Concertina art by Gertrude Degenhardt

[Daniel Hersh]

I just became aware of this artist who uses concertina images in some of her work.  There's info about her at https://www.thekennygallery.ie/artists/degenhardtgertrude/ .

 

[David Helmore]

Love these, especially the second one!!

[Peter Laban]

GD has been at this a very long time : one of her etchings was used as the cover of Seamus Ennis' Phelim Ton Ris Castle LP of the late seventies.

 

 

She has a whole series of etchings that can be seen as related to (Irish) traditional music, even if the faces of the figures have distinctly German features. I posted these concertina ones to one of the 'concertina in art' thread well over a decade ago. I have a framed original etching of the first image above.

 

Kenny's gallery in Galway had a series of postcards of these and other  images as well, I don't know if these are still available (Kennys moved out of their shop a good while ago and are now working out of a warehouse in an industrial estate so not as easy to casually walk in)

Edited February 20, 2022 by Peter Laban

[Robin Harrison]

Amazing art............it struck me as very Gormenghast / Mervyn Peake.

       The second image could be Steerpike playing.

Robin

 

[Peter Laban]

There's a number of her music images available on ebay, for a bit more than I remember paying.

 

Both etchings

 

and posters/other prints

 

[Daniel Hersh]

6 hours ago, Peter Laban said:

There's a number of her music images available on ebay, for a bit more than I remember paying.

 

The Kenny Gallery offers a number of her works for sale (including the ones I mentioned) here.