Salomon judges

Color woodcut, ca. 1952

Technique: Druck-Holzschnitt
Size: 33 x 21,8 cm

CID: 281032
Collection: Dethleffs/Riedle

Biblical topics Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann trained her daughter Ursula as an artist. Ursula's father, Arist Dethleffs, liked to spoil her alongside his work as the owner of the caravan factory he had built. The grandmother Luise Edelmann, born Schiff - affectionately called Gogge - has brought up Ursula in every respect - including strictly. After the death of her husband, she moved to the family of her only child Fridel. As a devout Christian, grandma often told her granddaughter Ursula what she had read in the Old Testament that day. We find the content of these conversations in many works by Ursula, who was astonished at the time. Biblical themes were the basis of Ursula's first color woodcuts, which were created from the age of 18.

The judgment of King Solomon (1 Kings 3: 16-28) Two women are fighting over a newborn. Salomon heard both. Then he decided: "This says: 'My child is alive and your child is dead!'" And the other says: 'No, your child is dead and my child is alive.' "And Solomon continued:" Catch up with me Sword! ”Now he decided:“ Cut the living child in half, and give half of the one and half of the other! ”But now the mother of the living child asked the king - it stirred her motherly love for her child : "Please, Lord, give the living child, and do not kill it!" But the other cried: "It should neither belong to me nor to you. Cut it up! ”Then Solomon ordered:“ Give them the living child and do not kill them; because she is his mother. ”Source: Wikipedia

On the color woodcut we see: Salomon with his female and male adviser. Before that the women fighting: the thief with the stolen child, the maternal with the dead child. Above all the divine inspiration.

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