Anna Andersch-Marcus

Grave slab of Anna Andersch-Marcus on the Mount of Olives (Jerusalem)

Anna Andersch-Marcus ; and Anna Kienau (* 29. May 1914 in Kiel ; ✡ 11 April 2005 in Jeroham in Israel ) was a German glass painter . Her grave is in Jerusalem.

Life

Anna Andersch-Marcus, nee Nagel, was the daughter of the French and half-Jew Christian Henry Nagel and his Protestant wife Friederike, nee. Peters.

From 1931 to 1935 she attended the technical and arts and crafts college in Kiel with Werner Lange (1888–1955) and then switched to the graphic technical college in Berlin .

After just four months, the National Socialists banned her from studying, not only because of her Jewish origins, but also because she had refused to perform the Hitler salute and join the Nazi student union since 1933 ; the SS confiscated 20 of their expressive woodcuts and destroyed them as “Bolshevik” art; it was put on the " black list ". The German Association of Artists excluded them. With the support of friends and other artists with work assignments, she managed to survive in Berlin until 1938, including for the Todt Organization and even for the SS, whose “house visits” threatened and attempted to intimidate them; During this time she took private lessons from 1935 to 1938 with the animal painter and draftsman Jakob Friedrich Bollschweiler (1888–1938). After she had to leave Berlin in a hurry as Anna Kinau in 1938 , she moved to her husband in Dessau , where he worked as a painter and set designer at the theater until they moved to Hamburg in 1939 .

Between September 1939 and 1968 she was based in Hamburg-Finkenwerder . In 1941 her file with the listing of her anti-Nazi student activities came from Berlin to Finkenwerder, whereupon she was put on the street by her husband's family in December 1941 with their children; she then moved into a primitive emergency apartment with her children.

Anna Kinau lived under police supervision and was not allowed to leave Finkenwerder. The fishermen from Finkenwerder protected her by portraying her as a crazy artist and tolerating her and making sure that she could still settle in. In 1943 the furniture, household items and pictures they had deposited in Hasselbrook were burned . The inherited money was confiscated and their papers disappeared. At the end of the war she was left with nothing, but after the war she received numerous commissions from the occupying powers and was able to secure her income through further paintings. With her window painting of churches and synagogue windows she had so much success that she became known all over Germany

In Hamburg, solo exhibitions took place in 1960 in the public library in Winterhude and in 1968 in the Cafe Latin gallery .

After initial graphic work, later mainly landscape and architectural images with abstract forms and strictly tectonic compositions were created; she also tried gouache painting .

In 1955 and 1961 she took part in the exhibitions of Hamburg artists with oil and tempera pictures . In addition, she fulfilled many art-in-building jobs in the area of wall painting and window design in the Hamburg area.

In 1969 she moved to Israel. But even after her move, she took part in a joint exhibition in Hofgeismar in 1983 in the gallery on the market.

After her relocation to Israel, she lived, among other things, as a glass painter in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem before moving to Jerocham in the Negev desert .

In 2001 there was a benefit exhibition to save the only stained glass windows in Norderstedt's churches with works by the artist of these windows showing the foolish and wise virgins .

She appeared in the documentary Hitler and the Women (Institute for Foreign Relations, 2001) as a contemporary witness and told how she secretly got assignments from Leni Riefenstahl after being banned from working .

In 1937 she married her fellow student Carl-Adolf Kinau (born 1910; † unknown), son Gorch Focks . In 1939 and 1941 the children Anna and Jan were born. After her husband was drafted into the military, the marriage broke up as a result.

In 1949 she married Martin Andersch (1921–1992), graphic artist , type artist and brother of Alfred Andersch . Their son Dirk Andersch (born February 6, 1950 in Hamburg) became a painter and etcher .

Anna Andersch-Marcus was in her third marriage to Shlomo Marcus, a grandson of Josef Eschelbacher , and converted to the Jewish faith.

Works (selection)

• Design of the gable in 1956 in the Ballerstedtweg elementary school , Hamburg.
• Paris, autumn . 1960. Hamburg, Kunsthalle .
• Angel . 1960. Hamburg Bishop's Office.
• 50 lead-glazed glass windows in 1960 in the Heiligengeistkirche in Barmbek . After the church was to be partially demolished, the windows in the church's basement could be brought to safety. After the inauguration on September 22, 2017, the windows adorn the walls of the prayer room in Hamburg's Rathauspassage.
• Sumela Monastery . Color woodcut 1966.
• In the seraglio . Color woodcut 1966.
• In 1967 she designed the glass windows of the St. Nikolai Church in Finkenwerder .
• Design of the windows with vineyard motifs for the Weinbergkirche in Kiel-Elmschenhagen . 1985.
• Wall paintings in the Kohlhöfen youth library, Hamburg.
• Window of the Bodelschwingh Church in Hamburg-Winterhude .
• Restoration of the stained glass windows in the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem , which were damaged in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence and in 1967 during the Six Day War .
• Desert and water - illustrations . Hamburg Dölling u. Galitz 1994. ISBN 978-3-926174-93-2 .

literature

• Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists. Publisher: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Heide, Boyens & Co. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 38.
• Anna Kinau in: Ralph Busch: “He didn't dare go to Finkenwerder either.” Liskor - Erinnern, No. 6, 2nd year. Hamburg Society for Jewish Genealogy eV 2017. ISSN  2509-4491 . P. 23 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Matthias Gretzschel: On the death of the painter Anna Andersch-Marcus . April 16, 2005 ( abendblatt.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).
2. ↑ Information Center for Israeli Art | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Retrieved March 17, 2019 . 
3. ^ Art in crisis - list of artists. Retrieved March 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Finkenwerder's cultural workers in the time of the “Third Reich” - Finkenwerder history workshop. Accessed March 17, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ WORLD: Beautiful ladies, fine line . June 28, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed March 20, 2019]).