Tina Haim-Wentscher

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Tina Haim-Wentscher (also: Tina Haim, Tina Wentcher ; December 17, 1887 in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire - April 21, 1974 in St Kilda , Melbourne , Australia ) was a German-Australian sculptor.

Life

Tina Haim was born in Constantinople in 1887 as the daughter of the Serbian businessman David Leon Haim and his Italian wife Rebecca Mondolfo. The family belonged to the Turkish Sephardic Jews. The family came to Berlin via Vienna in 1893, where Tina Haim studied sculpture at the Lewin Funcke School in Charlottenburg in 1907/08 and from 1929 ran her own studio in Dahlem . From 1912 to 1914 she stayed several times to study in Paris, where she also met the sculptor Auguste Rodin . She took part in an exhibition at the Berlin Secession with a bust of her sister, her first work . She had a long friendship with the sculptor Käthe Kollwitz .

In 1914 she married the Berlin painter Julius Wentscher . From 1921 they undertook joint study trips to Greece, Italy, Egypt and in 1931/32 a longer trip to Bali and Java . From 1927 to 1931 she was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . In 1933, on the advice of Käthe Kollwitz, they decided not to return to Germany because of the worsening situation for Jews. This was followed by stays in China (1932/33) and again in Indonesia (1933/34) as well as in the countries of Indochina , around 1935/36 in Siam and Cambodia , 1936/37 in Singapore and 1936/40 in Malaysia .

When the Second World War broke out , the couple were deported to Australia as Enemy Aliens in 1940, where they were initially interned in Tatura, Victoria , until 1942 . After their release, they settled in Melbourne, received Australian citizenship in 1946 and Anglicized their name to "Wentcher". Tina Haim-Wentcher became a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors , and in 1958 she received the Interstate Sculptors Prize from Newcastle, New South Wales . Her charitable work for the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne led to a close friendship with the philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (1909–2012), mother of media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch . Tina Haim-Wentcher died in Melbourne in 1974 at the age of 87.

plant

In 1920 , the art patron James Simon donated the bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti , the best-known exhibit in his collection , to the Egyptian Museum Berlin . Simon had financed Ludwig Borchardt's excavations in Tell el-Amarna , Egypt , and brought the finds to Germany. Heinrich Schäfer , director of the Egyptian Museum, highly valued the work of Haim-Wentscher. In 1913 he commissioned the artist to make hand-measured copies of the bust. She made two copies in artificial stone for Kaiser Wilhelm II. And James Simon, in which the imperfections on the crown, ear, and uraeus were eliminated and the missing eye replaced. At the beginning of the 1920s, Haim-Wentscher made another model bust, an exact, manually measured model. This model served for many years to mold all subsequent art replicas.

Tina Haim-Wentscher and her husband designed the artistic furnishings of the Malaysian pavilion in the form of ten dioramas with life-size artificial stone figures in front of landscapes for the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow in 1938 .

Sculptures of her are in the National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne, the Australian National Gallery , Canberra , the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park , Langwarrin, Victoria .

Works (selection)

Levison grave , Hamburg

Exhibitions

  • 1987: Tina Wentcher 1887–1974: A Centennial Exhibition , Melbourne
  • 2017: Tina Haim - Tina Haim-Wentscher - Tina Wentcher Sculptor: 1887–1974 , McClelland Sculpture Park & ​​Gallery. Curator: Ken Scarlett OAM

literature

  • Haim-Wentscher, Tina . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 355 .
  • Juliet Peers: Wentcher, Tina (1887–1974). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography , National Center of Biography, Australian National University , Volume 16, 2002
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: Thutmose vs Tina Haim-Wentscher - the model of Nefertiti as a model. In: David Ludwig, Cornelia Weber and Oliver Zausig (eds.): The material model. Object stories from scientific practice . Series of cultural techniques. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5696-0 , pp. 201-207.
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: Series star Nefertiti. New sources on the 3D reception of the bust before the Amarna exhibition of 1924. In: Christina Haak and Miguel Helfrich (eds.): Casting. An analog route into the age of digitization? A symposium on plaster molding by the Berlin State Museums . Merzhausen: ad picturam 2016, ISBN 978-3-946653-19-6 , pp. 162-173; online at Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2016, doi : 10.11588 / arthistoricum.95.114 .
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: From non-finito sculptures to dioramas. People and their existence in Tina Haim-Wentscher's work. In: Kristin Eichhorn and Johannes S. Lorenzen (eds.): Expressionistinnen , 04/2016, pp. 92-105, with b / w illustrations.
  • Simon Lawrie (Ed.): Tina Haim. Tina Haim-Wentscher. Tina Wentcher. Sculptor 1887–1974 . (Authors: Ken Scarlett / Martina Dlugaiczyk). McClelland Sculpture Park & ​​Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia 2017, Mercedes Waratah Press 2017, ISBN 978-0-9946191-2-9 , (supplement with a list of works and references has also been published).
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: Tina Haim - Tina Haim-Wentscher - Tina Wentscher. The image of the new woman from three perspectives. In: Sonja Häder and Ulrich Wiegmann (eds.): At the side of learned men. Women between emancipation and tradition. (History of education. Research - Accents - Perspectives), Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7815-2205-3 , pp. 150-184.
  • Martina Dlugaiczyk: Modern without violence - the rediscovery / rediscovery of a Berlin sculptor: Tina Haim Wentscher 1887–1974. In: Julia Wallner and Günter Ladwig (eds.): The first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism. Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819776-0-8 , pp. 84–89.

Web links

Commons : Tina Haim-Wentscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haim DL In: Wiener Adreßbuch , 1891, part 3, p. 501. “Haim, DL, II. Unt. Donaustr. 33, Ges. D. F (irma) D. & R. Haim & D. Leon, shopping magazine, II. Ulrichg. 1. “(Vienna library digital).
  2. ↑ DL Haim . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1893, 2, p. 451. “DL Haim, from Konstantinopel, Türkische u. Persian carpets a. Embroidery Engr. Direct import. Storage: NW Neuer Packhof, cabin 5, 20 u. 11. Kontor u. Residential: NW Alt Moabit 135. Inh. DL Haim “.
  3. ↑ Haim-Wentscher, Tina . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, 2, p. 1072. “Bildhauerin, Dahlem, Bastianstr. 6 E. “(until 1933).
  4. ↑ Distinguished Artists In Singapore - Husband And Wife As Painter And Sculptress. In: The Straits Times , Singapore, February 12, 1936, p. 14 (with a photo of the couple)
  5. ^ Sculptor In The East: Mrs. Wentscher Comes To Malaya. In: The Straits Times , Singapore, February 20, 1936, p. 1 (with a photo of the artist)
  6. ↑ Martina Dlugaiczyk: Series star Nefertiti. New sources on the 3D reception of the bust before the Amarna exhibition of 1924. In: Casting. An analog route into the age of digitization. A symposium on plaster molding by the Berlin State Museums. Christine Haak, Miguel Helfrich, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2016 (German, English).
  7. ↑ Martina Dlugaiczyk: Thutmosis vs Tina Haim-Wentscher - the model of Nefertiti as a model . In: David Ludwig, Cornelia Weber and Oliver Zausig (eds.): The material model. Object stories from scientific practice. Series of cultural techniques. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2014, p. 201-207 .
  8. ↑ Martina Dlugaiczyk (text), Andreas Paasch (photo): Historical replica of Nefertiti. Based on a template by Tina Haim. In: Press release of the Gipsformerei - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , December 2013 ( digitized PDF )
  9. ^ Icon of Berlin and Egypt. 100 years of Nefertiti. Egypt Center, Swansea ( direct link to the property )
  10. ^ New edition of Nefertiti. In: Press release of the Gipsformerei. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, October 1, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Illustration and Biography Center for Jewish History, Digital Collections
  12. ↑ Figure Heritage Museum, Hong Kong ( direct link to the object )
  13. ^ Illustration in the NGV collection
  14. ↑ Illustration in the Australian Art Auction Records portal
  15. ^ Juliet Peers: Wentcher, Tina (1887–1974). (see literature)
  16. ^ McClelland Sculpture Park & ​​Gallery
personal data
SURNAME Haim-Wentscher, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haim, Ernestine (maiden name); Haim, Esther Tina; Haim-Wentcher, Tina (from 1946 in Australia)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1974
Place of death St Kilda , Melbourne , Australia