Anneliese Planken

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Anneliese Planken (born October 23, 1912 in Cologne ; † January 31, 1994 there ) was a German painter and art teacher.

Life

Anneliese Planken first studied art and literary history for four semesters at the University of Cologne from 1933 , where she also took courses in life drawing, then from 1935 to 1939 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf (with Paul Bindel, among others ). Since 1936, her fashion illustrations in particular have appeared in print. From 1940 in the school service, she took part in only a few public exhibitions ( Kölnischer Kunstverein ). She lived very withdrawn, was reluctant to part with her works, and when she died she left her best friend with several hundred paintings and several thousand drawings.

Planken's clearly illustrative talent occasionally touches on the grotesquely fantastic in the tradition of Goya or Alfred Kubin . She created a wealth of book illustrations (on Charles Dickens , Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , ETA Hoffmann , Edgar Allan Poe, and many others). At the time of the air raids on Cologne, for example, Anneliese Planken drew the women and children in the air raid shelter, in the post-war period black market scenes or an adoration of the Holy Three Kings in ruins, in which the kings who bring gifts are embodied by representatives of the three occupying powers. Anneliese Planken's main interest was the portrayal of women. Trained through her extensive art knowledge (she taught at the Archbishop's Ursuline School in Cologne ), Planken mastered a remarkable variety of styles and was happy to take on new developments even in old age. Occasionally she signed works for sale with a pseudonym, namely as "Antonio Carta".

Works in public collections

literature

  • Pas de trois - Annelise Löffler, Anneliese Planken, Wilhelm Gorré. Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, exhibition catalog June 22 to August 12, 2001. Ed. SK Foundation for Culture and Culture Office of the City of Cologne. Cologne 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Planken, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1994
Place of death Cologne