Gerda Schmidt-Panknin

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin (9 August 1920 – 5 March 2021) was a German painter. The artist lived and worked in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen art academy in the 1940s.

Works Painting was the main media of Gerda Schmidt-Panknin. She preferred 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) were the main inspiration for her work.

Influence Due to her practice as art teacher, Schmidt-Panknin influenced many younger artists 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, USSR 1993 Ontario Goethe Society, Toronto, Canada 1998 Kunstcentrum "TweeWezen", Enkhuizen, Netherlands 2003 Gallery of BASF Schwarzheide 2020 , Husum (on the occasion of her 100th birthday)