Marél von Steinling

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Marie-Gabrielle Freifrau Spies von Büllesheim née Freiin von Steinling zu Boden und Stainling (*16. Juni 1933 in Eichstätt /Bavaria) is an artist - known as MARÉL.

2006 she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal German Order of Merit in the name of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany) for her art as well as her cultural and caritative contributions. She lives in the Castle Metternich near Bonn since 1960.

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[edit] Family

Marél von Steinling, Daughter of Friedrich v. Steinling, and Johanna née Hoenning O'Carroll, artist.

[edit] Live and Work

Marél von Steinling studied from 1954 until 1958 at the Academy of Fine Arts 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.

On the 30th of June 1960 she married Franz-Leo Freiherr Spies von Büllesheim. At 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, Already during her studies she repeatedly had exhibitions in one of the (formerly) most well known German art galleries, Galerie Karin Hielscher, - 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.

While raising her children Marél von Steinling still pursued artistic 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 now in the parliament building, Reichstagsgebäude, in Berlin).


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.On account of raising six children and the constant care of and renovations to the Castle and Park of Metternich she was unable, for many years, to establish a presence in the media necessary for a career, and to become known to a wider audience. Her two new exhibitions 2005 have enabled her to reconnect to her earlier successes, rediscovered by surprised experts and an informed public - similar to the very famous pianist Clara Haskil, who became well known at an old age, or the great American painter "Grandma Moses", who began her world career when she was 70 years old. Her next exhibitions will be in North-Rhine-Westfalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen).

She is included in the Great German Art Encyclopedia / das grosse ALLGEMEINE KÜNSTLER-LEXIKON / AKL (K. G. Saur Verlag / de Gruyter Berlin/New York - formerly THIEME-BECKER)

[edit] Exhibitions

  • among others, 1962: Munich, formerly Galerie Karin Hielscher, Galeriestr. 6 (Currently: Galerie Bartsch & Chariau)
  • Rosenheim, Club of Art / Kunstverein Rosenheim
  • 1970: Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg, Orangerie, Musée du Luxembourg (well known international exhibition of four important new artists)
  • 1977: Bogotá, Museo del Arte de la Universidad National de Columbia,,Students Union Building, Exhibition Hall of University, (Sole exhibition)
  • 1977: Bogota, Galeria Mira, Avenida 82 / No 11-18 (Sole exhibition, aquarelle)
  • 1979: Bonn, Bavarenhaus
  • 1995: Dresden,
  • 1996: Paris, 8e Grand Marché d' Art contemporain, Bois de Boulogne, 103, Rue de la Folie Méricourt, Organizer: Chambre Européenne pour l' economie et les finances, 31, Rue de la Procession, 75015 Paris
  • 2005: Plauen, Deutsche Bank, supported by Kulturwerk
  • 2005: Dresden, Dresdner Bank (historical main building), Dr.-Külz-Ring 10 (Einzelausstellung)
  • 2006: Euskirchen near Bonn, Participation in the exhibition of the"Hospizdienst" (Social Service) "Wenn der Tod unser Leben berührt"

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