Friederike Michelsen

Friederike Michelsen (* 1923 in Dusseldorf ) is a German painter , graphic artist and writer who freelance in Worpswede worked.

biography

Michelsen graduated from high school in 1942. After work and military service, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe in 1944 , trained as a gymnastics teacher in Loheland / Rhön from 1947 to 1950 and as a primary school teacher in Lüneburg from 1952 to 1954 . In 1960/61 she studied at the Werkkunstschule Hannover as part of teacher training (drawing teacher) and in 1970/71 with an examination certificate (handcraft teacher).

Until 1975 she worked as an art teacher in Stade , her parents' residence, and other schools in Lower Saxony. She moved to Worpswede in the early 1970s . There she worked for 35 years as a freelance artist with a focus on color etchings, painting and linocuts, later also until 1996 as a graphic artist in cooperation with the copper printer Herbert Jaeckel in the Worpswede artist press founded by his uncle Martin Paul Müller in 1919 . The subjects of her pictures are shaped by religious issues, such as: B. the A&O from the Revelation of John . This also applies to her - partly written in Low German - graphically illustrated by herself and published between 1989 and 1992 in four volumes of poetry. She has created a large number of etchings that capture the landscape of the atmospheric North German lowlands. Today she lives in a senior citizens' residence in Öschelbronn in Baden-Württemberg .

Exhibitions

• Academy Loccum
• Brockdorff Palais , Glückstadt
• Hanover
• Löwenapotheke (Stade)
• Viersen -Willich
• Ludwig Windthorst House , Lingen
• Kunsthalle Bremen
• Niels Stensen House, Worphausen
• Johanneshaus, Schelbronn

Works

• Lütt Wiehachtsspeel ut Overhamm: Opschreepen 1965 in mien lütte School for mien "leewe Lüd vun Overhamm" Stade: St. Cosmae-Karken, 1971. PBuB-ID: 10431
• On the way to Him: meditations and prayers. Texts about the way to God and in dialogue with God. Verlag M. Simmering , Lilienthal 1993.
• The year is now disappearing in fog. Autumn thoughts. Publisher M. Simmering, Lilienthal 1992.

literature

• Gerd Wulff: Focus Worpswede - portraits of contemporary visual artists , Verlag H. Saade, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 1981.

Web links

• Friederike Michelsen in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
• Humboldt-Schlueter Art Association