Mathilde Riede-Hurt
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Mathilde Riede-Hurt (born April 30, 1906 in Mumpf , † September 15, 1988 in Spiez ) was a Swiss embroiderer .
biography
Mathilde Hurt received lessons in drawing, painting and embroidery as well as in art history at the Basel School of Applied Arts . She felt the urge “to take her thoughts for a walk on paper and canvas, but also to let them romp”. From then on she designed embroidery in linen with self-dyed natural fiber yarn, tapestries with wool applications and drawings with pencil and color. With an equally clear pen she kept a diary to which she confided her love of home, conflict, anger, despair, happiness and sarcasm .
Her works of art contain various symbols. They can often only be understood if the reference to their respective situation in life can be felt in the picture. Important motives for her are people, home, nature, faith and world history.
A first "outbreak" took her from the village of Mumpf to Paris , but after a few months she returned to her home village, plagued by homesickness. Mathilde Hurt soon attended the seminar in Aarau and then worked for seven years in Mumpf as a work school teacher.
When she married in 1934, she chose the route to Ludwigshafen am Rhein and at the same time lost her Swiss citizenship . Until 1947 she lived through the war and the post-war period: Bombs fell on her house, her husband lived in English captivity, the expulsion by the Nazis, the escape with her two children, hunger and homesickness. In 1947 she returned to Switzerland and in 1948 she received her citizenship back and a job at the women's college in Basel.
She devoted herself feverishly to her artistic activity at every possible moment, which in the end comprised 100 cataloged carpets and thousands of sketches, drawings, caricatures, cartoons and pictures. Her main work is called " Hexeneinmaleins ". She is settling accounts with the Hitler regime. Purchased by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, it is owned by the Kunstmuseum Basel .
Between 1936 and 2014, her works were made available to the public in 26 exhibitions, for example in Mannheim, Trier, Strasbourg, Lucerne, Geneva, Schaffhausen, Thun, Basel, Maikammer and in her home town of Mumpf.
Up until old age, Mathilde Riede-Hurt supplied several newspapers with her time-critical sketches on issues of the time, always with bite and ironic verse.
Exhibitions
- 1936: Mannheim, Kunsthalle (as part of GEDOK )
- 1938: Mannheim, Kunsthalle
- 1939: Trier , Art Museum, GEDOK
- 1940: Strasbourg, Art Museum , GEDOK
- 1941: Ludwigshafen, cultural center
- 1942: Wiesbaden, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
- 1946: Baden-Baden , Kunsthaus
- 1947: Ludwigshafen, Don-Bosco-Haus, Arts & Crafts Association
- 1949: Lucerne, Kunsthaus , GSMBK
- 1951: Geneva, Musée des Beaux-Arts , GSMBK
- 1952: Basel, Kunsthalle , GSMBK complete works
- 1953: Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen , GSMBK
- 1953: Rheinfelden (CH), Kurbrunnen, complete works
- 1954: Bern, Kunsthalle , GSMBK
- 1955: Mannheim, Kunsthalle, "Contemporary Textile Art"
- 1956: Mannheim, Kunsthalle, "The woman as creator"
- 1979: Thun- Gwatt , Reformed Homestead, complete works
- 1980: Thun , Kurhaus, Thun artist
- 1982: Thun, Aarhuus Gallery, complete works
- 1984: Spiez , Spiezer Art Society
- 1985: Bern, Burgerheim, complete works
- 1985: Maikammer , Rathaus, complete works
- 1987: Kaiseraugst , Reformed parish hall, complete works
- 2006: Spiez, Viticulture Museum, most of the works
- 2011: Kirrweiler, Edelhof, linen embroidery
- 2014: Mumpf , Burgmatt, most of the works
literature
- Urs Nikolaus Riede, Wolfgang Roth: hunger scarves, tapestries by Mathilde Riede-Hurt. MRH-Verlag, 2013.
- Wolfgang Roth: Unmasked with masks. Time-critical drawings and poems.
- Gerhard Trottmann: Mumpfer local history. 2014, ISBN 978-3-033-04831-7 , pp. 105-110.
Web links
- Riede-Hurt, Mathilde. In: Sikart
- Mathilde Riede-Hurt In: Art Credit Collection
- Riede-Hurt, Mathilde (1906–1988). In: kunstbreite.ch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riede-Hurt, Mathilde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss embroiderer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stale |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1988 |
| Place of death | Spiez |