Hannelore Koehler
Hannelore Köhler , Hannelore Cremers-Köhler (born August 30, 1929 in Heilbronn ; † July 30, 2019 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter , draftsman and sculptor . She lived in Düsseldorf.
Life
Hannelore Köhler surprised her parents with the news that she no longer wanted to go to school, but wanted to study art from now on. In 1947 she went to the Dresden Art Academy , where she was a student of Wilhelm Rudolph . In 1949 she moved to Düsseldorf and studied from 1950 to 1955 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Otto Pankok , whose master class she became. She was supported by the German National Academic Foundation. In Pankok's class, Köhler met her husband Hans-Günther Cremers . Since 1955 Hannelore Köhler has worked as a freelance painter and sculptor.
In 1956, at the height of abstract expressionism , Köhler and Cremers founded the artist group Junge Realisten . Together with people like Thomas Häfner , Willi Wirth, Germán Becerra and Wolfgang Lorenz, they protested against abstract painting and chose current themes for their works: “We wanted to work objectively, but not naturalistically”.
In the mid-1960s, the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture commissioned Köhler to produce architectural drawings of representative buildings in the state, presumably in order to compile a publication from them. However, this never came about. The whole bundle of 120 architectural drawings is in the collection of art from North Rhine-Westphalia in the former Kornelimünster imperial abbey .
Since 1980 she was a member of the New Darmstadt Secession . From 1981 to 1986 Köhler had a teaching position for life drawing at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf.
In 1982 the master stonemason Josef Müller made “Apocalypse”, Köhler's true-to-scale piano made of basalt, marble and brass, which is now located on Düsseldorf's Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. In the same year, the Düsseldorf City Museum, headed by Wieland Koenig at the time, commissioned Köhler to create a memorial plaque to commemorate the murder of Hilarius Gilges . Köhler made a half-relief based on a photograph; this was built into the wall in 1988 to the left of the Tonhallenpassage on Tonhallenufer ( Joseph-Beuys-Ufer ).
Köhler lived with her husband in Eiskellerberg 1–3 , across from the art academy , from the 1950s and 1960s . Most recently she had her studio in the Künstlerhaus on Sittarder Strasse in Düsseldorf.
Köhler's art is shaped by the figuration and the object and borne by humor and wit. With her sculptures and sculptures she devoted herself above all to the female nude, the maternal figure. In the execution, she largely dispensed with details and individualizing attributes. The figures seem to have been removed from time, they convey an archaic image of women, that of women as the mother of all life, accompanied by hardship and privation. Many of her sculptures describe the mother as a motif, others the mourning, others the seated. The mother's motif is also present in the sculpture on Burgplatz. The small, mischievously smiling woman with the rounded belly represents the Düsseldorf original Frau Backhaus.
Many group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. The collection of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf contains works by the Young Realists (founded in Düsseldorf in 1956) .
Hannelore Köhler, known as "Kügelchen" by her artist friends, died at the age of almost 90 in her Eiskellerberg apartment, where she was found dead on July 30th.
Sculptures in public space
- Sphinx , Muschelkalk, (1970), was placed in 1973 next to the entrance portal of the Atelierhaus Sittarderstraße
- Male torso , bronze, (1970), Museum Schloss Moyland
- Hockende , Diabas , (1975), green area in front of the Evangelical Hospital, Düsseldorf
- Large Seated Women , Red Porphyry, (1978), Eckenerstraße, Düsseldorf-Unterrath
- Mother Ey , Diabas, (1978), Spee'scher Park, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
- Mourners , Stein, (1980), Spee'scher Park, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
- Large Seated Woman (1980), Hartmann House, Grevenbroich
- Mrs. Backhaus (standing woman), Diabas, (1984), Burgplatz , Düsseldorf
- Mother and Child (before 1985), Ermitage, St. Petersburg
- Mother and Child , bronze, (1985/86), corridor cookie (Karl-Wagner-Platz), Düsseldorf-Flingern
- Large seated woman , Carrara marble, (1986), for the 1987 Federal Garden Show in the Volksgarten in Düsseldorf
- Apprentice, journeyman, master (1987) Chamber of Crafts, Münster
- Woman carrying the man , Grevenbroich-Frimmersdorf
- Standing , City Hall Grevenbroich
- Mother and Child , Grevenbroich
- Sitting figure, Cologne madness
- Madonna and Child , Rochlitzer Porphyry , garden of the rectory of St. Lambertus , Düsseldorf
Drawings in books
- Delicatessen - series of reprints of stored texts, decorated with images from our imagination. 1: Metamorphosus. Aloys Blumauer (poetry). Dieter Hülsmanns (Ed.). Hermit Press, Stierstadt 1965.
- In the middle of the meat, Düsseldorf. Edited by Friedolin Reske. Hermit Press, 1966.
- Herbert Heckmann : Gastronomic fragments of a spoonful dilettante who treats his friends in this way. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1975.
literature
- Antje Kahnt: Düsseldorf's strong women - 30 portraits Droste, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7700-1577-1 , pp. 138–144.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Support and Help, founded in 1844: Obituary Hannelore Cremers-Köhler . In: Rheinische Post , August 10, 2019, p. D8.
- ^ The estate of Günther Cremers is in good hands. WAZ, April 15, 2010
- ↑ Hannelore Köhler on his 80th birthday , exhibition 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Hannelore Köhler, member of the Darmstadt Secession
- ↑ "Apocalypse" , on Digitales Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (d: kult)
- ↑ emuseum.duesseldorf.de, Michael Voets: Standing woman . Last accessed on August 9, 2019.
- ^ Dorothe Krings: Düsseldorf loses a sculptor . In: Rheinische Post , August 9, 2019, p. A6.
- ^ Helga Meister: Düsseldorf: Hannelore Köhler died at the age of almost 90 . --- Hannelore Köhler will be buried on August 12th in the Nordfriedhof. , in Kultur Kompakt, Westdeutsche Zeitung from August 7, 2019
- ↑ untitled , 1970 , on Digitales Kunst- und Kulturarchiv Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Hockende, 1975 , on the Digital Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Large Seated Women, 1978 , on Digitales Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Mutter Ey, 1978 , on the Digital Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Mourners, 1980 , on the Digital Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Standing woman, Hannelore Köhler, 1984
- ↑ Standing woman, 1984 , on the Digital Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ The bronze statue "Mother and Child" created in 1985 on the small corridor in Flingern-Nord is the first cast of an original that is in the Leningrad Hermitage. The work was bought with donations from citizens in 1988 and installed in September 1991. , on RP-Online from September 25, 2015
- ↑ Mother and Child, 1985/86 , on Digitales Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Large Seated Woman, 1987 , on Digitales Art and Culture Archive Düsseldorf (de: kult)
- ↑ Madonna and Child, gift from Hannelore Köhler in 2015. Lambertusbote, April 2015, p. 9 (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Hannelore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cremers-Koehler, Hannelore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2019 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |