Anna Klapheck

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Anna Klapheck (born Anna Helene Klara Elly von Strümpell, born May 12, 1899 in Erlangen , † February 25, 1986 in Düsseldorf ) was a German art historian and art critic .

Life

Anna von Strümpell was born as the fourth daughter of the internist and founder of neuropathology Adolf von Strümpell and his wife Anna, née Langerhaus, on May 12, 1899 in Erlangen. When Anna was four years old, her father was offered a position at the University of Wroclaw . There she attended a private girls' school from 1906 to 1909. When her father went to the Leipzig University Clinic in 1910 , Anna attended a high school for girls there. After graduating from high school, she attended a household school in Gaienhofen in 1918 . From 1919 to 1921 she did a bookbinding apprenticeship with a journeyman's certificate.

From the winter semester 1921/22 she studied art history, philosophy and classical archeology in Leipzig, Berlin and Marburg. Here she gets into the inner circle around the philosopher Nicolai Hartmann . He offered her dissertation topics to choose from, but she shifted her interest to art history. She completed her studies on July 22, 1925 with a doctorate in art history under Richard Hamann . Her dissertation on the iconographic topic “ Saint Jerome in a Case ” was awarded the top grade summa cum laude.

Back in Leipzig , she initially worked as a trainee at the Museum of Fine Arts and until 1927 as an employee at the Leipzig art dealer CG Boerner . On behalf of the company, she did research in Düsseldorf, where she met Richard Klapheck , whom she married on March 17, 1927. In the following years she supported her husband in many book projects with accompanying research. She got to know professors at the art academy , especially those who were newly appointed by the director Walter Kaesbach : Heinrich Campendonk and Werner Heuser came to the academy in 1926, Paul Klee in 1931, Ewald Mataré and Oskar Moll in 1932. After Kaesbach and the professors he appointed from were released by the National Socialists , her husband was also released in 1934. However, Richard Klapheck continued to publish on architecture and art sites in the Rhineland.

Son Konrad was born on February 10, 1935 . In the same year her art guide “Die Mosel” came out in the series Deutsche Lande - German Art in the German Art Publishing House.

In July 1936, the family moved into the house they had designed themselves at Mozartstrasse No. 2 in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf . Anna Klapheck gave well-attended art history courses. On June 23, 1939, her husband Richard died after a long and serious illness. In 1942, when Düsseldorf was also bombed, Anna moved to her parents' house in Leipzig, but had to do so in 1943, after her mother's death and the destruction of the Leipzig house, in which the Rhenish library rescued from Düsseldorf and her husband's writings and notes were destroyed , keep fleeing. She stayed with her son in a friend's manor in Dörnthal in the Ore Mountains. Anna Klapheck survived the invasion of the Russian army unscathed, and in November 1945 she returned to Düsseldorf.

With a license as an art critic, Klapheck was able to work for the first newspapers in the British zone of occupation . From June 1946, she reported on the Düsseldorf art scene in the Düsseldorf magazine Rhein-Echo and a little later for the Westdeutsche Rundschau from Wuppertal. Here she was responsible for the Düsseldorf side with reporting on theater and the visual arts. In September 1946 her first article about " Bertha von Suttner - Wegbereiter der Demokratie" appeared in the Rheinische Post , further articles followed. In the same year Anna Klapheck began with art history slide lectures that focus the work of the Nazi era ostracized and persecuted artists formed.

In May 1952 she was hired as a lecturer for art history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, received the title of professor in 1962 and taught until 1966. She researched and published on the avant-garde in Düsseldorf in the 1920s with the book about "Mother Ey - a Düsseldorf artist legend", which was published in 1958 appeared. The book was made into a film by WDR with her participation and was broadcast in February 1984.

In 1958 Klapheck paid tribute to the work of the painter Bruno Goller , whose special importance she worked out as a magical realist . She was on friendly terms with Ewald Mataré . In 1960 she documented Ewald Mataré's “Doors and Gates” in an illustrated book. In the 1980s she dealt intensively with lesser-known parts of Mataré's work and in 1983 published his “Aquarelle 1920–1956”. In 1961, it goes into the work of the director of the Art Academy Walter Kaesbach, who was dismissed by the Nazis, in a special edition of the Art Academy: "Walter Kaesbach and the Twenties at the Düsseldorf Art Academy". With a monograph on the Polish-Jewish painter Jankel Adler from 1966, who had a major impact on the Düsseldorf avant-garde in the 1920s, she was the first to pay tribute to the hitherto scattered and partly lost work of the artist persecuted by the National Socialists.

After a trip to Russia to the major museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg and to the memorials of Russian authors such as Tolstoy or Pushkin, her homage "Düsseldorf", a book about the connection between history and art, was published in 1972 in the series "Deutsche Lande - Deutsche Kunst" Art from her adopted home with a central part of the picture by photographer Ruth Hallensleben . In 1979 her anthology was published “Vom Notbehelf zur Wohlstandskunst. Art in the Rhineland in the post-war period ”.

Since her beginning as a journalist, Anna Klapheck has dealt with the history of literature in addition to art history. She valued Ricarda Huch and her admiration went to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . For more than 25 years she organized lectures and memorial hours at the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf . In 1984 the then director of the Goethe Museum, Jörn Göres , published her contributions as an anthology.

On February 25, 1986 Anna Klapheck died in her house at Mozartstrasse 2.

Honors (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Jerome in the case . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 2, 1925/26, pp. 173–244 (dissertation, also as a separate print with curriculum vitae).
  • The Moselle ( Deutsche Lande - German Art series ). German art publisher, Berlin 1935.
  • Carl Lauterbach. Drawings. Kaloso, Solingen-Ohligs 1948.
  • Mother ey. A Düsseldorf artist legend. 1959, 2nd edition Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0481-7 .
  • Walter Kaesbach and the twenties at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Düsseldorf 1961.
  • Jankel Adler. Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art. Aurel Bongers Publishing House, Recklinghausen 1966.
  • Düsseldorf (Deutsche Lande - German Art). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972.
  • From makeshift to the art of prosperity. Art in the Rhineland in the post-war period . DuMont, Cologne 1979.
  • Ewald Mataré, watercolors 1929–1956 . Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88814-119-2 .
  • Jörn Göres (Ed.): I wish many guests today ... 60 reports by Anna Klapheck about lectures and commemorative studies in the Goethe Museum . Goethe Museum, Düsseldorf 1983.
Cultural journalistic texts

Anna Klapheck - Texts:

  • Bertha von Suttner, September 28, 1946
  • The beginnings of Yves Klein , June 4, 1957
  • Cotta: Goethe's and Schiller's publishers, May 1, 1972
  • Pilgrimage to the Academy, March 10, 1973
  • Memorial hour for Anton Kippenberg , March 27, 1974
  • Recklinghausen's imaginary museum, May 25, 1974
  • Goethe and Michelangelo, March 10, 1975
  • French emigrants in Goethe's Weimar, January 20, 1976
  • City Museum reopened, January 18, 1978
  • Goethe's "Harzreise im Winter", January 25, 1978
  • Franz W. Seiwert : Exhibition in Cologne, February 14, 1978
  • Goethe's “Roman Elegies”, February 18, 1978
  • Düsseldorf School of Painting , May 12, 1979
  • Galerie Alfred Schmela , July 23, 1980
  • History painter Peter Janssen , October 18, 1980
  • Goethe's mother, February 14, 1981
  • Goethe's “Märchen”, March 14, 1981
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales, April 4, 1981
  • About JJ Winckelmann , October 10, 1981
  • Children's book during Goethe's time, January 12, 1982
  • Paper cutouts by Philipp Otto Runge , January 23, 1982
  • Düsseldorf, the third Goethe city, March 13, 1982
  • Graphic artist Otto Coester , April 3, 1982
  • Goethe and the Theater, April 3, 1982
  • Friendship between Goethe and Schiller, November 6, 1982
  • Gottfried Benn and Goethe, April 18, 1983
  • Max Beckmann's diaries, June 16, 1984
  • Dalí's autobiography, October 13, 1984
  • For and against the amateur, April 27, 1985
  • On the death of Hella Nebelung , June 20, 1985
  • Gallery owner Alex Vömel , June 26, 1985
  • Memories of Beuys , February 1, 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural journalistic texts by Anna Klapheck, Copyright RP
personal data
SURNAME Klapheck, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klapheck-Strümpell, Anna; Strümpell, Anna Helene Klara Elly von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1986
Place of death Dusseldorf