Gerhild Diesner
Gerhild Diesner (born August 4, 1915 in Innsbruck ; † September 5, 1995 there ) was an Austrian painter.
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| Gerhild Diesner |
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Live and act
Gerhild Diesner was the daughter of the lawyer and civil servant Rudolf Diesner; her mother Maria came from Brixen . After elementary school, she attended high school and the private school Beaupré in Geneva , where she had her first drawing lessons in 1930; from 1932 to 1935 she attended the technical college for women's clothing; She also took a nude course with Comploj. This was followed by annual stays in England, where she lived from 1935 to 1937 with her sister and she studied at the Chelsea Art School and then at the School of Art in Brighton with Charles Knight.
In 1937 she first returned to Innsbruck; from 1937 to 1939 she continued her training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the department of commercial graphics with Ernst Dombrowsky, Ehmke and Emil Preetorius . With the outbreak of World War II, she initially worked outside of the arts as a hotel secretary in Hofgastein ; In 1940/41 she was given service in Dresden . From 1941 to 1943 she worked in the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum in Innsbruck with traditional costumes and attended the nude course with Max von Esterle .
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| Gerhild Diesner , 1971 |
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In 1943 she began her artistic preoccupation with France , which was to set the trend for her painterly statement; In 1943/44 she studied with André Lhote in Paris , at times also at the École de la Grande Chaumiere . In 1944 she lived in Weßling, Upper Bavaria, as a freelance artist. At the end of the war, almost all works that were made in France and stored in Munich are destroyed. After the end of the war she met Paul Flora , Jörg Sackenheim and Bodo Kampmann , whom she married in 1949 and from whom she separated again in 1953, as well as with Werner Scholz , Johannes Behler and Jakob Lederer in Alpbach , where her first solo exhibition took place as part of the Alpbach University Weeks . Their daughter Olivia was born in 1947, their son Nils in 1952. Between 1955 and 1975 she stayed in England, Portugal and Italy. In 1975 she was awarded the title of professor.
She is buried in the cemetery in Innsbruck-Mühlau .
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Diesner created an extensive work characterized by the luminosity of color. According to Gert Ammann , her work is “one of the most important phenomena of post-impressionism in Tyrol - shaped by the French coloring and above all by the consistent way of composing according to André Lotte's color and form structures. Gauguin and Van Gogh , but also Henri Matisse, were their artistic orientations and visions. (...) Together with Max Weiler , Helmut Rehm , Walter Honeder and Werner Scholz, Diesner played a key role in the painting of the 1950s in Tyrol. "
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| Gerhild Diesner , 1958 |
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Awards
- 1958 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck, 2nd Prize for Painting
- 1982 Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck
- 1994 Tyrolean State Prize for Art
Web links
- Portrait at rlb-Kunstbrücke
- Information from culture bozen
- CV at art4public
- Literature by and about Gerhild Diesner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kristian Sotriffer: Closer to nature - man and landscape in painting from 1990 to 1950 - Tyrol and Trentino . Museum of Modern Art Bolzano, 1987
- ↑ Portrait at farbholzschnitt.at
- ^ City of Innsbruck: Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture
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| SURNAME | Diesner, Gerhild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 1995 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |