Mechthild Hempel

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Mechthild Hempel , nee Henze , (born February 21, 1925 in Frauendorf near Stettin ; † August 10, 2012 in Greifswald ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

She was born in Frauendorf near Stettin as the youngest of three daughters of a teacher couple. In 1943 she graduated from high school in Stettin . This was followed by the Reich Labor Service and work as a conscript. Most recently she worked in Dresden , where she witnessed the air raids on Dresden towards the end of the Second World War .

From 1946 to 1948 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin , next to the private Heinrich Zernack School , and from 1948 to 1950 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1950 she married and moved with her husband to Kemnitzerhagen near Greifswald , and in 1954 to Neuenkirchen near Greifswald.

From 1960 or 1964 Mechthild Hempel was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Germany (from 1970 Association of Visual Artists of the GDR). Her works, created on behalf of the state, party, mass organizations and nationally owned economy, include seven large-format charcoal drawings for the meeting room of the FDGB district executive in Greifswald (1963/1964), the textile application Peace in our Land for a school (1963/1964), and a mural for the VEB Nachrichtenelektronik Greifswald (1968/1969), murals in Greifswald kindergartens (1970s), the mosaic design of a pillar in the building of the SED district leadership Greifswald (1979) and mosaic surfaces on prefabricated buildings (1983). Many of her building-related works are no longer available or no longer accessible due to the change in social conditions.

The turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR also brought Mechthild Hempel the loss of previous clients. But after a creative crisis in the 1990s, she resumed her artistic activity. Since autumn 2010 she lived again in the city of Greifswald, where she died in 2012.

literature

  • Bernfried Lichtnau: Mechthild Hempel (1925–2012). An important painter and graphic artist from Greifswald In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 3/2013, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 29-34.

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personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Mechthild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Mechthild (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauendorf near Stettin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2012
Place of death Greifswald