Gerda Matejka-Felden

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Gerda Matejka-Felden (born April 29, 1901 in Dehlingen in Alsace ; † December 27, 1984 in Vienna ; born Gerda Felden) was an Austrian painter and art teacher .

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Gerda Felden was born as the daughter of the politician and theologian Emil Felden . As a ten-year-old she received private drawing lessons and from 1914 attended the arts and crafts school in Bremen, from 1919 to 1924 she studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig .

In 1924 she moved to Vienna and in 1932 married the cultural politician Viktor Matejka . Matejka-Felden founded the specialist group for drawing and painting for the unemployed and disengaged at the Volksheim Ottakring adult education center . In 1938 Viktor Matejka was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp and was banned from working by the National Socialists . After the liberation of Austria in 1945, Gerda Matejka-Felden was given a teaching position at the master school for art education at the Academy of Fine Arts on Vienna's Schillerplatz and two years later became an associate professor .

During this time Matejka-Felden founded the Association of Artistic Adult Education Centers with Karl Lugmayer and Leopold Langhammer . From this later emerged the Vienna Art School .

In 1959 the Federal President Adolf Schärf appointed her as a full university professor, and in 1967 she was appointed full professor . Matejka-Felden received international attention and was invited to give lectures for the French Ministry of Education and for members of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR .

Gerda Matejka-Felden died on December 27, 1984 and was buried on January 9 , 1985 in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 123).

Honors

literature

  • Bernhard Peithner-Lichtenfels (Ed.): Gerda Matejka-Felden. Exhibition catalog, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna 1983
  • Doris Weißinger: Professor Gerda Matejka-Felden 1901-1984 , diploma thesis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , 1995
  • Tom Waibel: Gerda Matejka-Felden: A contentious public educator, brochure with original documents on the life and work of the first female professor of art education in Austria, Vienna Art School , 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Matejka-Felden, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felden, Gerda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, art teacher and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dehlingen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1984
Place of death Vienna