Anne Marie Jauss

Anne Marie Jauss (born February 3, 1902 in Munich , † September 13, 1991 in Milford , New Jersey ) was a painter, book author and book illustrator. Shortly before the Nazi era , the pacifist emigrated to Portugal and later to the USA, where she mainly worked as a book illustrator . Your pictures are assigned to magical realism .

life and work

Life

Anne Marie Jauss was born as the daughter of the landscape and genre painter Georg Jauss and his wife Caroline, she too painted, mainly still lifes and coastal landscapes.

Anne Marie went to school in Munich, Meran and Stuttgart and then studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, but soon left school and became self-taught. Influences from Willi Geiger and Georg Schrimpf can be seen.

From around 1930 she spent the winters in Berlin and the summers in her house in Irschenhausen / Isartal, south of Munich. She took part in exhibitions in Munich and Berlin. Alfred Flechtheim had her pictures in his gallery, articles about Anne Marie appeared in newspapers and specialist journals, such as "Cross Section", "Das Kunstblatt" and the DAZ. The art critic Franz Roh mentioned her in several articles and assigned her work to Magical Realism .

Due to her pacifist attitude, she left Germany in late autumn 1932 for fear of the impending Nazi regime and went into exile in Portugal , where she lived in Lisbon and the surrounding area for 14 years. During this time she received five solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions of modern Portuguese painters. It has always had excellent reviews. In order to earn a living, she worked as a painter, illustrator, interior architect , designer and ceramic painter and was commissioned with the interior design of the first Portuguese pousada in the Algarve. She helped many of her German friends, painters and writers (many of them of Jewish descent) who came to Lisbon on their escape from Nazi Germany , and provided them with accommodation and passage from there to the USA or other countries.

In 1946 she emigrated to the United States, initially to New York , where she joined the circle of German intellectual emigrants, and made friends with Oskar Maria Graf , whom she already knew from Germany. Her first exhibition in New York was "Portraits of Pets" at the Portraits Inc. gallery, for which she received a very good rating from New York art critics. Further exhibitions followed, in the Museum in Southampton, Long Island, in the Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook, Long Island and in the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in the Old Philadelphia Custom House. Many of her paintings are in private collections, and several etchings were acquired by the graphics department of the New York Public Library .

Anne Marie Jauss decided to stay in the States and became an American citizen in 1952. She turned to book illustration and illustrated around 70 books with empathy, an understanding of nature and a sense of humor from 1945 to 1975, mostly for children and young people, and designed numerous maps and sketches for books and book covers. She also wrote and illustrated several of her own books with a focus on nature and animals.

In 1962 she built a house in Stockholm in northern New Jersey and now lived there all the time, near a farm, where she could work in nature, as she best suited it. There she wrote and illustrated one of her most successful books, "The Pasture", for which she received an "Authors Award". In 1972 she received the Christopher Award for the illustration of the book "Tracking Unearthly Creatures of Marsh and Pond".

From the mid-1970s she painted watercolors using a dry technique that she had developed herself; subjects were landscapes, still lifes, houses, animals and plants in their surroundings.

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Her artistic work was first reported by the " primitive ", especially by Henri Rousseau influenced, then turned more and more to the "magical realism" to her at the end of World War II created as an expression of the disaster landscapes described it as "Mystic landscapes ".

She donated the original drawings and sketches for the children's and young people's books to two libraries with relevant collections: the "The Kerlan Collection", University of Minnesota and the "DeGrummond Collection", University of Southern Mississippi. After her death, several original illustrations went to the university of Oregon.

Publications

• Wise and Otherwise, 1953
• Legends of Saints and Beasts, 1954
• Discovering Nature the Year Round, 1955
• Under a Green Roof, 1960
• The River's Journey, 1957
• The Pasture, 1968
• German Folk and Fairy Tales: Folk and Fairy Tales from Many Lands

Illustrations (selection)

• The Stars in Our Heavens, Myths and Fables, 1948
• Some Dogs, 1950
• Fabulous Beasts, 1951
• The perpetual calendar, OMGraf, 1954
• Our Friend the Forest, 1959
• Time For You, 1960
• The Tale that Grew and Grew, 1961
• Explorations in Science: A Book of Basic Experiments, 1961
• Selections from Spanish Poetry, 1962
• Spanish American Poetry, 1964
• The Falcon and the Dove, Life of Thomas Becket of Canterbury, 1966
• Selections from Contemporary Portuguese Poetry, 1966
• Tracking Unearthly Creatures of Marsh and Pond, 1972

literature

• F. Roh: Paintings by A. Jauss in Das Kunstblatt , 1927, issue 9, p. 222 ff
• "The Cross Section" 1927, issue 4, page 254 (photo)
• Panorama magazine Lisbon 1942 - pictures and articles
• Panorama Magazine Lisbon 1946 - front page and article
• Eugen Gürster : Anne Marie Jauss, an American-German painter in: American German Review , June 1951
• Bruno Werner in: Art and the Beautiful Home , January 1952
• Poughkeepsie Journal, "The Ecology Of Anne Marie Jauss" May 1971
• Phillips, Zlata Fuss: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933-1950 . Biographies and Bibliographies, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5
• Jauss, Johanna: "Anne Marie Jauss, 1902 - 1991, Magical Realism", Munich 2016

• Storch, Wolfgang: "Georg Schrimpf and Maria Uhden", Berlin 1985, p. 179

• Literatur in Bayern 2017, volume 32, issue 128, p. 22 ff

Museums

Print Collection of the New York Library

State Graphic Collections Munich

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Marie Jauss in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the New York Times

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