Heti Diefenhardt

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Heti Diefenhardt (born March 5, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 6, 2017 in Hanover ) was a German painter , image maker and designer .

Life

Heti Diefenhardt, who was born at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , completed an apprenticeship as a designer at her place of birth in the Städel Art Institute after attending school from 1938 until the Second World War in 1942 . As a result, she attended the fashion school of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the specialist art school in Hanover and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and graduated.

Diefenhardt's work included the drafting and production of wall hangings, especially for churches and monasteries as well as for the private sector. She also made embroidery for various areas of application.

In the early 1950s Diefenhardt worked for in Bramsche producing . Rasch wallpaper factory Gebr . At that time she was already listed as an artist in the International Art Address Book from 1954 at the address am Fasanenkrug in Hanover, Varrelheide 6 .

As a painter and designer, Diefenhardt provided not only works for wallpaper, but also designs for fabrics and cloths, for porcelain and for the fashion sector.

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In 1979 Diefenhardt had an apartment and studio at Varrelheide 6 in Hanover.

Heti Diefenhardt was buried on February 14, 2017 in the Bothfeld district cemetery in Hanover.

Exhibitions

Diefenhardt's works have been shown at exhibitions in Hanover and Munich , among others .

Famous works

Fonts

  • The painter - gardens as a constant source of art , in: Rosenjahrbuch 1981 , Ed .: Gesellschaft Deutscher Rosenfreunde, Baden-Baden: Aquensis, 1981, p. 192

Pictorial work

Works by Diefenhardt can be found, for example

  • in the collection of the German Wallpaper Museum , inventory number NNMB : "Dessins o. T." , in: Tapetenfabrik Gebr. Rasch GmbH & Co. KG, sample book "Rasch artist wallpapers 1954. With an appendix Bauhaus wallpapers and Rasch small samples" , Bramsche, 1954

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the obituary notice from the daily newspapers Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Presse from February 11, 2017, digitally on the page trauer-verbindungen.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 125
  3. ↑ Hanna Elisabeth Koch (author), Angeli Janhsen (academic supervisor): Heti Diefenhardt / designer , in this: "Beauty has a new meaning today" - on the West German design of the 1950s using the example of the wallpaper industry , inaugural dissertation 2014 on obtaining the doctorate of the Philosophical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg im Breisgau: Art History Institute of the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, 2015, p. 304f .; as a PDF document from freidok.uni-freiburg.de
  4. ↑ Walter Kaupert (Ed.): International Art Address Book. United with German art address book (= International directory of arts ) (= Annuaire international des beaux-arts ), 3rd edition, Berlin: Deutsche Zentraldruckerei AG, 1954, p. 347; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Diefenhardt, Heti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, textile artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2017
Place of death Hanover