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Prophet, bronze statue by Hildegard Bienen 1971

Hildegard Bienen (born September 17, 1925 in Walsum on the Lower Rhine ; † March 20, 1990 in Marienthal (Hamminkeln) ) was a visual artist . She created numerous mainly sacred sculptures, glass mosaics and ecclesiastical furnishings for numerous churches on the Lower Rhine.

Life

Hildegard Bienen was born as the daughter of the foreman at Thyssen Heinrich Bienen and his wife Gertrud, geb. Krüßmann, born in Walsum on the Lower Rhine. After attending primary school and home economics school (1932 to 1941), she worked as an office worker, dental assistant and secretary. In 1949 Hildegard Bienen took part in a craft business in her hometown; first clay sculptures and charcoal drawings were created.

In 1950 she visited Pastor Augustinus Winkelmann (1881–1954) in Marienthal to present her work to him. Winkelmann had designed the parish church and monastery building in Marienthal from the 1930s until his death into an important meeting place for young artists in the church area, which radiated far beyond the Lower Rhine.

The encounter with Pastor Winkelmann strengthened Hildegard Bienen on her artistic path. In 1952 she attended the “Christian School of Crafts in the Border Region” in Nienburg . Two years later she won the competition for the redesign of the choir windows of the St. Dionysius Church in her hometown of Walsum and was then commissioned to design the windows. Orders for glass windows and wall mosaics in Walsum churches, schools and kindergartens followed, so that from 1955 she was able to work as a freelance artist with a studio in her parents' house.

From 1957 onwards numerous study trips began, mainly to Holland, southern Germany, Italy as well as Brittany and southern France . In 1960 Hildegard Bienen took part in an art exhibition in her hometown of Walsum for the first time. Further exhibitions followed (see below). With the order to design the entire interior of the St. Petrus Canisius Church in Recklinghausen (1963), Hildegard Bienen became widely known and subsequently received numerous church commissions.

In 1967 she moved to Marienthal, where she set up a studio in her own house, where she worked as a freelance artist for the furnishing of more than 100 churches in the region and far beyond.

In 1983 Hildegard Bienen fell ill with cancer. Operations and hospital stays followed, and in 1988 she was unable to work.

Hildegard Bienen died on March 20, 1990 in her house in Marienthal and was buried on March 24 in the Marienthal cemetery near the portal of the cemetery chapel, her last great work.

Varia

In 2001 a street in Duisburg-Walsum in the Aldenrade district was named after Hildegard Bienen.

Since 2007, Marienthal has been planning to set up a museum for modern art, which will mainly house the paintings and sculptures by Hildegard Bienen. However, these plans have not yet been implemented.

In 2012, in the Aldenrade district of Duisburg-Walsum, the "Hildegard-Bienen-Haus" with 27 senior citizens' apartments was built by Heimstatt St. Barbara e. V. opened.

Exhibitions

  • 1960 First participation in an art exhibition in her hometown Walsum ; Participation in the exhibition "Contemporary Christian Glass Painting" in Munich
  • 1966 Participation in the exhibition "Modern Art on the Lower Rhine" in Dinslaken
  • 1967 Participation in an exhibition in Haus Voerde near Dinslaken
  • 1971 Solo exhibition "Hildegard Bees: Sculptures, Glass Windows, Oil Paintings" in the stage building of the city of Wesel
  • 1974 Solo exhibition in the gallery "Ars pro toto" in Wesel
  • 1975 participation in the Ars Sacra in Cologne and Corvey
  • 1979 Participation in the exhibition "Art, Church, Artist" in Duisburg - Hamborn
  • 1979 and 1984 solo exhibitions in the Jacobs bookstore in Dinslaken
  • 1985 Solo exhibition “Harlequins and Prophets” through the city of Wesel on the occasion of her 60th birthday
  • 1986 Solo exhibitions in Dinslaken, Hamminkeln and Oberhausen - Königshardt under the theme "Christian art in the expression of our time, shown in the works of Hildegard Bienen"
  • 2016 exhibition of works in the cloister of the Marienthal monastery under the theme "The Creation"

Locations of the plants

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resolution of the Walsum District Council of February 1, 2001
  2. ↑ Modern things about the sexton house. WAZ, accessed October 17, 2012.
  3. ^ Dohmen: Hildegard Bienen - Volume II: Works from 1977–1990 , pages 111–113
  4. ^ Küppers: Hildegard Bienen, pp. 123-124
  5. ↑ Dohmen: Hildegard Bienen - Volume II , pages 111-113
  6. ↑ Emmi Pannenbecker (Ed.): Art and Building in Duisburg 1950 to 1986 . Oberstadtdirektor, Duisburg 1987, OCLC 75041547 , p. 21 .
  7. ↑ Martin Segers: The cemetery at the monastery church Marienthal , Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2003

literature

  • Willi Dittgen : Hildegard Bienen: An artist of the young generation , in: Heimatkalender 1957 for the Dinslaken district , Dinslaken 1956, online (PDF; 260 kB)
  • Leonard Küppers: Hildegard Bienen , Recklinghausen : Bongers, 1977. ISBN 3-7647-0300-8
  • Werner Arand: Hildegard Bienen - Harlequins and Prophets , Weseler Museumsschriften Volume 9, Cologne 1985 (exhibition catalog)
  • Heinz Dohmen : Hildegard Bienen - Volume II: Works from 1977–1990 , Recklinghausen : Bongers, 1991. ISBN 3-7647-0422-5 .
  • Martina Weinem: Harlequins and prophets - The artist Hildegard Bienen , in: The other view - Women`s life in Dinslaken, Essen 2001. ISBN 3-8986-1020-9 ; Text as pdf
  • Martin Segers: The cemetery at the monastery church Marienthal , Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2003.
  • Helmut Ebert: Lexicon of visual and creative artists in Westphalia-Lippe - supplementary volume - Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, 2006
  • Matthias Brenken: The real light came into the world - the windows of the monastery church Marienthal , Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Bees, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsum
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1990
Place of death Hamminkeln