Fabric art by Bonnie Brengelmann

For years, Bonnie has concentrated on using fabric for constructions that represent Renaissance art works, mostly frescoes. Lately, she turned to applying the technique to representing favorite works by Paul Klee (1879 - 1940), the Swiss/German painter of the Bauhaus movement.

Some of the technical details of how her fabric pieces are made are described in an article from Quilt Italia News, Winter 2005 issue, published in Florence, Italy. For an English version of the article content (in pdf format -- you'll need to use the BACK button of your browser to return to this page), click here for page one, here for page two. For the original Italian, click here.

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Updated March 2013.

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An image of 16th century Perugia, thought to be the Etruscan Gate, turned up on a postcard. 51 by 91 cm.	Bethlehem and Jerusalem, after the Duccio "Temptation of Christ", transplanted to a Tuscan landscape. 170 by 85 cm	Inspired by the mosaic detail of Bethlehem in the apse of San Vitale, Ravenna. 48.5 by 111 cm
After Guisto Utens fresco of Cafaggiolo Villa. 74 by 76 cm	After Giotto fresco in San Francesco, Assisi. 94 by 183 cm	Prato, after an uncredited image decorating a tourist office map. 53 by 74 cm
After a detail in a fresco in the Bigallo of Firenze. 56 by 89 cm	After a detail of Arezzo in a fresco of Pierro della Francesco in Arezzo. 127 by 145 cm.	After a detail in the Lorenzetti fresco of the Road to Golgotha in the lower basilica of the Cathedral of San Francesco, Assisi. 18 by 23 cm
From a detail in an 8th century mosaic in Damascus, Syria. 79 x 102 cm.	Inspired by "Flight into Egypt" Gentile da Fabriano 1423 195 x 100 cm.	From a detail showing St. Peter of Alexandria holding a model of Siena in the "Coronatiom of the Virgin" fresco by Sano Di Pietro, 1443, in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. 105 x 85 cm.
Not from a Renaissance fresco, inspired by a gel pen original by a (then 14 year old) living artist, Daniella Brengelmann	Inspired by the painting “Fleet of Ferdinand I in the Bay of Naples After the Battle of Ischia”, Francesco Roselli (attrib.). Naples, Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Capodimonte. 69 x 107 cm.	Bonnie liked the Bay of Naples theme so much, she did another (43 x 107 cm).
Inspired by the 1928 oil painting "Burg Und Sonne" by Paul Klee. 91 x 104 cm.	Inspired by a 1923 colored sheet, watercolor and oil drawing by Paul Klee variously called "The Seafarer", "Il Marinaio", "Battle Scene from Operatic Fantasy Sinbad the Seafarer", etc. Original, only 38 by 51 cm (15 by 20"). Realization by Bonnie Brengelmann in fabric and buttons, completed February, 2012. 145 x 193 cm.	Inspired by "Valdvogel" (Forest Bird), painted in 1920 by Paul Klee. 61 x 86 cm, cotton fabric, quilted. Bonnie Brengelmann, June 2012.
Inspired by the Paul Klee work “Landschaft in Orange mit braunen Farbe Rhythmus” (Landscape in Orange with Brown Rhythm). Watercolor, 7.00 by 10.00" (18 by 25 cm.). In fabric and pencil, 20 by 30” (51 by 76 cm)). Bonnie Brengelmann July 2012.