Alice Spies-Neufert

Alice Spies-Neufert (* 1896 in Düsseldorf , † 1990 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and author of books for young people .

Life

Alice Spies-Neufert was born in Düsseldorf as the first daughter of the classical philologist Friedrich Vollmer (1867–1923) and the pianist Elisabeth Lücker-Lasinsky (1871–1954), the granddaughter of the painter Johann Adolf Lasinsky . She spent her first years in Brussels, where her father was the director of the German School. Her mother studied with Franz Liszt , accompanied the singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink on her European tours and played at the Opera de Munt . In 1898 the family moved to Munich , where their father accepted a chair in classical philology.

After the First World War, Vollmer hiked from Munich across the Alps to Italy. She then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1919 she moved to the Bauhaus in Weimar, which was newly founded by Walter Gropius . There she got to know the chief architect of Gropius, Ernst Neufert . The four children Peter Neufert , Krista, Ingrit and Ilas emerged from the marriage with Neufert . The family moved to Gelmeroda near Weimar in 1926 , after Neufert had accepted a professorship at the Bauhochschule Weimar under Otto Bartning . After the building school was forced to close by the NSDAP in 1933, Neufert moved to Berlin, where he ran an art school with Johannes Itten . After her divorce from Neufert in 1935, she married the architect Hermann Spies and lived with him and their four children in Hellerau . Hermann Spies fell in Russia in 1943. Shortly before the bombing of Dresden , Alice and her children moved to live with their mother in Farchant near Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where her father once owned a summer house and the mother was still alive.

After the Second World War Alice Spies-Neufert campaigned for the Anthroposophical Society and after 1975 for the biodynamic economy and after 1979 for the Green Party , with whose founding member Herbert Gruhl she was friends.

Works

• Mirko-Atsistamokon: The story of a young Indian . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1979. ISBN 3-88069-041-3 (Volume 1)
• Mirko-Atsistamokon: Chief of the Oglala Mellinger, Stuttgart 1980. ISBN 3-88069-099-5 . (Volume 2)
• Mirko-Atsistamokon: Return to Tschewan . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1981. ISBN 3-88069-122-3 . (Volume 3)

literature

• Nicole Delmes, Johannes Kister and Lilian Pfaff (eds.): Ernst Neufert Peter Neufert, Ostfildern 2014.
• Moritz Blanckarts: Lasinsky, Gustav. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 732 f.