Sofie Dawo

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Sofie Dawo (born August 14, 1926 in St. Ingbert ; † August 12, 2010 in Saarbrücken ) was a German visual artist and art teacher .

Life

Sofie Dawo was one of seven children of the Blieskastel politician Alfons Dawo (1895–1968) and his wife Clara, b. Curse. She spent her childhood and youth in Blieskastel . From 1948 to 1952 she studied in the weaving class at what was then the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken, one of the predecessors of today's Saar College of Fine Arts . This was followed by apprenticeship and traveling years, in which she made designs for the textile industry as well as for church and functional buildings.

In 1958 she took over the management of the class for weaving and fabric printing at the State School for Arts and Crafts, which she held until 1971. Since 1961 she was in personal union also deputy director of the school. She then worked until 1989 as the head of the design department , specializing in textile design , at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences, a successor institution to the Staatliche Werkkunstschule. In 1975 Dawo was appointed professor at the institute. From 1989 to 1992 she was a professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts, which was restructured as the successor to the various art schools. In 1992 Sofie Dawo retired. Sofie Dawo had a lifelong close artistic relationship with her artist colleague Oskar Holweck , who developed his own artistic and university career parallel to Dawo's professional and artistic life.

Work description

The artist mainly used the various types of textile design as material for her artistic work . Sofie Dawo “... is part of the line of female artists who decisively determined the art of weaving in the second half of our century. After all, it was Sofie Dawo who, at the beginning of the sixties, crossed the border of two-dimensionality in her work and advanced into works of plastic character. In doing so, she steered the development of tapestry in Germany in a completely new direction. The art of weaving freed itself from the spell of the pure surface, gained in extra-pictorial space, thus reaching the relief and even the textile sculpture completely independent of the wall surface ”.

“Sofie Dawo works in many of her works without drafts or studies. This fact implies that the composition is often only created during the weaving process and takes into account spontaneous ideas or more or less random structures (e.g. due to technical events in the loom ) ”, Huth-Fox continues.

Until Sofie Dawo's death, one had to assume that she worked exclusively with textile design as an art form. After her death, during the preparation of a retrospective exhibition in the St. Wendel City Museum, a hitherto unknown bundle of graphic works that had been created between 1960 and 1964 was found. These graphics, which are based on the "basic theory" of Oskar Holweck, professor at the Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken, form the basis for numerous subsequent textile works by the artist.

Honors - awards

  • 1967 State Prize with Gold Medal, Munich
  • 1988 Lotte Hoffmann Memorial Prize, Stuttgart

Works in public space (selection)

  • Ludwigshafen am Rhein , St. Maria, wall hanging, 1952, 3.00 × 3.00 m
  • Blieskastel , town hall meeting room, wall hangings (in collaboration with Hans Dahlem), four-part, each 2.20 × 1.10 m
  • Neunkirchen , town hall, wall hanging, 1957, wool, 0.80 × 1.60 m
  • St. Ingbert , Kreissparkasse, wall hanging, 1959, 2.85 × 4.00 m
  • St. Ingbert-Rohrbach, Extended Secondary School II Johannesschule, wall hanging, 1962, wool, 2.50 × 2.50 m
  • Saarbrücken, Chamber of Commerce and Industry , wall hanging, 1963, wool, tapestry technique , 0.47 × 1.76 m
  • Saarbrücken, Saarland Court of Audit, wall hanging, 1963, woven wool, 1.30 × 1.30 m
  • Blieskastel, Kreissparkasse, wall hanging, 1964, black and white rya wool, tapestry and knotting technique in pile of different heights, 2.85 × 2.25 m
  • St. Ingbert, district hospital, wall hanging, 1965, red wool, 2.50 × 2.50 m
  • Blieskastel, Evangelical elementary school, wall hanging, 1966, wool, 0.80 × 2.20 m
  • Heusweiler-Walpershofen, Evangelical Church, wall hanging, 1966, 2.00 × 1.50 m
  • Saarbrücken, former SAVAG insurance, wall cladding, 1967, hand-printed cotton, two-part, each 2.80 × 5.00 m
  • St. Ingbert, Kreissparkasse, wall hanging, 1969, wool, 2.85 × 4.00 m
  • Saarbrücken-Burbach, Lutherhaus, wall hanging, 1976, pure wool, tapestry technique and pile of different heights, 2.00 × 1.50 m
  • Münchwies , Psychosomatic Clinic, wall hanging, 1977, two-part, 1.70 × 3.75 m / 1.70 × 7.12 m
  • Saarbrücken, Saarland University of Technology and Economics, wall hanging, 1978, wool, nylon, 70 × 0.70 m
  • Saarbrücken, Landtag des Saarland , wall hanging, 1978, wool, 2.60 × 2.00 m
  • Saarbrücken, Chamber of Industry and Commerce, wall hanging, 1979, cotton, ryawool and mohair in mixed media, 1.08 × 1.22 m
  • Saarbrücken, Sports Science Institute, wall hanging, 1980, woven and looped smyrna wool and mohair, 3.80 × 1.00 m
  • Frankfurt am Main , city administration, wall hanging, 1984, white and black cotton, between plexiglass panes in an aluminum frame, coudrage technique, 1.40 × 1.30 m
  • Saarbrücken, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, wall hanging, 1984, 1.08 × 1.22 m
  • Frankfurt, Museum of Applied Arts , wall hanging, 1.30 × 1.20 m

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1964 Elitzer Gallery, Saarbrücken
  • 1968 Europahaus Otzenhausen
  • 1979 St. Johann Gallery, Saarbrücken
  • 1985 Rathausgalerie, Dillingen
  • 1990 St. Ingbert, cultural center
  • 1996 Orangery Blieskastel (K)
  • 2006 "Sofie Dawo, Dorothea Zech - Two ways of textile design", Saarländisches Künstlerhaus , Saarbrücken
  • 2011 "Sofie Dawo - Red is not my color", Stadtmuseum St. Wendel
  • 2018 "Sofie Dawo - Works on Paper", Galerie Jochum Rodgers Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • 2012 "TEXTILE" Galerie Jochum Rodgers Berlin
  • 2013 "Textiles: OPEN LETTER abstractions, textiles, art", Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • 2014 "To Open Eyes - Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today", Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Sofie Dawo was involved in numerous national and international group exhibitions.

literature

  • Liselotte Staub, Sofie Dawo: From the Werkkunstschule - 30 years of creative training. Here: Sofie Dawo - Textile Design. In: Festschrift Fachhochschule des Saarlandes. Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 41-49, 133-137
  • Sofie Dawo. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1996. Therein: Waltraud Huth-Fox: From Material to Form. Sofie Dawo's textile works. Pp. 9-14
  • Sofie Dawo / Dorothea Zech . Two textile artists from Saarland. [Catalog for the exhibition Sofie Dawo, Dorothea Zech - Two ways of textile design, July 20 - August 27, 2006.] With a text contribution by Dr. Elisabeth Feilen, page 2 ff., Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, 2006, ISBN 3-937046-80-1
  • Sofie Dawo - red is not my color. With contributions by Cornelieke Lagerwaard and Margarete Wagner-Grill [exhibition catalog]. City Museum, St. Wendel 2011.
  • Sabine Graf: Closely interwoven with the Saar School of Art. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . August 13, 2010

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Biography in the Saarbrücker Zeitung
  2. ↑ Waltraut Huth-Fox in: Sofie Dawo. Gollenstein-Verlag, Blieskastel 1996, pp. 9-14
  3. ↑ being feelings - tribute to the textile artist Sofie Dawo. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Wendel edition). P. C6
  4. ↑ http://jochumrodgers.de/elegancy-is-calling/
  5. ↑ http://jochumrodgers.de/textile/
  6. ^ Museum website
  7. ^ Art gallery Bielefeld
personal data
SURNAME There, Sofie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2010
Place of death Saarbrücken