BASIC INFORMATION

Name: Brigitte Wawoe-Ziegler, 1939-2025
Place of birth: Heidelberg, Germany
Discipline: Sculpture and painting

BIOGRAPHY

Brigitte Wawoe-Ziegler (1939–2025) was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She lived in Curaçao from 1967 to 1978, then spent two years in London, where she completed postgraduate courses at Morley College. In 1980, she moved to the Netherlands, while continuing to return regularly to Curaçao for exhibitions and to work in her studio in the quarry at Nieuwpoort. Primarily a sculptor, she also painted and drew sustained inspiration from Curaçao’s natural landscape, particularly the Tafelberg.
Working intuitively, Wawoe-Ziegler focused on form, material, and balance. Her paintings combine color and forms in compositions ranging from animal figures to abstraction. In her sculptures, she allowed each stone to suggest its own latent form, sometimes retaining rough natural surfaces or incorporating iron elements. Her predominantly abstract work invites viewers to look closely and discover an essence rather than recognize a literal natural form. Through stone, wood, and metal, she explored mass, volume, texture, negative space, and line to create a new visual reality.

EDUCATION

1958–1963 — Art and Philosophy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
1980–1982 — Art Section, Morley College, London, United Kingdom
1983–1988 — Vrije Academie, The Hague, the Netherlands
1996–2000 — National and international workshops in painting and sculpture techniques

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
National and International

Annual exhibitions — Galerie de Molen, Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Recurring exhibitions — Curaçao
Selected exhibitions in Amsterdam, The Hague, Wassenaar, Tilburg, Nijmegen, Haren, Breda, and Alkmaar, the Netherlands, England

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Marten
Fort Amsterdam
Avila Beach Hotel