Hildegard Peters

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Hildegard Peters (born June 30, 1923 in Bielefeld ; † December 30, 2017  in  Norden ) was a German painter and teacher . She lived and worked in the north , East Frisia .

origin

Hildegard Peters grew up with three siblings in a musically interested and cosmopolitan home. Her father's family came from East Prussia , her mother's from East Friesland. Through his acquaintance with Heinrich Becker, the head of the Kunsthaus in Bielefeld (today Kunsthalle Bielefeld ) who was dismissed in the wake of the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933 , intensive encounters with works of contemporary and modern art took place: Becker owned works by Ernst Barlach , Käthe Kollwitz , Otto Pankok , Peter August Böckstiegel , Wilhelm Morgner and Oskar Kokoschka . 1942 at the Bielefeld Peters made Auguste-Viktoria-school their Abitur .

Studies and study visits

After working in a kindergarten in Halle (Westphalia) , she began studying art education in Berlin in the summer semester of 1943 at the University of Art Education , a predecessor of today's Berlin University of the Arts . There she attended events by Karl Rössing . Break she worked in Bielefeld-based company Dürkopp where they through interpreter tasks met French students, as in this arms factory foreign workers were employed. In 1943/44 she continued her studies with subjects French and art history at the Philipps University of Marburg . At this university she attended lectures by Richard Hamann, among other things . During the semester break in 1944, a war-related student assignment took her to Metz , where she worked as a cartographer.

In 1948 she continued her studies at the University of Cologne with subjects in French and philosophy . At the same time she entered Otto Pankok's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Pankok was very important to Peters as a person and a teacher. A year later she was one of the participants in a student summer camp that took place in Kasteel Bouvigne in Breda . In 1949 she also visited the exhibition “ Expressionisme. Van Gogh dead Picasso ”in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , which made a big impression on her.

In 1950 Peters traveled to Paris to study . In the same and the following year, she stayed for ten months in Algeria , at the foot of the Atlas, to study. In 1953/54 she received a grant from the French state and studied French for two semesters at the Sorbonne and art at the École des Beaux-Arts . Also in the French capital she visited, the Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter and the workshop lithographers Georges Dorfinant.

In 1956 she passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in the subjects of art, handicrafts , French and philosophy. In her state examination thesis she dealt with the relations between Cologne Cathedral and its French predecessors. She completed her legal clerkship in Düsseldorf .

In 1958, Peters traveled to Morocco for the first time to study . In 1961 she painted The King's Drummers in the courtyard of the palace of Mohammed V. A portrait commission was not possible due to the premature death of the ruler. In 1964/65 Peters lived again for six months in Paris, where she devoted herself to further lithographic studies, especially in the Atelier Clot, Bramsen & Georges .

Employment

From 1945 to 1948 Peters worked as a substitute teacher with the subjects of art, German and French. Her workplaces included her former school in Bielefeld, the office of the British chief commandant in Herford and the Education Branch Düsseldorf in Bielefeld, which was part of the administrative apparatus of the CCG / BE .

From 1956 to 1965 she worked as an art teacher at the secondary school on Norderney . From 1965 until her retirement in 1987 she taught art education, handicrafts and French at the Ulrichsgymnasium Norden .

Art and exhibitions

The oeuvre of Hildegard Peters consists primarily of paintings , lithographs, woodcuts and drawings . Her handwriting - drawing strokes, brushwork, coloring - is described as energetic. The representational aspect of her motifs always remains tangible. These subjects include individuals, groups of people, bouquets of flowers, landscapes and views of places. The people portrayed include family members, friends and acquaintances of their daughter, as well as artists (such as Vlatko Kucan or Jean-Louis Barrault ).

Hildegard Peters had a large number of solo exhibitions. Her works were shown in Norderney (1959), Bussum ( North Holland , 1961), Amsterdam (1977), Stuttgart (1977), Hanover (1977), Greetsiel (1982 and 1984), Bochum (1988), Bremen (2003/2004) , Leer (2003 and 2004), Norden (2003, 2006 and 2013), Edewecht (2005) and Juist (2006/2007).

In addition, since 1948 she has often participated in exhibitions at home and abroad. These included presentations in Münster , Bielefeld, Düsseldorf, Munich , Warsaw , Posen , Krakow , Schleswig , Tartu , Taiwan , Berlin and in East Frisian towns.

From December 1, 2013 to March 2, 2014, a retrospective with works by Hildegard Peters was shown in the Emden town hall and the East Frisian State Museum Emden, with the East Frisian landscape acting as the host .

Social Commitment

In 1975/1976 she was one of the initiators of the Kunstkreis Norden eV (today: Kunstverein Norden eV ), which she chaired for many years from 1984 onwards. Together with others, she initiated or organized many exhibitions by regional and internationally known artists in the north. In addition, she regularly offered study trips to European art metropolises such as Amsterdam, Paris, Florence , Rome and Oslo .

In 1976/1977 she helped to set up the Grafothek for East Friesland. She designed a printing workshop in the further education center in the north (today Kreisvolkshochschule Norden ), which was inaugurated in 1987. For many years she taught courses in oil painting at the International North Summer Academy , which was founded in Norden in 1990 .

Hildegard Peters has been involved in the Association of Visual Artists Ostfriesland , a regional organization of the Federal Association of Visual Artists , for decades .

Together with her teacher Otto Pankok, Hildegard Peters protested as a student in the post-war years against the ongoing discrimination against Sinti in the Eller district of Düsseldorf .

In the first half of the 1980s, Hildegard Peters was one of those who emphatically protested against the erection of a Heinrich Heine monument on Norderney in 1983 because the sculpture came from the workshop of Arno Breker , Adolf Hitler's favorite sculptor and apologist for the “ Aryan Master race ”. The local opponents of the Breker-Heine monument were supported by academic Heine experts such as Joseph Anton Kruse and Wilhelm Gössmann . In this context, Hildegard Peters wrote an essay that was published in the Heine yearbook in 1984 .

Honors

The East Frisian landscape honored her in 1991 with the Upstalsboomtaler and in 2012 with the Indigenous . In 1994 she received the Lower Saxony Order of Merit . In 2003, the city of Norden awarded it the city seal. In August 2007, the North Community Foundation awarded her the foundation's sponsorship award.

Private

Hildegard Peters had a daughter (* 1964). Hildegard Peters and Michael Podulke (1922–1988) began living and working together in 1977 . Her hobbies included playing the piano and the flute .

literature

  • Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics . Edited by Annette Kanzenbach on behalf of the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden. Ostfriesland Verlag - SKN, Norden 2013, ISBN 978-3-939870-11-1 .
  • Auguste Rulffes: Hildegard Peters. Painting and graphics 1950–2002 , published by Kunstkreis Norden, Soltau-Verlag, Norden 2003.

Movie

  • The painter Hildegard Peters , documentary by Ralf-Peter Post , D 2013, 52 minutes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice, Ostfriesischer Kurier dated January 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the biographical information in this article comes from Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics . Edited by Annette Kanzenbach on behalf of the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden. Ostfriesland Verlag - SKN, Norden 2013, ISBN 978-3-939870-11-1 , pp. 135-138.
  3. ^ Helmut Collmann : Greeting from the patron of the exhibition , in: Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Hildegard Peters and Annette Kanzenbach. A conversation , in: Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, pp. 13–32, here p. 13.
  5. ↑ Nina Harms: celebrated premiere at almost 91. Hildegard Peters was the first to work for the "Art Edition". In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung . June 6, 2014, p. 24 , archived from the original on July 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 2, 2018 .
  6. ^ Website of the studio. ( Memento of July 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed July 9, 2019.
  7. ^ Website of the school , today the Cooperative Comprehensive School Norderney .
  8. ^ Annette Kanzenbach: Introduction , in: Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, p. 10 f.
  9. ↑ See the picture part in Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, pp. 33–134, also the press photos for the retrospective in Emden.
  10. ↑ Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, p. 138.
  11. ↑ Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, p. 138; Hildegard Peters. Oil painting and graphics .
  12. ^ Report from Radio Bremen on the retrospective, January 8, 2014 ( Memento of April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). The exhibition catalog provides comprehensive information on this (see article section Literature ).
  13. ^ Website of the association.
  14. ^ Website of the Summer Academy.
  15. ↑ Biography on aurich.de , accessed on February 14, 2016.
  16. ↑ Hildegard Peters and Annette Kanzenbach. A conversation , in: Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, pp. 13–32, here p. 18.
  17. ↑ On Breker in brief How Hitler's court artist Arno Breker made booty , Die Welt , October 28, 2011 (accessed March 15, 2014). The article is based on Jürgen Trimborn : Arno Breker. The artist and the power. The biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-02728-5 .
  18. ↑ See Dietrich Schubert: Forms of Heinrich Heine Memorization in the Monument Today , in: Aleida Assmann and Dietrich Harth (eds.): Mnemosyne. Forms and functions of cultural memory , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 101–143, here pp. 121–123 and pp. 140 f, ISBN 3-596-10724-5 .
  19. ↑ Hildegard Peters: A Heine monument on Norderney in conflict. Heinrich Heine - yes! Arno Breker - no! , in: Heine-Jahrbuch, 23 (1984), pp. 156-168.
  20. ↑ a b c Hildegard Peters † , in: Ostfriesischer Kurier , January 3, 2018.
  21. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the culture committee on June 25, 2012 in the East Frisian landscape (accessed on March 15, 2014).
  22. ↑ Hildegard Peters - she deserves it! ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ostfriesischer Kurier , August 24, 2007 (accessed on July 9, 2019); Hildegard Peters receives the Community Foundation Prize ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ostfriesen-Zeitung , August 25, 2007 (accessed on July 9, 2019).
  23. ↑ Hildegard Peters and Annette Kanzenbach. A conversation , in: Hildegard Peters. Painting, drawing, graphics , Norden 2013, pp. 13–32, here p. 29.
  24. ↑ A special present for Norden: Artist Hildegard Peters is 90 years old - A film for the special day and a great celebration ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), newspaper page of the Ostfriesischer Kurier from July 1, 2013 on the website of the Volkshochschule Emden
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2017
Place of death north