Mechthild Motsch from Freydorf

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Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf, self-portrait, 1982, watercolor
Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf, self-portrait, 1982

Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf , born as Mechthild von Freydorf (born July 25, 1906 in Waldshut , † September 15, 1997 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), was a German painter .

life and work

Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf, "Hardtwald", Karlsruhe 1933

Mechthild von Freydorf was born the fourth of six children to the painter Clara Johanna Ris (1871–1946) and the lawyer Eugen von Freydorf (1867–1914). Her paternal grandparents were the Baden Minister Rudolf von Freydorf and the writer Alberta von Freydorf , b. from Cornberg.

After school in Salem and high school in Karlsruhe, she studied, like her sister Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow later , with the first generation of female students from 1927 to 1933 at the Badische Landeskunstschule Karlsruhe . A fellow student and lifelong friend was the painter Max Eichin . It was shaped by its professors Franz Gehri , Georg Scholz and Karl Dillinger .

After a brief activity as an art teacher in Soest , she married Richard Gustav Motsch in 1934 and followed him to Lübeck . There are three children from the marriage. In 1937 the company moved to Freiburg. In 1943 she became a war widow .

During the post-war years she worked alongside raising children in the studio of the painter Adolf Riedlin . From 1956 she resumed her artistic activity in Hermann Anselment's studio . Based on the naturalistic drawing style and the New Objectivity , her style of expression now also included experimental color studies through to lyrical abstraction . Over a period of several decades, she created an extensive work with portraits, travel sketches, oil paintings and watercolors , also during her study trips to other European countries and the USA , primarily California . At an older age, she portrayed public figures in front of the television, mostly during interviews, e. B. Countess Dönhoff , Annemarie Renger , her former classmate Golo Mann and again and again the songwriter Wolf Biermann . Until a few days before her death, she drew self-portraits in front of the mirror.

Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf died in September 1997 at the age of 91 in Freiburg. Her grave is in the main cemetery there .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1996: Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf - retrospective. District Office Breisgau, Upper Black Forest.
  • 1998: Galerie Coq Rouge, [Lörrach], Freiburg
  • 1999: Drawing instead of embroidering cover. With Clara Ris and Guta von Freydorf. Waldshut.
  • 2006: Kurhaus Bad Krozingen

Participation in exhibitions

literature

  • Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf, retrospective. Text by Andrea S. Vegh. ISBN 3-9803581-5-1 .
  • A morganatic line of the margraves of Baden: von Freydorf. In: Morganatic marriages in heraldry.
  • Julia Littmann: More than "well done". In: Badische Zeitung . July 16, 1996, no.162.
  • Julia Littmann: Pictures that are beautiful to steal. In: Badische Zeitung. July 27, 1996, No. 172.
  • Adolf Schmid: Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf, an exhibition for the 90th birthday. In: Badische Heimat . No. 4/1996.
  • Roswitha Frey: Strong brush strokes in bright colors. In: Badische Zeitung. March 3, 1998.
  • Jürgen Scharf: Retrospective of the painter Mechthild Motsch von Freydorf from Waldshut in the Lörracher Galerie Coq Rouge. In: Südkurier . 7th / 8th March 1998.
  • Sigrid Lägel: Historically true: women’s power despite men’s economy. In: Südkurier. Waldshut-Tiengen from February 9, 1999.
  • Rosemarie Tillessen: Path to Emancipation, Mother and Daughters Work in Waldshut. In: Südkurier. March 2, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (in the worldcat.org database)
personal data
SURNAME Freydorf, Mechthild Motsch from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freydorf, Mechthild von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1997
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau