Elfriede Kneiphoff

Elfriede Kneiphoff (born December 11, 1900 in Elbing ; † December 26, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German painter .

Life

Elfriede Kneiphoff grew up in Elbing (today Elblag / Poland) in a merchant family with many children. Together with her four sisters, she attended the girls' college founded in 1832 until 1916 (from 1902 Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Schule). Already in school she joined the youth movement . Her membership in a group of girls belonging to the Elbinger Wandervogel was an essential trigger for her special closeness to nature. After completing the 10th grade, she attended the teachers' seminar, which had been affiliated with the school since 1879, and was a private teacher on an estate in Reichenbach from 1917 to 1919.

Due to her talent, which was recognized early on, Elfriede Kneiphoff took lessons from the well-known West Prussian painter Paul Emil Gabel , with whom she had lived since the birth of their daughter, Ruth Hering , from 1919 . From 1920 she worked as a freelance painter. The artist couple made numerous trips to Worpswede, Scheveningen, Stralsund, Rügen and Sylt until they settled in Hamburg in 1928.

Reminder stone ( memory spiral ), women's garden, Ohlsdorf cemetery

After PE Gabel's death, Elfriede Kneiphoff lived with her daughter in Hamburg. After her marriage to the painter Bernd Hering in 1946, she accepted numerous invitations to study trips and exhibitions, etc. until her death in December 1973. a. in Worpswede and at Elmau Castle , where she was a frequent and welcome guest.

Since 1930 Elfriede Kneiphoff was a member of GEDOK and the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , from 1945 a member of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg.

Elfriede Kneiphoff was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, the grave site and tombstone were later cleared. Elfriede Kneiphoff is remembered on a memorial stone in the “ Women's Garden ”.

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Elfriede Kneiphoff has gained national recognition for her watercolors , in which she mainly depicted still lifes , flowers and portraits. The Museum of the City of Elbing bought pictures of her as early as 1925, later acquisitions were made by public institutions in Berlin, Bremerhaven and by the cultural authority in Hamburg. Through her contacts with Else von Levetzow , who at that time headed the society “Art and Life”, she was involved a. a. at exhibitions by the group of women painters around Elisabeth Meyer . After 1945 she took part in numerous group exhibitions in Hamburg. There were also solo exhibitions of her pictures in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Höxter and Elmau.

Web links

• Entry at "hamburg.de/frauenbiografien"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt : Archives January 9, 1974: Elfriede Kneiphoff died.
2. ^ Paul Emil Gabel - a painter from Elbing . accessed on March 15, 2015.
3. ^ Artistic women's works . Hamburger Abendblatt from 18./19. April 1953, p. 9, accessed March 15, 2015