Anna Muthesius
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Anna Muthesius (born Trippenbach; * August 12, 1870 in Aschersleben ; † March 30, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German trained concert singer and has been married to the architect Hermann Muthesius , the founder of the German Werkbund , of which she was a member, since 1896 . As an autodidact, she worked, among other things, as an interior designer and fashion designer .
Life
Between 1896 and 1906 her husband worked as a technical and cultural attaché at the German embassy in London. Here both came into contact with the ideas of the life reform movement . Contacts were made with Walter Crane and Charles Rennie Mackintosh , who are also interested in the reform movements. In Germany, too, there was a renewal movement and a public discussion about the corsage at this time. The aim was to achieve a clothing design that was independent of Parisian fashion and to promote health aspects. So wrote Anna Muthesius in her article The exhibition of artistic women's clothes in the Wertheim-Berlin department store :
“If you could first buy good colors and fabrics in every shop as a German brand, this would not only do a great service for the large toilets of the rich women, but also for the own clothes made in the narrow back room with the little seamstress in the house. "
Along with Henry van de Velde and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Anna Muthesius played a key role in creating artistic models of reformed female clothing .
From 1912 the family had converted a fisherman's house on Hiddensee in Vitte into a summer house. Anna Muthesius regularly organized an artistic salon with musical evenings there.
Anna and Hermann Muthesius had five children, including Günther (1898–1974), Klaus (1900–1959), Eckart (1904–1989) and Renata (1913 – NN); the latter married the set designer Siegfried Stepanek (1921–1969).
Anna Muthesius died in Berlin in 1961 at the age of 90. She was buried in the Evangelical Churchyard in Nikolassee , next to her husband, who had died 34 years earlier. By resolution of the Berlin Senate, the joint grave was dedicated as a Berlin honorary grave in 1984, in memory of the life's work of Hermann Muthesius . The dedication was renewed in 2005 for the usual period of 20 years.
Fonts
- The woman's own dress. Krefeld, Kramer & Baum 1903 (84 pages and 14 plates; initially given as a lecture in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld)
- The exhibition of artistic women's clothes in the Waren-Haus Wertheim-Berlin. In: German Art and Decoration , 14th half volume (April to September 1904), pp. 441–456.
literature
- Julia Bertschik: Fashion and Modernity. Clothing as a mirror of the zeitgeist in German-language literature (1770–1945) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005 ISBN 3-412-11405-7 .
- Despina Stratigakos: Women and the Werkbund: Gender Politics and German Design Reform, 1907-14 . In: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . Vol. 62, No. 4, 2003, pp. 490-511.
- Rita Wolters: Muthesius, Anna, b. Trippenbach . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony Anhalt . Volume 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945 . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , pp. 326–329.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Art and Decoration , Volume XIV, 1904, p. 443
- ↑ Biography // Siegfried Stepanek, stage designer - 1921–1969 .
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 624.
- ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 61; accessed on March 11, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muthesius, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trippenbach, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert singer and fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1961 |
| Place of death | Berlin |