AtelierSud - Rita Habermann
A wonderful sculptor artist with superb talent capturing life and imagination on clay. Her work has been sold in Europe and as far as Hawaii. Many exhibitions over the past several years with the most recent on Leonard Cohen's island, Hydra, Greece.
Rita Habermann was born in Winterbach, Southern Germany. She discovered she had a talent for working with clay at the age of 14, when she loved creating ceramics and pottery pieces in her town’s “waldorf schule” (vocational school), a talent which grew stronger with every passing year.
This passion to create figures and objects using her tactile sense, led to more and more
sculptures being created from the smallest object (a few centimeters across) to the largest,
Scyllamer, at 1.8meters tall and 300kg!
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Getting there meant spending many weeks in the company of Europe’s most respected sculptors including Jean-Luc Coyette of Belgium, Xavier Duver of France, Paul Luchessi of Italy, Martine Vaugel and Professor Gassmann at Trier’s European Arts Academy. She spent time in St. Victor in Ardeche, in the Loire Valley(both in France), in Fabiano (Tuscany), in Brussels and in Germany perfecting her skills.
In the meantime she discovered Greece, fell in Love with the country, the light and atmosphere
and after her Luxembourg studio, she opened an additional sculpture studio in Kilada, Argolida, Greece. She has been sculpting in Kilada for more than 20 years and some of her most amazing works have been created there.
She has been an expert in figurative sculpture, a Paul Lucchesi speciality, putting her own
personal touch. This created her own signature style, based on a classical Greek profile now
enjoyed by clients across the world as far as Hawaii.
Her sculptures are also representative of world events, be it the Olympic Games or other athletic meetings or just creatures from beyond. This is evident in her latest series of merging
mythical creatures such as mermaid with Octopus (called OctoMer) or the absolute
imaginative ScyllaMer. In addition, in 2019, she was asked by Hollywood movie director Dutch Marich to create a sculpture for his psychological/horror film “Infernum” for which she created a 3D
version of Edvard Munch’s “Scream.”
She collaborates with a foundry near Halkida, Greece,
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