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Marél von Steinling Marie-Gabrielle Freifrau Spies von Büllesheim Table of Contents:
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The Barons v. Steinling zu Boden und Stainling are a family of old nobility from Steinpfalz. The ancestral seat (Stammhaus) is Schloss Steinling in the community Edelsfeld near Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Oberpfalz/Bavaria). The male lineage is extinct. Edelsfeld belongs to the former Duchy of Neuburg-Sulzbach und dessen 'Gericht Parkstein' (see link Edelsfeld); since1777 it was part of the Electorate of Bavaria. For centuries the *Hofmarken Steinling, Boden und Edelsfeld* were owned by the Barons v. Steinling zu Boden und Stainling. After 1803 the possessions became fief to the Church. The family resided in Bavaria, Hesse and Franconia and until the 16th Century were represented in the *Nürnberger Patriziat,* there under the name Steinlinger. In the 15. Century Lutz Steinlinger wrote the "Nürnberger Baumeisterbuch"; as its mayor. In the 19. and 20. Century three Friedrich von Steinling's - (father, son, and grandson of the same name) - were renown bavarian generals; lastly, Friedrich von Steinling, who died 1915 as General der Cavallerie und Commandant von München. Another branch of the family stood in Hessian Service; lastly, Christian v. Steinling (died in 1862) as Minister of the Military of Hessen-Darmstadt.
The family became extinct 1984 after the death of the last male descendent Friedrich VI . Coat of arms (Wappen): A striding black cock with a gold background on three green hills / with a helm on the shield. Live and Work Marél von Steinling studied from 1954 until 1958 at the the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste)
in Munich, including painting with Professor Erich Glette and
sculpturing with Professor Heinrich Kirchner. Additionally she took a
training in the pedagogy of the arts. Already as a young artist she had
exhibitions worldwide, - see description of the exhibition in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
1962, only 29 years old, she received an offer of a position by Professor Gerhard Gollwitzer at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, / Academy of Fine Arts, which she could not accept because of the imminent birth of her second son, Stephan Spies v. Büllesheim - (currently lawyer in Dresden, Stadtrat a.D / former town-counctiller.in Dresden-Neustadt, - Officer of the German Maltese Order at the Vatican / Vertreter des deutschen Malteser-Ordens beim Vatikan). Already during her studies she repeatedly had exhibitions in one of the (formerly) most well known German art galleries, Galerie Karin Hielscher (Links to this art gallery), - which had gained international importance for providing talented artists, who had been suppressed during the 3. Reich (1933 - 1945) as "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst), a supportive forum. See letter of the gallerist Karin Hielscher - concerning the offer of a position at the Academy of the Fine Arts (Prof. Gollwitzer / Akademie der Künste) of Stuttgart - to the father of the artist, Friedrich von Steinling. While raising her children Marél von Steinling still pursued artisitic activities. Initiated by the president of the German Parliament (Bundestagspräsidentin) , social democrat Annemarie Renger, at that time, one of her paintings was acquired by the Bundestag Bonn (Collection of the German Parliament ("Sammlung Deutscher Bundestag") / Inventar-Nr. K - 01896 / see: Bild / Marél von Steinling nowe in the parliament building, Reichstagsgebäude, in Berlin). She and her husband repeatedly make the Castle Metternich available to host, among others, scientific conferences of the "Bonner Kreis" ("BK") (student association founded after World War II for the advancement of the arts and sciences) - or youth concerts (Metternicher Burg-Konzerte). On the 12th of September 2006 she was honoured with the Federal German Order of Merit Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Doc. 1) / Doc. 2) for her art work and her related social commitment, especially her preference to make her paintings available to exhibitions whose proceeds flow to caritative uses. Her
work consists mainly of still life, landscape, and religious as well as
abstract paintings, whereby the so-called 'Marél blue' ("Marél Blau")
became her trademark. As portraitist she represents a late
impressionistic style. She portrays people unembellished and with much
character somewhat reminiscent of the style of the late Renoir. Her
religious, partly abstract, paintings are of shocking impressiveness,
quite unsentimental and inspired by the artistic audacity of a "modern
Matthias Gruenewald".
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Press"Vogtland-Anzeiger" (June, July and October 2005 - Gerd Stoppa)
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* Entry in Artnews (self portrait / Selbstportrait) / Internet Künstlerlexikon / internet enzyclopdia of artists Links about Galerie Karin Hielscher* Central Institute of History of Art , Munich
More Links* Spies von Büllesheim
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