Ursula Graeff-Hirsch

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Ursula Graeff-Hirsch (* 1929 in Düsseldorf ) is a German freelance artist .

Live and act

Glass window made by Ursula Graeff-Hirsch for the BMV Church in Essen based on a design by Sr. M. Franziska Wüsten.

Ursula Graeff-Hirsch completed an artistic training in Munich and Essen from 1947 to 1949 and then an apprenticeship in glass painting in Bonn until 1952 . From 1953 to 1955 she specialized in the design and execution of sacred glass windows, in 1958 the master craftsman examination followed.

When the monastery church of the BMV school in Essen-Holsterhausen was rebuilt between 1954 and 1955, the artist restored the Johan Thorn Prikker windows, some of which were badly damaged, in their original form. She also carried out the designs for the two Ave Maria glass windows for the Augustinian choirwoman, Sr. M. Franziska Wüsten. Both windows are visible below the organ gallery.

Since 1955 she has worked equally as a freelance glass painter and painter . The artistic focus is on abstract painting , reliefs in stainless steel, etchings and sculptures .

Solo exhibitions of her works took place in Germany, France and Italy. She also designed the Way of the Cross for the Cistercian monastery in Saarn .

Her concern is the promotion of young artists in the art city of Mülheim.

Ursula Graeff-Hirsch was married to the artist Werner Graeff until his death in 1978 . After his death, she managed his estate, which was bequeathed to the Wiesbaden Museum in 2009 . In 2010, she published her husband's memories of the Bauhaus era under the title Hurdles through the 20th Century . She has lived and worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr since 1970. In 2019, at the age of 90, she and Liana Leßmann (music) received the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, awarded by Sparkasse Mülheim .

literature

Ursula Hirsch, Evelyn Bergner (ed.): Hurdles through the 20th century . Museum Wiesbaden, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89258-086-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruhrländischer Künstlerbund 1949–2009. (PDF; 6.3 MB) November 25, 2009, pp. 39–42 , accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  2. ^ Biographical note in: Galerie Gmurzynska-Bargera (ed.): Constructivism: Developments and tendencies since 1913. 1972.
  3. ↑ Jacqueline Siepmann: I don't want to be fast anymore. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . March 18, 2008, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  4. ^ Margitta Ulbricht: meeting with Lukas Benedikt Schmidt (LUBENS). In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . February 19, 2016, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ruhr Prize. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, July 4, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Graeff-Hirsch, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freelance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf