Ellinor Michel

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Ellinor Michel (born June 19, 1939 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † April 2, 2007 there ) was a German graphic artist and painter . Her pictures are predominantly colorful Impressionist paintings, often still life with flowers, many portraits of women and circus motifs , which were often made at night. She portrayed Peter Maffay , John Lennon and her (ex) lover Andreas Baader . But threatening scenarios such as the plane hijacking in Mogadishu can also be found in her work.

Life

Grave site in the Grunewald cemetery in Berlin-Halensee

Ellinor "Ello" Michel was the youngest child of five siblings of the Wehrmacht officer Karl Michel . The family was temporarily housed in southern Germany because of the heavy bombing raids on Berlin . In January 1945 his father was killed in the Kurland Kessel under dubious circumstances due to his (never proven) involvement in the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . Due to the birth of another sister, Ellinor Michel and another sibling were temporarily placed with a family friend in the Black Forest . In 1956 she passed the Matura.

In 1956 she began studying commercial graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , and in 1957 she switched to studying free graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , which she graduated in 1960. While studying art in Stuttgart, she met the painter and her future husband Manfred Henkel. The wedding followed in 1960, two years later their son Robert was born.

In 1962 the family and Ellinor Michel moved back to their hometown Berlin as a freelance artist. The actor Günter Pfitzmann , who made her acquaintance in Berlin circles, decorated two of his houses with her pictures. In 1964, she met her future lover and father of her daughter Andreas Baader in the predominant artist scene there, whom she also portrayed after the relationship ended. Together with Manfred Henkel, they lived in a love triangle for two years . The couple's apartment was not only used by Baader, the members of the RAF , founded in 1970, also met there and built explosive devices. Artist soirees were held at the weekend. The daughter of Baader and Michel Lydia Suse Ellinor, or Suse for short, was born into this special blend on March 17, 1965. Ellinor Michel painted in chord to support her young blended family , in which only she and Manfred Henkel earned money with their pictures, which she sold herself on Saturdays at the art market on the corner of Rankestrasse . The relationship with Baader ended in 1967, who met his girlfriend and lover Gudrun Ensslin that same year . Parallel to his new relationship, Baader Michel wrote several letters from pre-trial detention in 1968 and hoped that the relationship with Ello would continue: “(...) But cat (Ello's nickname), of course, one sentence [or at least] is not enough to get clear to make us be together again. Damn, I'm starving, I still have everything for you, but I think you're turning me back and forth like a rotten apple ”. Ellinor Michel did not return to him. She handed the children over to the social welfare office. First they came to a home, after all they lived with Manfred Henkel and his new wife. Michel's heavy consumption of alcohol and drugs, etc. a. she took LSD and mescaline and consumed hashish , suggesting strong self-destructive tendencies.

A later relationship with the Cuban musician Víctor Cruz ended with his death in 1999. Ellinor Michel spent her twilight years in a nursing home and died in 2007 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Exhibitions

  • 1967: Small world lantern , Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1968: Galerie Mensch, Hamburg
  • 1969: Schöneberg World Lantern, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • Bel étage gallery, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1970: Small world lantern, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1971/1972: Picture market, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 1974: Galerie Danckert, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1975: Dr. Grüber, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1976: Daimler-Benz showroom, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1977–1979: Galerie X, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1977: Small world lantern, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1978: Hilton Hotel, Berlin-Tiergarten
  • 1979: Daimler-Benz showroom, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1981: Daimler-Benz showroom, Berlin-Steglitz
  • 1983: Practice Dr. Martin Talke, Berlin-Spandau
  • 1984: Brigitte Wölfer Gallery, Berlin-Charlottenburg (with Werner Hansche)
  • 1987: Berliner Commerzbank AG, Berlin-Halensee
  • 2018, April 1 - May 13: Vita-Villa, exhibition “Monument” with works from the estate of Ellinor Michel, Braunschweig

Web links

Commons : Ellinor Michel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ By Marianne Winter: The Dark Shadows of 1968. April 6, 2018, accessed on February 7, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Ellinor Michel. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ellinor Michel. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Stern: "Don't forget me all the time" . In: The time . January 11, 2007, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Ellinor Michel. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Exhibition - Ellinor Michel - "Monument" - April 1st, 2018 - May 13th, 2018. In: The Vita Mine. Retrieved on February 6, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Michel, Ellinor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2007
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf