Anna Magnussen-Petersen

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Anna Magnussen-Petersen (born May 12, 1871 in Schleswig ; † November 15, 1940 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Design for a tomb by Anna Magnussen-Petersen (approx. 1920)

The daughter of the literary critic Wilhelm Petersen was friends with Franziska zu Reventlow, who was of the same age . From 1889 to 1894 she trained as a drawing teacher in Berlin. From October 1891 she attended the teaching establishment of the arts and crafts museum with Walter Leistikow . After passing her drawing teacher exam, she began training as a sculptor with Paul Peterich . In August 1894, she went public for the first time in the Kiel Kunsthalle with a portrait relief of the State Minister and former Upper President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Karl Heinrich von Boetticher . A portrait of the poet Klaus Groth from 1895 has been lost. In 1895 Anna Petersen moved to Munich and attended the sculpture school of Cipri Adolf Bermann . In June 1898 she took a trip to Paris, where she visited the exhibitions of the official Salon and the Salon des Indépendants . It speaks for her conservative understanding of art that she found the latter “ridiculous” and, like most of the visitors to the salon, felt offended by Rodin's Balzac monument. In July 1899 she exhibited a larger than life marble bust of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Thaulow Museum in Kiel . out. In Munich, Paul Heyse , a long-time correspondent of her father's, gave her family support. After celebrating Heyse's 70th birthday together in Gardone on Lake Garda , she traveled alone through Italy in the spring of 1900. In Florence she frequented the house of the cultural scientist Aby Warburg and his wife, the painter and sculptor Mary Hertz , in Rome with Paul Peterich, Joseph von Kopf , Otto Hetzer , Otto Sohn-Rethel , Adolf von Hildebrand and Fritz Schulze .

After returning from Italy, she rented a studio in Hamburg . In July 1900 she met the writer Gustav Frenssen , who sat for her as a model for a portrait relief that was reproduced in the 1902 edition of Frenssen's novel "Jörn Uhl". In May 1902, like her compatriot, the painter Helene Gries-Danican , she was again in Paris and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière as a student of Raphael Collin and Gustave Courtois and took part in the so-called "Croquis à la conq minutes" , in which the female and male nude models changed positions every five minutes.

In 1903 she became engaged to the painter and ceramist Walter Magnussen , after the marriage in 1904 the couple moved to Bremen and lived there from 1909 at Hagenauer Straße 7, a terraced house designed by the architect Carl Eeg .

House Magnussen, Hagenauer Strasse 7

She got to know the painter Aline von Kapff through her membership in the Association for Lower Saxony Ethnicity , which was founded in Bremen in 1904 .

Their marriage had two daughters, including the biologist, active National Socialist and “racial researcher” Karin Magnussen . Magnussen-Petersen had largely given up her artistic activity as early as the First World War. Her extensive written estate is in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel, while her artistic legacy is on the Museumsberg in Flensburg.

Works

  • "Carlo", plaster painted in 1897, Museumberg Flensburg
  • Portrait relief Gustav Frenssen, 1901, Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig.
  • Mother with child, bronze, Museumsberg Flensburg
  • Frog Princess, 1907, Museumsberg Flensburg
  • Relief for a tomb (approx. 1920), plaster with green patina, Museumberg Flensburg.

literature

  • Anna Petersen, Klaus Groth - a souvenir sheet for April 24th. In: Die Heimat 19th vol. No. 4 April 1900, pp. 81–86.
  • The sculptor Anna Magnussen-Petersen (1871–1940), catalog by Karin Magnussen, Verlag HM Hauschild GmbH, Bremen 1992 ISBN 978-3-926598-74-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heide Hollmer and Cornelia Küchenmeister, Unpublished letters from Franziska zu Reventlow to Anna Petersen and Ferdinand Tönnies. In: Nordelbingen Vol. 77, 2008, pp. 139–160.
  2. ↑ https://www.shz.de/lokales/nordfriesland-tageblatt/franziska-zu-reventlow-ein-leben-in-unabhaengigkeit-id1269881.html
  3. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Lexicon Schleswig-Holsteinischer Künstlerinnen, Heide 1994, p. 210f.
  4. ↑ Jutta Müller and Dieter Lohmeyer, directory of the portraits of Klaus Groth in chronological order. In: Nordelbingen vol. 79, 2010, p. 108, no. 66.
  5. ↑ Rainer Hillenbrand (ed.), Paul Heyse's letters to Anna Petersen with Heyse's letters to Anna Petersen, four letters from Petersen to Heyse and some additional letters from the family, Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1989.
  6. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein Artists in Italy, Heide 2009, pp. 350–353.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, "Most painters are not poets" - Gustav Frenssen in portrait. In: Heinrich Detering / Kai Sina, No Nobel Prize for Gustav Frenssen, Heide 2018, pp. 248–254.
  8. ↑ Gerald Weßel, “There is still a lot to do in Bremen”: Interview with Hans Hesse, in: Weser-Kurier from December 14, 2017 https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/stadtteile-bremen -mitte_artikel, -da-there-is-still-something-to-do-in-bremen-_arid, 1679705.html # comments
  9. ↑ Hans Hesse, "First rabbits, then people", in: Weser-Kurier of April 18, 2020, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Magnussen-Petersen, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1940
Place of death Bremen