Liebfriede Bernstiel

Liebfriede Bernstiel (born December 14, 1915 in Hamburg ; † February 6, 1998 in Ahrensburg ) was a German ceramist . She was the long-time assistant, employee and partner of the Bauhaus ceramicist Otto Lindig .

life and work

After completing school education, Liebfriede Bernstiel first had to take care of the sick mother. In 1933 she finally began studying at the State Art School in Hamburg . She took courses in Max Wünsche's pottery class. In 1934 she moved to Halle at the Burg Giebichenstein master school . Here she studied with Hubert Griemert until 1938. In 1937 she passed her journeyman's examination in Halle . After completing her studies, she asked for a job with Hedwig Bollhagen in Marwitz or with the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin. She received a rejection from both factories, so that she had to work for nine months at the anthroposophical healing and educational institute in Lauenstein. On February 9, 1939, after several applications, she was accepted by the ceramic workshop in Dornburg and finally worked in Otto Lindig's workshop . After Markus and Otto Lindig were called up, she took over the management of the workshop in the last months of the war. In 1944 she passed her master craftsman examination in Dornburg . Immediately after the Second World War, it was no longer possible to maintain the distillery in Dornburg due to a lack of raw materials. Liebfriede Bernstiel went back to her family in Northern Germany.

Coffee pot L46 (designed by Otto Lindig; manufactured by Liebfriede Bernstiel)
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glazed stoneware
City museum Pößneck Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

In 1947 she got a job as an assistant to Siegfried Möller and Gerhard Marcks at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg , where numerous former Bauhaus students a . a. Wolfgang Tümpel , Kurt Kranz and Else Mögelin gathered around Gerhard Marcks. Marcks entrusted Liebfriede Bernstiel with the serial execution of his ceramic designs, u. a. his Tiergarten tea set designed in 1932 .

After Otto Lindig, on the recommendation of Liebfriede Bernstiel, followed Marcks' call to take over the ceramics department at the Hamburg University as head, Bernstiel worked again as his assistant. During this time she became Lindig's partner, and their daughter Christiane Bernstiel was born in Hamburg in 1952.

In the spring of 1955 she went to Ahrensburg and built her own ceramics workshop there with the support of Gerhard Marcks, Otto Lindig and Richard and Elisabeth Winkelmayer. In 1956 in Ahrensburg she received an order from the Düsseldorf Art Association to produce plaster models for the Rhenania Duisdorf porcelain factory based on designs by Gerhard Marcks.

Liebfriede Bernstiel taught numerous students in Ahrensburg. After his retirement, Lindig gave her all of the shapes and glaze recipes he had designed in Hamburg. After his death, she saw it as her task to preserve Lindig's artistic legacy . She made numerous replicas , including the well-known Bauhaus jug L16, based on designs by Lindig in various glazes. Since 1956 Liebfriede Bernstiel also accepted public contracts for the production of building sculptures and building ceramics, which ensured her a regular income. Travels to the Mediterranean and to China had a lasting influence on her late artistic life's work.

Liebfriede Bernstiel died in February 1998.

reception

From 1955 to 1992 she regularly took part in the traditional Christmas exhibition in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg . In addition, she exhibited her ceramics in solo and group exhibitions. a .:

• Liebfriede Bernstiel ; Behnhaus Lübeck 1980
• Liebfriede Bernstiel, ceramics; Christiane Bernstiel, ceramics; Ulrich Sack, painting ; Bad Oldesloe 1989
• Art from Hamburg: Liebfriede Bernstiel, ceramics, Wilfried Pupke, black and white photography ; Gera 1992
• Liebfriede Bernstiel and pupil ; Ahrensburg 1994
• Liebfriede Bernstiel for the hundredth ; Dornburg 2015/16

Ceramics by Liebfriede Bernstiel are now shown in numerous ceramic and design museums, including the Bürgel Ceramics Museum , the Hetjens Museum for Modern Ceramics in Düsseldorf, the Museum of Art and Crafts in Hamburg, the Keramion Frechen and the Veste Coburg .

Literature (selection)

• Hans Thiemann: Liebfriede Bernstiel - way and work . Hamburg 1988
• Otto Rohse: Sigill. Sheets for book and art. Liebfriede Bernstiel , 1988
• Hans-Peter Jakobson: Art from Hamburg: Liebfriede Bernstiel, ceramics, Wilfried Pupke, black and white photography . Gera 1992
• Konrad Kessler: Liebfriede Bernstiel for the hundredth ... in the beginning was Dornburg . Dornburg 2015
• Bernstiel, Liebfriede . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 624.

Web links

• Keramik-sammler.de: Liebfriede Bernstiel

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 12 .
2. ↑ Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 13 .
3. ↑ Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 18 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 19 .
5. ^ The tea service from Gerhard Marcks. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen, accessed on March 9, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 20 .
7. ↑ Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 23 .
8. ↑ Hans-Peter Jakobson: Memories of Liebfriede Bernstiel . Hrsg .: Förderkreis Keramik-Museum Bürgel and Dornburger Keramik-Werkstatt eV Bürgel 2015, p. 29 .