Katharina Scholz-Wanckel
Katharina Scholz-Wanckel (born March 18, 1916 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ; † May 12, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a German painter who mainly used the techniques of woodcut , aquatint and oil pastel.
Life
Scholz-Wanckel was born as the daughter of the inland waterway shipping company Eberhard Wanckel and his wife Katharine, geb. Dietrich, born in Schönebeck (Elbe) . There she spent her school days and passed the Abitur exams at the Reform and Realgymnasium in 1935.
She then completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Municipal Higher Commercial School in Magdeburg and then studied several semesters at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin .
In 1940, Katharina Scholz-Wanckel married the timber merchant Walter Scholz, who was captured by the Soviets at the end of the Second World War and did not return until the end of 1948.
In the meantime she moved to Hamburg and began studying art history , archeology and philosophy at the university there in 1947 , which she successfully completed after several interruptions to give private drawing courses. In order to acquire as extensive an original knowledge of the fine arts as possible, she went on several study trips at home and abroad, including in Paris where she found inspiration for the topic of her dissertation "Paul Guigou and landscape painting of the 19th century in Provence", in which she examined pictures by the Provencal landscape painter Paul Guigou and obtained her doctorate in philosophy in 1954.
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Scholz-Wanckel's work can be divided into concrete and abstract motifs. On various worldwide study trips, she was inspired to depict various world-famous sights, such as the Golden Gate Bridge or the Egyptian pyramids. But there are also numerous abstract works. All works were created in the period from 1950 until her death in 2009. While she mainly used the woodcut technique in the first 15 years of her artistic work, the majority of her pictures were subsequently created with the aquatint process. From 2002 until her death, she mainly turned to oil pastels, which received a lot of attention, especially in the 1950s, not least thanks to Pablo Picasso.
Pyramid field
Golden Gate Bridge
Manhattan
Lambeth Bridge
log
Joie de vivre
Elephant meeting
Bungamati
Exhibitions
The largest collection of Scholz-Wanckel's work today is in the Palais du Jardin in Zurich. Before that, her pictures were u. a. can be seen at the following solo and group exhibitions.
- Painting and sculpture by young artists, seminar house of Heidelberg University
- Exhibition of Hamburg artists, 1948–1961, Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg e. V.
- I. and II. International Triennial for Original Colored Graphics, Grenchen, 1958 and 1961
- European contemporary graphics, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
- German artists see Europe, Art Office Berlin-Reinickendorf
- International graphics exhibition, Salzburg / Berlin
- Mostra the Collezionisti di Prato, Prato
- Guilde Internationale de Sérigraphies d'Art Abstrait, Galerie St. Germain, Paris
- KSW Galleria Numero, Florence, 1959 and 1960
- International graphics exhibition, Zofingen
- International graphic exhibition, Galerie Bohemia, Glarus
- Guilde Internationale de Sérigraphies d'Art Abstrait, Koepke Gallery, Copenhagen
- KSW Kunstpavillon Elitzer, Saarbrücken, 1960 and 1962
- International printmaking, New Gallery of the City of Linz
- KSW Galleria Numero, Rome
- KSW Gallery Schnoor, Bremen
- Black and white graphic exhibition of Hamburg artists, Hall of Nations, Hamburg
- European Art Association, Kampen / Sylt
- Mostra Internationale d'Arte d'Avanguardia, Galleria Numero, Livorno
- Free graphics 69, Buslat artists' guild, Bauschlott Palace
- Light in the picture, Buslat artists' guild, Bauschlott Palace
- KSW together with Ernst Leonhart, Galerie am Dürerhaus, Nuremberg
- The small format, Buslat artists' guild, Bauschlott Castle
- Petits Formats, Galerie Bernier, Paris
- Lithographies et Gravures Modernes, Galerie de l'Université, Paris
- KSW Galerie Goltz, Munich
- Christmas graphic bazaar, Galerie Lochte, Hamburg
- Manifestations Musicales et Culturelles, Chalençon / Ardèche
- KSW together with G. Grosse and C. v. Mangershausen, Art Forum, Bensheim-Bergstrasse
- KSW Badenia Gallery, Karlsruhe
- Exposition Collective d'Eté, Galerie Contemporaine, Geneva
- David Hockney et artists pour Collectionneurs, Galerie Contemporaine, Geneva
- Maritime Pictures, Galerie Lochte, Hamburg
- Since 1973 permanent presence in the Carmen Cassé Gallery, Paris
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography
- ↑ Dissertation (PDF; 872 kB)
- ↑ exhibitions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scholz-Wanckel, Katharina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scholz, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönebeck (Elbe) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |