Anne-Dora Arnold
Anne-Dora Arnold (called Stina , née Volquardsen) (born December 25, 1883 in Tondern , † March 8, 1971 in Munich ) was a German art and portrait painter .
Life
Anne-Dora Arnold, came from a North Frisian peasant and civil servant family; her parents were Ingwert Friedrich Volquardsen, farm owner and surveyor and his wife Cecilie.
She grew up in Husum ; Her father's original wish to become an actor was not approved by her father, but he did approve of training as a painter. She then began her training in Berlin and continued it later at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association .
In Munich, she met the Simplicissmus illustrator Karl Arnold , with whom they in early summer 1909 in Oberammergau and the end of 1909, together with her sister Anna Amalie ( Malli ) Volquardsen (1881-1967), at the hotel in the Rue Delambre 15 in Paris for lived together for three months; there they stayed in the bohemian circle of the Café du Dôme , which included Albert Weisgerber and Wilhelm Hausenstein . During her stay in Paris, she created her own urban landscapes.
After marrying Karl Arnold on December 19, 1911 in Flensburg , they moved to Munich, initially at Jakob-Klar-Strasse 11 / II. In July 1916, the company moved to the 6-room apartment in Amortstrasse 1 / I in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district . During the war , the family moved to Kronach because of the nights of bombing and then back to Munich.
The couple had four sons together:
- Peter Arnold (1912-1914);
- Fritz Arnold (1916–1999), publisher's editor ;
- Claus Arnold , artist;
- Hans Arnold , diplomat .
Anne-Dora Arnold died in 1971 at the age of 87. The couple's grave is located in the Munich North Cemetery .
In addition to the works from the Academy period and the pictures from the Paris period, the family owned mainly portraits of the family and charcoal drawings of Frisian heads.
After her death, from 1971 to 2011, a large collection of personal documents, sketches and photographs were given to the German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum by the Arnold family .
Works (selection)
- Street in Paris
Literature (selection)
- Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsdruckerei Boyens & Co., Heide, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . Pp. 39-40.
- Anne-Dora Arnold in The painter Karl Arnold with his wife Anne-Dora, his brother Albert and his wife Else Kupfer .
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold, Anne-Dora. German Art Archive, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Dirk Heißerer: Where ghosts wander: Literary walks through Schwabing . CH Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70253-2 ( google.de [accessed on April 5, 2019]).
- ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 1, 2020.
- ^ Anne-Dora and Karl Arnold drinking coffee. German Art Archive, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
- ^ "Anne-Dora Arnold: Street in Paris". Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnold, Anne-Dora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnold, Stina; Volquardsen, Anne-Dora (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tondern |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1971 |
| Place of death | Munich |