Irma Weiland

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Irma Weiland (born March 15, 1908 in Hamburg ; † September 1, 2003 there ) was a painter and draftsman .

Life

education

Grave site for Irma Weiland, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Irma Weiland began her artistic training around 1923 at the Altona Art School with a focus on applied arts. After a year she had to leave school because of difficult economic circumstances. She began an apprenticeship as a decorator and finally found a job in 1928 as an advertising and scenery painter in the Hamburg Variété-Theater Alcazar on St. Pauli .

After the transfer of power to the Nazis in 1933, she lost her job because she had depicted people from the South Seas on a backdrop. In addition, the authorities pronounced a professional ban .

Nevertheless, she resumed her art studies and studied with Rudolf Neugebauer at the Hamburg State Art School on Lerchenfeld. In 1934 she married Walter Weiland. From 1936 she took private lessons with the former member of the Hamburg Secession Fritz Kronenberg . His artistic conception and, for a time, his style, which was influenced by French Cubism , were to have a lasting impact on Weiland.

Irma Weiland was buried in Hamburg in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square X 25 (northeast of Chapel 2).

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Since the oeuvre created before the Second World War was almost completely destroyed by an air raid , there are only a few works from this early phase in which she varied the form and perspective elements of Cubism and knew how to work with the subdued language of colors.

Drawings take up an extensive and important part of the work. Weiland often worked with pencils or colored pencils as well as with pen and ink . She often sketched in front of nature and later worked out the design in the studio. Especially from the numerous trips ( France , Italy , Greece , Balkans and Ireland ) there are corresponding hand drawings in which she recorded her impressions of the landscape. However, the elaborated drawings go beyond the pure reproduction of the landscape. Due to their precise line of drawings and their surreal coloring, these landscapes appear as if they were under a glass bell.

Surreal influences can also be discerned in her paintings since the 1970s , in which, in addition to cool precision, there is also a certain rigidity in the representation.

Memberships

Irma Weiland was a member of GEDOK and of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK).

Awards

In 1990 she received the Arnold Fiedler Prize for her work .

Irma Weiland died on September 1, 2003 in Hamburg. In 2008, part of her estate was given to the forum for the estates of artists in Hamburg.

Exhibitions

  • German Association of Artists. 27 annual exhibition. Art building on Schloßplatz. Stuttgart 1979
  • Exhibition premiere. Forum for bequests from artists eV Hamburg 2005
  • Irma Weiland. 1908-2003. Painting, watercolor, drawing. A retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday. Forum for bequests from artists eV Hamburg 2008

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Irma Weiland. Works from 1972 to 1978
  • Maike Bruhns: Art in Crisis. Vol. I. Hamburg 2001, pp. 222f
  • Exhibition catalog Forum for bequests from artists eV Exhibition premiere. Hamburg 2005, p. 26f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tombstone illustration at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Weiland, Irma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2003
Place of death Hamburg