Gertrud von Hassel

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Gertrud von Hassel (born September 10, 1908 in Dar es Salaam , German East Africa ; † September 6, 1999 in Meldorf , Holstein ) was a German teacher and painter . She was the older sister of the former Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister, Federal Minister and Bundestag President Kai-Uwe von Hassel .

Family, childhood and youth

She was the daughter of the imperial officer Theodor von Hassel (1868–1935) and his wife Emma (* 1885), b. Jebsen. Her maternal grandfather was the shipowner and politician Michael Jebsen . Her younger brother Friedrich was born in 1910. Her father was a captain in the Schutztruppe for German East Africa and, after retiring from service, from 1913 owner of a coffee plantation in the Usambara Mountains near Kilimanjaro in the northeast of Tanganyika. Her younger brother Kai-Uwe was born there that same year . Gertrud von Hassel first attended a mission school in Hohenfriedeberg , where she began drawing. The family was expelled from the country in 1919 after the former German colony had been handed over to a British mandate by the League of Nations as a result of the First World War . The family therefore moved to Germany and settled in Glücksburg . Gertrud von Hassel passed her A-levels in Flensburg.

education

Between 1928 and 1933 Gertrud von Hassel studied with Eduard Steinbach and Arthur Illies at the Hamburger Kunsthochschule am Lerchenfeld , at the Kasseler Kunstakademie with Schlitt, Alfred Vocke and Curt Witte , and at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Dortmund, where she completed her training as a craftsman, and at the art college in Berlin-Schöneberg with Bernhard Hasler , Georg Walter Rössner and Georg Tappert . In 1933 she passed her state examination.

Professional development

From 1935 she worked in school in Flensburg, Kiel, Rendsburg and Eckernförde. In 1943 she moved to Meldorf in Holstein, where she worked as an art teacher at the Meldorfer School of Academics until 1961 . There, between 1947 and 1952, she cooperated with Martin Luserke, for example, for the version of his amateur play, which he called the Meldorfer style of play, which he had been doing for more than four decades . After her retirement she worked as a freelance artist.

Study visits

From the 1950s she traveled through Mediterranean countries such as Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Turkey. Egypt in particular, which reminded her of her African childhood, led her to a stylistic reorientation. Further study visits also took her to Great Britain, Norway and the United States.

Artistic style

Her early work was shaped by the New Objectivity style. She retained the concrete realism and a representational style of representation. Her late work includes portraits with individual figures increased to the monumental, still lifes , self-portraits, landscapes and figures. In her works, tendencies can be recognized that lead to greater abstraction and simplification.

Part of her estate is in the Dithmarscher State Museum . Gertrud von Hassel died at the age of 90.

Exhibitions

  • 1957, 1963, 1977 to 1981 - State show of Schleswig-Holstein artists
  • 1959, 1964 - Exhibitions by the painters and sculptors in the Kiel State Museum
  • 1963 - Berlin Art Cabinet

Works

literature

  • Gunhild Roggenbuck: Gertrud von Hassel . Dithmarscher Presse-Dienst Verlag, Heide 1978. ISBN 3-88089-021-8 .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter E. Kilian: Kai-Uwe von Hassel and his family. Between the Baltic Sea and East Africa. Military-biographical mosaic. Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937885-63-6 , p. 91.
  2. ^ Dieter E. Kilian: Kai-Uwe von Hassel and his family. Between the Baltic Sea and East Africa. Military-biographical mosaic. Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937885-63-6 , pp. 102, 118.
  3. ^ Dieter E. Kilian: Kai-Uwe von Hassel and his family. Between the Baltic Sea and East Africa. Military-biographical mosaic. Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937885-63-6 , p. 124.
  4. ↑ Gertrud von Hassel . From: dithmarschen.de, accessed on July 29, 2017
  5. ↑ Gertrud von Hassel . From: artnet.de, accessed on July 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ Gertrud von Hassel . In: Der Spiegel, 10 (1963), March 6, 1963. From: spiegel.de, accessed on July 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hassel, Gertrud von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dar es Salaam , German East Africa
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1999
Place of death Meldorf , Holstein