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Mrs. Rödel by Karl Hofer 1953
Gunter Wessmann did send me this "surprise" painting above by the German painter Carl Hofer of Mrs. Rödel, currently on view at the Schloss museum Ettlingen in Germany. Mrs.Rödel was married to Karl Rödel, painter and private art school owner in Mannheim Germany. He was running "die Rödel Schule" (based on a Bauhaus / Burg Giebichenstein oriented art education) until the early eighties.
His Wife was a gallery owner in Mannheim. Wessmann, de Temple and I were students at that school between 1980 and '83 and helpers to Mrs. Rödel (divorced by now), the first gallery owner we got to meet in our careers as artists. We were asked to help, hanging shows (part of the curriculum), transporting art work or running errands for her. It was interesting, as much as we hated to work sometimes late hours at her gallery (cheap labour), but we got to see all those works of mostly pre- and post war painters from Germany.
That's were I saw the first time paintings by Herman Bachmann and Herbert Kitzel. Later on I decided to continue my studies in Berlin and became a student with Professor Bachmann at the HDK/ university of the arts in 1984.
All this memory stuff reminds me of W.G. Sebalds memory driven grand writing.
Figurine mit erhobenen Armen by Hermann Bachmann
An L. Skobno by Herbert Kitzel 1961
Composition in Black and collage by Karl Rödel
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