Christel Poll

Christel Poll (born March 9, 1914 in Bielefeld ; † May 21, 1992 ibid) was a German artist and a founding member of the Poll Art Foundation .

Life

Christel Poll was born in Bielefeld in 1914 as the youngest of seven children. Her father was a teacher and vice principal . After graduating from high school, Poll studied from 1934 to 1935 at the Werkkunstschule Bielefeld with Karl Muggly and from 1935 to 1938 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin with Georg Schrimpf and Bernhard Hasler . In 1938 she passed the state examination for teaching in the arts. From 1935 to 1945 she ran a joint studio with her brother Hermann Poll on Trabener Strasse in Berlin-Grunewald . From 1938 she made numerous trips to Italy with regular study visits to Palinuro , Ponza and onIschia . There Christel Poll met the painters Eduard Bargheer , Werner Gilles , Max Peiffer Watenphul and Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen . In 1947, Poll received a teaching position at the Paderborn University of Education. From 1949 she ran a studio in Bielefeld's Uhlandstrasse. In 1952 she became a member of the artist group Junge Westen . In 1957 she received a professorship for fine arts at the Pedagogical Academy in Paderborn. 1972 Poll became a member of the West German Artists Association . In 1987 she was one of the founding members of the Poll Art Foundation in Berlin. Christel Poll died in Bielefeld in 1992.

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Based on the painting of her teacher Georg Schrimpf , Christel Poll began her artistic work in the 1930s with naturalistic drawings, portrait studies and still lifes. Under the impression of her first trip to Italy, the imitation of nature faded into the background in favor of the picturesque. Even before the outbreak of the Second World War, her works showed the intense engagement with the international avant-garde. In particular, Emil Nolde's lyrical landscapes , Paul Cézanne's structuring painting style and Henri Matisse's art, which aimed at color effects , had a great influence on her artistic development. In the early 1950s, Poll laid out her strongly colored paintings in two-dimensional compositions. In her work, she used Christian and mythological iconography, but also painted everyday scenes from the world of southern Italy, which is characterized by religiosity and work. Her expressive painting of this time showed parallels to the work of Werner Gilles , who had regularly spent summers on Ischia since 1936. In the 1960s, the monochrome areas of color dissolved in favor of a neo-impressionist late style, and the landscape became the dominant theme of her painting. In short, impasto brushstrokes, Poll laid complex carpets of color over her canvases, which only come together from a distance to form a whole.

Since the 1950s, Christel Poll has also worked as a glass and mosaic artist with her own workshop. Her work is still accessible to the public in numerous churches, schools and hospitals, mainly in East Westphalia. While her mosaic works mostly deal with Christian themes, her stained glass is abstract and is characterized by bold hues.

Solo exhibitions

• 1950: Studio for New Art, Wuppertal
• 1953: Christel Poll. Painting. Watercolors. Drawings. Mosaics , Städtisches Kunsthaus, Bielefeld
• 1958: Christel Poll. Pictures from Italy. Mosaics , exhibition rooms of the city administration at Abdinghof, Paderborn
• 1969: State Library, Fulda
• 1970: University of Education, Paderborn
• 1971: Christel Poll. Oil paintings from Italy , Gallery Pianohaus Rehbock, Düsseldorf
• 1975: Christel Poll. Oil paintings - watercolors - drawings , Städtische Galerie, Paderborn
• 1982: Christel Poll. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings , Kunstverein, Paderborn
• 2014–2015: Christel Poll (1914-1992). In the light of the south. Paintings, watercolors and mosaics , Poll Art Foundation , Berlin

Group exhibitions

• 1939: Landscapes , together with Hermann Poll , Städtisches Kunsthaus, Bielefeld
• 1943: Three women create writing and images - Christel Poll. Leonore Goebell. Johanna Schmidt , State Library, Fulda
• 1943: Association of Berlin women artists , Galerie von der Heyde, Berlin
• 1946: 40 years of Bielefelder Kunst , Städtisches Kunsthaus Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , Bielefeld
• 1946: First large art exhibition Rhein-Ruhr , Arnsberg
• 1946: Christel Poll. Paintings - watercolors , together with Hermann Poll , Otto Fischer Art Salon, Bielefeld
• 1947: German book creation , Bielefeld
• 1947: First state exhibition. Artist confessions of our time , organized by the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1947: Young artists between the Rhine and Weser , organized by the cultural office of the city of Recklinghausen in conjunction with the Vestisches Museum , Althoffhaus Recklinghausen
• 1948: 5th art exhibition. Westphalian painters and sculptors of the present , Free Artist Community “Die Schanze” e. V. in connection with the cultural events on the commemoration day "300 Years of Westphalian Peace", including Hermann Poll and Emil Schumacher
• 1947: Religious art , among others with Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann , Kunsthaus, Bielefeld
• 1949: Second state exhibition of the Kulturbund , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1949: Second exhibition of the West German Artists Association , Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
• 1950: Third exhibition of the West German Artists Association , Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum , Hagen
• 1951: Christel and Hermann Poll. Paintings - watercolors - pastels , Suermondt Museum , Aachen
• 1952: Fourth exhibition of the West German Artists' Association , Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
• 1953: The painter and sculptor , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1955: Ischia in the picture of German painters of our time . An exhibition jointly organized by the Società Dante Alighierie and the Heidelberger Kunstverein in the garden house of the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg , u. a. with Werner Gilles , Hermann Poll and Ida Kerkovius
• 1955: Ischia. Nella Visione di Artisti Tedeschi Contemporanei , Salone delle Mostre del Grand Hotel Royal, Naples
• 1959: Italian inspirations
• 1967: 17th winter exhibition of the visual artists of Rhineland and Westphalia , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
• 1970: Christel Poll and Heinz Hollenhorst , University of Education, Paderborn
• 1971: 1947/1971. 25 years later , Kunstverein Paderborn
• 1971: Artist self- portraits , Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin
• 1979: West German Artists Association , Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
• 1990: Paderborn artist of the post-war period , Paderborn
• 1990: Agrigento Premio , Agrigento
• 2005: Securing evidence - between figuration and abstraction. Christel Poll - Becky Sandstede - Hermann Kirchberger , Galerie Eva Poll , Berlin
• 2006: Securing evidence - between figuration and abstraction. Christel Poll - Becky Sandstede - Hermann Kirchberger , gallery in the Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus , Soest

architectural art

• Mosaic, Luther School, Paderborn, approx. 1955
• Mosaic, Elisabethschule Paderborn, 1957
• Glass window, parish church, Höxter-Lüchtringen, 1960
• Glass window, hospital chapel, Halle / Westphalia, 1960 (removed in 1998)
• Stained glass window, parish church, Zinnwald / Erzgebirge, 1966
• Mosaic, Liborius Church, Bielefeld, approx. 1968

Literature (selection)

• Legends and fairy tales of the Paderborn region . Series of publications of the home area Paderborner Land. With illustrations by Christel Poll. Meinwerk-Verlag, Salzkotten, circa 1948.
• Christel Poll. The special work of art . Published by the Städtische Galerie Am Abdinghof, Paderborn.
• Forensics. Between figuration and abstraction . Hermann Kirchberger, Christel Poll, Becky Sandstede. Published by the Poll Gallery , Berlin 2005.
• Lothar C. Poll (Ed.), In the light of the south - Christel Poll . With a foreword by Lothar C. Poll and texts by Gernot Thiele, Jupp Ernst , Gerhard Schön. InfoPress information by Presse Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-931759-36-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christel Poll in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Christel Poll in the Poll Art Foundation , Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Images of Light and Silence. Hermann Poll (1902-1990) . Work documentation, ed. by Lothar C. Poll , edited by Uli Hermens and Milagros Vasquez-Otero. With contributions by Jürgen Schilling , Joerg Probst, Claus-Dieter Fröhlich, Eberhard Roters . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931759-30-8 .
2. ↑ See: Forensics. Between figuration and abstraction . Hermann Kirchberger, Christel Poll, Becky Sandstede. Published by the Poll Gallery , Berlin 2005.
3. ↑ Forensics. Between figuration and abstraction . Hermann Kirchberger, Christel Poll, Becky Sandstede. Published by the Poll Gallery , Berlin 2005.