Edith Hultzsch

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Edith Hultzsch

Edith Hultzsch (born January 17, 1908 in Berlin ; † April 20, 2006 in Erkrath-Hochdahl ) was a German painter.

Pole vaulter 1972

Life

After studying at the Berlin School of Fine Arts with the painters Emil Orlik and Hans Meid , she lived in Düsseldorf from 1952, and from 1995 in Erkrath-Hochdahl near Düsseldorf. Her pictures have been shown in a large number of solo exhibitions in galleries, art associations, museums and institutes in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Austria and Argentina. In 1967 a series of exhibitions under the theme "Taureaux" began in Bad Godesberg , opened by the French ambassador at the time, François Seydoux. The exhibition was shown in 25 cities until 1972.

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Pamplona poster 1981

The main theme of her work is the representation of movement. She finds her motives in sport, in dance and especially in bullfighting. In addition to earlier ink drawings for book illustration, the work includes brush drawings in black and white, gouaches on paper, as well as oil paintings on paper and canvas and several book illustrations. The brush drawings capture the movement immediately at the moment of the action. They are created in the sports facility, dance hall or bullring, without any subsequent rework or correction in the studio. The gouaches and oil paintings are studio elaborations of pencil sketches that were quickly thrown on the scene. Study trips took the artist to the Near East and above all to southern France, to the Camargue , to Spain and Portugal - because of the bulls, bullfighting and horses. She died at the age of 98 on April 20, 2006 in Erkrath-Hochdahl near Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions (selection)

Flamenco 1986

In the 1972 Olympic year, 40 brush drawings on the subject of sport were exhibited in the Warendorf equestrian center. In the same year the art book “Sport und Kunst” was published, in which 22 sports are presented. In 1974 more than 250 brush drawings and oil paintings on the subjects of sport and tauromachy were shown in the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund . In the same year West German television made a film about the work of Edith Hultzsch. In 1981 Edith Hultzsch won the poster competition for the Fiesta Sanfermin in Pamplona as the first and only non-Spanish artist. Since then she has been a frequent guest of honor for the organizer of the fiesta .

In addition to painting, numerous designs for architecture were created, such as glass and concrete glass windows, wall designs, mosaics, sculptures and fountains (among others for the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia), which received various prizes in “Art in Building” competitions. Her works are in the possession of the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the possession of various cities as well as in museums and private collections in Germany and abroad. Posthumous exhibitions:

  • Edith Hultzsch - Norbert Jäger, Galerie Capriola, Ringheim , June 15 to July 13, 2008
  • Edith Hultzsch, Centro de Encuentros y Servicios Profesionales (CESEP), Pamplona, ​​Spain, 7th to 18th November 2008
  • Fascination Movement - Sports Drawings by Edith Hultzsch, December 9, 2012 to February 3, 2013 in the German Sport & Olympia Museum

Web links

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