Helma Holthausen-Krüll

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Helma Holthausen-Krüll (born October 21, 1916 in Neuss ; † January 20, 2020 ) was a German painter who mainly created landscapes of the Lower Rhine . She painted with bold colors in an impressionistic style and tried to capture the mood of the moment with colorful arrangements. In the mostly small-format oil paintings, the bizarre willows are always in the foreground.

She spent her childhood and school in Neuss. She attended Marienberg high school and had the desire to become a painter at an early age.

From 1935 to 1940 she studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Werner Heuser , Max Clarenbach and Wilhelm Schmurr . She became a student of Clarenbach's landscape class. Her class also included the Erfurt-born master student Alfred Mock , Hermann Lehmann, who died in 1944, as well as Guido Brink and Waldemar Guerike. The summer semester was held in the "Malerheim" Haus Sieben Linden in Kalkar . She remembers arriving there with the words: “My father drove there with me in the car. He looked at everything and then said, 'All right, I'll pay that, you can go to Kalkar, but you don't live in the' Sieben Linden 'house. Because that's where the boys were housed, and you know how it was back then. ”The summer academy was held for the last time in 1938; the art academy was closed in 1940.

Then she found a job as a technical draftsman. In 1942 she married Alfred Mock, who died soon after on August 11, 1944 in Russia. After the war she worked as a secretary and painted for pleasure .

In the 1950s, Helma Mock-Krüll met her second husband Max Josef Holthausen and married him in 1956. Over the next ten years, they worked together on the Bergische Bibliografie (literature database on the Bergische Land ) in Linnep Castle . Together they also made trips to the North and Baltic Seas (especially East Friesland), to the Pre-Alps and to France, during which they made many sketches and drawings.

Since 1985 she had a studio in Schloss Dyck and worked on new works until shortly before her death.

Exhibitions

  • 1949: Christmas exhibition of the Neuss artist group
  • 1959: with Maria Halft and Walter Urbach: “People and Landscape of the Lower Rhine” at the Brücke school in Neuss
  • various exhibitions in Neuss, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Münster, Duisburg, Angerland and France
  • 2012: with Alfred Mock and Max Clarenbach: “Lower Rhine Landscapes” in the Kalkar Municipal Museum

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helma Holthausen: Obituary notice. In: trauer.rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , January 25, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  2. ^ Obituary for Helma Holthausen-Krüll
  3. ↑ a b c Information sheet Museum Kalkar
  4. ^ Clemens Reinders: Art under the open sky , August 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Holthausen-Krüll, Helma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2020