Margret Middell

Margret Middell, 1969

Margret Middell (born May 8, 1940 in Marienwerder , West Prussia) is a German visual artist and graphic artist .

life and work

Middell, was born in Marienwerder ( West Prussia ), now Kwidzyn in Poland. 1958 to 1959 she completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. From 1959 to 1965 he studied at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Heinrich Drake (sculptor) , Waldemar Grzimek and Ludwig Engelhardt . Then she lived as a freelance artist in Berlin.

The artist has lived and worked in Barth-Glöwitz ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) since 1976 . On the occasion of her 65th birthday, the Kunsthalle Rostock organized a comprehensive exhibition of her works in 2005.

For the artistic design of the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin she received the National Prize of the GDR in 1986 as a collective .

reception

Margret Midell "is the most prominent sculptor of her generation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Her life's work is in the tradition of classical modernism. In addition to sculpture, she has created a rich graphic work that corresponds in detail with it."

Works (selection)

1965 athlete , Prenzlauer Allee in front of the Zeiss large planetarium in Berlin
1966 Portrait of Dr. Georg Benjamin , bronze
1967 Male nude , oak alley in Rostock Zoo
1968 athlete , Fritz-Lesch-Strasse in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen
1969 Large seated people , swan pond near Rostock art gallery in Rostock
1972 Large seated people , Lindenallee in Schwedt / Oder
1974 Human beauty in nature , Friendship Island at the Long Bridge in Potsdam

1985/86 The dignity and beauty of free people - two bronze reliefs for the Berlin Marx-Engels-Forum
1994 Women's group in conversation , bronze, on the grounds of the Ribnitz monastery
2003 grand piano , near Nicolaikirche in Rostock
2003 The silence , near Nicolaikirche in Rostock
Lying torso , bronze, in the garden behind the Ahrenshoop Art Museum since 2017