Margret Hofheinz-Döring

Margret Hofheinz-Döring (20 May 1910 in Mainz – 18 June 1994 in Bad Boll) was a German painter and graphic artist.

She created about 9,000 paintings, images and portraits, presented in more than 100 exhibitions. Her experimental "structure painting", repainting fabric collages and frames, is a notable technique used by Hofheiz-Döring. She earned nationwide renown with different drawing cycles about Goethe's Faust, using various techniques.

Exhibitions Hofheinz-Dörings first single exhibition was shown 1931 in the Germania-Saal in Göppingen. From 1965 on, her work has been issued at least once a year. The most important exhibitions have taken place in:

Single exhibitions

1969: Ludwigsburg, Galerie Voelter; Zürich, Galerie Kirchgasse; Rothenburg, Rathaus; 1970: Göppingen, Stadthalle; Frankfurt, Galerie Goldbach; Erlangen, Siemens-Galerie 1972: Sindelfingen, Rathaus; Mainz, Blütenhaus des Stadtparks; Dornach, Goetheanum; Stuttgart, Wilhelmspalais 1975: Bad Boll, Evangelische Akademie; Wiesbaden, Galerie Christa Moering; Bückeburg, Galerie Harmening 1979: Bonn, Parlamentarische Gesellschaft; Zürich, Bircher-Benner-Klinik 1982: Ulm, Künstlergilde 1985: Göppingen, Stadthalle; Freudenstadt, Stadthaus 1992: Potsdam, Galerie am Neuen Palais 1995: Weimar, Galerie Markt 21 1997: Bad Berleburg, Museum der Stadt; Zell u. Aichelberg. Gedenk-Raum für Margret Hofheinz-Döring im Rathaus 1999: Knittlingen, Faustmuseum / Steinhaus 2000: Potsdam, Galerie am Neuen Palais

Participation in larger exhibitions

1934: Göppingen 1951: Baiersbronn ab 1957: Ausstellungen der Freudenstädter Künstlergruppe Quadrat 1991: Ehingen, Galerie Schloss Mochental, Künstlerinnen aus Baden-Württemberg 1995: Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais: Frauen im Aufbruch? Künstlerinnen im deutschen Südwesten 1900-1945

Collections

Hofheinz-Dörings work is part of the collections in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach, the gallery of Stuttgart, in the city's art museum Spendhaus in Reutlingen, the collection of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg and the German Bundeskunstsammlung. Some drawings are open to the public, exhibited in the hospital Göppingen, the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Göppingen, in the Kurhaus Freudenstadt, the city hall in Zell unter Aichelberg and the retirement home Bad Boll.

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