Gisela Habermalz
Gisela Habermalz (born September 22, 1916 in Sterkrade , now Oberhausen ; † July 1, 2012 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter , graphic artist and picture restorer .
Life
Gisela Habermalz was born as the daughter of the Reichsbank director Hugo Habermalz. In 1936 she passed the Abitur at the Freiherr vom Stein-Gymnasium in Münster. From 1937 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1940 she was the winner of the Academy Prize with a series of “living animal drawings” (jury Olaf Gulbransson and H. Kaspar). From 1941 to 1943 she also studied with the conservator Wilhelm Hauf in Munich to learn the painting techniques of old masters and how to restore pictures.
Since 1946 she lived as a freelance painter and painting restorer in Nuremberg and was a member of the: artist group “Die Hütte” and “Künstler-Klause”, “Albrecht Dürer Society”, “International Art Guild” (Monte Carlo), where the artist won a diploma in 1975 at the “Year of the Woman” exhibition.
Gisela Habermalz maintained friendly relationships in and outside the Middle Franconian area; as a restorer, she worked with the painter and museum restorer August Mayr-Lenoir. She was friends with the painters Oskar Koller, Nuremberg and Paul Benedikt (1889–1952), Nuremberg. She was also on friendly terms with the painter and sculptor Otto Pankok , who was professor at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1947 to 1958. She had met him in 1953, visited again and again and had a lively exchange of letters.
The early life's work in Nuremberg
Gisela Habermalz described the scope of her work in the Nuremberg period in 1975: "Paintings in oil as well as drawings (nudes, portraits, landscapes, animals, flowers, larger compositions), wood and linocuts using the old masters hand-rub and printing technique, restorations of old paintings."
In the first years of the post-war period in Nuremberg (from 1946 to 1952) Paul Benedikt exerted a significant influence on the artist. During joint excursions in Nuremberg and the surrounding area, landscapes and town pictures were created in oil with lively colors. Even back then, she only mixed the colors herself with linseed oil and powder on a white primer. Particularly noteworthy are the "Pegnitz pictures" (P / oil), river landscapes in the valley of the Pegnitz between Nuremberg and Lauf (Nuremberg-Erlenstegen, Nuremberg-Ebensee, Unterbürg), oil paintings in bright, not "biting" colors of gardens, trees, rivers at different times of the year.
Already in these pictures the painter strived - as she did later - in her own words "for compositional balance in bright, lively colors and large contours - undeterred by the trends of the times." (1975) The oil paintings, which on two vacation trips in 1951 / 52 originated in the Weser Uplands.
For Gisela Habermalz, “painting” always meant “translation” or, to put it another way, “painting means: designing”. Her great talent for drawing was, in addition to her confident use of colors, a strong potential in her work. With increasing maturity, the strong "handwriting" emerged in her pictures , which gave her work an extraordinary character in the following years.
The painter Gisela Habermalz and the "south"
In the footsteps of Paul Cezanne
An important turning point in the life of Gisela Habermalz were the trips to southern France ( Aix en Provence ) , which Otto Pankok inspired and made possible. Her friend August Mayr-Lenoir linked her first trip to the " Midi " in 1953 with the expectation that her "painter's eye could enjoy all the beauties and magical colors of Provence and follow in the footsteps of the great French painters." "Your gifted brush," says Mayr-Lenoir, "will reveal something wonderful to us: bring light, color and joy into our so-colorless Noris."
In fact, in autumn 1953, during long day's marches, 27 atmospheric pictures (oil / canvas / P. / wood) were created, which captured the beauty of the landscape in the Aix with its towns and villages, including: "Olive Field", "Sun Olive", " Aix in the sun - in the evening ”,“ Aix area cloudy ”,“ Market in Aix ”,“ Platanenallee ”,“ Garden view ”,“ Sonnenhöft ”. The painter followed in the footsteps of Paul Cezanne , who made “La Montagne Saint Victoire” near Aix en Provence world famous around 1900. Next to the “Rue Cezanne” in Aix, Gisela Habermalz circled the “St. Victoire ”that magically attracted her. So in 1953 : “St. Victoire red "," St. Victoire dark "," St. Victoire wide ”,“ Victoire with cypresses ”. The painter never let go of Provence during her “Nuremberg time”. With the support of Otto Pankok, she made four more trips to Provence in 1954 and 1955 , then again in 1961 and 1962. The result: 1954: "Victoire with Cypresse", "Victoire angular", "Victoire sideways", "Sunny alley", "Mistralacker" (a total of 24 oil paintings). In 1955 he created a total of 10 oil paintings, including: “Gewitter Victoire”, “Aix early”, “Evening over Aix”, “Atelier Cezanne”. During the trip in 1961, 14 oil paintings were made on canvas , including: "Mountains in a Thunderstorm", "Riesengewitter Victoire", "Abendvictoire", "Weg Abendvictoire", "Mistralcypressen". In 1962 he created a total of 20 oil paintings, including: "Pavillon Cezanne", "Plane trees with child", "Little Aix Blick", "Großer Aix Blick", "Sturmolive", "St. Victoire gray ”. In the following years the painter made short trips to Venice (1967, 1968, 1970) and one trip to Amsterdam (1964).
Out and about in Nuremberg: the city in its landscape
From 1953/54 to 1981 the painter was also very productive in her Nuremberg environment . The result: flower pictures, nudes and portraits in oil, as well as pictures with an urban view of Nuremberg and its scenic aspects.
The “Nuremberg Castle” and city wall with its towers made of sandstone do not appear in these pictures, regardless of their massive, heavy substance, as cumbersome, gloomy structures, but rather as an artistic, architectural work by human hands, framed or framed against the background of brightly colored cloud images of colorful trees and bushes near the castle lose their gravity and seem to strive upwards, e.g. B. the pictures of the "Sinnwell Tower". The pictures with an urban focus on the Nuremberg churches (St. Sebald, Liebfrauenkirche) and pictures of the "main market" with market scenes, as well as pictures in the alleys and streets of Nuremberg are not missing. In addition to the works shown so far, numerous drawings, portraits, nudes and compositions were created between 1970 and 1985 in Nuremberg .
Exhibitions
- Since 1947 participation in annual exhibitions of the artists' associations in Nuremberg as part of collective exhibitions (Universitas-Haus, Pilatus-Haus, Kunsthalle, Pellerschloss in Fischbach near Nuremberg)
- Solo exhibitions:
- 1982 in the Fürth theater,
- 1983 in the Stadtmuseum Fembohaus, Nuremberg with drawings and linocuts,
- 1983/84 exhibitions in the district of Middle Franconia.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Habermalz, Gisela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and picture restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sterkrade , now Oberhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2012 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |