Godela Habel (18 September 1929 – 12 February 2022) was a German painter and artist.
Life and work Godela Habel was born in Deutsch Krone, Posen-West Prussia, Weimar Germany, on 18 September 1929. She studied painting and graphic design from 1950 to 1953 at art schools in Wuppertal and Hanover.Mehrener Künstlerin wird 80. Westerwald Rundschau, Lokalanzeiger, 16 September 2009, week 38, year 32, page 3. (German) Known for her paintings and collages, she combined the methods of drawing and painting in her occasionally secretive work and made allowance for individual associations and interpretations.Christina zu Mecklenburg: Eine Wanderung zu imaginären Welten – Ausstellung Farbsignale der Künstlergruppe Bonn. General Anzeiger. (German) In February 2000, she displayed at an exhibition about "The Paint Theme" (German: "Thema Farbe") at Künstlerforum, 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 collage work and focused on drawings. She lived and worked in Mehren.Künstlergruppe Bonn e.V.: Godela Habel (German) Habel died in Potsdam on 12 February 2022, at the age of 92.
Awards Godela Habel obtained the GEDOK art award in 1998, 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 Bitburger brewery.Rheinschiene: Service: Stipendien, Preise, Förderung – GEDOK Kunstpreis. (German)
Exhibitions 1982: 7 Artists, Bonn Bad Godesberg7 Bonner Künstlerinnen 1982. Katalog zur Ausstellung in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1982. (German) 1984: Winter exhibition, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V.Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V.: Winterausstellung (German) 1986: Individual exhibitions in Kunstverein Siegen e.V.Kunstverein Siegen e.V.: Künstlerliste (German) Protestant Academy Schmitten-Arnoldsheim and glas museum Rheinbach 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.Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler e.V.: Wechselweise (German) 2003: Individual exhibition in Betzdorf 2004: Individual exhibition im Gärtnerhaus Bonn 2005: Korrespondenzen, Künstlerforum BonnKünstlerforum Bonn: Korrespondenzen (German) 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 Geiselbach
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)
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