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Gertrud Schwarze (born March 3, 1915 in Oldenburg as Gertrud Wiedemann , † March 16, 1977 in Krefeld ) was a German ceramist .

Life

Schwarze attended the art school in Lübeck in 1932/33, then trained as a potter from 1933 to 1935 with Paul Dresler (1879–1950) in the Grootenburg pottery in Krefeld. She then attended the State College for Ceramics in Landshut , where she passed the master's examination in 1936. In 1937 she married the Krefeld painter and art teacher Helmut Schwarze (1909–1972), with whom she had two daughters and four sons, one of whom, Mathies, became her pupil and also a ceramist.

In 1950 she set up her own workshop in Krefeld-Verberg. In 1952, Schwarze received the Krefeld Art Prize on the occasion of the Kunst des Niederrhein exhibition at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum there for a vase with a black and white striped glaze, which, along with other Schwarzes works, is still part of the collection of the Krefeld Art Museums.

Gertrud Schwarze, second production of the 1952 award-winning vase with signs of use, private property

From 1961 to 1964, Schwarze worked as a lecturer for ceramic decoration at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld .

Schwarze mainly made vases, chose clear shapes and elegant surfaces, in the 1950s she preferred black and black and white glazes, in the 1960s she preferred light glazes, which she painted in color with floral motifs. Like her teacher Dresler, she orientated herself on Japanese ceramics, in her colored work on Rhenish stoneware from the 16th to 18th centuries. Her work bears the engraved capital letters GSW as a signature on the floor .

Gertrud Schwarze, black and white vase in the shape of a calabash, around 1955, private property
Signature - engraving by Gertrud Schwarze

Exhibitions

  • 1949–1958 participation in the exhibition "Art of the Lower Rhine" in Krefeld
  • 1952–1965 Participation in exhibitions at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum and the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld
  • 1954 and 1957 participation in the Milan Triennale
  • 1965 Participation in the exhibition "Contemporary German Ceramics" in Nuremberg
  • 1967: Ceramics of the Lower Rhine from the present and the past , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
  • 1978/1979: Gertrud Schwarze (1915–1977). Ceramics and drawings , Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
  • 1995 Gertrud and Helmut Schwarze. Ceramics, watercolors and drawings , Kunstverein Krefeld

literature

  • Gertrud Schwarze , in: European ceramics since 1950 , ed. from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe , Hamburg 1979, p. 262.
  • Gertrud Schwarze b. Wiedemann . In: Gertrud and Helmut Schwarze. Ceramics, watercolors and drawings , ed. from the Krefelder Kunstverein for the exhibition in memoriam Gertrud and Helmut Schwarze, Krefeld 1995, p. 12f.
  • Gisela Fiedler-Bender: Gertrud Schwarzes ceramics . In: Gertrud and Helmut Schwarze. Ceramics, watercolors and drawings , ed. from the Krefelder Kunstverein for the exhibition in memoriam Gertrud and Helmut Schwarze, Krefeld 1995, pp. 14–29.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalgalerie Berlin (ed.): Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985 . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87584-158-9 , p. 483.
personal data
SURNAME Blacks, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiedemann, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1977
Place of death Krefeld