Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh

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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.

Tomb of the Wessel couple in the Iserlohn main cemetery

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

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

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."

- Eugen Thiemann in the catalog for the exhibition in the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1967

“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. "

- Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh about himself, from Wolfgang Rothe, signposts in the unknown. Nineteen German painters on questions of contemporary art

"Because painting, painting backgrounds and things, painting over, smudging, scratching out and overlaying colors with brushes, hands, spatulas and rags, that is my activity."

- Wilhelm Nettmann in the catalog for the exhibition in the Märkisches Museum Witten in 1971

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

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ 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)

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personal data
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