Gerd Thielemann

Gerd Thielemann

Gerd Thielemann (born January 7, 1928 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , graphic artist and collector of folk art .

Life

Gerd Thielemann was born as the only child of Hugo Thielemann and Johanna Thielemann (née Lange) in Leipzig. From 1942 to 1944 he completed an apprenticeship as a type lithographer . Between 1946 and 1951 he studied painting and graphics at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig with Elisabeth Voigt, Walter Arnold and Kurt Maßloff. From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Rephin Institute of the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Leningrad with AF Pachomow.

Then Thielemann was a lecturer and head of the evening academy in Leipzig. In 1997 he accompanied an ethnographic expedition on the trail of a former August the Strong's expedition to Tunisia. In the 50s and 60s he worked as a graphic artist with etchings , wood and linocuts and the design of books. In the mid-1970s he began to work more intensively in pastel painting . For a long time he made suitable pastel pencils himself. The pictures, mostly landscapes and cityscapes, are always created in nature and not in the studio.

Collections

Gerd Thielemann collects folk art from Russia, the Ukraine and the Caucasus, from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Ceramic toys, matryoshkas, pipe animals, sculptures as well as tableware, fine embroidery, carpets and metal vessels belong to his collection. In 2003 the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig devoted a special exhibition to him, “Touchings”, and acquired a large number of individual items. From March 9 to May 7, 2008, his last exhibition for the time being took place in Leipzig-Markkleeberg.

Gerd Thielemann is married to Inge Thielemann.

• Folk art
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  Clay figure

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  Clay plate

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  Whistle animal

• Works
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  Charcoal drawing near Saßnitz (1957)

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  Iraq, mosque in Baghdad (1983)

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  Madeira, coast near Canical (1999)

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  Lake in Winter (2002)

Prizes and awards

• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Art Prize of the FDJ
• State Prize for National Artistic Creation

Exhibitions

Personal exhibitions (selection)

1965 Leipzig, Galerie Kunst der Zeit 1980/81 Annaberg-Buchholz, gallery on the market 1983 Grimma, Kunsthaus 1984 Nerchau 1985 Dranske and Weimar 1986 Crottendorf and Rochlitz, Castle Museum 1987 Leipzig, gallery in the lecture hall of the university 1989 Leipzig, Academy of Sciences; Templin 1990 Bonn / Königswinter 1991 Potsdam; Nuremberg / Feucht 1992 Hamburg 1992/93 Annaberg

1993 Leipzig, Bayrische Vereinsbank; Furniture store, Flörsbach; Funchal Madeira 1994 Goehren 1995 Leipzig, Augsburg earth building society; Museum of Ethnology 1996 Hamburg; Berlin; Naunhof 1997 Leipzig, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Art Kapella Schkeuditz 1998 Leipzig, St. Georg Hospital 1999 Leipzig, IHK, Wiederitzsch Town Hall, Dresden, Museum of Ethnology 2000 Leipzig, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Club "GSHELKA" 2001 Leipzig, Berlin 2003 Leipzig, art department store, Museum of Ethnology 2004 Leipzig-Wiederitzsch, town hall hall 2008 Markkleeberg-Ost, art in the manor house 2011 Leipzig permanent exhibition at Schellko-Bau 2011/12 Leipzig Portuguese Society "Portuguese Moments"

Group exhibitions

• 1958–1989 Participation in exhibitions of the VBK / GDR and in foreign exhibitions in Baghdad, Cairo, Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow, Tallinn, Tbilisi
• 1990 Königswinter
• 1992 Berlin
• 2001 Wolkenstein Castle

literature

• Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig: Touches. Gerd Thielemann: a Leipzig painter and collector in Central Asia and Russia. Leipzig, April 2004, ISBN 3-910031-31-5 .
• Art department store Leipzig: Gerd Thielemann. Landscapes from six decades. Leipzig 2003.
• Maxhütte Unterwellenborn: Max and Art. The Maxhütte in painting and graphics. 1945-1989.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TOUCHES - Gerd Thielemann: a Leipzig painter and collector in Central Asia and Russia

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Thielemann in the catalog of the German National Library