Autumn asters with pear

Oil on canvas, 1946

Technique: Öl-Blumen
Size: 46 x 38 cm

CID: 154009
Collection: Dethleffs/Riedle

"Autumn in Poetry and Art"

"Yes, the poets have always loved to sang the autumn of all seasons, no other season is as metaphorically charged as the time of the waning light. And yet it is not so much the dead of the dead of November, the "woe me" in the coming winter, the Hölderlin "half of life - hanging with yellow pears ..." and Rilke's "autumn day", rather than the beginning of autumn, in the the melancholy of the offense mixes. It's the "once again" that makes this season so susceptible to emphasis."Quote from "Another summer is over!" by Andrea Köhler in Neue Züricher Zeitung, 11.10.2018)

Poets stimulate our imagination, Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann conjures up the beauty of reality in her paintings. On the one hand, the red-brown flowering asters in their colorful fullness. In addition, the milk thistles as a death song. Accompanied by the yellow asters as a reminder of the bright summer days and the orange physalis for the autumn harvest. The flowers in the brown vases next to the yellow pear from Hölderlin's poem. Over the whole background, a landscape is sketched: at the very top of the frame, the gray fog of November next to the once again subdued sunlight.

Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann painted the still life in 1946. She was 47 years old. Anyone who told her, that she had reached the autumn of her life, would not have taken her seriously. The war was over. She wanted to build on her previous successes. She had celebrated her greatest successes in the years before the Nazi seizure of power - with portraits, flower and landscape paintings. In the following Nazi-period it was different: Until 1945, only her flower paintings were tolerated by Goebbels Reichs-Kulturkammer. Only with flowers could she remain true to her own style; she was also able to put on exhibitions: such as with the painting "Marsh Marigolds, oil on canvas, Collection Berlin Fam. v.R. German Foreign Minister, CID no. 151.613.

When, after 1945, abstract art began its triumphal march, she did not follow this fashion: again, it remained true to her own style. The painting "Herbstastern mit Birne" speaks for itself.

Publisher Bernd Riedle in Oktober 2018

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