Margarethe Krieger

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Margarethe Krieger (born April 27, 1936 in Mannheim ; † July 22, 2010 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Margarethe Krieger came in 1936 as the daughter of from Kraichtal district Unteröwisheim originating folklorist , theologian and painter Carl Krieger in Mannheim on the world. She lived with her family in Heidelberg from early childhood. From 1955 to 1959 she studied German , philosophy , art and art history at the University of Heidelberg . She then went on to study teaching with Paul Hubbuch at the Karlsruhe Art Academy .

She went to school as an art teacher and German teacher at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Weinheim . She also worked as an art critic in the Rhein-Neckar district and created her own works of art. 1960 published her first book illustrations in S. Gideon Verlag , Gießen: linocuts in Willem Enzincks from many autumns and Anna Maria Achen Rainers The green crystal . Her third work was graphics for the short story book Hol über! by Ludwig Friedrich Barthel in 1961. Around this time she began to deal intensively with the biblical figure of Job and to establish a cycle of around 100 pictures . Karl Krolow contributed a foreword to her catalog Holzschnitte zu Brecht (Galerie Lore Dauer, Ludwigshafen 1966) .

In 1965, Krieger met the 41-year-old Swiss actor Michel Simon on Lake Constance , who was recovering from an accident at work there. A mutual affection developed that lasted until Simon's death ten years later. In 1971 she divorced her husband, the CDU politician Jürgen Schütz .

In January 2004 she suffered a stroke . Her ability to speak was affected and her right side was paralyzed ever since. Despite the handicap , she continued to draw. She died in 2010 at the age of 74 and, like her father, was buried in the cemetery in Menzingen .

She bequeathed her estate , consisting of pictures, drawings and a house in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim , to the city of Kraichtal. The works complemented the existing collection in Graf-Eberstein-Schloss Gochsheim and with the proceeds from the sale of their property, the exhibition areas within the palace were expanded and redesigned. Work on this began in November 2012. In addition, a Margarethe-Krieger-Stiftung was set up to ensure the permanent and sustainable protection of the estate of father and daughter Krieger.

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In the artistic works of Kriegers, which Käthe Kollwitz cited as a model, the human being is the focus and fills thousands of sheets as a portrait or with small groups. Borderline situations and states of emergency are shown: life phases characterized by experience of suffering, hardship, maturation, renunciation and self-examination. The battered person has to make decisions, knows and experiences "humility and mercy as well [...] as pride and malice". "The great seriousness in the pictures of Margaret warriors and the abysmal predominantly dark and tragic facets of the people depicted," it says in an exhibition description, not stir recently by her favorite techniques black-and-white woodcut , Bourdon tube and charcoal drawing and Etching . She thought color was too distracting. If you get involved with the pictures, the description of the exhibition goes on to say, and let “the mesh of graphic lines” work on you, they would become transparent and “suddenly no longer appear as dark and melancholy” as after superficial observation.

She also used her ability to draw character heads with a few strokes to portraits of actor personalities, whereby she did not leave it with just one portrait, but sketched each one dozen of times. There are numerous portraits of Peter Pasetti , Klaus Löwitsch and OW Fischer , as well as of the stage and film actor Oskar Werner , the important Hamlet interpreter, with whom the artist had a close friendship for 30 years, and, understandably, of Michel Simon.

The second direction, which she took with the same verve , concerned visual interpretations of literary works. She illustrated Goethe's Faust , Shakespeare's Hamlet , Cervantes Don Quixote , Bertolt Brecht's dramas, but also the poems of Ana Simon and her homage to the poet Werner Bergengruen . Her engagement with biblical subjects was particularly intense. The Prodigal Son , The Good Samaritan, and The Book of Ruth testify to this . Her cycle Jewish Passion , with which she dealt with the horrors of the Holocaust , is considered particularly impressive .

The stroke was a catastrophe for her as an artist. Nevertheless, she drew with her left hand and a pencil well over a hundred men's and women's heads, which appear softer, almost weightless and strikingly different than anything she had previously created.

Illustrations and catalogs (selection)

  • Willem Enzinck: From many autumns. S. Gideon Verlag, Giessen 1960.
  • Anna Maria Achenrainer: The green crystal. S. Gideon Verlag, Giessen 1960.
  • Ludwig Friedrich Barthel: Get over! Narrative. Sachse & Pohl, Göttingen 1961.
  • Delta 61. Poems. Impuls Verlag Heinz Moos, Heidelberg / Berlin 1962.
  • Woodcuts to Brecht. Galerie Lore Dauer, Ludwigshafen 1966.
  • Margarethe Krieger, Gerda Loehning, Ruth Reitnauer. Tapestries, hand drawings, woodcuts. May 25 to June 18, 1967. Heidelberger Kunstverein , Heidelberg 1967.
  • Dagmar von Mutius : hiding without a stop. A childhood. Werner Jerratsch publishing house, Heidenheim / Brenz 1975.
  • The lost Son. Bourdon tube drawings. Magdalena Melnikow Gallery, Heidelberg 1978.
  • Margarete Krieger (drawings), René de Obaldia (text): Don Quichotte. Reed pen drawings for Cervantes. Galerie Kunst und Handwerk Dieter Treusch, Heidelberg 1979.
  • The Book of Ruth. Galerie Magdalena Melnikow [?], Heidelberg [?] 1980.
  • Bert Nagel: Innstetten's dream and other stories. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg 1986.
  • Ana Simon: La rose de Jéricho. Poeme. Editions Nova, Geneva / Heidelberg 1988.
  • Teresa of Ávila : Nada te Turbe. Fragment. Editions Nova, Geneva / Heidelberg 1990.
  • Nora at the wheel and other stories. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt, Heidelberg 1991.
  • Ana Simon: Accept. Poemes. Editions Nova, Geneva / Heidelberg 1996.
  • Gudrun Wilhelms: The song of the cicada. Texts from Provence. Self-published, Weinheim 1996.
  • OW Fischer: A distant sound. Texts. Hess, Ulm 1999.

Forewords and Afterwords

  • Martin Mayer , Karl Graf Verlag, Speyer 1974 (= The New Art Archive ; Volume 31).
  • Shadow border. Drawings. , Galerie Magdalena Melnikow, Heidelberg 1987 (drawings and introductory text by Margarethe Krieger).
  • OW Fischer: My secrets. Memories and thoughts. Langen-Müller, Munich 2000 (afterword and 20 portrait drawings by Margarethe Krieger).

Awards

  • 1968: Graphic Prize, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , 84th Salon de l'union des Femmes Peintres
  • 1973: International art award to a foreign artist, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Salon des Femmes Peintres
  • 1978: Gold medal from L'Accademia D'Europa, Salsomaggiore Terme / Parma
  • 1981 Award and honorary diploma "Premio d'Italia"
  • 1992: Willibald Kramm Prize of the City of Heidelberg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Artist Margarethe Krieger bequeathed her legacy to the town of Kraichtal. In: kraichtal.de. Kraichtal city administration, Mayor Ulrich Hintermayer, accessed on July 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Eva Wick: Margarethe Krieger (Mannheim 1936 - 2010 Heidelberg). (PDF; 900 KB) Artwork of the month September 2017. In: museum-heidelberg.de. Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg, 2017, accessed on July 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Margarethe Krieger. In: eart.de. Brandi Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, accessed on July 2, 2018 (text identical to kunsthandel-koskull.de ).
  4. ↑ a b Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Krieger, Margarethe, p. 247 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Margarethe Krieger. “Making suffering sing” through art - “People” exhibition by Margarethe Krieger in the Lauda Factory Gallery until the end of November. October 01, 2009 - November 30, 2009. In: infoserv.de. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Warrior, Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2010
Place of death Heidelberg