Ilse Hannes-Schmidt

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Ilse Hannes-Schmidt (born June 14, 1916 in Swinoujscie ; † August 12, 2006 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator and artist.

Life

Ilse Hannes grew up in Świnoujście and trained as a kindergarten teacher in Berlin from 1933 to 1936 . During the Second World War she was deployed as a Wehrmacht intelligence officer, mainly in Norway. Here she met the artist Karl Walter Schmidt from Frankfurt am Main, under whose influence she turned to the fine arts and whom she followed to Frankfurt am Main after the war. There was a short study visit at the Werkakademie Kassel (today the Kunsthochschule Kassel ) in 1951/52, to attend courses with Johannes Itten and, after a longer study stay in Ticino 1961 to 1963, to an apprenticeship in Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter in Paris 1963 / 64. In the meantime, Hannes-Schmidt has repeatedly worked as an art teacher at various high schools in North Hesse and Frankfurt. In 1984 she married Karl Walter Schmidt.

Work development

Ilse Hannes-Schmidt came to art comparatively late due to the war, but she was able to continuously develop her oeuvre over a long period of 60 years right up to her death. She made drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and (based on the silhouette technique of her early days) collages . During her study stay in Paris she learned the technique of etching . Your work is characterized by rather small formats with great technical and stylistic diversity. She developed both the color and graphic structures; she worked abstractly and, above all in her drawings, repeatedly with representational elements. In her works she worked on impressions of nature and travel and on the other hand also reflected on the difficult phases of recent German history, to which she had become a contemporary witness. Of particular interest are her collages, in which she picked up discarded objects as found objects and arranged them into artistic, sometimes extraordinarily sublime ensembles of great poetic power.

Some works are in the Neue Galerie in Kassel, most of their work is privately owned. Since 1946 she has been present at group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. Retrospectives with a catalog took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1992 and 2006 (see literature).

Ilse Hannes Society, Frankfurt am Main

On her 89th birthday, June 14, 2005, Ilse Hannes and friends called the “Association for the Promotion of Art and the Works of Ilse Hannes e. V. ”(Ilse Hannes Society for short) in Frankfurt am Main. She made this institution the heir of her artistic work. The association, which is recognized as a non-profit organization, has more than sixty members. As intended, he sells the works of Ilse Hannes and uses the income and membership fees to promote art within the scope of his possibilities. For this purpose, every year in June it awards the Ilse Hannes Art Prize to visual artists, organizes lecture evenings on various topics of art and occasionally organizes exhibitions of the works of the namesake. The venue is preferably the Nebbiensche garden house in Frankfurt.

Previous winners of the Ilse Hannes Art Prize are:

literature

  • Ilse Hannes. Works from five decades (1942–1991). Exhibition in the dormitory of the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main, January 12 to February 9, 1992. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
  • Roswitha Nees: Ilse Hannes: Catalog raisonné 1929–1997. Paintings, color work on paper, paper cutouts and collages, drawings, prints, folders. Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • Structure and color. Ilse Hannes. 60 years of work. Imhoff, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-096-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturportal Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Hannes-Schmidt, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2006
Place of death Frankfurt am Main