Anna Klein

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Anna Klein (born February 16, 1883 in Nuremberg , † November 25, 1941 in Ghetto Kovno ) was a German painter and graphic artist. In addition to landscape, animal and genre pictures in oil, with motifs mainly from Upper Bavaria and Tyrol, she mainly created print and commercial graphics such as bookplates , labels, postcards, etc. a. m. Persecuted as a Jew, the artist was murdered by the National Socialists in late 1941 .

Farmer's wife with ducks on the village street
Shepherd with herd

Live and act

She was the third child of a wealthy wine and hops trader of Jewish origin who had converted to the Protestant faith. Around 1900 Anna Klein, who converted to Catholicism at the age of seven, came to Dachau and became a student at Hans von Hayek's private painting school . She mainly dealt with animal representations and landscape painting. She then studied (1902/03) at the private school for women painters in Karlsruhe and completed her artistic training at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association , where she was a student of Max Feldbauer and Julius Diez . In 1906 she was in the Netherlands with a painting class from Hans von Hayek:

“In the land of picturesque motifs, the artist opened up new subjects - she created large-format drawings of farmers and fishermen, which reflect her particular interest in the Dutch costume with the typical hoods, aprons and clogs. Anna discovered a love of detail and developed a keen sense for depicting small coincidences and amusing moments from everyday rural and urban life. "

In 1908 Anna Klein took part in an anatomy course offered by Franz Marc . In a photo from the same year you can see her, next to the painter and his future wife Maria Franck , under the wall-filling drawing Panther jumping at a bull . In 1910 she completed an apprenticeship as a drawing teacher at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . After completing the drawing teacher examination, Anna Klein, who lived in the Gern district, worked as a private drawing teacher. Together with her friend Elisabeth Troll, she ran her own drawing school, which had to be closed in 1933 in the early days of National Socialism . Anna Klein, who had been suffering from rheumatism since she was 30, was forced to work in a mattress factory. Since she was not allowed to use the tram as a Jew, she had to walk to her place of work in the Haidhausen district of Munich every day.

Anna Klein was represented in 1919, 1920 and 1922 with oil paintings and graphics in the Glaspalast and in 1914 at the world exhibition for book trade and graphics in Leipzig. In 1927 she had a solo exhibition at the Axel Juncker publishing house in Berlin.

The artist was abducted on November 20, 1941 from Munich to the ghetto of Kovno (Theresienstadt is incorrectly stated in a different location), where she was shot five days later.

Part of her estate is in the Dachau Gemäldegalerie , which dedicated an exhibition to the artist (July 4 - September 28, 2008).

The majority of her still existing oil paintings and etchings are in a private collection that has been growing steadily since 2012 and is looked after by the “Galerie Der Panther” based in Freising. Some of the missing works of art that were found again between 2012 and 2016 are listed below.

  • Musicians in Bamberg's old town

  • On the way home

  • Dachauer Moos - flock of sheep with shepherd

  • On the way home II

  • Dachau moss

  • Field work in Dachau

Artistic work

Anna Klein was mainly influenced by Max Feldbauer and Hans von Hayek in their way of working and the choice of subjects. Her landscape, animal and genre pictures, which deal mainly with rural life, reveal a thorough study of nature, as both taught. She described people and animals, work processes and religious customs, observed mainly in Upper Bavaria and Tyrol and painted some motifs several times. At the same time, she cultivated a decorative, stylized illustration style in her woodcuts and lithographs , as was characteristic of Munich artists such as Julius Diez or the Schiestl brothers ( Matthäus Schiestl and Rudolf Schiestl ).

Works (selection)

Since there is currently no registered evidence for the works of Anna Klein, the gallery “Der Panther” - fine art has set itself the task of creating a catalog raisonné for the works of Anna Klein and keeping it for the future as an “open catalog raisonné” . Open therefore to successively - u. a. In addition to the paintings or other works in private ownership that were previously considered lost and found again in recent years - to develop a historically valid directory that withstands artistic research into the authenticity of Anna Klein's work.

The works listed below are not yet included in the catalog raisonné, as details of these paintings are missing.

  • Autumn landscape with cow pasture in front of the Watzmann, oil / canvas 50 × 35 cm
  • Resting sheep in front of the rock face, oil / canvas 34 × 25 cm
  • Landscape in Tyrol Oil / canvas, 13.8 × 19.7 cm
  • Farmer's wife with ducks on the village street, oil / canvas 25 × 35 cm
  • Shepherd with herd near Dachau, oil / canvas 63 × 83 cm (the artist painted several times)
  • Chickens and peacocks, oil / canvas 20.1 × 24.4 cm
  • Romance am Hintersee, oil / canvas, 25 × 35 cm
  • In Dachauer Moos, oil / canvas 35.5 × 24.5 cm
  • Duck pond, oil / canvas 60 × 96 cm
  • Autumn in the Dachauer Moos, oil / canvas 40 × 60 cm
  • Hunters on the prowl, oil / canvas 50 × 35 cm
  • Birches in the moss, oil / canvas 50 × 35 cm
  • Road in the Dachauer Moos, oil / canvas 50 × 35 cm

literature

  • Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The painting women. Intrepid female artists around 1900. Munich 2009, pp. 90–91.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 5, Munich 1993, p. 469.
  • Little Anna . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 434 .
  • Little Anna . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 59 .
  • Zweckverband Dachau Galleries and Museums (ed.): Anna Klein and other artists in Dachau around 1900. Dachau 2008.
  • Jutta Mannes: Small, Anna . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 410.

Web links

Commons : Anna Klein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The Malweiber. Intrepid female artists around 1900. 2009, p. 91.
  2. ^ Brigitte Roßberg: Franz Marc. The dreams and the life. Biography. Siedler, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88680-982-0 , p. 99.
  3. ↑ a b Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 5, 1993, p. 469.
  4. ↑ Klein, Anna Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, May 2, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Elisabeth Boser, Jutta Mannes: Anna Klein and other artists in Dachau around 1900 . Purpose verb. Dachau Galleries and Museums, Dachau 2008, ISBN 978-3-930941-58-2 (exhibition catalog).
  6. ↑ Anna Klein Galerie “Der Panther” - fine art, accessed on July 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Gallery "The Panther"
personal data
SURNAME Little Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1941
Place of death Ghetto Kovno