Helga Knobloch

Helga Knobloch (born March 5, 1924 in Dresden - Loschwitz ) is a German artist .

Life

Helga Knobloch trained as a graphic draftswoman from 1939 to 1942. She then attended the private painting school of Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli (1864–1929), which was run by Ernst Hassebrauk at the time. In addition, she did labor and military service. Bombed out in the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, she left Dresden and lived for a short time in Luxembourg and Düsseldorf. In 1946 she returned to Dresden and in 1947 she enrolled in the painting course at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Carl Rade and Josef Hegenbarth . In 1950, Helga Knobloch switched to commercial graphics with the teachers Hans Christoph and Hajo Rose . In 1952 she finished her studies with distinction.

She became a member of the Dresdner Künstlerbund and worked freelance in the areas of fashion graphics, children's books, exhibition design and posters. She remained on friendly terms with Hans Christoph, her future partner. When he gave up his lectureship in 1955 in order to avoid accusations of formalism, they jointly took over the graphic design of the Leipzig trade fair for many years .

In 1956 Helga Knobloch won the poster competition 750 Years of Dresden . Her work as an exhibition and trade fair designer and the associated limited time freedom meant that she was only able to return to artistic and experimental work in the 1980s.

Helga Knobloch lives in Dresden-Loschwitz. As the administrator of the estate, she takes care of the artistic work of Hans Christoph .

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Helga Knobloch's artistic work is divided into two, chronologically far apart sections. Her early work were drawings and watercolors that were created at the beginning of her studies at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. These are milieu studies that were created in the winter of 1947, especially in the Mitropa gastronomy at Dresden-Neustadt train station , and are therefore entitled “Station Pictures”. Due to the poor fuel supply at the university and the resulting cold studios, Josef Hegenbarth sent his students there to study, among other things.

In the 80s, works were created that can be assigned to the Informel . She uses collage and drip painting for this work. To do this, she lets black, white and red acrylic varnishes drip onto different colored cardboard boxes, comparable to Hermann Glöckner's chalk circles . Helga Knobloch calls this work “Magical Circles”.

Exhibitions

• 1990/1991 Participation in the exhibition The Art of Collage in the GDR 1945–1990 in the Brandenburg Art Collections in Cottbus , in Neubrandenburg, Rostock and Bottrop.
• 2000/2005 participation in the exhibition of old works in the Saxon state parliament
• 2007 Personal exhibition in the gallery frame & picture , Maria Arlt in Dresden-Loschwitz
• 2008 Cabinet exhibition in the Döbele Gallery, Dresden
• 2009 Personal exhibition in the gallery at the blue wonder , Gunter Ziller in Dresden-Loschwitz
• 2009 Cabinet exhibition in café art in UNIVERSITÄTSSAMMLUNGEN.KUNST + TECHNIK

literature

• Schieferdecker, Jürgen : The Furor of the Later Years - Free Work by Helga Knobloch at 'Frame & Picture' , in: Dresdner Latest News , July 23, 2007
• Ziller, Gunter in: Dresden Latest News , April 15, 2009
• Tetzlaff, Reinhild: Grandezza , Folder March 2009. Download (PDF file; 1.29 MB)