Frida Löber

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Frida Löber (born Lüttich ; born July 31, 1910 in Höhnstedt near Halle (Saale) ; † March 16, 1989 in Althagen ) was a German painter and artisan. She belonged to the third generation of artists from the Ahrenshoop artists' colony .

Life

Frida Löber was born as the daughter of Franz Lüttich, who worked in the horse trade , and his wife Sidonie and grew up next to six siblings from 1913 in Halle an der Saale. In 1916, a diphtheria illness led to permanent, severe impairment of hearing, but also to a strengthening of her "emotional alertness". From 1926 onwards she became increasingly involved in drawing and painting. From 1927 to 1932 she completed art studies at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts in Halle, until about 1929 together with her older sister Ella Lüttich-Etzrodt (1907-1932). Your teachers were u. a. Erwin Hahs (painting), Charles Crodel (graphics), Gerhard Marcks (nude) and Lili Schulz (enamel). In 1930 she married the sculptor Wilhelm Löber , who at the time was a master student of Gerhard Marcks in his class for sculpture at Giebichenstein Castle.

In 1932 the couple moved to the Fischland in Althagen. In the village, which today belongs to Ahrenshoop , Wilhelm Löber's father, pastor in Wustrow , bought the Büdnerei No. 65 for her. A decisive event for Frida Löber in 1932 was the loss of sister Ella, who unexpectedly died giving birth to her first child. The Löbers, their brother-in-law Karl Etzrodt and the teachers of the castle then organized a commemorative exhibition in the Berlin gallery Gurlitt in 1933 , at which around 50 works by Ella Lüttich-Etzrodt were shown as well as early works by Wilhelm Löber and enamel works by Frida Löber.

Between 1933 and 1953, Frida Löber gave birth to eight children. "In the next two decades was sporadically erupting drawing and watercolor painting on motifs from the Ahrenshooper landscape and the models rely her out of their home crowd of children." After returning Wilhelm Löbers from the war the family spent in 1946, the first post-war years in Empfertshausen to the Rhön , where Löber was given a teaching position at the local state carving school .

From 1952 on, living in Fischland again, she and her husband set up a ceramics workshop in 1955. Together with the artist couple Barbara and Arnold Klünder , who had founded a workshop at the same time, they developed the "Fischlandkeramik." After 36 years of marriage, Wilhelm Löber left his wife in 1966 and moved to Juliusruh on Rügen . The Fischland ceramics became the main source of income, the workshop was now run by the son Friedemann (* 1939).

In 1973 Frida Löber suffered a stroke with right-sided paralysis, but recovered so much that she could continue to work as a left-handed painter and ceramist. In 1986 a second severe stroke followed. Although this led to further physical limitations, a series of abstract chalk and ink drawings were created. In 1989 Frida Löber died with her family in her house in Althagen. She was buried in the cemetery in the Baltic resort of Wustrow.

“Frieda Löber's work was more personal than her husband's. Her fairy-tale characters with colored capes in the seventies and eighties are imaginatively decorated with prints of textiles. Her expressive ceramic animal sculptures are also enchanting. "

- Ruth Negendanck

Works (selection)

painting

  • Lantern Festival (1926)
  • Self-portrait with a blue scarf (1927)
  • Wreath weaving (1929)
  • Ahrenshooper mill (around 1930)
  • Paetowhof (1930)
  • Port of Althagen (1931)
  • Katen in Althagen (1932)
  • The Blue House (1937)
  • Portrait of Wilhelm Löber asleep (1955)
  • Self-Portrait (1981)

Ceramics

  • Self-Portrait as Torso (1965)
  • Bearded man with hat and bowl (around 1978)
  • Candlestick Woman (around 1978)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1933: Enamel work, memorial exhibition for Ella Lüttich-Etzrodt, Galerie Gurlitt Berlin
  • 1953/1964: Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop
  • 1980: Exhibition in the studio gallery in Berlin with their children - the sculptor Ernst (* 1934) and the ceramists Leni (* 1937), Friedemann (* 1939) and Wilfriede (* 1951)
  • 1983: Exhibition in the Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop together with Doris Oberländer
  • 2004: Frida Löber - Painting, drawing, designing: Between life and art. Exhibition of the painterly work in the Kunstkaten and the ceramic objects in the Dornenhaus Ahrenshoop
  • 2013: Frida and Wilhelm Löber - an artist couple from the Ahrenshooper artists' colony. Ahrenshoop

literature

  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 118.
  • Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , p. 216.
  • Susanne Greinke: Frida Löber - Painting, drawing, designing: Between life and art. MCM ART, Berlin 2004, ISB 978-3-9807734-9-3, (text by Jo Jastram ).
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5968 f .
  • Gerburg Förster: Frida Löber. In: “Around us is a day of creation” From the artist colony to today. Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop (ed.), Ahrenshoop 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816136-0-5 , pp. 172-173.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frida Löber. on the website dornenhaus.de
  2. ↑ a b c Ella Lüttich-Etzrodt. on the website dornenhaus.de
  3. ^ Gerburg Förster: Frida Löber. ... see literature
  4. ^ Grave site at findagrave.com
  5. ↑ Ruth Negendanck: Ahrenshoop artists' colony. ... see literature
  6. ↑ a b List based on Grete Grewolls: Who was who ... see literature
personal data
SURNAME Löber, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liège, Frida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and artisan
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Höhnstedt near Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1989
Place of death Althagen