Gisela Andersch

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Gisela Andersch (born November 5, 1913 in Elberfeld (today: district of Wuppertal ); † October 13, 1987 in Berzona , Ticino ) was a German painter , graphic artist and collage artist .

Life

During the Second World War , the soldier at the time, Alfred Andersch, and the painter Gisela Groneuer, born in his first marriage, met. Dichgans, met each other in Cologne in autumn 1940. The couple married on April 24, 1950. In the period after 1950, Gisela Andersch designed the covers for the publications of the then radio editor and publisher Andersch, in particular the covers for the programs of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart as well as for the literary magazine texts and characters , which from 1955 until 1957 published by Luchterhand Verlag. In 2013/2014 there was an exhibition about this: She does something in space, I do something in the Strauhof . Gisela Andersch also designed covers for Andersch's first editions, a. a. the autobiographical report “Cherries of Freedom” (1952).

The Andersch couple had lived in Berzona / Ticino ( Switzerland ) with four children since 1958 . The artist's early work includes landscapes committed to Expressionism , but also portraits . She took part in documenta 6 in the “Drawing” section . In the 1950s she made covers for the studio frankfurt book series and for books by Arno Schmidt . Gisela Andersch also illustrated the commemorative publications of the Arno Schmidt Prize in 1982, 1984 and 1986.

literature

  • Peter Erismann (ed.): Alfred and Gisela Andersch. "She does something in space, I in time." Museum Strauhof, Zurich 2013
  • Wieland Schmied in: General Artist Lexicon Volume 2/1986 p. 830
  • Conrad-Peter Joist: Gisela Andersch and the Eifel . In: Landscape painter of the Eifel in the 20th century, ed. by C.-P. Joist. Düren 1997. Page 197 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Karlsruhe: life data of Alfred Andersch.
  2. ^ The artist couple Alfred and Gisela Andersch in the Strauhof Museum. Swiss radio and television , December 11, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Press images. City of Zurich, accessed on March 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Andersch, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dichgans, Gisela; Groneuer, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and collage artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld ( Wuppertal ), Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1987
Place of death Berzona , Ticino