Hildegard Wohlgemuth (painter)
Hildegard Wohlgemuth (* 1933 in Pillkallen ; † November 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German painter .
Life
Hildegard Wohlgemuth was buried in a bomb attack in 1943. As the only survivor of a class of 27 children, she suffered from this experience all her life. After the war she made her way as a homeless person, hitchhiking through France and Switzerland. She broke off an apprenticeship in home economics, which she began in a nunnery in 1948. Admitted to closed psychiatry with the diagnosis of incurable schizophrenia , she spent 17 years in the Ochsenzoll Clinic in Hamburg-Langenhorn . In 1966 she succeeded in emancipating from psychiatric tutelage. A small family and a permanent residence in Hamburg had to be financed with begging and social assistance. In 1985 she met the artist Elisabeth Ediger , who inspired her to paint. From then on, Hildegard Wohlgemuth marketed herself on self-written “begging aprons”, large-format handwritten posters, as a “painting beggar queen”.
From 1985 to 2003 Hildegard Wohlgemuth created colorful works of art, which she colored with a colored fiber pen. She offered the sheets, mostly in A4 and A3 format, for sale on the street in Hamburg. Her treasure trove of motifs is a fantastic kaleidoscope that sometimes seems to be linked to the literary inventions of Lewis Carroll . Vegetable forms, mythical creatures, large animals and small people populate a cosmos in shrill luminous colors. The works are assigned to the genre of Outsider Art or Art brut . A large bundle of Hildegard Wohlgemuth's leaves is now in the Bayreuth Art Museum . In 1994 NDR made the documentary My Ghosts, the Children. A life in schizophrenia about the life and work of the artist. Hildegard Wohlgemuth was also seen several times in programs such as Boulevard Bio and Fliege .
Hildegard Wohlgemuth was buried in the Hamburg main cemetery in Altona .
literature
- Irene Stratenwerth , Thomas Bock : The begging queen . Children's and young people's books; Book and radio play (first publication in the series: Göre bei Kore , Kore, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-933056-01-2 ), Balance, Buch + Medien, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86739-041-5 .
- Heike Schulz (Ed.): Hildegard Wohlgemuth - The Red Cat (= series of publications by the Art Museum Bayreuth , Volume 33). Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth 2013, ISBN 3-935880-30-8 (exhibition catalog, 112 pages).
Web links
- Bayreuth Art Museum with illustration of three works
- Hildegard Wohlgemuth and her art on erepro.de
- Pictures and biography on outsider-bilderwelten.de
- Hildegard Wohlgemuth on irremenschlich.de
- Andersartig , a cartoon about Hildegard Wohlgemuth by Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heike Schulz, Gero von Billerbeck (ed.): The late calling. Hildegard Wohlgemuth - one life . In: Hildegard Wohlgemuth - The red cat . Kunstmuseum Bayreuth , Bayreuth 2013, pp. 108-109, ISBN 3-935880-30-8 (exhibition catalog).
- ↑ Thomas Röske: The beggar and her pictures . In: Hildegard Wohlgemuth - The red cat . Bayreuth 2013. pp. 34–41.
- ↑ Proof of television broadcasts
- ↑ Illustration and location of the Pillow Stone Hildegard Wohlgemuth at garten-der-frauen.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wohlgemuth, Hildegard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pillkallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2003 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |