Ursula Stahl-Schultze

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Ursula Stahl-Schultze

Ursula Stahl-Schultze (born March 27, 1906 in Kiel ; † May 15, 2001 in Bad Dürrheim ) was a German painter, art teacher and craft teacher.

Life

Ursula Stahl-Schultze was born on March 27, 1906 in Kiel. She attended elementary school in Berlin and high school in Rostock (1918–1923). The landscape painter Thuro Balzer was her art teacher there. In class and in his studio she learned drawing, watercolors and the design of art writing . She was friends with Balzer until his death in 1967. From 1923 to 1927 she studied with the help of a gifted scholarship at the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg with Professors Georg Tappert , Georg Walter Rössner and Bernhard Hasler . After graduating as an art and craft teacher, she worked for two years at the Rostock grammar school. There she met her future husband Rudolf Stahl . In 1929 they married in Breslau and had five children together. Despite the family responsibilities, Ursula Stahl-Schultze used every vacation to paint. The watercolor Bay of Cattaro was created on a Mediterranean trip in the Bay of Kotor . It is one of the 29 pictures that could be flown out to the west on the last plane from the fortress of Breslau . All other works before 1945 were lost.

In 1941, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the couple met the then 71-year-old painter Raffael Schuster-Woldan from Grainau, a well-known woman portraitist of his time, from whom she learned a lot. The years from 1945 to 1948 were marked by the flight from the city of Wroclaw, which had been declared a fortress, the eviction from their house and property and in 1946 the expulsion to the West, where the family was housed in three different locations far apart. Shortly before the expulsion, Ursula Stahl was once again in the bombed city, where she made two small pencil drawings in the rubble: Former beer garden and Holteihöhe , which have been preserved and are moving evidence of the destruction. In 1948 the scattered family came together again in Braunschweig. Here she took part in the founding of the Federal Association of Visual Artists BBK, together with her artist colleagues Ernst Straßner and Bruno Müller-Linow. Throughout her life she went on numerous trips with her family and friends, which took her to Italy, Spain, France, the Alps and Norway. For her it was less vacation than work trips: this is where the majority of her works were created. At the age of 83, Ursula Stahl-Schultze learned a new technique in a course at the Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig: egg tempera. 13 works were created using this technique.

She spent the last 9 years of her life from 1992 in Bad Dürrheim. In 1995, the almost 90-year-olds took a second and last painting trip with their children to Séguret in Provence, where several large works were created again. She died in Bad Dürrheim at the age of 95.

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Her work includes works in opaque colors , watercolor , egg tempera , pastel , oil as well as drawings with pencil, ink, felt pen, art font designs , but also handicrafts such as inlays , glass windows and wax sculptures for bronze castings (made by the fine art foundry Barth in Rinteln). Her artistic style shows a development from the academic-conservative style of the 19th century in her youth pictures, e.g. B. Kornhocken , to the almost abstract style of modernity z. B. Zillertal, Das Tal II, 1970 . The influence of Schuster-Woldan may have increased the romantic expression in some of the works of the 1950s, recognizable in numerous landscape paintings and portraits in pastel and watercolor, such as B. The gate and “Walk together”. Gradually she developed her own powerful and colorful way of expression with expressive formal language, probably inspired by her Berlin teacher Georg Tappert.

During the first trips to the North Sea, pastel works were created on the subject of beach life, e.g. B. on Sylt, children with a red ball . Later work trips took her to Malcesine on Lake Garda , to Bad Pyrmont , Paris , the Atlantic , to the North and Baltic Seas and to other European countries and repeatedly to the Alps. Romantic traits can be found in her mountain pictures, which is reflected in the titles, e.g. B. ghostly or heaven and earth , or also tend towards the dramatic, z. B. Approaching thunderstorm - but where are you falling? In her landscape and garden depictions, there is shine, warmth and abundance, the graphic and the picturesque interpenetrate. She also made many portraits in the form of pencil sketches of musicians, dancers and actors during visits to the theater, house music evenings and concerts that seem effortlessly thrown away. But she also masters the design of architecture and the tectonic in the landscape drawings, which are filled with dynamism and movement.

In the early 1960s she was commissioned to create two one-square-meter pictures for the two large organ doors in St. Katharinen in Braunschweig: My violin angels and my roaring angels , whose strong colors and clear lines have a good long-distance effect and are reminiscent of glass windows. A glass window wall she created in the famous Hotel Harzburger Hof in Bad Harzburg was destroyed during renovations. A smaller mobile glass window was cast in lead by an artisan workshop in Braunschweig and the surrounding area. She remained true to the subject of angels , for her an expression of universal love. By the end of the 1980s, many large and small works on this topic were created using a wide variety of techniques. In her old work, e.g. B. Sèguret: Walls she managed to concentrate the diversity of nature in graphic abbreviations. From 1992 to 1996 she painted colorful pictures of the Danube-Baar landscape.

Memberships

Stahl-Schultze was a member of the Esslingen Artists' Guild , GEDOK Munich, Féderation International (Culture Féminine) and the BBK as well as the Braunschweig Chamber of Crafts .

Publicly owned works

  • Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (7)
  • Braunschweig Municipal Museum

Solo exhibitions

literature

  • Regine Nahrwold: Ursula Stahl-Schultze. Painting and drawing 1922–1995 . Braunschweig: Kröger 2000. ISBN 3-9802446-4-4
  • Christina Knapp: Ursula Stahl-Schultze. Catalog of works 2000. Braunschweig: Rigg 2001. ISBN 978-3-9802446-4-0
  • KunstKonturen KünstlerProfile Past and Present of the BBK Lower Saxony (publisher) Association of visual artists for Lower Saxony, editorial office Elisabeth Schwiontek. ISBN 3-00-002800-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KunstKonturen KünstlerProfile, p. 259
  2. ↑ Brigitt Frielinghaus in: Christina Knapp Ursula Stahl-Schultze Catalog raisonné 2000 p. 7.
  3. ↑ Regine Nahrworld Ursula steel Schultze painting and drawing from 1922 to 1995, S. 15
  4. ↑ Brigitt Frielinghaus in Christina Knapp: Ursula Stahl-Schultze, Werkverzeichnis Braunschweig 2000, p. 6
  5. ↑ Regine Nahrworld, Ursula steel Schultze, painting and drawing 1922-1995, p 13
  6. ↑ Regine Nahrworld, Ursula steel Schultze, painting and drawing 1922-1995, p 13
  7. ↑ Regine Nahrworld Ursula steel Schultze painting and drawing 1922-1995, p 15
  8. ↑ Regina Nahrworld: Ursula steel Schultze painting and drawing 1922-1995 S. 14
personal data
SURNAME Stahl-Schultze, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art teacher and handicraft teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2001
Place of death Bad Durrheim