Illa Blue

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Illa Blaue (born May 3, 1919 in Kiel ; † June 5, 2018 in Steinfeld ) was a German painter .

Life

Illa Blaue (née Schulze) trained as a kindergarten teacher and took part in evening classes at the Kieler Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule ( Muthesius Schule ) with Werner Lange in nude drawing and with Gertrud Wiebke Schröder (1922–1977). She was also taught by Margarethe Klenze (1881-1977) in oil painting and in 1942 for a semester from Max von Esterle in Innsbruck.

Due to the Second World War and the birth of her children, she interrupted her artistic activity until the early 1950s.

In 1951 she became a student and employee of the sculptor Alwin Blaue , whom she married in 1956. He taught them a wide variety of craft techniques, in particular building ceramics and faience painting . After his death in 1959, she taught pottery and watercolor painting at the Kiel Adult Education Center for 25 years and had a studio and workshop, among others, in Kiel, in Boknis an der Schlei and in the old forge in Kiesby before she bought the Borne-Krog in Boren in 1989 .

She took part in various exhibitions, including the State Show of Schleswig-Holstein Artists in 1962, the 10th exhibition of painters and sculptors in the Kiel State House in 1962, and received 24 art-in-building commissions in Schleswig-Holstein .

From the 1960s to the early 1970s there was a group of artists in Kiel who regularly worked in the backyard studio in Legienstr. 26 met to paint there. In addition to Illa Blaue, Werner Rieger, Dago Kleemann, Hella Kleemann, Hilde Mentzen, Uwe Till, Bruno Giurini, Uschi Leithäuser, Antje Mentzen, Franz Reisener, Sigrid Reisener, Amigo Krüger and Thomas Dumrese belonged to this group.

In 1990 she founded the RUNDUM cultural association in Süderbrarup ; The socio-cultural institution has set itself the goal of offering art and culture in the rural region, so the association brought the children's theater of the month to Süderbrarup and takes part in the literary summer .

In 1942 Illa (Blaue), b. Schulze, the lawyer Siegfried Sichtermann, in 1954 the divorce took place; They had three children together, including Kai Sichtermann , a founding member of the rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben, and his sister, the writer Barbara Sichtermann .

Illa Blaue was buried in the cemetery at Marien-Kirche in Boren.

Political activity

In 1982 she was on the Boren local council for BWG Boren , but lost her seat in 1983 after moving to Kiesby. In Kiesby she founded a local Green Association and took part in the 1986 local council elections. She then became the first “ Green ” in the Kiesbyer Municipal Council and was a member of it from 1986 to 1990; She also worked regionally in the peace movement ; so she founded the peace group in Kiesby in 1983.

Works (selection)

  • Boren, gym (faience painting as a tile picture Schleswig-Holstein ).
  • Boren, renewal of the wall painting in the church (together with Angie Olbrich and Heidi Tews)
  • Brokstedt , (Mosaic Map of Schleswig-Holstein ).
  • Brunsbüttel , sports hall, (ceramic mosaic sports motifs ).
  • Kappeln , auditorium of the Kappelner Werkstätten home for the disabled (ceramic picture Vogelflug ).
  • Kiel, memorial stone for the Peace of Kiel of 1814 in Dänische Strasse.
  • Leck , elementary school on the linden tree (clinker ceramic mosaic Fischer with net ).
  • Schleswig , State Youth Home Paulihof 2 ( Tangram).
  • Schönhagen , sports hall (ceramic mosaic).
  • Schönkirchen , sports hall (ceramic mosaic The four elements (fire, water, air + earth with associated sports symbols)).
  • Westerrönfeld , school (wall design 1993).

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists , Städtisches Museum Flensburg (ed.), Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 62 f.

Web links

  • Illa Blue . In: Uta's blue information center .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Children's theater of the month -> start page. Accessed August 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Literaturhaus Schleswig-Holstein: Projects: Literature Summer: Sponsors and partners of earlier literature summers. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Illa Blaue (May 3, 1919 - June 5, 2018). Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ : stb Forgotten Places: Artistic with story - a search for clues | shz.de. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Blue ones, Illa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sichtermann, Illa; Schulze, Illa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2018
Place of death Steinfeld