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Maria fields

Maria Felder (born May 19, 1925 in Siggen ; † February 25, 1995 in Aufreute near Siggen , municipality of Argenbühl) was a German painter of rural life, religious and rural customs. Her works, which can be attributed to naive painting , were created alongside her professional activity in agriculture.

life and work

Maria Felder was born in 1925 on a farm in Aufreute, a hamlet near Siggen in Westallgäu. After the one-class village school of Siggen (1932-1940) she attended the home economics school in Eisenharz until 1942 and then the home economics school in the Sießen monastery near Saulgau. In between there was work on the parental farm and as a temporary worker in the nearby town of Wangen . In 1973 she painted her first picture of Alpine roses in oil for a competition for recreational painters at the Kreissparkasse Wangen and received a prize. Her further artistic activity began with various oil and reverse glass paintings and two orders for stations of the cross .

In 1977 the first solo exhibition took place in Tettnang . Further exhibitions followed in Aulendorf , Bad Wurzach , Eglofs , Ellwangen (Jagst) , Friedrichshafen , Argenbühl , Immenstaad , Isny , Kißlegg , Kressbronn , Lindau , Nonnenhorn , Riedlingen , Ulm , Wangen im Allgäu , Weingarten , Wolfegg and Hamburg . Abroad, exhibitions took place in Amriswil (Switzerland), Chicago (USA) and Taiwan .

The focus was on special exhibitions in Mochental Castle near Ehingen with the theme The Horse in Art of the 20th Century with 11 reverse glass pictures and the rural life cycle with 36 reverse glass pictures, exhibited in the Kreissparkasse Wangen and in Argenbühl. The city of Weingarten was responsible for the cycle Weingartener Blutritt with 24 reverse glass pictures, also exhibited in St. Gallen (Switzerland). A cycle of saints is owned by the municipality of Argenbühl. Gisela Linder summarized the two cycles Ländliches Leben and Weingartener Blutritt in book form and writes about them: “Again and again, her innate security in pictorial construction amazes, her color sense delights, her original imaginative ideas delight. With them, Maria Felder breaks through the mere painting of rural life from her own experience and memory. "

Felder's pictures were published numerous times in calendars, books, magazines and weekend supplements. Many are privately owned in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Syria and the USA.

Maria Felder died in 1995 in Aufreute near Siggen (Argenbühl).

  • School in Siggen with Mrs. Speckle , private property

  • Kitchen work , Kreissparkasse Ravensburg, Wangen

  • Working in wood , Kreissparkasse Ravensburg

  • Working in the moss (moor), Kreissparkasse Ravensburg

  • Put potatoes , Kreissparkasse Ravensburg

  • Hay harvest at the pond , Kreissparkasse Ravensburg

  • Snow clearing , Kreissparkasse Ravensburg

  • Weingartener Blutritt, rider group in front of the basilica , city of Weingarten

  • Weingartener Blutritt, in front of the town hall , city of Weingarten

Honors

  • 1973–1983: Participation in judged exhibitions of Sunday painters with a total of four prizes
  • 1977: Prize of the German Forest Protection Association
  • 1980 and 1981: Participation in the Olympics for recreational painters in Frankfurt
  • 1981: Prize for Leisure Art Oberschwaben
  • 1982: European Union Prize

In Siggen, a Maria-Felder-Weg commemorates the artist.

literature

  • Maria Felder (pictures), Gisela Linder (text): Maria Felder - rural life preserved in pictures . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1991, ISBN 3-922137-79-2 .
  • Maria Felder (pictures), Gisela Linder (text): Weingartener Blutritt - behind glass pictures by Maria Felder . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1993, ISBN 3-922137-90-3 .
  • Helmut Voith: Maria Felder. Painted joie de vivre. In: Beautiful Swabia. Vol. 5, 1993, pp. 6-9.
  • Gisela Linder: Maria Felder. Chronicler of rural life and religious customs. In: In the Oberland. 7th vol., No. 1, 1996, pp. 17-21.
  • Cristina Cerutti: Saints and Blessed of Swabia. The naive painting of Maria Felder from Aufreute bei Wangen. In: The beautiful Allgäu. 60th Jg., Heft 2, 1997, pp. 53-56 and Heft 3, 1997, pp. 53 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Felder (pictures), Gisela Linder (text): Maria Felder - Peasant life preserved in pictures. Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1991, ISBN 3-922137-79-2 , p. 7.

Web links

Commons : Maria Felder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Fields, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Siggen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1995
Place of death Argenbühl