An Old Picture … Awakens to New Life at the vhs Landshut

An Old Picture Awakens to New Life: Collage Workshop with Christine Rieck-Sonntag

An evening for curiosity and creativity: In this creative workshop of the vhs Landshut, Landshut artist Christine Rieck-Sonntag demonstrates how original collages are created from sorted-out drawings, watercolors, and paper works. The art experience combines material experimentation, composition, and sustainable upcycling into an inspiring aesthetic experience.

Artistic Transformation: From Observing the Work to Your Own Visual Language

Under professional guidance, paper fragments, lines, and color fields are rearranged. Through cutting, tearing, gluing, and drawing, a vibrant layering of images is created: positive and negative shapes, light-dark contrasts, textures, and rhythmic repetitions. The exhibition atmosphere of the classroom allows for focused observation and immediate feedback.

Technique, Material, Composition

Using glue, scissors, pens, and your own paper works, you will experiment with collage, overpainting, montage, and serial work. Christine Rieck-Sonntag explains color harmonies, proportions, edge handling, and the effect of white space. Small exercises on gaze direction, emphasis, and balance sharpen the sense of form and promote your own handwriting.

Expertise from First-Hand

Christine Rieck-Sonntag, present in international exhibition contexts and awarded with art prizes, vividly conveys her curator-trained perspective on painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Her biography and body of work show a precise interest in figure, movement, and spatial impact – foundations that are refreshed in collage.

Visitor Feedback

The reactions of the visitors are clear: The collage evenings at the vhs Landshut delight art lovers. On Instagram, it says: 'Finally, I dare to rethink old sketches – surprising results!' A participant writes on Facebook: 'Material, method, courage – rarely have I worked so focused and yet playfully.'

Conclusion: If you want to discover the poetry of material and confidently develop image ideas, you will find the ideal setting here. Bring older works, let yourself be professionally guided, and experience how an old picture awakens to new life – a gain in design confidence and artistic joy.

Official Channels of Christine Rieck-Sonntag:

• Instagram: No official profile found
• Facebook: No official profile found
• YouTube: No official profile found
• Website: https://www.crs-art.de/index.html

Sources:

• City of Landshut – Event: An Old Picture ... Awakens to New Life
• vhs Landshut – Building Overview
• vhs Landshut e.V. – LinkedIn Profile with Social Media References
• City of Landshut – VHS Landshut Profile
• Christine Rieck-Sonntag – Biography and Awards
• Christine Rieck-Sonntag – Exhibitions and Press
• vhs Landshut – Accessibility Statement