Gertrud Wiedra

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Gertrud Wiedra (born November 25, 1921 in Jagerndorf in Silesia; † January 8, 2014 in Weiler im Allgäu ) was a German reverse glass painter and art collector .

Career

As Gertrud Kienzel she learned the craft of dressmaking and became the youngest female master in the German Empire. In 1942 she married Fritz Wiedra (1919–2005), who was an important pillar of her later artistic career. They were expelled from their homeland at the end of World War II and came to Oberstaufen im Allgäu via Dieburg in Hesse , where they ran a grocery store from 1948 to 1950. Then Weiler in the Allgäu became her new home.

In 1955 - that is, at the age of about 34 - she began to paint and initially created a large number of wooden votive tablets . In Simmerberg resident Udo Dammert (1904-2003), who has a first major career as a concert pianist of the new music had behind and then second of his as folk art expert dedicated and collectors of glass paintings, advised her reinforced with the glass painting to deal with.

Between 1975 and 1978 Gertrud Wiedra's reverse glass pictures were shown at numerous regional exhibitions in southern Germany (Weiler, Lindenberg, Oberstaufen, Isny ​​and Kempten). In 1979 she achieved international recognition through an exhibition in Paris organized by the Goethe Institute. Further exhibitions followed in France (Paris, Bordeaux), Austria (Vienna), Japan (Tokyo, Sapporo), China (Beijing), USA (Denver) and India (Bobay, Calcutta).

The autodidact still painted herself until 1988; then she used her knowledge and skills as an expert-ranked reverse glass restorer on behalf of private collectors and museum institutes. Gertrud Wiedra worked in this area until she was 90 years old and only then withdrew from the public eye. Her husband Fritz, who died in 2005, shared her passion for reverse glass painting, procured the rare hand- blown raw panes in the Allgäu and Bregenz region and made the frames for the glass pictures and was the main collector of the sculptures in the Wiedra collection .

Local history museum at the Strumpfar in Oberstaufen in the Allgäu

Wiedra Collection

In addition to their own reverse glass paintings, Gertrud and Fritz Wiedra also brought together works by other artists with sacred and religious motifs and valuable wooden sculptures from the 14th to the beginning of the 18th century as well as cult objects and prayer flags. The approximately 800 to 1000 exhibits are known as the Wiedra Collection and, according to the plans of the Weiler-Simmerberg market, were to be made accessible to the public in the Eschenlohr House, which was still to be acquired . When the acquisition of the building and the accommodation in the local museum of local history could not be realized, the artist decided to accept an offer from Markt Oberstaufen , which was able to present an attractive concept for the permanent presentation of the collection in her local museum at the stocking shop.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d see article Marius Lechler: Gertrud Wiedra - she found her fulfillment in art
  2. ↑ at Lechler "Alfred" Wiedra
  3. ↑ a b Short biography of Gertrud Wiedra in the shop window of the Eschenlohr house
  4. ↑ see web link Weiler-Simmerberg could buy the Eschenlohr house; Space for a new museum
personal data
SURNAME Wiedra, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reverse glass painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Jagerndorf in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2014
Place of death Hamlet in the Allgäu