Mutz Harnest

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Mutz Harnest around 1980

Gertrud "Mutz" Harnest , née Gertrud Ellermann (born December 14, 1902 in Hamburg , † May 13, 1991 in Übersee ) was a German draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Gertrud Ellermann around 1925 during the years of her vocal training

Mutz Harnest graduated from high school in 1929 after four years of vocal training. Then she went straight to Vienna to what was then known as the “Women's Academy”.

In 1930 she was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Caspar as the only female student. In addition, she studied psychology and education at the university with the professional goal of being a high school teacher.

In 1931 she met Fritz Harnest for the first time at Karl Caspar's, whom she married in 1935. She later supported the family as a teacher for many years. The couple went through alternating stays in the north, in Munich and with the farmers in the Oberland. In 1937 their son Joseph was born, one year later their son Ulf was born. After an unsuccessful attempt to settle in Hamburg, the family moved to an apartment overseas in 1938.

When the war began in 1939 , Mutz Harnest was hired as a teacher at the overseas school. After the end of the war she was dismissed by the Bavarian state because she had a Hamburg exam.

From 1947 Mutz Harnest worked for 20 years as a secondary school teacher and art teacher at the Archbishop's Maria Ward Girls' Secondary School in Sparz in Traunstein .

After a creative life, Mutz Harnest died in 1991 in her home overseas.

Literature and Sources

  • Joint exhibitions with Fritz Harnest:
    • Mutz Harnest / Fritz Harnest, woodcuts, pictures, drawings. Art Association Munich, 1974.
    • Mutz and Fritz Harnest, drawings, pictures, woodcuts. Municipal Gallery Rosenheim, 1982.
  • Solo exhibitions:
    • Mutz Harnest - A Draftsman , Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, 1992. 
  • Permanent participation in art associations:
    • from 1960 constant participation in the "Great Munich Art Exhibition" in the " New Group "
    • from around 1970 constant participation in the annual exhibitions at the Kunstverein Rosenheim and in the working group AK Wasserburg 68
    • From 1948 membership in the professional association of visual artists in Munich eV
  • Lexicons and collections:
    • "Harnest, Mutz" in: General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online, de Gruyter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Harnest - The own struggle for art. Self-published, Übersee 2007, p. 9, ISBN 978-3-00-020719-8
  2. ↑ "Galerie der Künstler 1977-2014", Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich and Upper Bavaria eV, artist directory p. 162 ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbk-muc-obb.de
personal data
SURNAME Harnest, Mutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harnest, Gertrud; Ellermann, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1991
Place of death Overseas