Marielie's Riebesel

Marielies Riebesel (born June 20, 1934 in Bombeck ; † March 5, 2015 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German textile artist, painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Marielies Riebesel grew up in Bombeck near Salzwedel in the Altmark , from 1953 to 1959 she studied at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) , today the University of Art and Design, Painting and Textile Design. After completing her studies, she worked as a designer in the Halle textile factory from 1961 to 1965. Since 1965 she has worked as a freelance visual artist.

She practiced the rare art of tapestry weaving . Her works on paper also show associations with tissue.

Quote from Rüdiger Giebler (2009):

"Interwoven thinking - in Marielies Riebesel's graphics the path goes from design to weaving and back again - the linear drawings underlaid with watercolors do not lose any of the ease of transferring them to the tapestry - and over the years the cardboard boxes become works of art in their own right."

In the design of the drawings and cardboard boxes, spaces are left for the depicted body landscapes; in the tapestry she implements these drawings in accordance with the textile requirements. She works in the tradition of tapestry design and goes a way into contemporary representations with each new work.

Quote from Rüdiger Giebler (2009):

“Marielies Riebesel loves gaps, so she creates space in the fabric of memory. She needs the spacing in order to give the small things undivided attention. Regardless of whether it is about communal history or biographical things, what seems large and important is spread out such as things washed up by chance, shells, wood, bones, shards on the beach. In this way the material of memory is preserved in the fabric, the essence of things is brought into line with that of the carpet. "

In 2006, Marielies Riebesel received an order to design a tapestry for the 1200th anniversary of Halle's city history.

In addition to the actual artistic work, her work also included restorations and theatrical equipment.

In her family there are other artists in the next generation, such as her daughter, the actress Bettina Riebesel and her husband, the actor Jörg Dathe and her niece, the glass artist Annegrete Riebesel .

She made several study trips, for example to Lausanne in 1979, to Central Asia in 1985, to Poland in 1994, to Italy in 1996, to Paris in 1998 and to Switzerland in 2006.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1981 Red Tower Gallery, Halle (Saale)
1985 Gallery Above Chemnitz
1994 Marktschlösschen Gallery Halle (Saale)
1996 Galerie Himmelreich Magdeburg
1999 Zeitkunstgalerie Halle (Saale)
2005 Gallery Marktschlösschen Halle (Saale)
2009 Gallery Art in the Cellar Halle (Saale)
2014 Galerie Nord Halle
2016 Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt (retrospective)

Participations (selection)

1985 Textil 85, Kunsthalle Weimar
1986 4th Quadriennial Erfurt
1993 Configura Erfurt, Art Landscapes, Galerie am Fischmarkt
1993 Art and Form, Hanover
1993 Art and Form, State Museum Schwerin
2001 Textile Art Quilt, Kleinsassen near Fulda
2002 Master of Modern Art, Munich
2010 IDEA DING BILD ERDE, Forum Gestaltung Magdeburg
2016 Woven Dreams, Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale)

Publicly owned work

2006 Stadthaus Halle (Saale) , tapestry on the city's history
1991–92 Institute for Forensic Medicine Würzburg , tapestry "Overcoming violence"
1989–90 Südfriedhof Magdeburg , tapestry "Becoming and Passing"
Berlin State Museums, Museum of Applied Arts
Grassi Museum Leipzig
Moritzburg Art Museum , Halle (Saale)

literature

Burg Giebichenstein: The Halle Art School from its beginnings to the present , 1992, State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
IDEE DING BILD ERDE , Design / Art / Photography / Literature / Ein Feldversuch, 2010, Library Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg, Eds. Norbert Eisold and Norbert Pohlmann, ISBN 978-3-9813652-2-1 .
Marielies Riebesel - Textile , exhibition catalog / Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2016, Halle (Saale), conception and editing: Bettina Riebesel, Hasenverlag Halle, ISBN 978-3-945377-19-2

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Obituary notice in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of March 11, 2015 (accessed on March 17, 2015).

personal data
SURNAME	Riebesel, Marielies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German textile artist, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bombeck
DATE OF DEATH	5th March 2015
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] Obituary notice in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of March 11, 2015 (accessed on March 17, 2015).