Alice Koch-Gierlichs
Alice Koch-Gierlichs (born June 27, 1914 as Alice Gierlichs in Cologne ; † October 21, 2009 ) was a German artist who gained importance through painting , glass painting and mosaics , but above all through tapestries .
Life
Koch-Gierlichs was the daughter of Gustav Gierlichs and Anni Deutz. After finishing high school in Bad Godesberg , she attended the Cologne factory schools from 1934 to 1936 . From 1937 to 1939 she studied at the Werkkunstschule in Düsseldorf , and from 1939 to 1940 at the textile school in Wuppertal-Barmen. She passed her master's examination for tapestry weaving at the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts . She then worked as a freelance artist until 1954. From 1954 to 1961 she headed the textile class at the company seminar of the city of Düsseldorf . From 1962 to 1965 she worked as a freelance artist again, before she was employed as an art teacher at the Broich municipal high school in Mülheim an der Ruhr until 1979 . Then she became a freelance artist again. Study trips took her to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Greece. She was married to the painter Helmut Weitz (1918–1966). She lived for a long time in the studio house at Fritz-Jürgens-Strasse 12 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim . Since December 1, 2004, she has lived in the St. Kilian nursing home in Esterwegen .
Works (selection)
Koch-Gierlichs created a number of paintings, especially watercolors, drawings and tempera pictures, a number of important tapestries as commissioned work for the city of Düsseldorf, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and other institutions:
- three large tapestries on behalf of Prime Minister Karl Arnold for the guest house of the state government at Cecilienallee 17 in Düsseldorf
- Birds in the forest , based on a design by Georg Grulich , 1957/1958, execution of an 18 m² tapestry for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , gift from the city of Düsseldorf to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Valley of the Stones , 1965, tapestry on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Garden of Eden , tapestry on behalf of the District President Kurt Baurichter
- Handkerchief of Saint Veronica , tapestry on behalf of the Minister of Culture Christine Teusch
- Tapestry canvas for the Rheinische Girozentrale Düsseldorf
Web links
- The artist Alice Koch-Gierlichs , biography in the portal geschichtsstammtisch-leichlingen.de ( biography PDF , press reports PDF , website with selection of works )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Hentrich : construction time. Notes from the life of an architect . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 188
- ^ Care center St. Kilian Aktuell , in-house newspaper, No. 1/2011, p. 13 ( PDF )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch-Greedy, Alice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gierlichs, Alice (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 2009 |