Marie Thierfeldt

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Marie Thierfeldt (born February 20, 1893 in Frankenhof near Didsziddern , Gumbinnen district , East Prussia ; † December 31, 1984 in Hamburg ) was a German hand weaver .

Life

Marie Thierfeldt grew up with two brothers and an older sister on her father's farm, the "Gutshaus Thierfeldt" in Frankenhof near Didsziddern , Gumbinnen district in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

When the parents' house was destroyed in World War I, the then unknown architect Hans Scharoun was commissioned with the reconstruction. On his advice, Marie Thierfeldt, of the same age, began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1924 after completing her journeyman's and master's examination at the higher textile school in Berlin , which she continued in 1926 at the Bauhaus in Dessau . Here her feeling for “the space ( Gropius ), the surface ( Kandinsky ) and the color ( Klee )” developed.

Gravestone for Marie Thierfeldt and Lina Bartschat

After completing her studies, Marie Thierfeldt returned to East Prussia, where she took over a weaving mill in Insterburg that had been set up to alleviate the distress after the Russian invasion. Under her management there were ultimately twelve looms with which simple patchwork carpets as well as sophisticated wall hangings were produced, and in 1930 Marie Thierfeldt was the first weaver in East Prussia to pass her master craftsman's examination. In 1927 she was also appointed as an extraordinary teacher at the Königsberg Art Academy , where she worked until 1933. In 1941 the National Socialist authorities closed the workshop and Marie Thierfeldt was conscripted.

On New Year's Eve 1944 she fled to Schleswig-Holstein, where she initially earned her living as a jute weaver, and later took over a small weaving mill in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. In 1949 she succeeded in setting up an independent business in a Hamburg cellar with borrowed looms. A year later she was able to set up a workshop with three large looms with a span of up to three meters at Mittelweg 145 (Pöseldorf) in the backyard. She lived in the adjoining apartment with her widowed sister Lina Bartschat (July 26, 1888 - October 2, 1970) as well as an employed weaver and two apprentices.
After the war, seven regional and three national winners emerged from Marie Thierfeldt's workshop.

There is a historic tombstone for Marie Thierfeldt and her sister in the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Works (selection)

St. Petri Chancel (2002)

Marie Thierfeldt was mainly concerned with the mixture and gradation of the material colors. She used the color red in 40 variants for a tapestry in the St. Petri Church in Hamburg. She imported some of the basic colors of the wool threads from France and Switzerland and then mixed them, often with other materials such as linen strips, silk and gold threads.

Further tapestries at the following institutions:

  • Hamburg State Opera ( Ballet Center ): "Petruschka" tapestry, artistic design by Peter Boll; 2.70 meters high, 3.80 meters wide, 1 quintals heavy, 48 colors (including eighteen shades of green, eleven different shades of red and seven shades of blue).
  • Deutsche Bank guest house, Hamburg (1966 Prize from the Hamburg Cultural Authority)
  • Landsmannschaft East Prussia Hamburg
  • German Embassy in Stockholm

Also (example):

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1969 Bremerhaven
  • 1972 Cologne
  • 1975 Hamburg, Hanover, Esslingen
  • 1980 and 1981 Hamburg
  • 1981 Triennale Frankfurt a. M. and the Gemeentemuseum in Arnhem / Holland.

Web links

literature

  • Birgit Ahrens: Thierfeldt, Marie in: The new Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 465
  • Ruth Dunkelmann, Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann: Tapestries: Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann, Eira Ahola, Anka Kröhnke, Hans Sperschneider, Gabriele Stock, Marie Thierfeldt; Exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg e. V. at the Kunsthaus Hamburg from September 21 to October 17, 1973. Volume 9 of a series of publications on the history of Hamburg art , Verlag Kayser, 1973.
  • Thieme-Becker: General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Leipzig 1907–1948: biography of Marie Thierfeldt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration "Gutshaus Thierfeldt" in Frankenhof / Didsziddern .
  2. ↑ Heinrich Scharienorth: The Ostpreußenblatt of 22 March 1969 see Web.
  3. ↑ Scwarzweiß imaging tapestry "Petrushka" in the Ostpreußenblatt of 22 March 1969 page. 5
  4. ^ Black and white illustration of the tapestry of the German Embassy in Stockholm in The Ostpreußenblatt of March 12, 1977, page 6.
  5. ↑ Tapestry (design: Gabriele Stock-Schmilinksky) , colored illustration in an exhibition catalog.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to information from the pastor of the Ansgar Church: tapestry (landscape motif) disposed of after moth damage approx. 2010
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personal data
SURNAME Thierfeldt, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hand weaver
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenhof near Didsziddern , Gumbinnen district , Prussian province of East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1984
Place of death Hamburg