Tatjana Gamerith

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Tatjana Gamerith at the vernissage of an exhibition with her pictures in October 2013 in the Sturmmühle in Saxen

Tatjana Gamerith (born January 4, 1919 in Berlin ) is a German-Austrian environmental activist , painter and graphic artist .

Life

Tatjana Gamerith was born on January 4, 1919 in Berlin-Charlottenburg and has been married to Werner Gamerith for the third time since 1963 . She obtained her diploma as a graphic designer at the Vienna Higher Graphical Federal Teaching and Research Institute . She raised her son Martin, who came from a second marriage, and made money for years painting postcards . Her two children from the first marriage did not grow up with her against her will.

Initially, in the 1960s she worked as a freelancer for the Vienna Zoo as animal painter . In 1963, she and Werner Gamerith bought a small property in Waldhausen im Strudengau in order to achieve their common goal of living in nature. In addition to the renovation of the house, an organic garden for vegetables , potatoes and berries , a natural garden with ornamental and wild flowers and in 1983 the first natural swimming pond with a barrier between the bathing area and the plant area were created.

In order to be able to continue her work as an animal painter in Waldhausen, her husband photographed the Schönbrunn animals . Most of her painting work was carried out as commissioned work and this was an indispensable source of income. With great creativity she constantly varies the techniques used. The pictures are characterized by a wealth of colors and details. To paint, she often needs a magnifying glass for the many small lines.

The two set up a print shop in the former stable building and began using the screen printing process to apply patterns they had designed by hand to textiles . This artistic and handicraft activity and the sale of textiles formed another source of income for the couple for decades.

The family income was supplemented by Werner Gamerith's work as an author and photographer . With his radio reports, slide presentations and pictures, he was an environmental activist as early as the 1970s.

Together with her husband Werner, Tatjana Gamerith received the Konrad Lorenz Prize for Environmental Protection from Konrad Lorenz and Federal Minister Kurt Steyrer in 1984 for the successful combination of art and ecology .

Also in 1984 she and her husband took part in the occupation of the Stopfenreuther Donau-Au near Hainburg .

Awards

(Werner Gamerith and Tatjana Gamerith each together)

photos

The rainforest cycle made up of nine panels in 2007/2008 was digitized for the front window of the Tropensaal in the Natural History Museum in Vienna for the colored burn-in into the glasses. However, the tropical hall was not realized and the glass window was not used. The original painting was auctioned for the benefit of the Tropensaal on December 18, 2008. The starting price of the entire work of 9 panels was 18,000 euros.

literature

  • Franz Pissenberger, Alexander Schneider: Life sketches - People from the Perg district - Tatjana and Werner Gamerith - Live and work on a one- shift farm - In harmony with nature and yourself. Pulheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-9501897-2-8 .
  • Hubert Weinzierl: Natural history cabinet. with pictures by Tatjana Gamerith and a foreword by Konrad Lorenz. Passau 1988, DNB 958120412 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage with the names of the occupiers 20 years of Hainburg - Courage is worth it ( Memento from October 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Windows for the Cathedral of Creation, in: Das Naturhistorische, Magazin des Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Winter 2008 edition
  3. ↑ Photo report of the auction, including a picture of the artist together with Ernst Fuchs and Bernd Lötsch
personal data
SURNAME Gamerith, Tatjana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian environmental activist, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin