Gertrud Wiedra
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 .
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
- Irene Dütsch: Saints on glass - reverse glass pictures from the county of Glatz in Silesia. EULE Society for Interdisciplinary Cooperation eV, Erding, from January 5, 2011
- Eva Winkhart: A Riedlinger treasure is presented. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. October 26, 2012.
- Waltraut Wolf: Findings precisely documented by Berno Heymer's book on the reverse glass paintings of the antiquity association. In: The Alb messenger. October 26, 2012.
- Marius Lechler: Gertrud Wiedra - she found her fulfillment in the art article in the magazine "Heimat Allgäu" 1/14 pp. 28–31
- Weiler-Simmerberg could buy the Eschenlohr house. Space for a new museum. to: das allgäu online. February 17, 2012, hamlet
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d see article Marius Lechler: Gertrud Wiedra - she found her fulfillment in art
- ↑ at Lechler "Alfred" Wiedra
- ↑ a b Short biography of Gertrud Wiedra in the shop window of the Eschenlohr house
- ↑ see web link Weiler-Simmerberg could buy the Eschenlohr house; Space for a new museum
personal data | |
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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 |