Godela Habel (18 September 1929 – 12 February 2022) was a German painter and artist.

Life and work

Godela Habel was born in

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Posen-West Prussia The Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (german: Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen, pl, Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska) was a province of Prussia from 1922 to 1938. Posen-West Prussia was established in 1922 as a province of the Free ...

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on 18 September 1929. She studied from 1950 to 1953 at the art schools of

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and

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, focusing on painting and graphic design. She is known for her paintings and

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s. She combined the methods of drawing and painting in her occasionally secretive work and made allowance for individual associations and interpretations. In February 2000 she displayed at an exhibition about "The Paint Theme" (German: "Thema Farbe") in the ''Künstlerforum'' at Bonn some more or less compacted lines and areas on paper and used paint in minutely shaded levels of brown, white and black, which were infiltrated by a hint of red.Heidrun Wirth
''"Thema Farbe": 23 Mitglieder der Bonner Künstlergruppe installierten ihre Werke im Künstlerforum – Vielheit hinter der Einheit.''
Bonner Rundschau, Saturday, 19 February 2000. (German) In the 1990s she completed her work on collages and focuses since then on drawings. She lives and works in Mehren. Habel died in

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on 12 February 2022, at the age of 92.

Awards

Godela Habel obtained 1998 the GEDOK art award with a value of 5,000,-€, which was donated in 1988 as the ''Dr.-Theobald-Simon-Award'' by the art lover and patron Gabriele Vossebein in the memory of her father, the former director of the

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Exhibitions

* 1982: ''7 Artists'', Bonn Bad Godesberg * 1984: ''Winter exhibition'', Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V. * 1986: Individual exhibitions in Kunstverein Siegen e.V. Protestant Academy Schmitten-Arnoldsheim and glas museum

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* 1989: Individual exhibition in ''Gärtnerhaus'' Bonn * 1997: Akquisition of a drawing by Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn * 2000: ''The Paint Theme'', Künstlerforum Bonn * 2002: ''Wechselweise'', Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V. * 2003: Individual exhibition in Betzdorf * 2004: Individual exhibition im Gärtnerhaus Bonn * 2005: ''Korrespondenzen'', Künstlerforum Bonn * 2006: Einzelausstellung in der Theatergemeinde Bonn * 2009: ''Works on Paper'', Theatergemeinde BonnTheatergemeinde Bonn
(German) * 2014: ''Collages and Drawings'' from 14 June until 13 July 2014 in the "Kleiner Kunstraum 21" of Gotthart Eichhorn in

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Publications

* Ursula Toyka-Fuong, Petra Rapp-Neumann, Hilla Jablonsky, Ruth Schirmer, Edith Oellers-Teuber, Ula Wienke, Margaret Klare, Ute Jansen, Irene Kulnig, Borghild Eckermann, Godela Habel, Susanne Krell, Elsbeth Tatarczyk-Welte, Victoria Westmacott-Wrede: ''Ausgezeichnet: Künstlerinnen und Stifterin des Dr.-Theobald-Simon-Kunstpreises.'' . (German)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Habel, Godela 1929 births 2022 deaths German women painters German graphic designers German women graphic designers People from Wałcz People from West Prussia 20th-century German painters 20th-century German women artists 21st-century German artists 21st-century German women artists University of Wuppertal alumni