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Masterpiece May 2010 Collection Artist Biographies
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Gerlinde Feser was born in 1966. She has two sons and lives with her husband Jürgen Feser in Bad König in the Odenwald region of Germany. After high school, she studied business administration. Her oldest son was born in 1988. From 1989 on, Gerlinde took several classes and received a training certificate from GDS for doll making. She has been teaching doll classes in her doll workshop for many years now and really enjoys sharing her knowledge with all the other doll enthusiasts. When her husband Jürgen joined with her in 1996, they began to take the doll world “by storm”. Together, they were successful at many international shows, fairs, and competitions. Their second son was born in 2000, followed by a desire to sculpt again. Gerlinde is often asked what doll-making means to her. Her answer? “Doll-making gives me the ability to stop time and escape from it.” Perhaps this dream is what makes us love dolls so much? What Gerlinde continues to wish for: health, and a family, friends, and collectors who can enjoy her doll children with her.
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Monika Gerdes was born in 1954 in Bremerhaven, Germany, and she has three children and four grandchildren. In 2002, Monika and her husband had to give up their own restaurant due to health reasons. Monika has always had a passion for dolls. Now that she had a private life again, she felt a desire to sculpt her own dolls. She looked in vain for a sculpting class and had to teach herself instead. After just under two years, she received her first offer from Home Shopping Europe. To Monika, encounters with her collectors is very important, because this lets her know her own stand, and she is eager to hear their suggestions. Each one of Monika’s doll children was created in an atmosphere of love and enthusiasm.
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Human anatomy was part of Monika Levenig’s education, who worked on a freelance basis in the medical field for many years. She had her artistic initiation in 1994 when a skiing accident prevented her from going on her vacation and she took a doll sculpting class instead. With that, her enthusiasm for making dolls was born. With the support of teachers like Hella Hofmann, and obsessed with achieving perfection in craftsmanship and content, Monika worked constantly on perfecting her techniques and developing her own unique signature style. She quickly achieved international renown and recognition, as witnessed by a large number of awards. Both nationally and internationally, she is one of the most consistently successful doll artists and has become a fixture of the collector doll world.
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Monika did not find out about dolls until later in life, when a friend talked her into taking a soft-sculpture class. As a teacher and mother of three, she has always loved children and babies, whose expressive little faces still continue to fascinate her. Monika took her first doll class for reproductions in 1998, and since then she has experimented with the techniques and the craft of doll-making. After taking a sculpting course, she began making her own doll children. The knowledge Monika had gained in her university studies of biology and art pedagogy were quite useful to her. Her ongoing special challenge is to make her work as realistic and true to detail as possible. The inspiration for her pieces comes from day-to-day encounters with children. Today, Monika cannot imagine her life without dolls, because every single day, she enjoys expressing her dreams in her creations. These creations are more than just dolls; they are small personalities who mirror human moods and emotions. That is how they capture the hearts of their admirers. This is how Monika has been able to combine her love of children with her need for artistic creativity by designing dolls.
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Doris Stannat was born in Vancouver, Canada, but since her childhood, and now with her own family with two daughters, she has lived in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. She was very creative and imaginative even as a child, so that she always looked for an artistic outlet in her life, to balance her profession as a spokesperson. After jewelry designing and painting, she discovered the material Modelene at a doll show. Ever since, all her passion has gone into sculpting dolls. This is her way of expressing her love for humanity and for life. While sculpting, it is as if she is transported into a wondrous, magical world, and she enters into her dreams and her doll creations in a positive and loving state. Even her very first little baby dolls found much appreciation with collectors, and the most beautiful feeling for her is to know that she can give so many people joy and balm for the soul. This recognition is what continues to drive Doris to keep on creating these little darlings. She is especially honored, in addition to all of the audience awards, when she is recognized by expert judges, who by now have awarded seven DOTY´s for her dolls.
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Gerlinde Feser was born in 1966. She has two sons and lives with her husband Jürgen Feser in Bad König in the Odenwald region of Germany. After high school, she studied business administration. Her oldest son was born in 1988. From 1989 on, Gerlinde took several classes and received a training certificate from GDS for doll making. She has been teaching doll classes in her doll workshop for many years now and really enjoys sharing her knowledge with all the other doll enthusiasts. When her husband Jürgen joined with her in 1996, they began to take the doll world “by storm”. Together, they were successful at many international shows, fairs, and competitions. Their second son was born in 2000, followed by a desire to sculpt again. Gerlinde is often asked what doll-making means to her. Her answer? “Doll-making gives me the ability to stop time and escape from it.” Perhaps this dream is what makes us love dolls so much? What Gerlinde continues to wish for: health, and a family, friends, and collectors who can enjoy her doll children with her.
Monika Gerdes was born in 1954 in Bremerhaven, Germany, and she has three children and four grandchildren. In 2002, Monika and her husband had to give up their own restaurant due to health reasons. Monika has always had a passion for dolls. Now that she had a private life again, she felt a desire to sculpt her own dolls. She looked in vain for a sculpting class and had to teach herself instead. After just under two years, she received her first offer from Home Shopping Europe. To Monika, encounters with her collectors is very important, because this lets her know her own stand, and she is eager to hear their suggestions. Each one of Monika’s doll children was created in an atmosphere of love and enthusiasm.
Human anatomy was part of Monika Levenig’s education, who worked on a freelance basis in the medical field for many years. She had her artistic initiation in 1994 when a skiing accident prevented her from going on her vacation and she took a doll sculpting class instead. With that, her enthusiasm for making dolls was born. With the support of teachers like Hella Hofmann, and obsessed with achieving perfection in craftsmanship and content, Monika worked constantly on perfecting her techniques and developing her own unique signature style. She quickly achieved international renown and recognition, as witnessed by a large number of awards. Both nationally and internationally, she is one of the most consistently successful doll artists and has become a fixture of the collector doll world.
Monika did not find out about dolls until later in life, when a friend talked her into taking a soft-sculpture class. As a teacher and mother of three, she has always loved children and babies, whose expressive little faces still continue to fascinate her. Monika took her first doll class for reproductions in 1998, and since then she has experimented with the techniques and the craft of doll-making. After taking a sculpting course, she began making her own doll children. The knowledge Monika had gained in her university studies of biology and art pedagogy were quite useful to her. Her ongoing special challenge is to make her work as realistic and true to detail as possible. The inspiration for her pieces comes from day-to-day encounters with children. Today, Monika cannot imagine her life without dolls, because every single day, she enjoys expressing her dreams in her creations. These creations are more than just dolls; they are small personalities who mirror human moods and emotions. That is how they capture the hearts of their admirers. This is how Monika has been able to combine her love of children with her need for artistic creativity by designing dolls.
Doris Stannat was born in Vancouver, Canada, but since her childhood, and now with her own family with two daughters, she has lived in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. She was very creative and imaginative even as a child, so that she always looked for an artistic outlet in her life, to balance her profession as a spokesperson. After jewelry designing and painting, she discovered the material Modelene at a doll show. Ever since, all her passion has gone into sculpting dolls. This is her way of expressing her love for humanity and for life. While sculpting, it is as if she is transported into a wondrous, magical world, and she enters into her dreams and her doll creations in a positive and loving state. Even her very first little baby dolls found much appreciation with collectors, and the most beautiful feeling for her is to know that she can give so many people joy and balm for the soul. This recognition is what continues to drive Doris to keep on creating these little darlings. She is especially honored, in addition to all of the audience awards, when she is recognized by expert judges, who by now have awarded seven DOTY´s for her dolls.
