Olga Knoblach-Wolff

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Olga Knoblach-Wolff, 1999
Evolution, format 100 × 100 cm
Bird's eye view of Gemünden in the 17th century

Olga Lilli Wolff (born June 9, 1923 at a fruit farm in Ansbach , Middle Franconia ; † July 11, 2008 in Lohr am Main ) was a German , more precisely Franconian painter , graphic artist and writer .

In her life, Olga Knoblach-Wolff tried to consider and portray the constant connection between people and the supernatural world.

Life

In 1933 her family moved to Gemünden . After elementary school , she studied at the house daughters' school in Würzburg and with the Franciscan Sisters in Lohr . If you stay with us, you can always paint - but she didn't want to become a nun .

Beginning at the Würzburg art school

Her path began in the Würzburg art school with Heiner Dikreiter , the next step would have been the art academy in Munich , but her father did not accept the artistic path and asked her to learn technical draftsmen .

Olga married Anton Knoblach in 1946, and their son Rainer was born in 1947. Employed in 1955/60 to build a house, everything took its normal course. A complete reversal meant her cancer in 1969 . Her time had not yet come, a new beginning began on all levels. In the 1970s she dealt with philosophy , she read Plato , Nietzsche , caught up with everything she always wanted to do. After two years of therapy she started painting again.

She discovers fantastic realism

Olga Knoblach-Wolff had previously worked purely naturalistically , now she discovered Fantastic Realism for herself, and this is how her first picture of her own came about, the cycle . The first group exhibitions in Gemünden followed. In 1977 her husband died.

Member of the professional association of visual artists in Nuremberg

In 1979 she presented ten of her paintings to the academic jury of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Nuremberg . The following rule applies there: “... freelance artists who have completed an academy degree in a free artistic discipline are accepted. Autodidacts as freelance artists can be accepted by a jury. ” Olga Knoblach-Wolff faced this decision courageously - and was recognized as a professional painter , and she was immediately offered membership in the Bavarian Visual Artists Association.

Works - Breaking out of the women's cage

  • Quote from Bianca Löbbert about Olga Knoblach-Wolff in the Main-Post , October 12, 2007

Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to her in Franconia, and several study trips with the Association of Lower Franconian Artists have taken her to France, Switzerland, and the European metropolises of Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Vienna.

Gemündener Doors and Gates, their work in pictures and words, 1994
Europabrunnen Kaisersteinbruch , draft of the country plate for Germany, 1999

evolution

  • With the permission of the artist, the painting Evolution from 1993 is presented here as the highlight of her work .
  • Book projects For you I sing Gemünden my song , Marktbrääter stories and Christkind together with Anneliese Lussert , Gemünden poet with illustrations by Olga Knoblach Wolff
  • Design of the pageant for the 800th anniversary of Langenprozelten .
  • Equipment for the 1st Scherenburg Festival
  • Large mural for the hall in Adelsberg , 1986.
  • 1989 Group exhibition of pictures of women in the hospital in Würzburg .
  • Stage sets and equipment in the Gemündener Theater Spessartgrotte by Helga Hartmann
  • 1990 Complete equipment for the Scherenburg Festival Das Schlüsselfräulein .
  • Bird's eye view of Gemünden in the 17th century, 1993.
  • Large exhibition in the Scherenberghalle Gemünden for the 70th birthday.

Gemündener doors and gates

  • Designed by Olga Knoblach-Wolff alone, Gemündener Doors and Gates - impressions and memories in pictures and words 1994. A quote on the gate with the flood levels since 1682, “... the Main , Sinn and Saale flowed unrestrained , see the flood level of 1845! What kind of feeling might it have been when someone stood up to his knees in the water when he got up and went to sleep unsuspectingly in the evening? He had to leave his house through the window on the first floor and poke through the flooded town with a rattle. The people of Gemünden were used to living by and with their rivers. Today the rivers are straightened and regulated ... "
  • 1995/96 Spessartmuseum Lohr, drawings on behalf of the district administration, " Moritatenbuch der Spessarträuber ".
  • 1996 Bavarian TV recordings in her apartment.

European fountain Kaisersteinbruch

Hans Michelbach was the first mayor of the city of Gemünden am Main from 1982 to 1994. He promoted the connection with the museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch in Burgenland .

  • Europabrunnen Kaisersteinbruch , design for the stone relief Germany- Mainfranken . Execution of the stonemasonry workshop Dittmeier, 1999. Chairman Schenk Erhard, (a gift!) Painter Knoblach-Wolff Olga (her artistic design for the stone work), Bayer Lotte, DI Ulf Fischer + Edda, leather Hans-Joachim, Wiesner Gotthard + Billhilde
  • 2000/01 Drawings for the communications of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum Association ( ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .) About Elias Hügel , the master stonemason from Gemünden.

Honors

Elias Hill Decoration

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Risser: "Wölffchen, you painted that well!" A bird's eye view of Gemünden for the future WG city brochure , in the advertising paper of October 2, 1998.
  2. ↑ 3-6 . June 1999 Historical Association Gemünden / Main visits Kaisersteinbruch. Handover of the “MAINFRANKEN” stone . In Helmuth Furch , Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch, Volume 2, 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Knoblach-Wolff, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Olga Lilli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, poet and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2008
Place of death Lohr am Main