Elisabeth Kadow

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Elisabeth Kadow (actually Elisabeth Kadow-Jäger , née Jäger, born March 19, 1906 in Bremerhaven , † June 11, 1979 in Krefeld ) was a German textile artist and teacher in this field.

Life

Growing up as the daughter of an architect in Bremerhaven, Elisabeth Jäger enjoyed an apprenticeship at the State Bauhaus in Weimar at the age of 18 and was then a student of the tapestry artist Irma Goecke . Due to special achievements during her studies of textile technology in Berlin and Dortmund , she was taken on as a subject teacher in Dortmund after graduating. In 1939 she started her master craftsman apprenticeship with Georg Muche at the textile engineering school in Krefeld .

Elisabeth married the weaver, painter and graphic artist Gerhard Kadow in 1940 and became a teacher first in the fashion class, then in the class for artistic print design at the Higher Technical School for the Textile Industry ( called Textile Engineering School since 1944 ) in Krefeld. When Georg Muche retired from education in 1958, Elisabeth Kadow took over the management of the master class for textile art and raised her reputation on an international level. Until 1971, Elisabeth Kadow headed the entire design department of the textile engineering school .

Act

When she left the textile engineering school in 1971 , she devoted herself increasingly to design work. Textile art has shaped her whole life. She made artistic embroidery, and in cooperation with the Gobelin-Manufaktur Nürnberg and together with the weaver Johann Peter Heek she made artistic tapestries and tapestries. Elisabeth Kadow and the weaver Hildegard von Portatius designed and created creative silk hangings and similar textile works together. She knew how to optimally combine the most varied of manufacturing and textile art techniques and to use the creative leeway between rule and disturbance abstractly and specifically. Inspirations for her designs were provided by watercolors, but also certain types of hatching as well as grid and layer formations, harmonious colors, cleverly chosen color mixtures and clear proportions.

Others

Elisabeth Kadow was able to achieve great success at international exhibitions and trade fairs and became internationally known. She exhibited her works from 1954 to 1964 at the Triennale di Milano X to XIII and in 1958 at the Expo 58 in Brussels . In 1958 she was awarded the art prize of the city of Krefeld.

Elisabeth-Kadow-Strasse was named in her honor in the Allerheiligen district of Neuss .

literature

  • Hans Joachim Albrecht : Elisabeth Kadow. 1906 to 1979. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
  • Adnan Benk (Ed.): Büyük Larousse. Sözlük ve Ansiklopedisi . tape 12 : İşaret - Kart . Milliyet, Istanbul 1986.
  • Helmut Hahn: pupils and contemporary witnesses. To Elisabeth and Gerhard Kadow . In: Textile Culture in Krefeld . Krefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811973-0-3 , pp. 156-165 .
  • Hildegard von Portatius: Elisabeth Kadow. Silk hangings and drafts . Osnabrück 1971.
  • Georg F. Schwarzbauer (Ed.): Elisabeth Kadow (=  monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art . Volume 46 ). Bongers, Recklinghausen 1973, ISBN 3-7647-0249-4 .
  • Dirk Tölke: Elisabeth Kadow . In: Textile Culture in Krefeld . Krefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811973-0-3 , pp. 144-155 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Elisabeth Kadow. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Rike Frank et al .: Textiles: Open Letter. Abstractions, textiles, art . Mönchengladbach 2013, p. 28, 30 ( online [PDF]).
  3. ^ Arianna Giachi: Elisabeth Kadow. Tapestries 1973–1977 . Neuss 1977.
  4. ↑ Patrick Rössler: Bauhaus girls . Taschen, Cologne 2019, ISBN 3-8365-6353-3 , pp. 315 .
personal data
SURNAME Kadow, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kadow-Jäger, Elisabeth (real name); Jäger, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1979
Place of death Krefeld