WALKING TALKING

Hauptbeschreibung

In the art scene of Schwerin their names were as well known as the State Theater, the museum or the castle of that city – Helga Kaffke, painter; Gabriele Berthel, author. That was during the last quarter of the past century. In the cultural news of the current capital of the county their names can’t be found. Both artists haven’t lived in Germany for more than twenty years. First they looked for the centre of their lives in France – and then found it – since the millennium – on the North-West coast of Ireland, in Mayo. They settled there, got married, worked. “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.” This old Irish blessing didn’t always keep its promise: the wind was often a gale and shook “the old house that rose out of the rocks”. The two artists counteracted this with their passion: for life, for painting, for literature. They had their talents and a backpack full of knowledge and experience, gathered at the colleges in Leipzig – tied forever to their country of birth, from which they had become estranged. The painter Helga Kaffke died in the winter of 2017. Since her death her spouse Gabriele Berthel shares her life with thousands of pages. Watercolours, colour on paper, portraits of landscapes, people and animals, in Kaffke-style. Kaffke-style is a mark of quality. Nobody painted watercolours like her: falling lines, sloping verticals, seemingly so chaotic, one already imagines the fall of Carthage – and yet somewhere a glimpse of sky remains. Magnificent. Gabriele Berthel paints with words; equally magnificent and emotional until it hurts. She paints in prose and poetry, mixes fairytale and reality, and covers earthly realism with melancholy. Thus a book is created, in a remote place of the world where in comparison to sky and sea a person appears to be a dwarf. A book about love and life and the strength to endure it, for every place in world. “In this place her life was always blowing in the wind – jacket like trousers between two brittle poles. And she keeps still, facing the earth – she knows it well – it was her life worth.” Helga Kaffke. Gabriele Berthel. For a long time their names had vanished from the cultural news. This is about to change. In Schwerin and other places.

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REFLECTIONS Farm with view of Achill Island Doona, Ballycroy Springtime in Doona View of Rosturk Castle, Clew Bay John’s Row, Westport Westport, Oktagon Westport, James Street Still-Life with Cottage STILL-LIFE WITH COTTAGE Fishing for salmon in the Valley of Delphi At second glance Half way to Heaven LEGACY Debate at the boat-house, Sligo Sruhill Lough, Achill Island Rosses Point, Sligo Mullaghmore, Sligo Glowing Primroses Lonely Boats Castelhill Church, Mayo Starlings above Tullaghan Bay Fahy Castle, Ballycroy Fahy Castle with view of Slievemore Connemarasheep BOGLANDROAD Bundoran, Donegal Mayos Mountainsheeps Killala Killala, Harbour Under the rainbow Burrishole Abbey, Clew Bay Clew Bay Clew Bay Cathedral Newport Newport, Mayo Excellent connections WALKING TALKING Birr Garden with Castle Covered walk, Birr Garden Southwind, Passage East Summer in February Wild geese at Mayo’s Coastline Dear Life, Bina McLoughlin DEAR LIFE Words of Comfort, Friedhof Faulmore WORDS OF COMFORT Country Life in Mayo Rush Hour, illuminated Lough Arrow, Leitrim Rainy Day Rainy Day Hook Lighthouse Before the Catch Last Credits, Inverin, Connemara LAST CREDITS Last View, Leenane Killary Harbour Dreamhouse 1. Lower Skyroad Dreamhouse 2 Fishermen’s Friends Tony’s Cottage, Leenane Little Harbour. Salin, Mullet Halbinsel Swinging Town Belmullet Unshorn. In the Moor Coastline in the fog, Killary Harbour Signals in the Moor LETTERMORE ISLAND Before the sail Flotilla, Passage East Cosy Port, Dunmore Killary Harbour near Asleagh Lough Mask The way home. Mullet Halbinsel Cashel Town Kilmacthomas Rock of Cashel Cashel. Panorama Palaver. Mullet Peninsula LOVELY DAY Leenane, Main road View from the Upper Skyroad, Connemara Janny’s Cottage, Connemara The Twelve Bens, Connemara PERSPECTIVE Blacksod Bay. Mullet Peninsula Albatrosses above Faulmore In the mud-flats. Murveagh, Donegal Fishing Port Killibegs, Donegal Caught Again and again: Peepholes of the Lord

Verwandte Suchkategorien

• Achill Island
• Asleagh
• Ballycroy
• Belmullet
• Cashel
• Clew Bay
• Connemara
• Connemaraschafe
• Donegal
• Dunmore
• Faulmore
• Helga Kaffke
• Ireland
• Killala
• Leenane
• Leitrim
• Mayo
• Moor
• Mullet Peninsula
• Slievemore
• Sligo
• Tullaghan Bay
• Watercolors
• Westport