(Innsbruck 1915 -1995 Hall in Tyrol)
Landschaft mit gelber Brücke / Landscape with yellow bridge, signed, dated Diesner 55, oil on canvas, 90 x 95 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany

The present owners acquired this work directly from the artist in Innsbruck beginning of the 60ies.
The owners were friends with the sculptor Bodo Kampmann, Gerhild Diesner’s former husband.

Gerhild Diesner attended Prof. Comploj’s life drawing course in Innsbruck from 1932 to 1935 alongside her studies in ladies’ dressmaking at the technical College. She studied in England from 1935 to 1937, where her teachers included the watercolourist, figure and landscape painter Charles Knight, and then studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich with Ernst Dombrowski and Emil Pretorius until 1939. In 1943/44, she attended the Académie André Lhote and the École de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She was very impressed with how French painters, especially Fauves, dealt with colour. The works she produced at this time were destroyed by the occupying forces in 1945. Diesner worked as a costume painter at the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum in Innsbruck between 1941 and 1945. From 1945 to 1947, she lived in a shared household with Paul Flora and Jörg Sackenheim and the sculptor Bodo Kampmann, whom she married in 1949. A trip to Italy in 1951 led Gerhild Diesner to a personal expression of dream landscapes. She lived in Innsbruck as a freelance painter from 1953 onwards. She was awarded the title of professor in 1975 and the Art Prize of the Province of Tyrol in 1995.

From the artist’s biography: Mythos Art Club – Der Aufbruch nach 1945, catalogue, Kunsthalle Krems, 2003