{"id":739,"date":"2024-02-17T13:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/sarah-kofman\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:57:03","slug":"sarah-kofman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/en\/sarah-kofman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Kofman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:60px;--awb-margin-bottom:100px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 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style=\"text-align: center;\">Sarah Kofman<\/p><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-left:42%;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"850\" alt=\"Sarah Kofman\" src=\"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman.png\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-911\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27646%27%20height%3D%27850%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20646%20850%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27646%27%20height%3D%27850%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman-200x263.png 200w, https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman-400x526.png 400w, https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman-600x789.png 600w, https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sarah-Kofman.png 646w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color6);\"><blockquote>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><em>The true art of living consists in seeing the wonderful in everyday things.\u2013 Bertha Eckstein<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:32%;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>As a native of Schleswig-Holstein, I love the wide sky above the marshes \u2013 for me, it is both an inspiration and a source of tranquility. I began drawing as a child, driven by a childish ambition to emulate my older sister. Later, through anime and manga, I discovered my passion for the human body \u2013 the beginning of my portrait painting today.<\/p>\n<p>Free portraits are at the core of my artistic work. Faces without a model, yet full of their own stories. They arise intuitively, in a dialogue between feeling and memory. This is how figures develop that seem both familiar and foreign \u2013 mirrors of human experiences, desires, and contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>An important technical turning point was a landscape painting course based on Bob Ross, which sparked my enthusiasm for oil painting. Today I work with oil, acrylic, oil pastel, watercolor, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9, colored pencil, charcoal, ink, pencil, and much more. I find my motifs in nature\u2014in people, animals, and landscapes, but also in social issues that move me.<\/p>\n<p>The thematic focus of my art has changed profoundly since the birth of my daughter. I have come to understand that art must be more than just a craft for me\u2014it is my means of taking responsibility. Since then, I have seen my work as part of a larger task: using art to create visibility for what otherwise remains in the shadows \u2013 discrimination, social injustice, environmental destruction. I want to touch, provoke, and give food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>After the death of my stepmother, Ingrid G\u00fcnther, it is a matter close to my heart to keep her artistic legacy alive in my work. I have completed some of her unfinished paintings in my own style \u2013 as a sign of gratitude and connection.<\/p>\n<p>For me, art means not simply accepting the world, but constantly questioning it \u2013 with empathy, vulnerability, and hope.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zirasart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram <\/a>and LinkedIn, I share insights into my current work, thoughts, and processes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:60px;--awb-margin-bottom:100px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:16%;--awb-padding-left:20%;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;max-width:50%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);border-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:60px;\"><p><strong>\u201eDer Horizont ist kein Ende, sondern ein Anfang&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Im M\u00e4rz 2026 hat das belgische Kunstmagazin The Birdwing Sarah Kofman in ihrem Atelier besucht und ein Gespr\u00e4ch gef\u00fchrt, das tiefer geht als Technik und Stil.<br \/>\nEs geht um Trauer und Weitermachen. Um die Frage, was Kunst leisten kann, wenn sie mehr sein will als sch\u00f6ne Bilder. Und um das Erbe von Ingrid G\u00fcnther, Sarahs Stiefmutter und k\u00fcnstlerischer Weggef\u00e4hrtin, deren unvollendete Werke Sarah bis heute weiterf\u00fchrt.<\/p>\n<p>Auf die Frage, was sie mit ihrer Kunst beim Betrachter ausl\u00f6sen m\u00f6chte, antwortet Sarah:<br \/>\n\u201eF\u00fcr mich kommt das Gef\u00fchl zuerst. Ich m\u00f6chte, dass meine Werke die Menschen intuitiv ber\u00fchren und sie bewusst provozieren. Denn Provokation entsteht oft dort, wo wir einen wunden Punkt ber\u00fchren \u2013 bei Themen, von denen wir lieber wegschauen w\u00fcrden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Und \u00fcber ihre Portraits \u2013 die keine Vorlagen brauchen:<br \/>\n\u201eIn meiner Arbeit steht die \u201ainnere Silhouette&#8217; klar im Mittelpunkt. Ich lasse mich von freien Linien leiten: Ich beginne intuitiv, manchmal gef\u00fchrt von einem bestimmten Thema oder Gef\u00fchl \u2013 und erst im Malprozess entsteht vor mir ein Mensch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Das vollst\u00e4ndige Interview \u2013 mit 12 Fragen zu Inspirationsquellen, k\u00fcnstlerischem Werdegang und den Pl\u00e4nen f\u00fcr die Plattform Silhouettes by the Sea \u2013 gibt es hier zum Nachlesen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silhouettenammeer.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/file_2064C3D9-1E9C-4323-B930-7D758A92BCA6-1.pdf\"><strong>\u2192 Interview als PDF lesen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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