Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh
Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh (born August 3, 1907 in Grevenbrück , today Lennestadt , † May 30, 1980 in Iserlohn ; born Irmgart Zumloh ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
After graduating from high school, she began studying law in 1927. However, she broke off this to study art with Fritz Burmann at the State Art Academy in Königsberg, and later at the State Art School in Berlin with Georg Tappert . In 1932 Irmgart Zumloh passed her state examination for the artistic teaching post at secondary schools. She married the painter Wilhelm Wessel in 1934 and lived in Hemer , Recklinghausen and Iserlohn.
After an exhibition in 1933 in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm , the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne was the first public institution to acquire graphics by Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh in 1934. In the German graphical diagram Görlitz and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne prints by Irmgart Wessel Zumloh were by the Nazis as "degenerate" confiscated. A study visit to Rome lasting several weeks became a key artistic experience. Through her encounter with Italian painting, she turned to oil painting, after having worked mainly with drawings and graphics.
In 1946, the Wessel couple were co-founders of the West German Artists Association, and Wilhelm Wessel was its chairman from 1952 to 1957. Numerous solo and group exhibitions follow. 1950 Wessels travel to the XXV. Biennale to Venice and witnessed the spectacular performance of Jackson Pollock . In 1957 Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh became a member of the German Association of Artists , from 1961 to 1967 she was on the board. In the volume Wegzeichen im Unbekannten - Nineteen German Painters on Questions of Contemporary Art , published by Wolfgang Rothe in Heidelberg in 1962 , Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh was the only woman represented. a. Brüning, Cavael, Hoehme, Platschek, Schultze, Thieler and Emil Schumacher .
John Anthony Thwaites , one of the leading art critics of the 1950s and 1960s, described Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh as one of the leading German artists of the time.
Exhibitions
- Municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum , Hamm 1933 + 1958
- Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam 1954 (group exhibition)
- X. Premio Lissone, Italy 1957 (group exhibition)
- Osthaus Museum , Hagen 1958 + 1961
- Parnass Gallery , Wuppertal 1960
- Museum Ostwall , Dortmund 1967
- Municipal Suermondt Museum , Aachen 1971
- Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Münster 1966 + 1999
- Märkisches Museum , Witten 1957 + 1971
- From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal 1970
- Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus , Soest 1975 + 1985
- Galerie Schübbe, Düsseldorf 1981
- Villa Wessel in Iserlohn, exhibitions in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2014 and 2017
- Art collection Gera 2000
Further international exhibitions in Salzburg, Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, Lille, Bruges, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Venice as well as in the USA and New Zealand. Between 1953 and 1980 Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh took part in a total of 25 annual exhibitions of the German Association of Artists. In addition, numerous participations in the exhibitions of the West German Artists Association since 1950, the Ruhr-Lenne Association, the Hanover Art Association and the Darmstadt Secession.
Awards
- 1952 Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen
- 1953 Industry Prize from the city of Iserlohn
- 1957 Wilhelm Morgner Prize of the City of Soest
- 1966 Konrad von Soest Prize from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (as the first woman)
Quotes
"The glasses, bottles and jugs of this still life are foaming over with the essences of a thoroughbred painting, a painting that is deeply saturated with vitality and knowledge of painting."
“I pause at the word still life. What I will paint today and tomorrow is no longer nature morte, but espace dynamique. Dynamics and space identify each other. "
"Because painting, painting backgrounds and things, painting over, smudging, scratching out and overlaying colors with brushes, hands, spatulas and rags, that is my activity."
estate
Numerous works by Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh are in public ownership and in private collections.
In Iserlohn there in the Villa Wessel Kunstverein "Wilhelm Wessel / Irmgart Wessel Zumloh e. V. ". The association has set itself the task of processing and maintaining the artistic legacy of the Wessel couple. There are also exhibitions from classical modernism to important contemporary trends, with a focus on early post-war art and thus the artistic environment of the Wessels.
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 13, 2017)
- ↑ s. Wessel-Zumloh, Irmgart in: Kunstreport 1903/1995. An overview of the German Association of Artists , DKB special edition winter 1994/95, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 (p. 135)
Web links
- Literature by and about Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh (1907–1980). Website of the Wessel Association
- Impressions as a film (13:24 min.) About Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wessel-Zumloh, Irmgart |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zumloh, Irmgart (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Grevenbrück , today Lennestadt |
DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1980 |
Place of death | Iserlohn |