Ingeborg Schäffler-Wolf

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Ingeborg Schäffler-Wolf (* 1928 in Heilbronn ; † February 25, 2015 there ) was a German artist who mainly created abstract woven tapestries .

Life

After graduating from high school, she completed an apprenticeship in a mechanical weaving mill and in a craft business, which she completed in 1952 with the journeyman's examination at the master’s school in Sindelfingen . At the same time she studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy from 1948 to 1953 , most recently in the summer semester of 1953 with Willi Baumeister . In 1953 she worked on the restoration of the art clock at Heilbronn Town Hall , after which she went on a study trip to New York , where she studied at the Art Students League . In 1955 she married the architect Albert Schäffler. She lived and worked in Obersulm- Willbach.

plant

Most of your work is carried out on the high loom . The early works were done with wool , from the late 1960s silk thread became her preferred material, with which her abstract works were structured not only through different colors, but also through the different gloss effects of the yarn used. From the 1970s onwards, she mostly mounted her weaving work on light-reflecting stainless steel boxes, so that light colored surfaces also received a translucent metallic sheen. The relief effect of her work is seen as her stylistic principle.

Authority armchair in Heilbronn

In addition to abstract tapestries, Schäffler-Wolf has also made a name for itself through garden design . So were u. a. The open spaces of the Heilbronn administrative center were planted according to their plans, whereby the distinctive office armchairs were created.

Since the 1950s she has been awarded numerous prizes, including a prize at the Iron and Steel Competition in Düsseldorf in 1952 , the Henry van de Velde Society prize at the Osthaus Museum in Hagen in 1961 , and the first prize from the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart in 1968 and in 1978 the recognition award of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Works by Ingeborg Schäffler-Wolf were created a. a. for the state school for the deaf in Heilbronn, the rheumatism hospital Bad Wildbad, the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart, the residence of the German embassy in Tehran, the Goethe-Institut London, the funeral hall in Lauffen am Neckar , the conference room of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Bonn and the house of the state parliament of Baden- Württemberg . More of her works are in public collections, including the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart, the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe and the City Collection of the City of Heilbronn.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Ingeborg Schäffler-Wolf has died . swr.de, February 27, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Claudia Ihlefeld: With silk and brushed steel . Stimme.de, February 28, 2015
  3. ^ Was only enrolled in Willi Baumeister's class for one semester, see: Wolfgang Kermer : Willi Baumeister's students at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 1946–1955 , in: Ders .: Der schöpferische Winkel: Willi Baumeister's educational activity . Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1992 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 7) ISBN 3-89322-420-3 , p. 200

literature

  • Ulrika Evers: German women artists of the 20th century. Painting - sculpture - tapestry. Schultheis, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-920855-01-9
personal data
SURNAME Schäffler-Wolf, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2015
Place of death Heilbronn