Lisel Oppel

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Lisel Oppel , actually Anna Amalie Elisabeth Oppel , (born October 14, 1897 in Bremen , † July 11, 1960 in Bremen) was a German painter.

biography

Oppel was born in Bremen as the youngest of eight siblings. Her father was the high school teacher and economist Alwin Oppel ; the Swiss mother was Amalie Oppel. From 1914 she attended the State School of Applied Arts in Bremen , where she received lessons in landscape painting from Ernst Müller-Scheessel . From 1917 she went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where she studied with Richard Riemerschmid and Hermann Groeber, among others .

In 1919 she moved to Worpswede and belonged to the second generation of the Worpswede artists' colony . She always lived in simple circumstances, and is said not to have even had an easel for a long time. Worpswede was her home until her death in 1960. As early as 1920 she moved to Martha Vogeler's house in Schluh for a few years , after which she changed her residence a few times until she finally took up her last residence in 1954 in a Nurdachhaus , the so-called Weyerberghütte , on the nearby Niedersachsenstein .

She couldn't make a living from painting alone. She worked on a farm in the crisis years after the First World War and later earned her living as a ceramist in Italy . Lisel Oppel made numerous trips during her creative time, some of which she also undertook impulsively.

From 1927 to 1937 Lisel Oppel stayed several times, even for longer periods, in Italy, where she created oil and watercolor paintings and worked in ceramics factories and thus secured part of her livelihood as an unmarried woman. From 1930 to 1932 she worked as a porcelain painter in the pottery for the production of artistic ceramics in Vietri sul Mare , the "ICS" (Industria Ceramica Salernitana), which belonged to the German industrialist Max Melamerson. From 1932 to 1935 she lived in Positano and Ischia . It was here that I became acquainted with Kurt Craemer , Karli Sohn-Rethel , Irene Kowaliska and Armin T. Wegner . In 1932 her son Claudio was born on Ischia, whom she raised without his father .

During the time of National Socialism , Oppel refused to join the Reichskunstkammer and therefore only got hold of painting materials unofficially. Between 1940 and 1942 she worked in pottery on the Fraueninsel in Chiemsee and in Dießen am Ammersee. Afterwards she lived in Worpswede and found employment in a Bremen ceramics factory and as a technical draftsman at Werft AG Weser during the war years. She befriended a French prisoner of war in Worpswede, was reported, sentenced to one year of forced labor in March 1945 and imprisoned until the end of the war.

After the end of the Second World War , she made numerous trips, in particular to Switzerland, southern Europe, Africa and Egypt. In 1957 she recorded her impressions of Seville and its festivals in watercolors.

Oppel was a member of the GEDOK female artists' association and in this context she was involved in several collective exhibitions . In addition, her works have been shown in a number of solo exhibitions.

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She painted the simple with great zest for life and joy of color; mainly portraits, people at work and at parties, rarely pure landscapes. A special pictorial theme of Oppel was the childish hustle and bustle in the country, in which she took up and expanded motifs of the first Worpswede painters. She created oil and watercolor paintings and etchings . Most of her work was created in the 1950s. She continued the expressive painting style that had heralded itself in the works of the 1920s, in which the light and color impressions of the south were reflected.

In 2008 her son Claudio bequeathed his mother's pictures and documents to the Barkenhoff Foundation Worpswede (Worpsweder Archive in the Barkenhoff). Many of her works can also be seen in the Great Art Show there.

Honors

  • The Lisel-Oppel-Weg in Bremen-Oberneuland was named after her.
  • In Worpswede there is a Lisel-Oppel-Weg on the Weyerberg.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1929, 1942: Liesel Oppel , Künstlerbund Bremen
  • 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943: Liesel Oppel Graphisches Kabinett Bremen, GEDOK collective exhibitions
  • 1953: Liesel Oppel , Graphisches Kabinett Bremen
  • 1954: Liesel Oppel , Philine Vogeler Worpswede Gallery
  • 1954: Bremen painter traveling , collective exhibition, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1967: Worpswede art show, for his 70th birthday
  • 1997: Liesel Oppel , Christinenhaus Zehen, on her 100th birthday
  • 2005: Lisel Oppel. Life and work in the field of tension between Worpswede and the south , Great Art Show Worpswede
  • 2007: And they did paint! History of women painters. Worpswede - Fischerhude - Bremen , collective exhibition, Lilienthal Art Foundation
  • 2008/2009: Barkenhoff exhibition: Lisel Oppel in the Barkenhoff
  • 2011: Women on the move . 100 years of Bremen's economic and cultural history, collective exhibition, Lower Town Hall Hall, Bremen
  • 1011/2012: Pictures from Worpswede , collective exhibition , Overbeck Museum , Bremen- Vegesack

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Krause: The world of pictures of the painter Lisel Oppel. Page 301: "Death in the Bremer Nervenklinik, today's Bremen-Ost Clinic"
  2. ↑ Liesel Oppel (1897-1960) , on worpswede24.de, accessed on July 30, 2015
  3. ^ Image: Lantern children at the moat by Lisel Oppel
  4. ^ Chronicle of the Heinrich Vogeler Society: Lisel Oppel exhibition , accessed on July 30, 2015
  5. ↑ Women on the move: Lisel Oppel, unconventional out of conviction Free (life) artist / video: Claudio Oppel
  6. ↑ Pictures from Worpswede , on Kreiszeitung.de, accessed on July 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Oppel, Lisel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppel, Anna Amalie Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1960
Place of death Bremen