Ursula Wieland

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Ursula Wieland (* around 1950 in Heidelberg ) is a German art scholar and painter . She specializes in portraiture and has painted numerous prominent people.

Life

Ursula Wieland was born into the family of a doctor. After finishing school, she studied pharmacy and languages on the advice of her father . Due to her early inclination to painting, she then went on to study art , at the same time she studied art history at the universities of Munich , Madrid and London . Her mentor, the portrait painter Graham Sutherland , helped Ursula Wieland's work achieve a breakthrough during her time in London . In addition to developing in the field of her own painting, she earned a doctorate . - Ursula Wieland lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg , partly also in Paris , is married and has three children.

Career

Her career as a painter began in Vienna in 1968 after she had made a drawing by the conductor Herbert von Karajan . She also met Leonard Bernstein there, where she initially only made one sketch of him, but he took great pleasure in it and immediately devoted the time to her for two more sketches. Even Jean Tinguely , next to where she was sitting on the plane, was a likeness with which he surprised his gallery owner George William Staempfli, who then in his York New Gallery Wieland exhibited first works. A short time later, exhibitions in Switzerland , Singapore and South Africa followed . In her portraiture she herself appreciates getting to know people of different backgrounds and the "spiritual and spiritual charisma" of the people. Her colorful pictures are more photo-realistic and Wieland does not embellish them . In addition, Wieland has been known for its airport pictures since the early 1980s . It depicts scenes at airports and in airplanes.

Works (selection)

Portraits of the following people are from Ursula Wieland, most of them are privately owned: *

  • 1968: Herbert von Karajan
  • 1985: Jean Tinguely
  • (1980s): Swedish Ambassador John Wingstrand
  • 1988: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin
  • 1991: Scientist Stephen Hawking
    This picture was then auctioned by mutual agreement under the auspices of Queen Sophia of Spain at Christie's in London for the benefit of the United Nations International Disability Foundation.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

  • around 1970: Galerie Staempfli, New York
  • Berlin, London, Geneva, Helsinki, Milan, Stockholm *
  • South Africa, Singapore *

Own publications

  • Designs: Le cardinal Lustiger et ses Proches , 2017, BoD , ISBN 978-3-7460-3506-2 .
  • (together with Jean Duchesne): La galaxie Lustiger: Le cardinal et ses proches: portraits , Parole et Silence Editions, 2018, ISBN 2-88918-422-6 .
  • URSULA WIELAND portraits. A catalog. Edited by Udo Felbinger. With contributions by Helmut Börsch-Supan, Bruno Mocci, Justus Müller-Hofstede. 2004.

literature

  • Daniela Noack: Don't tell anyone that you paint . Interview with Ursula Wieland. In: Berliner Zeitung , 5./6. October 2019, supplement magazine, p. 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d website about Ursula Wieland , accessed on October 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Noack: Don't tell anyone that you paint .
  3. ↑ a b c Ursula Wieland. Künstleronderbund in Deutschland eV, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d book portraits , BoD, ISBN 3-00-016501-0 .
  5. ^ A b Elisabeth Binder: The Berlin painter who sat Stephen Hawking as a model. Der Tagesspiegel ,, March 14, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Brief report on the opening of a DRK congress in Luckenwalde , accessed on October 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ursula Wieland: Designs. Le cardinal Lustiger et ses proches . BoD, Berlin-Paris 2017, ISBN 978-3-7460-3506-2 ( zvab.com ).
  8. ↑ Portrait publications on www.amazon.de.
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar and painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg