Hella Guth

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Hella Guth (born February 16, 1908 in Kirchenbirk , † October 16, 1992 in Paris ) was a painter and graphic artist from western Bohemia . As an emigrant she lived in London and Paris.

life and work

Hella (Helena) Guth was born the second of three children to Czech-Jewish parents. After receiving artistic training from Trude Sandmann while she was still in high school, she attended the arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna from 1926 to 1929 (painting class with W. Müller-Hofmann). 1930–1932 she studied at the Prague Art Academy with Willi Nowak . She earned her living with commercial graphics for newspapers. After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, she campaigned for German artists who had emigrated to Prague. Graphics from the Prague period, which depict the Prague coffee house environment, can be found in the Kunsthalle Kiel . In 1932, under the impression of the Vienna premiere of Brecht's “Threepenny Opera”, a graphic cycle was created for this work. In 1933 she traveled to Moscow with a theater group and worked in the anti-fascist theater group "STUDIO 34", which Hedda Zinner co-founded. In 1939 she emigrated to England via Poland; almost all of her artistic work had to stay behind in Prague and is considered lost. After a brief first marriage to Zvi Eisner, she married the art historian Frank Popper in London in 1945. In 1951 the couple moved to Paris, where Hella Guth lived until she died. In Paris she moved from figurative to non-representational painting. After a successful phase with numerous exhibitions, Hella Guth's work fell out of focus from the mid-1960s and was only rediscovered in the 1990s.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

  • 1942 (1943?) “Czech Institute” London and Edinburgh
  • 1945 Isobar Club, London
  • 1952 Galerie Vivet, Paris
  • 1953 Galerie Arnaud, Paris
  • 1955 Colette Allendy Gallery, Paris
  • 1956 Apollinaire Gallery, Paris
  • 1958 Kasper Gallery, Lausanne
  • 1961 Brebaum Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1962 Galerie de l'Université, Paris
  • 1983 Jacques Barbier, Saint Ouen
  • 1986 Jacques Barbier, Paris
  • 1989 Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel
  • 1990 Institute for School and Further Education, Soest
  • 1991 Gallery David, Lyone

literature

  • Arno Pařík: Hella Guthová, Rozpuštěné postavy, výstavní catalog; r. 2008
  • Arno Pařík (text), Stephen Hattersley (translation) Hella Guth: (1908–1992); dissolved figures; exhibition of the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, february 7 - april 27 2008, Robert Guttmann Gallery, Praha
  • Claudia Meifert, Hella Guth: (1908-1992); Works on paper; Suermondt Ludwig Museum Aachen February 19 - April 19, 1998; Kunstverein Rüsselsheim eV April 27 - May 29, 1998
  • Dictionnaire de la peinture abstraite, Michel Seuphor, 1957

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/4134477?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  2. ↑ https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/fs.1993.11.issue-1/fs-1993-0109/fs-1993-0109.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Good, Hella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchenbirk
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1992
Place of death Paris