Ursula Daphi

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Ursula Daphi (born Ellinghaus; * May 7, 1923 in Osnabrück ; † July 5, 2013 there ) was a German painter . She studied with Bruno Héroux at the Leipzig Art Academy and was a freelance artist from 1955. Her works after 1955 are categorized as Lyric Cubism .

life and work

Since 1937 Ursula Daphi had a firm desire to become a painter. From 1938 she received lessons in painting, graphics and sculpture in the municipal support classes for visual design in Osnabrück. In 1941, the minor received an offer from the city of Osnabrück for a scholarship at the Munich Art Academy. The father refused to give her his consent. However, she was allowed to accept a scholarship at the University for Teacher Education to train factory teachers in Leipzig . Without her parents' knowledge, she began studying at the art academy in Leipzig. In the 1943 bombing raid on Leipzig , she escaped the firestorm, but lost a large part of her work (thesis). In 1944 she passed her state examination in Leipzig. She took on a job as a craft and drawing teacher in Osnabrück.

After 1945 there were artistic commissions for portraits in addition to the apprenticeship, and during the famine years there was a good barter for bread and butter (including various illustrations, for example for the “child messenger” of the Protestant regional church in Northwest Germany). In 1946 her attempt to enroll at the Düsseldorf Art Academy failed; only male, not female applicants were accepted. In 1951 she gave up school service in order to be able to devote herself intensively to painting and family.

From 1957 she deepened contacts in Palma and later in Barcelona through her sister . Here she met painters and musicians, including Joan Miró . In 1964 she was invited to her first solo exhibition in the Galería de Arte Moisés Alvares in Palma de Mallorca. Since 1960 numerous solo and group exhibitions have taken place at home and abroad. a. Düsseldorf, Basel, Barcelona, ​​with the Goethe Institute in South America, the Netherlands, South Tyrol (Bozen), Hanover, Berlin and Vienna. In 1971 she was awarded the first prize for painting in the XXX. Salon de Otoño des Círculo de Bellas Artes in Palma de Mallorca. An exhibition on the occasion of his 60th birthday took place in 1983 in the Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück . In addition to painting, there were also works in the field of art in architecture , for example a mosaic on the South America House of the Osnabrück Zoo , stained glass windows of the Jakobuskirche Osnabrück and ten reliefs over the doors to the auditorium of the Osnabrück Municipal Theaters . In 1995 stays in San Francisco and Berkeley / California, USA followed. In 2003 the Osnabrück Museum of Cultural History presented a retrospective on her 80th birthday.

literature

  • Discovered modernity. Works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection. Published by Rolf Jessewitsch, Gerhard Schneider, druckVerlag Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-16-9 .
  • Ursula Daphi . Verlag des Museum und Kunstverein Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2003 ISBN 3-926235-24-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Daphi. Publishing house of the Museum and Art Association Osnabrück, Osnabrück 2003
personal data
SURNAME Daphi, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellinghaus, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2013
Place of death Osnabrück