Hildegard Kremper-Fackner

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Hildegard Kremper-Fackner (* July 8, 1933 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ; † March 5, 2004 in Berlin , Germany ) was a painter and graphic artist and came from the German-speaking minority of the Banat Swabians .

Life

Hildegard Kremper received her school education at the Notre-Dame monastery school "Poor School Sisters of Our Lady" in Timișoara. Then she attended the art school there , where she was taught by teachers such as Franz Ferch , Julius Podlipny, Andreas A. Lillin. She completed her studies at the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest ; there she acquired her diploma in blackboard graphics and book illustration in 1958 . Her graphic professors were Vasile Cazar and Fred Mikos.

In 1959 she returned to Timișoara as a freelance artist, where she was assigned a studio by the artists' association . In 1960 she married Simon Fackner, a graduate engineer from Petrești (German: Petersdorf ), Transylvania, and since then has had the double name Kremper-Fackner. From 1962 to 1974 Hildegard Kremper-Fackner worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the West Timișoara . Artistically she devoted herself exclusively to printmaking during this time . Her breakthrough came in 1968 with the series Banat Legends , with fantastic stories about the castle ruins of Schoimosch, Lipova and Schiria.

In 1970 she received a scholarship from the Foundation Bonn - Bad Godesberg that their study visit at the invitation of the International Druckwerkstatt the castle Wolfsburg allowed. The Wolfsburg cycle was created , 5 color etchings that remained in the palace's gallery, as well as the A Summer Journey cycle . In the following years she went on several study trips to Vienna and Germany.

In 1978 she was appointed deputy chairman of the National Association for Fine Arts in Bucharest. The year 1982 was a major turning point in the further development of the artist's path. After suffering poisoning in her work , she turned to other techniques, from which new cycles in pastel , charcoal and pen drawings, as well as in watercolor , gouache and tempera emerged.

The architecture of the city of Timișoara has always been a stimulus for her work, which was expressed in the cycles Old Timişoara , Timişoara Towers and The Bridges of the Gassing City .

The relationship with nature was another creative element for the artist. This is how the cycle Legende des Baumes and numerous other landscape paintings were created, mostly in pastel. She was also inspired by the Banat villages with their baroque gables , the Danube Swabian costume , the parish festivals and the work in the fields. Her most important Swabian picture is The Swabian Bride . The picture was taken in 1986 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the village of Bakova . Here it reflected the dissolving German community . In the foreground stands the bride in full grace and youthful freshness, in the background you can see a group of immigrants on her right, and on her left a second group, the emigrants. Between the two groups is the baroque gabled house, the symbol of the work of the Banat Swabians. The painting is displayed in the office of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft in Munich .

A few weeks before the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , the artist left the Banat and settled in Berlin. She drew a large number of her subjects from the history, customs and folk culture of the Banat Swabians. One of her first works in Berlin was Banat, your villages are crying . The painting was created on the tenth anniversary of the death of her former teacher Franz Ferch. Hildegard Kremper-Fackner died on March 5, 2004 in Berlin.

Her works can be seen in the museums of Timișoara , Bucharest , Wolfsburg , Magdeburg and Rio de Janeiro , as well as in private collections in Romania , Germany , Austria , Italy , Canada and the USA . The artist has received numerous awards for her work during her career. She received several prizes and was honored several times on Romanian television for her work. She also had a variety of own and group exhibitions around the world. Thanks to her worldwide recognition, she received several scholarships from abroad and was able to do several study trips.

Study trips

  • 1963 to Hungary
  • 1964 in the Soviet Union
  • 1970 Scholarship for the printing company in Wolfsburg , Germany
  • 1978 again study trip to Germany
  • 1980 and 1983 study trips to Vienna, Austria
  • 1984 Pleinair scholarship in Magdeburg , GDR

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Prices

  • 1980 second national award for printmaking in Bucharest , Romania
  • 1982 first national prize for graphics in Bucharest, Romania
  • 1984 first prize for printmaking in Bucharest, Romania
  • 1995 Medal at the Triennial in Majdanek , Poland

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Kremper-Fackner, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2004
Place of death Berlin