing, etching, woodcuts, stereotype or screen printing - each process has its special character, its individual aesthetics and its specific suitability for certain purposes in the art and media industry, which Wolfgang Stratmann knows how to talk about competently and interestingly.

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But his works also tell - mostly small-scale and always excitingly composed - almost like picture stories or comics about what particularly interests their creator: about ships and trains that move through the pictures, about music that - like the Beatles songs " Strawberry fields” or “Yellow submarine”, for example – inspired the depictions. And again and again the compositions are reconsidered, details are changed, removed, added and another print is made - using the same technique or even yet a different one.

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Wolfgang Stratmann is a researcher, a friend of experimentation and development. However he doesn't work towards the one goal, but sees each individual state as an important and independent result, a completed work."

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Dr. Alexandra Sucrow (Chairwoman of the Paderborn Art Association)