Irmgard Giering

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Irmgard Giering , b. Knoppick (born February 26, 1925 in Berlin ; † March 8, 2006 ) was a Berlin artist and art teacher. Her style has references to both expressionism and realism.

Irmgard Giering

Life

After graduating from secondary school in 1941, she attended the Emmy-Stahlmann Art School in Berlin. Since her parents could not support her financially, she benefited from scholarships for gifted students. In 1943, at the age of eighteen, she was rejected from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK) in Berlin because of her expressionist style . She then began studying art history at the Humboldt University in 1944 , where she studied under Wilhelm Pinder in particular . During this time, some of her early works were also lost as they were confiscated by the Russian occupation forces. In 1945 she managed to get accepted to the Berlin School of Fine Arts (HFBK). Here Giering studied under the direction of Georg Tappert under Heinrich Graf Luckner , Hofer, Kraus, Fischer and Kuhr until 1951 . From 1950 to 1951 she was a student in Georg Tappert's master class, which should have a lasting impact on her style. She then received a scholarship from Karl Hofer .

After her legal clerkship in 1959, she worked as an arts teacher at various Berlin high schools, but mainly at the Gabriele von Bülow Oberschule in Berlin-Tegel. In addition to the intensive artistic exchange with her husband, Harald Giering, whom she had known since they were at university, and his uncle Max Kindt, also a well-known Berlin painter, Giering found suggestions and criticism from colleagues at the Bülow Oberschule, where other active artists also worked were like Volkmar Oellermann , Arnulf Spengler , Uwe Elfert or Christian Rickert . Her artistic work continued - despite her severe back pain - until the end of 2005.

Although repeatedly encouraged by knowledgeable friends, Giering rarely went public with her work because she wanted to avoid fashionable "art hype" and lived in constant, often doubt-plagued, confrontation with her work. The many exhibitions in Upper Hesse, the artist's second adopted home, were an exception.

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Their main concern was color; because, in the artist's opinion, color is fundamentally related to the emotional, takes up and releases mental powers. Achieving colored sounds, harmonies and tension required the painter's full commitment. The object gave her the external reason for the picture idea, when what she saw (especially urban and natural landscapes - but also people, plants and objects with interesting materiality and / or color etc.) became an experience. If you follow her work, you can see that the artist has gone through a development from abstracting-expressive painting to increasingly realistic, empathetic-atmospheric painting.

Siegfried Kühl , the well-known Berlin artist colleague Irmgard Giering, reported on the occasion of the opening of their exhibition “4 x Landscape” in the Fontane-Haus in Berlin-Reinickendorf with three other colleagues in 1988 about a judgment by Georg Tappert about his student Irmgard Giering and her painting: “ In 1946 I entered the university class with my new “master”, Professor Georg Tappert. He instructed me and showed me my new workplace near the large studio window. Friendly fellow students accepted me into their circle. Irmgard Giering had set up her easel next to me, and I admired her still life because of the finest gray values ​​that ran through the whole picture like a thick carpet. Georg Tappert called her a "real" painter, in contrast to our "color dyers", who dealt "grumbling" with color. "

Her work estate, which is administered by one of her students, includes a wealth of oil paintings, graphics, literary illustrations (including on Th. Mann's "Joseph and his Brothers" and works by Joseph Roth), over 800 watercolors. Most of her watercolors are characterized by an almost intoxicating will to create in front of nature: color, light, materiality, life, contrasts, atmosphere - up to weather phenomena such as wind that are difficult to depict - are reflected in her work.

In addition to the natural landscapes mentioned above, she also painted Berlin cityscapes in different periods, travel pictures, including various Mediterranean landscapes and Baltic Sea pictures, which were primarily created in Scandinavia, portraits, animal pictures and still lifes in various techniques, but mainly in oil and watercolor. She also implemented scenes of daily topicality such as the Oder flood and of historical-political interest such as the women around Goebbels, motifs from the 1920s, oriental scenes, etc. As a result of a back pain, Giering spent every year in different seaside resorts, which explains the abundance of landscape motifs from these areas. A work recording is in progress, but in view of the size of the artistic estate and the hardly documented works that are in private ownership or museums, it will be tedious. The works accepted by Karl Hofer as part of the scholarship have not yet been found either.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

  • Participation in the jury-free exhibition, Berlin 1954 (I. Knoppick - 3 still lifes) (source: catalog of the jury-free exhibition 1954)
  • Furthermore sporadic participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and Free Berlin Art Exhibition in the 50s and 60s
  • Bonn - Building Show 1969; Group exhibition of artists: Giering - Lerch - Stoverock: Landscapes and Still Life (sources: Godesberger Nachrichten April 17, 1969; Bonner Rundschau April 19, 1969)
  • Participation in "Art in Wilmersdorf"; Kunstamt Berlin-Wilmersdorf (location: exhibition list "Art in Wilmersdorf" November 30 - December 22, 1972)
  • Participation in the “twin towns art” 1976; Rathausgalerie Reinickendorf; Partnership exhibition Greenwich, Maribo, Reinickendorf June 14th - July 9th 1976 (source: catalog of the exhibition of the same name. Berlin-Reinickendorf 1976)
  • Flower gallery at Eichkamp. Berlin-Charlottenburg; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Berlin-Motive" September 10, 1976 (location: art and museums in Berlin. October 1976. Ed .: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner Kunstamtsleiter eV; invitation cards)
  • Spa Hotel Bad Pyrmont 1982; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Pyrmonter Impressions"; (source: exhibition poster)
  • Participation in the December Salon 1984; Galerie Taube Berlin; (Source: Catalog - "December Salon '84". Artist of the Galerie Taube Berlin)
  • Hohaus-Museum Lauterbach October 2 - October 30, 1988; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Landscapes from Upper Hesse" (source: Lauterbacher Anzeiger August 3, 1988)
  • Gallery in the Fontane-Haus Berlin-Reinickendorf February 7th - March 3rd, 1988; "4 x landscape" - group exhibition Calsow, Giering, Jaenicke, Soehring (source: catalog - 4 x landscape. Watercolors, pastels, gouaches ...; gallery in Fontane-Haus 1988, Nord-Berliner Zeitung February 11, 1988)
  • Evangelical Church Congregation Political Congregation Niestetal August 31 - October 10, 1989; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Summer Pictures" (source: exhibition poster)
  • Vogelsbergklinik, Hochwaldhausen July 2 - August 2, 1991; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Trees, Blossoms, Paradises" Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings (sources: invitations and exhibition posters)
  • Museum der Schwalm, art gallery September 20 - October 20, 1991; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Trees, Blossoms, Gardens" - oil paintings, watercolors, drawings (source: invitations and exhibition poster; HNA September 23, 1991)
  • Galerie Jakob Kohnert - Berlin-Charlottenburg March 27th - April 30th 1992; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Tree - Trees" Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings; (Source: invitations and exhibition poster)
  • Lauterbach Hohaus Museum August 15 - September 12, 1993; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Park, Garten" Oil paintings, watercolors (source: Lauterbacher Anzeiger August 16, 1993)
  • Participation in the annual exhibition of the Fuldaer Künstlerbund 1994 - Vonderau-Museum (location: catalog of the exhibition of the same name; Fuldaer Zeitung September 24, 1994 - with images)
  • Participation in the annual exhibition of the Kunstverein Fulda eV 1996 (source: catalog of the exhibition of the same name)
  • Hohaus-Museum Lauterbach July 2nd - July 30th 2000; Solo exhibition "Irmgard Giering: Summer Impressions from Vogelsberg" Oil paintings and watercolors (source: Lauterbacher Anzeiger July 10, 2000)

Posthumous exhibitions since 2006

  • July 1, 2006 - June 3, 2007 Berlin, NoRa publishing association (cross-sectional exhibition)
  • September 6, 2006 - November 30, 2006 Ranis, Gallery Westerheide "Flowers and Gardens"
  • June 15, 2007 - August 9, 2007 Bad Salzschlirf, Kulturkessel and Kulturbahnhof: "Between Berlin and Vogelsberg"
  • August 12, 2007 - September 9, 2007 Fulda, Art Association "Tabularasa": "Between Berlin and Vogelsberg"
  • May 28, 2010 - August 27, 2010 Ranis, Galerie Westerheide: "Berlin City Views"

Permanently issued

  • since April 2011 Galerie Westerheide - 3 pictures of Berlin as part of the exhibition "Artists of the Gallery"
  • since September 2011 Public library Pößneck "Bilke" - 6 watercolors with. Usually on the occasion of the official handover of the "Bilke" after the restoration
  • Graphothek Berlin watercolors for loan

literature

  • ´Vier x Landschaft`, Rudolf Calsow, Irmgard Giering, Bruno Jaenicke, Werner Soehring: watercolors, pastels, gouaches a. a.; District Office Reinickendorf of Berlin Dept. Volksbildung Kunstamt (publisher), 7 February – 3. March 1988, gallery in the Fontane house. 1988 (23 pp.)
  • Carola Runge: On the opening of Irmgard Giering's exhibition on September 22, 1991 . In: Schwalm Yearbook 1992 . Edited by the Schwälmer Heimatbund e. V. Ziegenhain
  • Jürgen A. Wollmann: The Willinghausen painters colony and the Kleinsassen painters colony . Edited by the Willinghausen painting cabinet Wollmann. Schwalmstadt-Treysa n.d., p. 148
  • M ART, 4.2006, p. 84: Galerie Westerheide - Irmgard Giering
  • Pößnecker Stadtanzeiger with official gazette, 13th year, 10/2006, "The gardens of Irmgard Giering", p. 15f.

Web links

Exhibitions and works:

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Runge, Carola: On the opening of the exhibition by Irmgard Giering on September 22, 1991. In: Schwälmer Jahrbuch 1992. S. 153 ff.
  2. ↑ 4XLandschaft, Reinickendorf District Office of Berlin - Art Office (ed.), Berlin 1988
personal data
SURNAME Giering, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoppick, Irmgard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2006