Erna Suhrborg

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Erna Suhrborg , b. Weidlich (* 1910 in Uerdingen ; † 1995 in Wesel ) was a German painter.

Life

She was born in Uerdingen in 1910 as the second of seven children. A year later, her family moved to Amsterdam, and later to Rotterdam.

From 1926 to 1928 she trained as a teacher for arts and crafts in Rotterdam. In the 1930s she received artistic training from the painter Jan Damme, who mainly painted portraits from nature. He had a great influence on the later work of Erna Suhrborg. During this time she learned abstract painting from the German painter Ernst Stahl from Kassel, who had emigrated to the Netherlands. She tried a few painting styles, but remained true to abstract painting for a lifetime.

In 1937 she married Dieter Suhrborg, son of a Duisburg gravel entrepreneur. She moved with him to the Lower Rhine in 1943, first to Duisburg, then to Wesel. The young family also felt the effects of the Second World War. A bomb hit the house. This destroyed almost all of Erna Suhrborg's pictures that were taken before the war. Wesel was in ruins. Art was out of the question. In the first years after the war, reconstruction became the focus of the Suhrborg family.

With the reconstruction in the 1950s, Erna Suhrborg decided to paint again. She built on her abstract pre-war art and became known to a wider public with an exhibition at Schloss Ringenberg in 1964. Several exhibitions followed. Her pictures have been exhibited worldwide. Erna Suhrborg died in 1995.

After her death, the city of Wesel paid tribute to the artist on the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2010 with an extensive exhibition in the city museum. She was an honorary member of the Niederrheinischer Kunstverein. In addition, a street in Wesel has been named after her.

Exhibitions

  • 1954 winter exhibition in Wesel
  • 1964 Gallery Schloss Ringenberg
  • 1965 Raadhuis in Naarden (Netherlands)
  • 1966 Art Cabinet Bücherstube, Duisburg
  • 1967 De Knipscheer, Laren (Netherlands)
  • 1968 Sothmann Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 1970 See publishing collective, Wesel
  • 1971 House in the Park, Emmerich
  • 1971 Dr. Kriegle-Vernissage, Duisburg
  • 1975 Sothmann Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 1977 Museum “Centrum De Vaart”, Hilversum
  • 1979 Verbandssparkasse Wesel
  • 1979 Raiffeisenbank Wesel
  • 1981 Städt. Wesel Museum
  • 1986 “Three generations, three women”, Kalkar Museum
  • 1989 Regional Museum of the Rhineland Regional Association (Xanten), Niederrh. Art Association eV
  • 1991 Art in the Tower, Stadtwerke Wesel
  • 2010 City Wesel Museum

Erna Suhrborg Prize

The Erna Suhrborg Art Prize was awarded for the first time in 2017. Hans Dieter Suhrborg, son of Erna Suhrborg, and his wife Gabriele (also an artist) came up with the idea of ​​the prize to promote women artists without academic training. The city of Wesel gladly accepted this suggestion and launched a competition. The prize is to be awarded every three years.

Web links

  • Petra Kuiper: The silent master from Wesel . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 21, 2017]).

Remarks

  1. ^ Hanne Buschmann: Wesel: First Erna Suhrborg Prize awarded. Retrieved March 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Suhrborg, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidlich, Erna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen
DATE OF DEATH 1995
Place of death Wesel