Gisela Bührmann

Gisela Bührmann (born January 11, 1925 in Hamburg ; † April 7, 2011 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Gisela Bührmann grew up in a creative environment. Her grandfather was Heinrich Umlauff , an ethnologist, costume designer and film architect. Her great-grandfather JF G Umlauff had founded a natural produce store on Hamburg's Reeperbahn , in which he, with the help of his family and grandchildren, sold natural produce and curiosities from mussel productions to animal preparations. Gisela Bührmann's childhood memories of this small family museum became clear later in some of her works, which like to show mysterious organic and inorganic structures.

During the Second World War Bührmann made her way as an assistant draftswoman in an electrical factory for war material before she was able to attend the master school for fashion in Hamburg in 1943. After her apartment in Stellingen was bombed , she moved to the Bavarian Forest and graduated from high school in Cham in 1945 .

In 1946 she began her studies with the painter and graphic artist Willem Grimm at the Landeskunstschule (now the Hamburg University of Fine Arts ). In 1952 she passed the art educator exam and began teaching at high schools. On the side she devoted herself to her artistic skills as a freelancer. Her former fellow student, the painter and graphic artist Reinhard Drenkhahn , who was the same age , became her partner. They founded a studio community at Sierichstrasse 52. Horst Janssen and Paul Wunderlich were among their friends . Reinhard Drenkhahn committed suicide in 1959 at the age of 33 .

Create

Gisela Bührmann's first etchings were made in 1959, and first drawings in 1961, which she herself found good. She saw the motifs of her representational works in figures and scenes, landscapes and houses. In 1963 she received an annual scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome . There she created her first paintings. From then on she was mainly concerned with still lifes and self-portraits until the end of her life. Her works became more colorful, with reduced representation. Above all, she interpreted impermanence. She painted seashells, dead animals, human skulls, used objects, dried things, bread, paving stones, fragments of a destroyed villa. From 1969 to 1990 she worked as a lecturer at what was then the technical college for design, now the Design Department . Her students included the painter and sculptor Peter Fetthauer and the painter, photographer and author Agnes Voigt.

Bührmann grave at the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg

Gisela Bührmann died in Hamburg in 2011 at the age of 86 after a long illness. In 2012 the Free Academy of the Arts dedicated the exhibition Gisela Bührmann - nature morte - paintings and drawings from the estate to her in memory .

Gisela Bührmann is buried with her parents in the family grave at the Nienstedten cemetery (grave site Dept. 20 No. 95) in Hamburg.

Honors

• 1969 Edwin Scharff Prize from the Hamburg Senate
• 1970 Admission to the Free Academy of the Arts

estate

• The administrator of the artistic estate is Rainer Martens.
• The Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf owns the entire graphic work as well as a number of oil paintings and drawings by Bührmann.
• Further works can be found in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and many North German museums.

literature

• Maike Bruhns (editor): Der neue Rump , Wachholtz-Verlag Neumünster / Hamburg 2013, page 71, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5

Web links

Commons : Gisela Bührmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The artistic estate of Gisela Bührmann
• Biography Gisela Bührmann on hamburg.de
• Nature morte. In memory: art historian Heinz Spielmann pays tribute to artist Gisela Bührmann. on welt.de from May 12, 2011
• JFG Umlauff Natural produce store & museum of Gisela Bührmann's great-grandfather and grandfather