Anne Koken

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Änne Koken's lobster on mayonnaise, designed in 1909 as a trademark of the “delicatessen wholesaler and food factory” Heinrich Wilhelm Appel (HWA);
Two-color print of the Illustrirten Zeitung No. 3538 from April 20, 1911.
Änne Kokens Art Nouveau - advertisement for the "Cremosa Chocolade" from Sprengel as almost DIN A3 - four-color print on the first inside cover for the newspaper (special print) "Number 3538" as a cooperation between the Illustrirten Zeitung and the Hannover Anzeiger in 1911

Änne Koken (born May 28, 1885 in Hanover ; † April 19, 1919 there ) was a German painter and universal artist . She was the second child of the respected Hanoverian painter Gustav Koken and his wife Bertha Marie Pauline Koken, b. Voges (1858-1944). In addition to landscape paintings and still lifes , Änne Koken designed glass windows, clothing, book decorations and various commercial graphics . Through her works in the field of commercial graphics and advertising art , especially for the companies Bahlsen , Günther Wagner and Appel Feinkost , Änne Koken became well known.

Live and act

Änne Kokens series of advertising stamps for the Bahlsen company (1913)

Änne Koken studied in Munich-Planegg at the school for "Painting and Decorative Art" of Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas . According to Thieme-Becker , Änne Koken was in the forefront of German commercial graphic artists at the time when the idea of ​​"art in trade and industry" began to become topical:

“Despite the shortness of her life, Änne Koken's extensive oeuvre in so many different areas clearly shows the general change in artistic activity around 1900: from traditional landscape and still life painting, to 'real art', to designing posters, advertising and packaging for industrial goods. "

In 1909 she designed the trademark with the lobster , which the Appel Feinkost company still uses today in a similar form. A year later (1910) she returned to Hanover and opened her own studio in Lavesstrasse. Koken was initially an artistic assistant and later a member of the artistic advisory board at Bahlsen . The design of a poster depicting the Bahlsen administration building in Podbielskistraße and mentioned in various magazines took place in 1911. She worked for Bahlsen until 1919. Between 1910 and 1911 her designs had a decisive influence on the company image. From 1912 designs for clothes, hats and textile art followed, which from this point on appeared regularly in the magazine Neue Frauenkleendung und Frauenkultur .

In 1913 an article by Rudolf Pencil about Änne Koken appeared in Das Plakat . In 1912 her work was shown in the large exhibition in Hanover and in 1914 glass pictures in the woman's house . In 1914 she took part in the exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund in Cologne with graphic work in the Bahlsen pavilion and was elected to the board of directors of the Kestner Museum . In 1918 she was at the first exhibition of the Hanover Secession , a special exhibition of the Kestner Society . As a member of the Association for German Women's Clothing and Culture, the artist campaigned for women's rights.

From 1919 on it was called Änne Neuendorff-Koken and a last article appeared for the magazine New Women’s Clothing and Women’s Culture in January / February 1919.

Änne Koken died on April 19, 1919 in her native Hanover of pneumonia two weeks after the birth of her daughter.

literature

  • Special volume for the 75th anniversary of the Bahlsen company (1889–1964). H. Bahlsen Keksfabrik KG, Hanover (ed.) 1964.
  • Koken, Änne . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 213 .
  • The poster. Vol. 11, H. 1, 1920, pp. 3, 17, 24.
  • Nekrolog Änne Koken. In: The Cicerone. XI, 1919.
  • Usage graphics. Vol. 3, H. 4, 1926, p. 64 f.
  • Babette Kaiserkern: Änne Koken - Introduction to life and work. Lecture on June 17, 2007 at the Historisches Museum Hannover ( kaiserkern.de ).
  • Reiner Meyer: The advertising art of the Bahlsen biscuit factory in Hanover from 1889-1945. Diss .: Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1999.
  • Christof Sprengemann: Änne Koken. In: New women's clothing and women's culture. JG. 15, H. 5, 1919, 14 f.
  • Walter F. Schubert: Hannoversche commercial and art graphics. In: Hannoverland. H. 8, 1915, p. 101 ff .; Ann. H. 9, p. 113 ff.
  • Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Fackelträger Verlag, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 242 f.
  • Hugo Thielen : KOKEN, (1) Änne. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 206 f.
  • Corinna Heins, Anne Jäger: Women in the List / Aenne Koken, commercial artist (1885–1919). In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New series Volume 60, 2006, p. 242 f.
  • Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (Eds.): Women in Graphic Design. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 487 and 489.

Web links

Commons : Änne Koken  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thielen : Koken, (1) Änne In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 362 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Babette Kaiserkern: Änne Koken - Introduction to life and work. Lecture on June 17, 2007 in the Historical Museum, Hanover.
personal data
SURNAME Koken, Änne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koken-Neuendorff, Änne; Neuendorff, Änne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1919
Place of death Hanover