Ursula Dethleffs

Ursula Dethleffs (born November 6, 1933 in Ottersweier ; † May 7, 1994 in Isny im Allgäu ) was a German artist.

Life

She was born as the daughter of the factory owner Arist Dethleffs and his wife Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann in Ottersweier near Bühl / Baden. As a pioneer, Arist Dethleffs built the first caravan in Germany, see Dethleffs company . Her mother Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann had become known as one of the recognized artists of the New Objectivity - her self-portrait was published in many art-historical works. Ursula Dethleffs lived and worked in Isny ​​until her death in 1994.

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In 1943 Ursula Dethleffs created the first reverse glass pictures; two years later her first tapestries, ceramics and woodcuts . 1946 pen drawings, linocuts ; first exhibitions in Ehingen, Reutlingen, Karlsruhe, Ravensburg and Konstanz. In 1950 she won the Saulgau Youth Art Prize and took part in the exhibition of the Neue Gruppe in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (also in 1952). 1950–52 she was a student of Richard Ott in Munich. Also in 1952 extensive exhibition activities began in France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, CSSR, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Canada and the USA. Travels to Italy, Spain, Russia and the Third World.

literature

• General Artist Lexicon , Volume 24, 2000, p. 472.
• Ursula Dethleffs; Dec 17, 1967 - Jan 14, 1968 . Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1967.
• Walter Ricklinger: The girl Ursula Dethleffs; From creative play to art . Constance: Simon u. Koch, 1955.
• Sabine Dümmig: The pictorial work of the painter Ursula Dethleffs . Weingarten, University of Education, 1975.
• Hans H. Hofstätter : Ursula Dethleffs . Freiburg i.Br .: Augustinermuseum, around 1985.
• Ursula Dethleffs, exhibition in the Augustinermuseum Freiburg i. Br. June 5 to July 5, 1987. Freiburg i. Br., 1987.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ursula Dethleffs in the catalog of the German National Library
• galerie-dethleffs.de: detailed vita of Ursula Dethleffs-Edelmann (accessed on August 3, 2014)