Trude Stolp-Seitz

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Trude Stolp-Seitz (born July 7, 1913 in Mannheim ; † October 14, 2004 there ) was a German painter .

life and work

Trude Stolp-Seitz grew up in a Christian-Catholic environment, which shaped her until the end of her life. She trained as a qualified health worker and infant nurse. Her father, the teacher Fritz Seitz, was a painter and musician. He died of cancer when she was two years old. Already in elementary school it became apparent that Trude Stolp-Seitz had inherited the great talent from her father.

From 1935 to 1947 she worked as a health worker in various institutions, including in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 1946 she took part as an autodidact in the first art exhibition in the city of Ludwigshafen after the war in the Don-Bosco-Haus. She showed the watercolors "Chestnut Blossoms", "Field Flowers" and "Before the Thunderstorm". In 1947 she decided to create a training at the Free Academy in Mannheim and attended the master class of Paul Berger-Bergner .

In 1950 she married Hans Stolp (born 1899), who worked as an authorized signatory in Ludwigshafen. He supported her unreservedly in her painting. Trude Stolp-Seitz never had a studio and painted at home. She paints old photos while traveling. Her early works are devoted to still lifes , landscapes and portraits, but they already show a certain tendency towards deformation, alienation and abstraction.

From 1958 she only devoted herself to painting and marketing it. She had an exhibition every year. She was a member of GEDOK Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, the artists' association "Anker" in Ludwigshafen, the BBK (District Association of Visual Artists) and exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the region, but also nationwide. Some of her works were on view in 1955/56 in a GEDOK traveling exhibition, "Contemporary Women's Painting in Germany", in India .

Until the mid-1960s she remained true to the representational in her painting. After that, she radically changed her style of painting, and the representational disappeared, which initially earned her a lot of criticism. In her informal work, she handled colors and shapes with confidence: “She follows her own inner energies, her concentration. Her pictures are documents of her impulses, her will, her fantasies and her ability to control fantasies. "

At the age of 77 she moved to the Catholic nursing home Maria-Scherer-Haus in Mannheim-Rheinau, where she continued to paint until shortly before her death. Their work can still be seen there today.

Exhibitions

Since 1951 numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, participation in exhibitions in the Rhein-Neckar Artists Association; Solo exhibitions in Mannheim and Wachenheim, exhibitions in the partner cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

  • 2003: Trude Stolp-Seitz on her 90th birthday . Mannheim Art Association
  • 2008: Living Worlds - Working Worlds. GEDOK Mannheim-Ludwigshafen visits the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie , Ludwigshafen
  • 2011: … and Eva paints. The artists' legacies Mannheim as a guest in the Epiphany Church Mannheim-Feudenheim
  • GEDOK Mannheim-Ludwigshafen as a guest in the Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie
  • 2013: Surfaces. Works by Trude Stolp-Seitz , Kunstverein Mannheim in the BGN
  • 2018: Mathiasemarkt Schriesheim, works from Mannheim artist estates

Publicly owned works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christel Heybrock 1983
personal data
SURNAME Stolp-Seitz, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2004
Place of death Mannheim