Gertrude Degenhardt

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Gertrude Degenhardt (born October 1, 1940 in New York , NY ), a German lithographer and draftsman, lives and works in Mainz-Gonsenheim .

Gertrude Degenhardt grew up in Berlin. She has lived in Mainz since 1956 , where she worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist from 1966. Her drawings and etchings bear her individual, unmistakable artistic signature. Her husband Martin Degenhardt, who died in 2002, is probably the most common motif to be found in her works. Her daughter Annette Degenhardt is a guitarist and composer.

With an eraser, but also with a brush and pencil, she depicts her fellow human beings alienated and bizarre and yet easily recognizable. Her women and men are taken from real life - weird, serious, cheerful, sober and drunk, erotic and ascetic, individual and original . The artist has been working alternately in Rheinhessen and on the Irish west coast for 40 years . Some of her cycles were first presented in Germany, others, such as “Fiddle & Pint”, were shown for the first time in Dublin and then came to Germany. Lovable and bizarre characters from the songwriting scene of their brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt or from Ireland, often solid Stromers, drinkers and gamblers, can be seen in their etchings and color etchings from earlier years.

Character of the works

Gertrude Degenhardt is an accurate and laughing observer of people in general and their characters. It speaks about humanity, reveals our own absurdity and reminds us of one of our few redeeming powers: music. Everything serious and also comical becomes grotesque in exaggeration . She captures emotions in her subjects: joie de vivre, gluttony, hate, desire, admiration, delight, loathing, drive, greed, suffering and also the sensual pleasures such as feeling, touching, smelling, enjoying. A good glass and musical notes are indispensable additions to the main motifs.

A multitude of subjects reveal their perception, their life:

In the 1990s, women's subjects such as vagabondage - cycles of wild, independent women - emerged as watercolors, brush drawings and graphics. The dry point etchings are predominant: Women in Music, Vagabondage in Blue, Vagabondage en Rouge, Vagabondage Ad Mortem with accompanying books.

Gertrude Degenhardt has illustrated numerous texts by O'Flaherty , Brecht , Biermann , their brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt and other political authors. She also uses her masterly technique to design record covers for the Irish folk scene and the songwriting scene .

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Illustrated books and catalogs

  • The party can begin . Maison de Rhénanie-Palatinat and Edition GD, Mainz 2006. ISBN 3-923929-12-9
  • Dancing couples . Edition Villa Musica and Edition GD, Mainz 2004. ISBN 3-923929-11-0
  • Vagabondage en rouge. Brush drawings, lithography, etchings . Edition GD, Mainz 2001. ISBN 3-923929-10-2
  • Fiddle & Pint . Edition GD, Mainz 2000. ISBN 3-923929-09-9
  • Quartets . Edition Villa Musica and Edition GD, Mainz 1998. ISBN 3-923929-08-0
  • Vagabondage in blue. Women on drums . Edition GD, Mainz 1996. ISBN 3-923929-07-2
  • Vagabondage ad mortem. Musicians of Death . Edition GD, Mainz 1995. ISBN 3-923929-06-4
  • Music women - Women in Music . Middle Rhine Museum Koblenu and Edition GD, Mainz 1990. ISBN 3-923929-03-X
  • Farewell to Connaught. 65 drypoint etchings from the west coast of Ireland . Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt / M. 1989. ISBN 3-7632-2859-4
  • From the other music. Drawings and etchings 1970–1985 . Culture Office Böblingen 1985
  • In praise of pints or in honor of Maria. 40 drawings with the goose quill . Edition GD, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-923929-00-5
  • Such a day, as beautiful as today . Limpert, Frankfurt / M. 1974. ISBN 3-7853-1197-4
  • Nostalgia . Edition GD, Mainz-Gonsenheim 1971
  • Loppe Loppe Head. Linkisch song for lust and lout . Eberwein, Offenbach 1967

literature

  • Willy Barth: Foreword . In: Quartets . Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-923929-08-0
  • Andreas Räsch: Pictures so that life lasts. A vagabondage through the work of Gertrude Degenhardt . Stadtmuseum Borken, Borken 2007
  • Andreas Räsch: The world of Gertrude Degenhardt. A portrait . In: Clams . Annual journal for literature and graphics . Viersen 2007, No. 47/48, ISSN  0085-3593
  • Klaus Weschenfelder: Music In Women . In: Musikfrauen - Women in Music . Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-923929-03-X
  • Stefanie Mittenzwei: Addicted to sounds. Gertrude Degenhardt's new picture cycle »Music Women«. In: Mainz. Quarterly issues for culture, politics, economics, history . Number 1. Volume 1991. Verlag H. Schmidt Mainz, pp. 78-89, ISSN  0720-5945

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Official website of Annette Degenhardt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 7, 2017 ; accessed on February 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.annette-degenhardt.com
  2. ↑ Andreas Räsch: Pictures that life may last - Speech at the opening of the exhibition in the Borken Art Association. May 6, 2007, accessed February 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ For example John Lennon in the ten-color aquatint etching Give Peace a Chance .
personal data
SURNAME Degenhardt, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist (lithography, drawing)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City