Hildegund of Cosel-Michel

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Hildegund von Cosel-Michel , née Hildegund Michel (born April 10, 1908 in Hanover , † September 28, 2002 in Munich ) was a German painter , wall painter , illustrator , lecturer and art teacher .

Life

Hildegund Michel grew up in a house on Alleestraße in Hanover during the late founding period of the German Empire as the second daughter of the university lecturer for architecture and acoustics Eugen Michel . Her mother was the artistically trained Käthe Becher, who came from a family of doctors traditionally active in science and art. She later made a name for herself as an artist, concentrating in painting primarily on copying works by other artists, such as Adolf von Menzel's flute concerto of Frederick the Great in Sanssouci . The poet had her own plays performed in various cities under the pseudonym Hans Erdmann .

Hildegund Michel chose painting as her profession when she was 10 years old. During the Weimar Republic she studied at the age of 16 from 1924 at the Hanover School of Applied Arts, where she was taught applied and free graphics by Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld and in the subjects of printing, writing, perspective and art history by Karl Dröge . With a very good degree, Michel went to Berlin in 1928 and completed an additional 6 semester training course at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts at Steinplatz with Emil Orlik "and Prof. Fischer".

In the “Atelier Block-Kerschbaumer”, the studio named after the two members of the Brücke artists' group Martin Bloch and Anton Kerschbaumer , Hildegund Michel pursued her passion for wall painting and design for another 6 semesters. Two semesters of that she took lessons from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , with whom she stayed in letter contact for many years and later maintained personal contact with his wife and even during her time in exile .

From 1932 to 1934 she worked with the archaeologist and professor Karl Lehmann-Hartleben at the University of Münster , created scientific drawings in Pompeii for Lehmann-Hartleben's archaeological research and his planned book.

In the period that followed, Hildegund Michel worked throughout Germany from both Berlin and Hanover. In addition to orders for portrait drawings, magazines and pictures, the trained wall designer worked with various techniques for private houses, castles and churches, in schools and other public buildings. Among other things, she worked temporarily with the weaver Martha Vogeler in Worpswede .

Before the Second World War, Michel went on one of her numerous study trips on a cargo ship to South America, other studies took her to Iceland, Norway, France, Greece, Finland, Turkey, Egypt and Israel, Sudan and Yugoslavia, Spain, England and Italy. Among other things, numerous travel sketches were initially created.

In 1943, Michel took on a mural in the main post office in Königsberg as the last major commission before the end of the war . In the same year she married the aircraft engineer Dietrich von Cosel, son of General Wilhelm von Cosen , who was deployed in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and Elsa von Dithfurt , who came from the Dankersen manor and who led a musical salon as a singer in her house in Erfurth. In the following year 1944 the now Hildegund von Cosel-Michel gave birth to their daughter. At that time she drew two children's books about her child, which also documented their escape from Prague to their parents' house on Alleestraße, which was destroyed by aerial bombs in the air raids on Hanover . From Hanover, the artist “for eggs and milk” drew peasant children in Marklendorf in the Lüneburg Heath , where Inge Koch, who had been friends in Berlin, worked as a teacher at the village school.

In addition to the friend and stage actor in Erfurt and Prague Albert Johannes , the pastor Klaus Sander from the Castle and City Church of St. Crusis in Hanover, a former representative of the German Protestant Church in Rome, had a formative influence on Hildegund von Cosel-Michel. During his time as a student pastor, the conversations with this friend of the family had a great influence, above all on the religious works of Cosel-Michel. Triggered by key experiences in World War II and recent impressions of catastrophes and the “failure to cope with modern technology” in the period between 1950 and 1970, the cycle of images “Man and His Death” was created alongside other works. These black and white ink drawings, a total of 55 sheets in the format 100 cm × 80 cm, were exhibited for the first time in 1971 in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis and in the following decades also posthumously to numerous churches and charitable institutions.

After she had already created many illustrations for magazines and books in Berlin before the war, Hildegund von Cosel-Michel later illustrated for titles such as “European Meeting”, “Mercedes - Festzeitschrift” and “Radmarkt” or for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung .

She took part in painting lessons, gave drawing lessons at the Volkshochschule Hannover or gave private lessons in her own studio, in which her own husband sometimes had to sit as a model for figurative drawing. In addition, she led seminars in Berlin, Hanover, Völksen and Munich as well as in Provence in France. She was a member of the GEDOK Association of German and Austrian Artists and the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Hanover. Occasionally she could be seen in discussions with fellow artists during the old town flea market on the Hohe Ufer der Leine . Besides motifs from the George Garden and other mansions gardens , the artist created as a drawing or as wood printing every year new Christmas cards , she with her artist's signature H.vC knew.

Von Cosel-Michel carried out numerous commissioned work for authorities, barracks, motorway service stations, secular buildings and churches such as in Wendland . She used different techniques and materials such as sgraffito , wood, metal, mosaic, enamel, batik and glass. In addition, she created designs for carpets.

In 1979 Hildegund von Cosel-Michel had an apartment and studio at Postkamp 16 on Klagesmarkt in Hanover's Mitte district .

On the 80th birthday of von Cosel-Michel, the Gedok opened an extensive and successful retrospective of the artist, who at the age of 90 climbed the ladder to set up her exhibition in the Christ Church .

Other works and public contracts (selection)

  • 1935: Castle in Gubkow in Mecklenburg
  • 1936: General Command
  • 1938: Wall mosaic behind the fountain in the vestibule of a school in Göttingen
  • 1940: Wall painting in the anteroom of the Institute for Forest Work Science in Eberswalde
  • 1943: mural “Alt Königsberg” in Königsberg, telegraph post office Post Office I; approx. 5 m × 2 m
  • 1945: Picture at Consul Raskop
  • 1946: Main post office in Hamburg
  • 1947:
  • Restaurant Rhineland - Westphalia on behalf of Deutsche Messe AG
    • Wall frieze for Trenzinger office machines : depictions of the development of writing and paper technology from the Stone Age to the modern office
    • “A death mark”, approx. 1 m × 1.30 m; Michaeliskirche in Letter near Hanover
  • 1948:
  • 1949:
    • Murals for the bunker and the angle tower in the former Reichsbahn repair shop on Fuhsestraße in Hanover-Leinhausen
    • 1949 Three murals in the dining room of the Oberpostdirektion in Lüchow
  • 1950:
    • Design of the gable wall of the gymnasium of a school in Hanover-Ricklingen
    • Sgraffito for the residential block passage Rischkampweg 12 in Braunschweig
  • 1951:
    • Ceiling painting at the Hanover Police Department in Möckernstrasse
    • Lounge of the overseas radio reception center "Üfest" in Lüchow
    • Wall panels for the Löhr bank in Hanover
    • Mural for the cemetery chapel in Hitzacker
    • Commissioned work by Ev.-luth. Church council in Groß Wittfeitzen
    • large mural for the church in Wendland
    • Churches in Krummasel , Dannenberg and Drethem
    • Mural with a picture map of Lower Saxony in the Hanover traffic and press office, the tourist information at Hanover main station
    • Design of the new chapel for the parish on behalf of the church rent office Dannenberg-Lüchow in Hitzacker on the Elbe
  • 1952:
  • 1953:
    • Milk bar "Milchquelle" in Hanover main station
    • Bundesbahnbetriebsamt I.
  • 1954:
  • 1955:
    • Painting on cherry veneer in the Franzius Institute of the University of Hanover
    • Design of relief maps for milk advertising brochures, carried out by the Wendt printing company
    • Tiles with the city arms of Hanover
  • 1956:
    • two large murals for the canteen (canteen) of the Ministry of Social Affairs on behalf of the State Building Department II.
    • Children's sanatorium “Haus Roseneck”; Social Welfare Service of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, District Executive Committee Essen
    • illustrated map in the entrance hall of the blacksmith's shop in Barsinghausen
  • 1957:
  • 1958: veneered panels made of African pear wood in the dining room of the Bad Eilsen motorway service station
  • 1959:
    • Team dining room in a barracks in Hanover-Bothfeld
    • Map of Lower Saxony on wall panels in the Scharnhorst barracks Hannover-Bothfeld on behalf of the State Building Authority IV.
  • 1960:
    • Police Directorate Hanover , Department 01 12. Herschelstrasse Revier; 6 painted panels from police life
    • Illustrative board in pictures and writing for the career counseling of the Hanover employment office
    • Work at the elementary school in Weetzen and the blacksmith's shop as well as various wall paintings in Weetzen
  • 1961:
    • State Building Authority I; New construction of the water management office
    • Wire sculpture on a painted surface; English school in Bückeburg
  • 1962:
  • 1963:
    • Staircase of the elementary school in Kirchohsen an der Weser
    • Image plates for the Göttingen motorway service station
  • Privacy screen at the petrol station at Kronsberg in Hanover
  • 1964: three plates with city images for the Hildesheim-Drispenstedt motorway maintenance authority
  • 1965:
    • Aurich water management office at the Accumersiel pumping station: "Sunken landscapes on the North Sea coast"
    • Patent painting on panels in the NCO's dining room of the former flak barracks on General-Wever-Strasse, Hannover-Bothfeld : Buildings of the city of Hanover from the past and present
    • Working for the Hamburg America Line
    • 2 pictures for the Osnabrück State Building Authority
    • Table sculpture for the Kreissparkasse Ronnenberg
  • 1966:
    • Enamel plates from our own workshop for the Allertal-Ost motorway service station
    • Batiken German champions for the sports department in Hanover
    • Enamel plates from our own workshop for the Autobahn-Rasthaus Allertal-Ost
  • 1969: Tapestry for the casino hall of the Hanover Army Officers School; designed and planned by Hildegund von Cosel-Michel, woven by Bettina Müller-Vogeler in Worpswede
  • 1970: State Building Authority I Hanover, Archivstrasse
  • 1971: 20 round plates for the Wildeshausen Süd motorway service station
  • 1972: Image of the village in the south for the Clausthal-Zellerfeld State Building Authority
  • 1977: Behind glass painting for the Klagesmarkt pharmacy at Postkamp 16 in Hanover

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af Juliane von Cosel: Hildegund von Cosel-Michel / life and works of the artist on the Page hildegundvoncoselmichel.wordpress.com of October 26, 2017, last accessed on June 6, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Juliane von Cosel: HvC - Your private life on the page hildegundvoncoselmichel.wordpress.com , last accessed on June 6, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hannover, Hannover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 45
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Postkamp , in ibid .: The street name of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 198
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba Juliane von Cosel: Public contracts on the website hildegundvoncoselmichel.wordpress.com , last accessed on June 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cosel-Michel, Hildegund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michel, Hildegund (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter, wall painter, illustrator and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2002
Place of death Munich