Gerda Schmidt-Panknin
Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (born August 9, 1920 in Lüchow ) is a German painter. She lives and works in Kappeln .
Life
Gerda Schmidt-Panknin was born as the daughter of the teacher Otto Schmidt in Lüchow, Duchy of Lauenburg , in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1935 the family moved to Kappeln / Schlei, where Schmidt-Panknin graduated from the Klaus Harms School in 1938 . After the end of the war in 1946, he studied at the Nordic Art College in Bremen with Wilhelm Tegtmeier and Emil Waldmann (from 1939) at " Der Baukreis ", which was originally founded in Hamburg . “Der Baukreis”, now in St. Peter-Ording / Eiderstedt , was a place of training and exchange for young painters who were looking for a new orientation at the time. Teachers were u. a. Friedrich Karl Gotsch and the Hamburg painter Ernst Witt. After working as a freelancer from 1946 to 1952, the artist worked as an art teacher at the grammar school in Kappeln from 1952 to 1977. Since 1977 Gerda Schmidt-Panknin has been working exclusively as a freelance artist again. After her first trip to Greece (1958), travel became an important element in her life and formed the basis for her work.
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The main focus of the work is painting, in which the artist often combines different materials and techniques. While other materials such as sand or shavings were incorporated into the oil paint in the 1960s and 1970s, since the 1990s work with acrylic paint, often combined with chalk, has dominated. In addition to painting, a large number of woodcuts (mostly in the 1950s and 1960s), monotypes and chalk works were created. The boundaries between drawing, printing and painting are fluid.
The thematic focus of the works from the 1950s are the people of the circus and the fairs. After meeting a Roma family, pictures of gypsies were repeatedly added. These works brought her the recognition of Otto Pankok , who painted in 1957 in Hasselberg near Kappelns on the Baltic Sea and visited her in her studio.
At the end of the 1950s, the artist's travels became the most important source of inspiration for her artistic work. At first it was the light on the Greek islands, which she has traveled twelve times in a row since 1958, with which she dealt with bright images dominated by transparent tones. Later it was the faces of the people she met on her travels through the regions of the Soviet Union (from 1968). In dealing with Russian icon painting, the pictures became dark and heavy, colors seem to shine from the depths. The pictures are not narrative, but primarily painting, which lives from the application of paint and the materiality of the color and the often additionally incorporated materials. After the first trip in 1980 to the north ( Greenland , Iceland , Faroe Islands and Scandinavia ), pictures were created that in turn dealt with the specific light and the vast Nordic landscapes. In order to solve the new problems arising here, Gerda Schmidt-Panknin again developed new techniques, often combining chalk with acrylic paints. From the mid-1990s, oil paintings of the landscape on the Schlei were greatly reduced in their representational quality. In her most recent exhibition in 2008 at the Kappelner Kunsthaus Hänisch, she also showed portraits in which the bright color stands on the craggy background of the back of a carpet.
“ Above the landscapes, and even more so above Gerda Schmidt-Panknin's figure paintings, there is a seemingly melancholy, retarding trait. The heads of the Innuits, for example, do not radiate emotions. Instead, like the landscapes, they insist on the idea of complete timelessness. "(Dr. Uwe Haupenthal)
Influences
In addition to her own artistic work, Gerda Schmidt-Panknin gave a large number of pupils impulses for artistic training and work during her time as an art teacher at the then relatively small Kappeln grammar school. Her work was particularly encouraged by the director at the time, Willi Lassen , who had special access to the visual arts through personal contacts with important art historians. Her former students include the architect Peter Hübner and the artists Peter Heber , Peter Nagel , Hansjörg Schneider and Nicolaus Schmidt . From July 2020, the latter will contest the “Melancolia” exhibition in the Nissenhaus Husum together with Gerda Schmidt-Panknin. The occasion is the artist's 100th birthday.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1960 artist club “Die Insel”, Hamburg
- 1961 Municipal Museum, Flensburg
- 1962 Stegi Kalon Technon, Athens
- 1969 Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm
- 1969 Aabenraa Museum, Aabenraa
- 1972 Otto Pankok Museum, Hünxe
- 1974 North Frisian Museum Ludwig-Nissen-Haus, Husum
- 1978 Kley Gallery, Hamm
- 1982 German Cultural Institute, Copenhagen
- 1983 Senderjylands Art Museum, Tondern
- 1984 National Museum, Reykjavík
- 1984/85 Textile Museum, Neumünster
- 1985 Kunstsalen, Fredericia
- 1986 Art Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 1986 Ataturk Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 1990 Art Forum, Kappeln / Schlei
- 1991 Art Museum, Murmansk, USSR
- 1993 Ontario Goethe Society, Toronto, Canada
- 1998 Art Center “TweeWezen”, Enkhuizen, Holland
- 2003 Gallery of BASF Schwarzheide
- 2004 Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament
- 2008 Kunsthaus Hänisch, Kappeln
- 2014 North Sea Museum, Husum
literature
- Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, Iceland and Greenland Pictures , Flensburg City Museum, Bamberger-Haus, 1983
- Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, Pictures from the North , Magistrate of the City of Kappeln, Kappeln 1990
- Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, painting , gallery of BASF Schwarzheide, Schwarzheide, 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerda Schmidt-Panknin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about the artist (with a picture)
- Detailed article about the artist, including work at school
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer in the catalog for the exhibition at artforum Kappeln 1990
- ↑ Dr. Uwe Hauptenthal in the catalog for the 2003 exhibition at the gallery of BASF Schwarzheide. P. 12
- ↑ Dr. Uwe Hauptenthal in the catalog for the 2003 exhibition at the gallery of BASF Schwarzheide. P. 13
- ↑ Gerda Schmidt-Panknin, September 28–1. November 1991 Exhibition catalog in the art forum
- ↑ Nicolaus Schmidt, Willi Lassen - a biographical sketch, in “Democratic History” Vol. 26, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2015
- ↑ Gerda Schmidt-Panknin. Melancolia. Works from six decades Works by her students Peter Nagel, Peter Heber, Hansjörg Schneider and Nicolaus Schmidt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Panknin, Gerda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lüchow |