Gerda von Freymann-Knispel

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Gerda Freymann with her husband Alfred Knispel and son Alexander in Schwiebus, around 1944

Gerda von Freymann-Knispel (* December 24, 1905 in the former Fellin in Livonia, today Viljandi / Estonia; † March 29, 1981 in Neustadt bei Coburg ; actually Gertrutha Christina Knispel, née von Freymann ) was a German painter of the 20th century.

Life

Gerda Freymann was born in 1905 in what was then the Baltic region of Fellin, the daughter of Georg Sylvester von Freymann (1870–1946), a lawyer in the municipal administration, and his wife Mia Margarethe Körber. The von Freymanns were a Livonian noble family whose origins can be traced back to the adjutant general and major in the Swedish service Johann Neumann, who was raised to the Swedish nobility on August 20, 1666, where he “unlike other families was given the name von Freymann” has been.

In 1918 the family moved to Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg in the aftermath of the First World War . Gerda Freymann attended the lyceum here until 1922, and was confirmed on August 14, 1921 in the Warbende pastorate . On November 24, 1921, he was naturalized in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In October 1922 she was accepted at the State Art School in Berlin . It was there that she met her future husband, the painter Alfred Knispel . Until her state examination in 1925, she was also active on the student council. From October 10, 1925 to October 1, 1926, she was a candidate for drawing teaching at the Victoria-Louise School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and completed her legal clerkship with the certificate of qualification for permanent employment as a drawing teacher at higher educational establishments. On October 1, 1926, she began as a drawing teacher at the Mariannen Gymnasium in Berlin.

She married Alfred Knispel in 1934. She traveled with him painting through Europe, Italy in particular was decisive for her development as an artist. The theme of "time and eternity" that pervades her work found its special stamp here. Their son Alexander was born in 1937. The artist couple moved the center of their life to Schwiebus (today Swiebodzin), the birthplace of the man. Her participation in the autumn exhibition of the Graphisches Kabinett at the Association of Berlin Artists is guaranteed for 1940 . Otherwise, little has been handed down about her public work and exhibiting from these years.

Alfred Knispel fell in January 1945, three days after he was drafted into the Volkssturm . Gerda Freymann fled Schwiebus with her son and found a new home in Neustadt near Coburg. There she soon became the intellectual center of a small group of artists. In 1961 she took part in an exhibition at the Kunstverein Coburg .

In 1967 her son had a fatal accident; a stroke of fate that reverberated in her work over the next few years. Gerda Freymann-Knispel died on March 29, 1981 in Neustadt near Coburg. After her death, her pictures were distributed among friends and family, so that most of them are in various private collections.

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Traute Rudolph wrote in her obituary on the death of Gerda Freymann-Knispel: “It is rare to find a completed artistic work that so vividly reflects the ups and downs of a fate as that of this artist, in order to ultimately appear as truly complete in a spiritualization, which can be felt in the gently breathed fall of autumn leaves as well as in the tranquility and beauty of the architectures you can see and dream of. What is so puzzling to us behind the visible things runs like a very soft melody through her most mature paintings; not every admirer of her art is able to hear her immediately, she is so quiet. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ family history of Freymann adH Nursie accessed on 16 October 2016th
  2. ↑ Traute Rudolph: Painting - Mirror of a soul. Obituary for the death of Gerda von Freymann-Knispel. In: Coburger Tageblatt on March 29, 1981.
  3. ↑ Kunstverein Coburg: From the work of Coburg artists: Lena Maas, Gerda v. Freymann-Knispel, Annemarie Kirchner-Ronniger, Traute Rudolph, Anneliese Schemmel-Bäne. Annual exhibition of the Coburg Art Association from April 16 to May 22, 1961.
  4. ↑ Traute Rudolph: Painting - Mirror of a soul. Obituary for the death of Gerda von Freymann-Knispel. In: Coburger Tageblatt on March 29, 1981.
personal data
SURNAME Freymann-Knispel, Gerda von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knispel, Gertrutha Christina; Freymann, Gertrutha Christina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Viljandi
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1981
Place of death Neustadt near Coburg