Gerda Schmidt-Panknin
Appearance
Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (born in Lüchow, Schleswig-Holstein, on August 9, 1920) is a German painter. The artist lives and works in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen Art Academy in the 1940s.
Works
Painting is the main media of Gerda Schmidt-Panknin. She prefers to combine oil or acrylic painting with other techniques like crayon. In the paintings of the 1960s to the 1980s she mixed sand and other materials into the paint. Since the 1950s and her first travels to Greece these travel experiences (later to USSR, Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland) are the main inspiration for her work.[1]
Influence
Due to her practise as art teacher Schmidt-Panknin influenced many younger artist like Peter Nagel or Nicolaus Schmidt.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1961 City Museum, Flensburg
- 1962 Stegi Kalon Technon, Athens
- 1969 Städtisches Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm
- 1969 Apenrade Museum, Apenrade
- 1972 Otto-Pankok-Museum, Hünxe
- 1983 Senderjyland Arts Museum, Tondern
- 1984 National Museum, Reykjavik
- 1985 Kunstsalen, Fredericia
- 1986 Art Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 1986 Atatürk Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 1990 Art Forum, Kappeln/Schlei
- 1991 Art Museum, Murmansk, UdSSR
- 1993 Ontario Goethe Society, Toronto, Canada
- 1998 Kunstcentrum „TweeWezen", Enkhuizen, Netherlands
- 2003 Gallery of BASF Schwarzheide
References
- ^ Dr. Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer in: exhibition catalog, Art Forum 1990, Kappeln