Born in Dortmund, Germany, Ursula-Maren Fitz is a multi-talented artist that is known for her paintings, bronze and glass sculptures. In her paintings she creates dynamic, strongly structured compositions in oil and mix-techniques on canvas or wood and in her work as a sculptor she creates smooth and sensuous bronze torsos that have a remarkable contrast to her organic forms of torn, broken fragments with scar-like marks that make references to permanent human injuries.
Fitz graduated with a degree in teaching Art and German literature at the University of Dortmund and then continued to study Pure Art at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf headed by professor Lothar Kampmann.
Glass has been a major medium for her artistic expression for many years. The clear, purely-pared objects that she creates in glass touch the soul with their wholesome form and colour.
Fitz uses the lost wax method as well as the traditional furnace blown method to create her emotionally charged compositions of glass that often combine barbed wire or bronze. A perfect example of this is a fragile glass object that sits on a bronze plinth. This combination of the delicate and resilient gives a kind of protection to simulate the vulnerability and a worthy protection of the human soul.
Working independently since 1990, Ursula-Maren Fitz is a member of numerous public Art Unions and Committees such as ‘Berufsverband Bildender Knstler’ and ‘BDK Berufsfachverband für Kunstpädagogik’
Her art has gained major prizes in Germany which include the ‘Kunst und Bauen’ for Bavaria and she constantly exhibits in numerous galleries, institutions and public venues.