Margareta Erichsen

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Margareta Erichsen (born August 18, 1916 in Flensburg , † between April 29, 2006 and May 5, 2006 in Husum ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

education

Margareta Erichsen received an apprenticeship as a cook and from 1937 attended the women's workshop class at the School of Applied Arts in Flensburg as a guest student with Hilde Stock-Sylvester ; She found great support from the sculptor Hermann Menzel (1899–1885), who worked as a teacher for sculptors at the Flensburg Art School.

Since 1939 she worked as a Mamsell at Gut Rundhof near Kappeln ; However, this did not diminish their artistic interests.

In 1941 she was accepted as one of the best applicants at the Karlsruhe Art College. There she received lessons in drawing from Wilhelm Sauter and in font design from Josua Leander Gampp . Due to the bombing raids on Karlsruhe, the lessons were moved to Heidelsheim / Bruchsal , the Black Forest and Ettlingen .

During the semester break she worked as a technical draftsman at the Flensburg shipyard during the war ; on the weekends she attended the sculpture class at the Flensburg School of Applied Arts.

In autumn 1943 she moved to the Munich Art Academy and studied book art , applied graphics, font design and costume studies with Emil Preetorius . After the academy was bombed out, she fled to Ellingen , where the Nuremberg Art School had been relocated. Here she attended Max Körner's illustration class .

Career

After the end of the Second World War , she and her brother founded the Erichsen Atelier in Flensburg with the aim of an architectural inventory of the houses and courtyards in Flensburg. Large parts of the old building fabric were threatened with decay and demolition in the post-war period. Precise, but with a soft, almost painterly style of drawing, initially delicate, later more powerfully designed architectural images were created.

After her work was presented to the public for the first time in an exhibition in Flensburg in 1946, she commissioned illustration for fairy tale books and magazines, as well as participating in another exhibition in Kampen .

From 1947 on she continued her studies in composition at the Copenhagen Academy with Aksel Jørgensen (1883–1957) ; In 1948 she created etchings and lithographs for the first time at Grafisk Skole , as well as still lifes in oil and portraits drawn with charcoal. In 1949 she went on a study trip to Italy .

After completing her studies, she returned to Flensburg in May 1950, did illustration and portrait assignments, including designing the children's pages for Flensborg Avis from 1950 to 1954 and writing self-illustrated stories. She also took part in the exhibitions of South Schleswig artists in Fredericia in 1950 and in Flensborghus in 1953 and, together with Sophie B. Jensen (1912–2007), in an exhibition in the Dansk Central Library in Flensburg in 1960 .

On December 23, 1963 she married the Low German writer Wilhelm Ludwig Andresen , who in 1923 was one of the founders of the National Frisians, which are now called Friisk Foriining . In 1965 they moved to Husum together.

Artistic work

In countless sheets of artistic as well as high documentary value she has drawn the architecture and landscape of Schleswig-Holstein and done watercolors .

Appreciations

A comprehensive exhibition of her work was shown in 1986 in the Flensburg Museum .

The art professor Klaus-Ove Kahrmann and the former teacher at the Danish grammar school in Flensburg, Maike Lohse, published a commemorative publication in German, Danish and Frisian in 2016 for Margareta Erichsen's centenary , and in 2017 there was an exhibition on her life's work in the parish hall the parish of St. John in Flensburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pictures from Flensburg . 1986.
  • Pictures from North Frisia . 1986.
  • Husum's Süderstrasse . 1996.
  • Houses and farms in Eiderstedt . 1998.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 101 f.
  • Klaus-Ove Kahrmann; Maike Lohse: Festschrift – Festskrift – Feestschraft Margareta Erichsen . 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Menzel | ART @ SH | Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg. Accessed June 6, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Erichsen, Margareta. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nordfriisk Instituut. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Pictures from North Frisia and Flensburg. Association for the preservation of the eastern old town of Flensburg, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Erichsen, Margareta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andresen, Margareta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH between April 29, 2006 and May 5, 2006
Place of death Husum