Hildegard East

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Hildegard Osten (born March 23, 1909 in Bad Oldesloe ; † September 14, 2000 in Lübeck ) was a German image weaver .

Live and act

Hildegard Osten studied hand weaving and embroidery at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts as a student of Maria Brinckmann, the daughter of Justus Brinckmann , and became an apprentice to Alen Müller-Hellwig in Lübeck. From 1930 to 1936 she headed the weaving mill at the Loheland Anthroposophical School . After studying in Sweden and Munich , she returned to Alen Müller-Hellwig in 1938.

In 1939 she went into business for herself with her own workshop. Alfred Mahlau , who had supplied Alen Müller-Hellwig's workshop with large-format drafts and orders for government agencies since 1934, now had them made by Hildegard Osten. The painter Curt Stoermer also commissioned her with the implementation of two religiously motivated wall hangings he designed: Mary's encounter with Elisabeth and another with four scenes from the New Testament. Due to the Second World War, however, only a few orders were processed. These include tapestries for the Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Berlin, the boardroom of a Hamburg insurance company and for the auditorium of the Reichsuniversität Strasbourg .

After the end of the war, she mainly wove according to her own designs and developed her own hatching technique . For them, colors were carriers of spiritual impulses. In addition to tapestries, she created silk fabrics , brocade fabrics and dresses, which she sold in her shop at Königstraße 9, Lübeck. In 1992 she gave up her workshop.

The anthroposophical tapestries designed and woven by Walther Roggenkamp became widespread through prints and postcards .

Publicly owned works

  • Wall hanging Aquarinus , tapestry weaving (173 × 118 cm), Behnhaus , Lübeck (Inv. No. 1976/118)
  • Tapestry spheres rival song (1976) (140 x 300 cm) Museum of Arts and Crafts , Hamburg (inv. No. 1994.01)

Fonts / catalogs

  • Walther Roggenkamp: Tapestries to the dream song by Olav Åsteson . Woven by Hildegard Osten. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1969
  • Walther Roggenkamp: Tapestries: salus per naturam, change, victorious spirit, et incarnatus est . Woven by Hildegard Osten. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-87838-174-3
  • Wulf Schadendorf (Ed.): Hildegard Osten: Bildteppiche . Museum for Art and Cultural History, Lübeck 1979 (Art and Artists in Lübeck 7)
  • Hildegard Osten, Kristina Degen: textile art . Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel 1986 (reports and contributions from the Schleswig-Holstein State Library 16)
  • Walther Roggenkamp: The Tobias Triptych: Tapestries . Woven by Hildegard Osten. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7725-0882-0
  • Rudolf Steiner : The fairy tale of the source miracle: 5 tapestries . Woven by Hildegard Osten. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1988, ISBN 3-7235-0474-4

literature

  • Anja Prölß-Kammerer: The tapestry under National Socialism: Propaganda, representation and production. Facets of a handicraft in the “Third Reich”. Olms, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-11167-5 , esp.p. 93
  • Beatrijs Sterk: Hildegard Osten † . In: Textilforum / Textile Forum 2001, p. 4
  • Leonie von Wilckens: History of the German textile art. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41781-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anja Prölß-Kammerer (lit.), p. 92
  2. ↑ Abram B. Enns : Art and the bourgeoisie - The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 260.
  3. ↑ Sterk (lit.)
  4. ↑ ibid.
  5. ↑ today Museum Drägerhaus
personal data
SURNAME East, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art weaver
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oldesloe
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2000
Place of death Lübeck