Heidy Stangenberg-Merck

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Heidy Stangenberg-Merck (2005)

Heidy Stangenberg-Merck (born September 1, 1922 in Munich as Adelheid Kannengießer ; † November 11, 2014 there ), artist name Heidy Merck , was a German painter and graphic artist.

life and work

Heidy Stangenberg-Merck spent her childhood and school days in Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse. She received artistic inspiration and support from her mother, Marietta Merck , who was a painter and sculptor herself.

In 1943 Heidy Stangenberg-Merck was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where she studied until 1950. Her drawing teacher, Professor Adolf Schinnerer (1876–1949) and her painting teacher Hans Gött (1883–1974), with whom a lifelong inspiring relationship was established, were formative during her academy studies .

From 1949 she regularly took part in exhibitions and solo exhibitions. In 1950 she set up a studio for painting and drawing in Munich, which existed until 1970. In 1954 she took part in the summer course of the painter Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts which he founded in 1953 . In 1956 she made her first trip to Greece . At the same time, she began annual study visits to Greece, which she continued until 2005. For this purpose, she learned the modern Greek language in word and writing. Greece became a "second home".

The house of Kostas, tempera, ca.1960
Evangelia, oil painting, ca.1960
Garden gate. Aquatint, 1986

She was introduced to the technique of etching by Helmut Süss, who was her student in the studio for four years and later head of the etching class at the academy. From 1969 Heidy Stangenberg-Merck had his own printing workshop for etchings. The oeuvre of Heidy Stangenberg Merck mainly includes oil paintings and tempera -Pictures and etchings , hand-colored etchings and drawings , as well as linoleic and woodcuts .

family

Since 1956 she was married to the concert flutist and later writer Karl Stangenberg . Heidy Stangenberg-Merck is the mother of the entrepreneur Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp .

museum

In September 2010, the Stangenberg Merck private museum was opened in Seeheim-Jugenheim in the artist's parents' house . In addition to most of their work, the museum also shows some works of art that they own.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

  • 1959 (Munich) Protection Association of Visual Artists
  • 1961 (Marburg) University Museum
  • 1965 (Munich) Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden
  • 1967 (Munich) Krauss-Maffei
  • 1967 (Mülheim-Ruhr) Municipal Museum
  • 1969 (Fulda) Vonderau Museum
  • 1970 (Munich) Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden
  • 1973 (Wetzlar) Municipal Cultural Office
  • 1975 (Munich) Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden
  • 1977 (Athens / GR) Kolonaki
  • since 2007 "Etchings" - permanent exhibition in the Haus auf der Höhe in Jugenheim near Darmstadt

Participations:

Participation in regular association exhibitions:

  • Protection Association of Visual Artists, Munich; Professional Association of Visual Artists, Munich; Art Association and Association for Original Etching Munich eV
  • from 1956 for many years participation in the great art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich

Awards

literature

  • Heidy Stangenberg-Merck: Oil paintings - tempera - prints - drawings . Orlandus-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-936237-12-3 .
  • Heidy Stangenberg-Merck: Etchings . Orlandus-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-936237-13-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Heidy Stangenberg-Merck. In: echo-online.de. November 22, 2014, accessed April 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stangenberg-Merck, Heidy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kannengießer, Adelheid (maiden name); Merck, Heidy (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2014
Place of death Munich