Ruth Maria Linde-saint

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Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger (born Ruth Maria Linde ; born August 18, 1916 in Berlin ; † June 14, 1996 in Eiderstedt ) was a German wood sculptor. She belongs to the next generation of classic modernism and is best known for her dialogical work with the original structure of wood.

Life

Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger did not begin her actual artistic work until she was 49, after her three children were no longer dependent on her. Her marriage from 1938 to the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger was divorced in 1953. She left her place of residence in Berlin in 1966 to devote her life to artistic creation on the North Sea in Osterhever on the Eiderstedt peninsula and to join the network of artists, galleries and those interested in art.

education

In 1933 she finished school and began training as a sculptor, initially at the Anthroposophical Society, with classic wood carving. This was followed by a basic Bauhaus apprenticeship with Johannes Itten in Berlin and Krefeld and further training in sculpture at the Association of Berlin Artists with Milly Steger as a teacher. She finished her studies at the University of Fine Arts in 1938.

plant

In order to make herself an artistic name of her own, Linde-Heiliger initially adopted her maiden name Maria Linde. But the sculptures almost always have the initials RML H. Your wooden sculptures are characterized by the processing with chisels and mallets, i.e. H. without machines. “Guided by the grain, I work on the surface of the wood until the resulting shape has reached its extremely high level of tension,” she wrote in 1990. With her understanding of artistic creation as an open process, she follows the concept of Max Wertheimer and have described the school of Gestalt psychology .

Since 1969 she has taken part in the big summer exhibition "Art and Crafts in Schleswig-Holstein" in Büsum every year. From 1975 she was regularly represented at various galleries and exhibitions in Berlin, Düsseldorf , Essen , Bremen and Göttingen . From 1979 to 1984 she was represented by the Haubarg Karolinenhof gallery near Lunden .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger: Time is not lost in from 40 1/1990
  • Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger: Sculptures for inhabited spaces , in Artists of the West Coast - Eiderstedt , pp. 42–43, published by the Förderverein für Kunst und Kultur e. V. Garding / Eiderstedt, in cooperation with the North Friesland Foundation (Dr. Konrad Grunsky), Husum Printing and Publishing Company , Husum 1992. ISBN 3-88042-608-2
  • Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger, Anita Heiliger , Jutta Heiliger-Wagner: Wooden sculptures , with a contribution by Uwe Lempelius: Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger and the art of her time , Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-88104-288-1
  • Rüdiger Otto: Elicit a pearl from the oyster. The sculptor Maria Linde , in Husumer Nachrichten on December 30, 1992
  • Christiane Retzlaff: The sculptor Maria Linde , in edition No. 6 of the Lüth Gallery, Halebüll 1990