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Elly-Viola Nahmmacher (* May 27, 1913 in Gera ; † May 5, 2000 in Kromsdorf ) was a sculptor and religious inspirer.

Life

Elly-Viola Nahmmacher was born on May 27, 1913 in Gera Neu-Untermhaus as the daughter of the mechanic and locomotive driver Otto Friedrich Müller. After attending school in 1930 she worked in a bookstore in Greiz . In 1934 she began her sculpting apprenticeship with Eva Eisenlohr . During this time she got to know Rudolf Steiner and dealt with anthroposophy . After completing her apprenticeship as a sculptor, she also turned to drawing. In 1938 she worked in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. In the same year she married the doctor Wilhelm Nahmmacher, with whom she had daughters Eva-Maria and Silke-Viola. Studies with Emil Mund (Chemnitz) and Renée Sintenis (Berlin) followed.

In 1942 she had her first exhibition with animal sculptures at the Leipzig Fair . Since the end of the war she lived as a freelance artist in Greiz and formed the “Greizer Artists' Association” and various exhibitions in Thuringia. In 1950 she turned decidedly to Christian art. In 1951 the Feininger student and Bauhaus artist Johannes Berthold returned to Greiz - years of artistic collaboration began. There was also one with the Schilling Bell Foundry in Apolda: master bell founder Franz Schilling commissioned them to decorate chill-cast bells that were cast in Morgenröthe lozenges .

Elly-Viola Nahmmacher expanded her material and form repertoire in the 1950s and 1960s (steel, copper, enamel , Plexiglas , epoxy resin , etc.). She had her first exhibition outside the GDR in 1961. In 1965 she met Reiner Kunze , who arranged an exhibition in Czechoslovakia. In 1970 she was able to travel to Spain. Several exhibitions followed in the USA.

In 1975 she was excluded from the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . The grave monument created by her in 1977 for Oskar Brüsewitz ("Fire Apocalypse") was not allowed to be erected in the cemetery in Rippicha . The stele was "bought" by the Stasi . In the following years the artist was hindered in any form of public exhibition or appearance.

In 1993 Elly-Viola Nahmmacher moved to Weimar . She died on May 5, 2000 in Kromsdorf , she was buried in the Greiz cemetery. The artistic estate is administered by Winfried Ahrenhövel. A street in Greizer Neustadt has been named after her since 2004.

Works

Awards and honors

  • 1993: Citizen's Medal of the City of Greiz in Gold
  • 1994: Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2004: A street in Greiz was named after Elly-Viola Nahmmacher

literature

  • Hildegard Mensing: Elly-Viola Nahmmacher. A sculptor of our time . Edited by Günter Hanisch. With illus. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, 1965 2 , 1971 (3rd, extended edition).
  • Wooden sculptures by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher, interpreted by Otto Riedel. With ill. O. O., ca.1970.
  • Wooden sculptures by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher: 1. “The human being” - six symbolic figures based on Teilhard de Chardin. 2. "The life of Mary", interpreted by Otto Riedel. o. O. [Zwickau] o. J. [1980].
  • Ulrich Bock: "Liturgy in wood and metal". New works by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher. Ill. By Elly-Viola Nahmmacher. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1985.
  • Uwe Grüning : Elly-Viola Nahmmacher. One life - one work . Photos by Jürgen Pietsch, illustrated by Elly-Viola Nahmmacher. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-7462-1040-2 .
  • Elly-Viola takers. The city of Greiz celebrates the 80th birthday of the sculptor (= black and white edition ). Illustrated book. Pietsch, Spröda 1993.
  • Katharina Wolfrum and Raoul Stirkat: Elly-Viola Nahmmacher - Democrat and artist in everyday life in the GDR. [Greiz 2009] (project work in the "Year of Democracy 2009", which was awarded the individual prize by the Thuringian Ministry of Culture; unedited)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarete Schilling : Bells from Apolda. Apolda District Council, Apolda 1986, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Greizer students receive prize for the "Year of Democracy" [2009]. In: http://greiz.jimdo.com/presse/presse-2008-2011 , accessed on February 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ cf. Prize winners competition of the Thuringian Ministry of Culture ( PDF ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , March 2, 2010 ; 117 kB), accessed on February 19, 2016; as well as pupils from Greizer receive the “Year of Democracy” [2009] prize. In: greiz.jimdo.com , accessed on February 19, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schulportal-thueringen.de
personal data
SURNAME Nahmmacher, Elly-Viola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2000
Place of death Kromsdorf near Weimar