Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut

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Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut (born March 20, 1946 in Kirchhundem , † October 5, 1987 in Siegen ) was a German artist , painter and graphic designer .

Life path

Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut grew up in Kirchhundem. The father, a musician, was born in Brachthausen , a district of today's Kirchhundem community. The family lived near the former RAD camp, which housed refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War . The closeness to this fringe group of society could have shaped her later artistic career. On the other hand, her own feelings of marginalization, which she felt all her life due to a split lip, a congenital malformation, apparently had a strong influence. A third factor was certainly her deep religiousness, which possibly grew out of her relationship with the parish and pilgrimage church of St. Mariae-Visitation on the Kohlhagen (Kirchhundem parish) with the miraculous image of the Sorrowful Mother. Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut was buried in the cemetery of the church on the Kohlhagen.

education

Ina-Maria Mihályhagyi-Witthaut attended the Catholic elementary school in Kirchhundem. Because of her physical impairment, she was not allowed to attend high school. After attending school, she first did a commercial apprenticeship at a gas station. From 1966 to 1969 Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut studied art at the Blocher School in Munich.

Works

In the works of Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut, the artist's sensitivity for inhumanity and injustice is expressed. This is shown by titles such as war, torture and apocalypse, which she gave to numerous of her pictures. In 1978 she gave the organization Amnesty International 17 graphics for the anthology "Search for M." In the autumn of 1980, she donated the watercolor painting "Christ's Birth" to the evangelical mission church in Bethlehem , which has found its permanent place next to the altar. In 1981, thirteen large-format oil paintings with the theme of the Way of the Cross and Resurrection were created for the Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Siegen-Weidenau. In 1985 she donated two large-format oil paintings with the titles "Christ's Birth" and "Crucifixion" to the Catholic chapel in Kirchhundem-Flape. In the same year, she presented the traveling chapel of the Westphalian State Hospital in Warstein with two life-size watercolor works on the occasion of the memorial service for the victims of National Socialism .

Since 1970 Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut has had exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1974 and 1977 she took part in the international Kafka exhibitions. In spring 1980 she held her 50th solo exhibition.

Honors

literature

  • Jochen Krause: People from home. Part I. No. 5. Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut. Painting for the people. Olpe 1987. pp. 24 f.
  • Culture award for Ina-Maria Mihályhegyi-Witthaut. The Olpe district honored a local artist. In: Voices from the Olpe district. 138th episode. 1985. p. 104ff.
  • Annette Domscheidt-Preuß: Ina-Maria Mihályhegy-Witthaut 1946 - 1987. In: Series of publications of the Olpe District No. 28. Pictures of the lives of women in the Olpe District. Olpe 1988. pp. 194ff.
  • Annette Domscheidt-Preuß: Ina-Maria Mihályhegy-Witthaut 1946 - 1987. In: Art and artists in the Olpe district. Painting and sculpture in the 20th century. Olpe 1991. pp. 149-172.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annette Domscheit-Preuß, art and artist in the Olpe district. Painting and sculpture in the 20th century. Ina-Maria Mihályheghi-Witthaut. Pp. 149-172
personal data
SURNAME Mihályhegyi-Witthaut, Ina-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchhundem
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1987
Place of death Wins