Christa Moering

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Christa Moering (born December 10, 1916 in Beesenstedt , Province of Saxony ; † June 9, 2013 in Wiesbaden ) was a German painter and gallery owner .

Life

Christa Moering was born in Beesenstedt in the Prussian province of Saxony in 1916 and grew up with numerous siblings in a Protestant parsonage. At the age of 20 she attended the arts and crafts school in Szczecin , where the painter Vincent Weber was one of her teachers. Her art studies also took her to Leipzig , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . She came to Wiesbaden in 1942 through her marriage to the painter Alo Altripp . To her artistic friends and acquaintances included on the 1950 she founded the artist group 50 , among others, Lisa Caraway , Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Meidner , Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Hans Laabs , Karl Fred Dahmen and Bachem . In 1956 she opened her gallery in Wiesbaden's Martinstrasse. The Moering studio existed for 43 years, at times also in Solmsstrasse.

She died at the age of 96 in June 2013 in a Wiesbaden retirement home.

Awards

On March 21, 1996 she was made the 24th honorary citizen of Wiesbaden . The award honored Moering's outstanding achievements in the course of her 50 years of artistic activity in Wiesbaden as a painter, gallery owner, exhibiting artist, teacher of painting students and promoter of talents. In addition, she was awarded the citizen's medal in silver and the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon (October 9, 1978).

On November 26th, 2008 she unveiled the first street sign of the new artists' quarter in Wiesbaden as the namesake .

literature

  • Helga Lukowsky: Christa Moering, painter - a colorful life . Helmer, Königstein / Taunus 1999, ISBN 3-89741-024-9
  • Christa Moering: Memories from Beesenstedt. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-89500-704-0 (print of a diary by the young C. Moering)
  • Petra von Breitenbach and Reinhard Zimmermann: Christa Moering: Catalog of Works (1929–2012) and Edition Diary (1944–1956) . B. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95490-081-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary on the death of the painter and gallery owner Christa Moering ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wiesbadener Kurier , June 11, 2013. Accessed on July 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Christa Moering | State capital Wiesbaden. In: wiesbaden.de. Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Notice on Honorary Citizenship).
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  4. ↑ Between Aunt Gerda and Ferdinand Hodler in FAZ of April 17, 2015, page 38
personal data
SURNAME Moering, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Beesenstedt
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2013
Place of death Wiesbaden