Trude Guermonprez

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Trude Guermonprez (born Gertrud Jalowetz November 9, 1910 in Danzig , Germany ; died May 8, 1976 in San Francisco ) was a German-American textile artist .

Life

Trude Jalowetz in Amsterdam (1937)

Gertrud Jalowetz 'father was the Austrian conductor and Arnold Schoenberg -Students Heinrich Jalowetz , her mother Johanna Groag was singing teacher and sister of the architect Jacques Groag , in turn, the textile artist Jacqueline Groag married. Her sister Lisa Jalowetz, born in 1920, also became a visual artist and was married to the set designer Boris Aronson .

Trude Jalowetz attended the Cologne Werkschulen in 1930 and, from 1931, the State-Municipal School of Applied Arts Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) , where she was trained by Benita Otte , who came from the Bauhaus . After seizing power in 1933, she emigrated to the Netherlands , where she set up a workshop for hand-woven fabrics and carpets at Het Paapje. In 1937 she studied Scandinavian weaving techniques in Finland . She married the photographer Paul Guermonprez (1908–1944), who went into the resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands and was murdered by the Germans in 1944.

After the liberation of the Netherlands, she worked as an artistic advisor for the Weverij de Ploeg . Guermonprez went to the United States as a lecturer at Black Mountain College in 1947 with the help of Anni Albers . In 1949 she visited the artist collective Pond Farm in Guerneville , which was organized by Marguerite Friedlaender . She married John Elsesser and they moved to San Francisco . From 1954 she taught full time at the California College of Arts and Crafts . Her students included Kay Sekimachi Stocksdale , Anne Wilson, and Jane Lackey. She was a fellow of the American Craft Council and was recognized by the National Home Furnishings League in 1962. In 1970 she received the Craftsmanship Medal from the American Institute of Architects .

Gertrud Guermonprez designed industrial fabrics for textile manufacturers in New York and California as well as commissioned works for individuals, architectural offices and synagogues. According to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum , their abstract design language for hand-woven textiles, which was influenced by the Bauhaus, contributed significantly to the development of modernism in California and beyond. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, her artistic weaving took on a less functional style. This includes works such as Notes on John I & II (1966), Our Mountains (1971), and Mandy's Motto (1975). They were "more related to paintings - deep personal, poetic, and silent reflections on the human experience". The Oakland Museum of California dedicated the only exhibition to her posthumously in 1982 under the title The Tapestries of Trude Guermonprez .

literature

  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop. Ed. Stemmle, Schaffhausen, 1993, ISBN 3-905514-09-5 , p. 202
  • Albrecht Pohlmann: model, artist and 'true Eva': the adventurous life of Trude Guermonprez. Stekovics, Halle an der Saale, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89923-051-2 (not viewed)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traces of Escape: Telling Escape in Europe. An interrupted career. Theater sketches by Lisa Jalowetz. May 17, 2018 to January 13, 2019. In: Kultur-online.net. May 18, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2019 (exhibition review).
  2. ↑ Paul Guermonprez. In: Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD). Retrieved January 14, 2019 (Dutch).
  3. ^ A b c Cooper Hewitt: Trude Guermonprez. In: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum . Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Guermonprez, Trude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jalowetz, Gertrud Emilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1976
Place of death San Francisco