Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann

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Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann (born November 30, 1899 in Hagsfeld near Karlsruhe , † September 24, 1982 in Isny im Allgäu ) was a German portrait , flower and landscape painter .

Life

From 1915 on, she took private painting lessons from Wilhelm Trübner and Alice Proumen in her hometown of Karlsruhe, and from 1916 to 1918 attended the Grand Ducal School of Painters there .

In 1919 she was one of the women who were first admitted to study at the Badische Landeskunstschule (now the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe ). Her teachers there were Professors Wilhelm Schnarrenberger and Hermann Gehri . In 1925 she became a master student of Prof. Ernst Würtenberger in the fields of oil painting, watercolor painting and graphics.

Painting stays in France and Italy followed. In 1931 the artist married the entrepreneur Arist Dethleffs . He built her a mobile studio, later called Dethleff's car , so that she could accompany him on his business trips. This later became the caravan manufacturer Dethleffs .

When her husband was called up for military service in 1939, Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann took over the sporting goods factory Dethleffs in Isny ​​himself. There she was together with her daughter Ursula Dethleffs (1933–1994), who became known as an artist beyond the borders of Germany, co-founder of the artist group "arkade". She was also the driving force behind the establishment of the " Oberschwäbische Sezession " (later Oberschwaben-Bodensee Secession (SOB)), of which she was a board member from 1951 to 1958.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the painter undertook tours with the Fahr-Atelier through Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann died in Isny ​​in 1982 at the age of 82.

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Portraits, still lifes of flowers and landscapes shaped the repertoire of Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann throughout his life. Her work was initially shaped by the “ New Objectivity ”, but later on she found a visual language that balances between objectivity and abstraction.

Honors

  • 1931: 2nd prize in the exhibition "South German Art" in Munich
  • 1932: 1st State Prize in the exhibition "The Woman in Pictures" of the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 17, 1973)

Exhibitions

  • 1923: Participation in the Great German Art Exhibition in Karlsruhe
  • 1930: Participation in the exhibition "Badisches Kunstschaffen der Gegenwart" in Karlsruhe
  • 1931: Participation in the exhibition "South German Art" in Munich
  • 1932: Participation in the exhibition “Die Frau im Bild” at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1947: Participation in the exhibition "Upper Swabian Art" in Ehingen (Danube)
  • 1961, 1971, 1980/81: Exhibitions in the Städtisches Bodensee-Museum in Friedrichshafen

Some of her works were posthumously in 1990 under the motto "Watercolors and drawings from the Black Forest" in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg i. To see Br . In 2000, 40 of her works were shown in an exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe. In 2006 the Städtische Galerie Wangen im Allgäu showed pictures from the estate. Works by Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann can also be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Bodenseekreis in the Friedrichshafen district office.

literature

  • Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann: works from 5 decades; from the new objectivity to the collage ; Lake Constance Museum Friedrichshafen, September 12th - October 24th 1971. Friedrichshafen: Lake Constance Museum, 1971.
  • Hans H. Hofstätter : The painter Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann. Retrospective for the 80th birthday . Friedrichshafen: Lake Constance Museum, 1980.
  • Women on the move? Women artists in the German southwest 1800-1945 . Karlsruhe: Municipal Gallery in the PrinzMaxPalais March 25th - May 28th 1995; Villingen-Schwenningen: Municipal gallery "Lovis-Kabinett" June 18 - August 6, 1995. Karlsruhe, 1995. ISBN 3-923344-31-7 .
  • Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann: Painter of the New Objectivity . January 26th to February 27th, 2000 in the forum of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe. Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, 2000. ISBN 3-923344-47-3 .
  • General Artist Lexicon Volume 26, 2000, p. 472.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Dethleffs nobleman, Fridel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, flower and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagsfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1982
Place of death Isny in the Allgäu