“Cordula Güdemann was an outstanding figurative painter who did not shy away from political debate, but on the contrary saw her art as just as political as her social commitment,” the statement said. As a teacher, as a painter and as an editor of the works of her husband Peter O. Chotjewitz, who died in 2010, she had a formative influence on many people.
Professor of Painting
Cordula Güdemann was born in 1955 in Wehr in Baden. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Professor Dieter Krieg, whose school had a formative influence on her. For her works she received the Villa Romana Prize in 1985, the Bonn Art Fund scholarship in 1987, the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship in 1988 and the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo scholarship in 1990.
From 1995 she worked as a professor of painting at the ABK Stuttgart. In 2021 she retired as a professor and spent her last years on Usedom.
