Irmgard Biernath

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Irmgard Biernath (* December 8, 1905 in Waldheim ; † August 10, 1998 in Mainz ) was a German sculptor and art pedagogue with a teacher training.

Life

Biernath attended the elementary and secondary school Lutherschule Waldheim from 1919 to 1922, then the upper lyceum and in 1926 passed her first teaching examination in Königsberg . The second teaching examination followed in 1931.

From 1929 to 1933 she was a teacher at the private secondary school in Grünheide near Berlin, then was accepted into the civil service and taught at an elementary school in Bernau near Berlin . In 1941 she was denounced and voluntarily resigned from school. From 1943 to 1945 she taught as a war effort in the public school service at a Berlin school.

After the war, Biernath studied from 1946 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Bernhard Heiliger , from 1948 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , among other things as a master class student with Hans Wimmer . From 1953 to 1971 she taught art at a school in Mainz and from 1958 to 1964 she was a lecturer at the University Institute for Art and Craft Education in Mainz (later merged into the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz ). She also taught part-time at the adult education center, where she built up and shaped the field of art education with the art series "Forming Hands" conceived by her and shaped it for decades.

Her artistic work has only been at the forefront since the 1960s.

Biernath died in Mainz in 1998 and was buried in the cemetery of her native Waldheim. Her artistic estate is in the local history museum of the town of Waldheim. In 1999, the Irmgard Biernath Foundation was established to look after your artistic legacy and to promote young artists from the field of visual arts.

Works (selection)

Georg Forster memorial plaque, Neue Universitätsstrasse 5, Mainz
  • Bronze: Mourning Mother (Institute for Forensic Medicine, Am Pulverturm, Mainz)
  • Relief: Georg Forster memorial plaque on his home in Mainz

Awards

literature

  • Hedwig Brüchert: Rhineland-Palatinate women. Women in politics, society, economy and culture in the early years of Rhineland-Palatinate. Publication of the Parliament's commission for the history of Rhineland-Palatinate (Volume 23)
  • Marlene Hübel: Irmgard Biernath: a life's work . Erasmus printing, 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the staff of the University of Mainz: Fountains, monuments and sculptures in Mainz, 15th artist biographies ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staff.uni-mainz.de
  2. ↑ Monuments and graves worth preserving at the Waldheim Cemetery (PDF; 40 kB)
  3. ↑ City of Waldheim: Irmgard Biernath Foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-waldheim.de  
  4. ^ Waldheim Official Gazette No. 12/2010: In memory of Irmgard Biernath. Page 7  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / stadt-waldheim.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Biernath, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1998
Place of death Mainz