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Ursula Schuh ( July 12, 1908 in Hamburg - August 7, 1993 in Salzburg ) was a German painter and set designer .
life and work
The daughter of philologist Benno Diederich grew up in Blankenese near Hamburg and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris and with Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus Dessau . She lived intermittently in Paris from 1931 to 1937 , after marrying the director Oscar Fritz Schuh in Hamburg in 1939, she moved to Vienna in 1940. Their first exhibitions took place there.
From 1945 to 1947 she worked as a draftsman, picture editor and critic for the newspaper Welt am Montag , in 1947 she helped found the Art Club in Vienna. In 1953 she moved to Berlin, 1958 to Cologne, 1963 to Hamburg, where she worked as a set designer for the State Opera and the theater . This was followed by stage designs for the Schwetzingen Festival , the Deutsche Oper and the Volksbühne in Berlin , Det Norske Teatret in Oslo and the Schauspielhaus Zurich .
In 1968 she and her husband moved to Großgmain near Salzburg. In 1970 she founded the Salzburg Street Theater with him , which they jointly directed until 1984.
Her grave is in the Salzburg municipal cemetery .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1942 Neue Galerie, Vienna
- 1945 Volkstheater Vienna
- 1949 Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery, Linz
- 1955 Gerd Rosen, Berlin
- 1957 Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan
- 1961 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne
- 1962 Salzburg residence
- 1966 Hamburg artist club die insel
- 1983 Welz Gallery , Salzburg
Stage sets (selection)
- 1964 The Firebird , Hamburg State Opera
- 1969 Don Giovanni , Royal Copenhagen Opera
- 1979 Rita and Gianni Schicchi , Salzburg State Theater
Catalogs
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Gert von der Osten : Ursula Schuh - paintings, hand drawings, graphics
- October 27, 1961 - November 26, 1961, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne, Bachemdruck Cologne, 1961
- July 16, 1962 - September 2, 1962, Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1962 (with a foreword by Hans Lechner )
literature
- Oscar Fritz Schuh: It was like that - was it like that? Notes and memories of a theater man . Ullstein, Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-550-07490-5
- Ralph-Günther Patocka: Schuh, Oscar Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 672-674 ( digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuh, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Diedrich-Schuh, Ursula; Diederich, Ursula (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1993 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |