Helga Tiemann

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Helga Tiemann (2008)

Helga Tiemann (born October 11, 1917 in Remscheid ; † October 13, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German painter of traditional realism and a sculptor . For decades she became the portraitist of important contemporaries from politics, business and culture in what was then the federal capital of Bonn.

Live and act

The fateful life of Helga Tiemann between the bombing war in Berlin and the rebuilding after the fall of 1945 in the Rhineland is also reflected in the artistic work. After graduating from high school, Helga Tiemann studied painting and figurative drawing at the Cologne factory schools with Prof. Seuffert and Meyer and then moved to the Berlin University of the Arts . After the end of World War II , she mainly portrayed Russian soldiers and officers.

In Cologne, where her parents also lived, she created the advertising poster for Persil with the white lady. On behalf of the company Ford Germany, she created a portrait of the then Federal President Theodor Heuss . After this success she portrayed many personalities, for example Walter Scheel , Aenne Burda , Ronald Reagan , Hermann Josef Abs and others.

She also created portraits of children, landscapes, horses, among other things, which she worked out as pastels, ink and red chalk drawings as well as etchings and lithographs. The international art edition Marco (Bonn-Paris) was the most important mediator.

The painter of the Bonn society

In the federal capital Bonn, Helga Tiemann has been part of society since Konrad Adenauer . She portrayed the art-loving Chancellor several times. This gave her access to other “highest circles”. Known with Mildred Scheel , she supported the German Cancer Aid, which was founded by the wife of the then Federal President, with art campaigns. Also friends with Adenauer's head of protocol, Erica Pappritz , she became the “painter of Bonn society” during the “economic boom” of the Federal Republic. Diplomats from many countries and the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss were also among their models.

Retirement work

Helga Tiemann's artistic achievements and a considerable amount of old work were accompanied by numerous exhibitions at home and abroad as well as by honors. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the Museum Europäische Kunst in Nörvenich organized a large exhibition in 1997.

At the ripe old age of 87 she created a life-size sculpture by Konrad Adenauer , which was inaugurated on April 19, 2005 on Adenauerplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg by the then CDU chairwoman and later Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Exhibitions

A selection of exhibitions at home and abroad:

  • 1939 Salzburg Palace, Salzburg
  • 1940 House of Art, Berlin
  • 1941/1942 House of German Art in Munich
  • 1943 Hradschin, Prague
  • 1947 City Hall, Wiehl
  • 1962 La Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg and the following years
  • 1966 Bernheim Gallery, Faubourg St Honoré, Paris
  • 1967 Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 1971 Steigenberger Hotel Bonn-Center
  • 1976 Geiselgasteig Gallery, Munich
  • 1979 Kunsthalle Kassel and Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 1980 Marco Bonn Gallery: "Flowers of Love"
  • 1985 Museum of European Art at Nörvenich Castle
  • 1986 Wedell House, Hamburg
  • 1987 West German Art Fair, Cologne
  • 1987 German Parliamentary Society, Bonn
  • 1989 Art 202, Paris
  • 1990 Museum of European Art, NY USA
  • 1994 TV Novosti Gallery, Moscow
  • 1997 Art Museum Schloss Nörvenich, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2000 German Parliamentary Society , Berlin
  • 2001 Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
  • 2002 Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich and City Museum Erlangen
  • 2006 Gallery Villa Bösenberg, Leipzig
  • 2007 district government Cologne, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Berlin a. a.
  • 2008 Marco Edition Bonn: "Memory of Helga Tiemann"
  • 2011 Museum of European Art, Nörvenich Castle (NRW), original graphic.
  • 2017 Helga Tiemann on her 100th birthday: Flower Pictures - The Four Seasons, Knights Hall, Nörvenich Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia).

literature

Web links

Commons : Helga Tiemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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personal data
SURNAME Tiemann, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2008
Place of death Cologne