Gisela Kühler-Balcke

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Gisela Kühler-Balcke (born November 6, 1913 in Ettlingen , † January 6, 1983 in Hamburg ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Gisela Kühler-Balcke was the great-granddaughter of Gottfried Joseph Pfingsten, who founded the Itzehoer Nachrichten . After her father was killed in the last days of the First World War , her mother, Martha Balcke, née. Winckler († 1973), moved with her three daughters from Ettlingen back to their parents' apartment in Itzehoe in 1919 .

She was later a student of Elisabeth Kellermann (1892-1979), with her she received drawing lessons at the Auguste Viktoria School in Itzehoe. In 1931 she received a two-year scholarship that enabled her to study sculpture with Gerhard Marcks at Giebichenstein Castle in Halle . From 1933 to 1943 she attended the art college at Lerchenfeld in Hamburg . There she was tutored initially by Richard Luksch and later by Johann Michael Bossard . She was also in contact with the painter Tom Hops , whose portrait bust she made.

After the bombing of Hamburg in World War II , she moved to Itzehoe with her husband; It was there that her last portrait busts, female nudes and a grave relief (mother and child) for the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg were created. In the 1950s she moved back to Hamburg. Now she only made handicrafts or painted in oil and watercolor . Gisela Kühler-Balcke was married to the architect Kurt Kühler since 1933 .

She participated in an exhibition in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in 1941 in the autumn exhibition of Hamburg artists in the Kunstverein in Hamburg . In the 1930s she joined the Hamburger Künstlerbund.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Ursula , ceramics around 1940 (privately owned).

Literature (selection)

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein artists. Published by the Flensburg Municipal Museum. Westholsteinische Verlagsdruckerei Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , pp. 45-46.
  • Maike Bruhns : Kühler-Balcke, Gisela. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 254.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At home in Talstrasse 5 | for 75 years shz.de. In: Norddeutsche Rundschau . September 1, 2010, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Autumn exhibition Hamburg artists. In: Art Catalog. 1941, Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kühler-Balcke, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balcke-Kühler, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ettlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1983
Place of death Hamburg