Lola Carr

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Lola Carr ( Hebrew לולה קאר; also Lola Fuchs-Carr; born as Lola Fuchs on November 30, 1918 in Vienna ; died 2009 in Paris ) was an Austrian-Israeli painter . After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938 as a Jew, persecuted and expelled, she lived in exile in London and Paris. She immigrated to Israel in the 1960s. Her paintings tell the story of her life and family.

Life

The house at Semperstrasse 29 in Vienna, where Lola Fuchs lived with her parents until 1938
The Journey, oil painting by Lola Carr (undated)
Memories, oil painting by Lola Carr (undated)

Lola Fuchs' father was the Austrian Galicia- born journalist and Yiddish writer Abraham Mosche Fuchs . Her mother Sonya Fuchs, née Paltun, was a pianist who emigrated with her parents from Odessa to New York, where she met Fuchs. Almost penniless, the two arrived in Vienna in 1914, where they married in 1915. Lola Fuchs was their only child. Raised in German by her parents, she did not read her father's Yiddish texts even later. In 1927 the family moved into a home-style apartment at Semperstrasse 29 in Vienna's 18th district . Your Matura made Lola Fox at a private girls' school.

She received training as a dancer at an early age. At the age of six she was a member of the children's ballet of the Vienna State Opera . At 14 she belonged to Gertrud Kraus' dance group and danced in Grete Wiesenthal's group . She attended the Vienna Conservatory for Music and Dance from 1934 to 1938 and performed as a soloist.

As a young girl, she experienced growing anti-Semitism in Austria . In 1938 the German Wehrmacht marched into Austria unhindered and on March 15, Adolf Hitler announced to a cheering crowd that Austria was annexed to the German Reich on Heldenplatz in Vienna . The Gestapo imprisoned Lola Fuchs and her parents for three months. In the same year the family was able to flee to London via Paris with the help of The Forward newspaper , for which the father worked.

In London, Lola Fuchs met the writer and journalist Maurice Carr (pseudonym of Maurice Kreitman), son of the writer Esther Kreitmann and nephew of Israël Joshua and Isaac Bashevis Singer . He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency . They married in 1939, had a daughter, Hazel, in London, and moved to Paris in 1946. In a small room in a hotel on the Rive Gauche, Lola Carr painted her first picture: a red geranium growing in front of the black railing of a window.

Lola Carr began to seriously occupy herself with painting, worked in Othon Friesz's studio , exhibited and studied painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from 1949 . She did not follow any particular art style. Her pictures are dreamlike, some are reminiscent of Chagall ; the color red appears in almost all of them. Her techniques used include oil painting , acrylic paints , tempera , watercolors, and metal sculpture . In 1959 she spent a year in Israel, where her father had lived since 1950. In 1966 she settled in Jerusalem with her husband and daughter for a few years , later in Tel Aviv . She had her studio in her apartment. Lola Carr never became famous and hardly known as an artist, but she never stopped painting. In her paintings she kept the memory of her world in Vienna alive.

“The pictures tell of journeys in a red Fiaker, on a winding route between Vienna, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. From a living room full of birds and cities. The salon is the calming pole in Lola's world in Vienna's Semperstrasse, where her mother plays the piano, her father sits at the desk and Lola lies on the couch reading. Paradise lost. The sky is full of birds of prey. "

- Kaye Mortley : Lola and the red fiaker in front of the votive church

Her daughter Hazel Karr reported about her mother 's painting to the Jewish Women's Archive :

“Lola painted the story of her life, her life in Vienna, Paris, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. She painted her parents, her husband, her daughter, the dogs we lived with, the cats. On the surface there were cheerful paintings in warm colors, but when I look at them now, I see that the bird she painted so often, which hovers over her as she sits on a balcony, a red or black bird, ominous , is threatening. I think this bird is about Nazism . "

Exhibitions

  • After exhibitions in Italy and France, her first solo exhibition took place in Israel in May 1975. 35 oil paintings were shown in the Reneé Darom gallery in Tel Aviv. a. the Israeli evening newspaper Maariw reported. Some pictures would evoke the atmosphere between impressionism and romanticism in Paris at the beginning of the century.
  • In 1997 the Jewish Museum Vienna presented Neuland in the exhibition . Israeli artists of Austrian origin portraits, works and other exhibits of 100 women and men, among them writers, painters, musicians, who had to flee Austria in 1938, including Lola Carr. "The exhibition not only shows the important place that Austrians occupy in the cultural life of Israel, but also shows the loss of creative potency that Austria has suffered through emigration," wrote Julius H. Schoeps in the foreword to the booklet. The exhibition is preceded by a research project of several years in the exile library in the Literaturhaus Vienna under the direction of Ursula Seeber.
  • From December 2017 to January 2018, the gallery Hervé Courtaigne showed in Paris in the themed show Orient Express. De Paris à Istanbul Lola Carr's painting Arrival in Vienna, a portrait of her parents on the platform of the Vienna train station. The exhibition was dedicated to those artists of the Nouvelle École de Paris who had lived on the Orient Express route and had emigrated to Paris for various reasons.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975: Renée Darom Gallery, Tel Aviv.
  • 1976: Katia Granoff Gallery , Paris.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lola Carr. Painter , in: Alisa Douer: Neuland. Israeli artists of Austrian origin , Picus Verlag, Vienna 1997, p. 106. Notwithstanding this, Kaye Mortley and the Jewish Women's Archive give the year of birth as 1915.
  2. ↑ Armin Eidherr : Sunset on icy-blue paths. To address the diaspora and language in Yiddish literature of the 20th century. V&R Unipress, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-994-9 , p. 183.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Kaye Mortley: Escape from Vienna 1938: The painter Lola Carr and the author Georg Troller. Radiofeature, Deutschlandradio Kultur / ORF, on March 10, 2018 in Ö1 (59 min.).
    Lola and the red Fiaker in front of the Votive Church. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 16, 2013.
    LOLA et le fiacre rouge devant l'église votive. France Culture, October 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Carr Lola, b. Fox; Painter. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 487 ( Google digitized version ).
  5. ↑ a b Who’s who in Israel and in the work for Israel abroad. Bronfman & Cohen Publications, Tel Aviv 1978, p. 89.
  6. ↑ a b Carr, Lola. In: Who's Who in the World, 1978–1979. P. 161, ISBN 978-0-8379-1104-5 ( Google Books query ).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Lola Carr. In: Alisa Douer: New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum Vienna with the scientific collaboration of Edith Blaschitz (German, English, Hebrew), Picus Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85452-407-6 , pp. 106-107.
  8. ↑ a b c Hazel Karr: What am I doing here? In: Jewish Women's Archive. December 31, 2012.
  9. ↑ Alisa Douer: New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum Vienna with the scientific collaboration of Edith Blaschitz (German, English, Hebrew), Picus Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85452-407-6 , p. 10.
  10. ↑ Israel Magazine. (Israeli monthly magazine, editor-in-chief: Maurice Carr), Volume 1/1968, p. 85 ( Google Books snippets ).
  11. ^ A b Lexicon of Fine Arts in Israel and Abroad. P. 82 (in Hebrew), publisher: Olam Ha-Omanut (World of Art), Tel Aviv 1979, 2nd edition 1982 (partial online view).
  12. ↑ In galleries: Lola Carr. In: Maariv. Sunday, May 4, 1975, accessed April 6, 2018. p. 28.
  13. ↑ The atmosphere of Paris. In: Maariv. Friday, May 23, 1975, accessed April 6, 2018. p. 28.
  14. ^ Julius H. Schoeps, preface to: Alisa Douer: Neuland. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Jewish Museum Vienna with the scientific collaboration of Edith Blaschitz (German, English, Hebrew), Picus Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85452-407-6 , p. 8.
  15. ↑ Alisa Douer: New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Jewish Museum Vienna with the scientific collaboration of Edith Blaschitz (German, English, Hebrew), Picus Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-85452-407-6 , p. 13.
  16. ^ Orient Express - Galerie Hervé Courtaigne. At: newsarttoday.tv. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  17. ↑ ORIENT EXPRESS / Notes et Pense Bête n.117 (video for the exhibition by the Hervé Courtaigne gallery on Vimeo ), Un film de Vittorio E. Pisu, accessed on April 7, 2018.
  18. ↑ a b Carr, Lola. In: Who's who in Israel and Jewish Personalities from All Over the World. Issue 20, Bronfman, 1985, accessed April 7, 2018, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Carr, Lola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs-Carr, Lola (full name); Fox, Lola; לולה קאר (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2009
Place of death Paris