Annemarie Balden-Wolff
Annemarie Balden-Wolff , b. Romahn (born July 27, 1911 in Rüstringen , now Wilhelmshaven , † August 27, 1970 in Dresden ) was a German painter, graphic artist and artisan . She worked in the fields of painting, drawings, collages and applications.
Life
Annemarie Balden-Wolff visited the Marxist Workers' School to Steno and typewriter to learn. When an agitation group was founded there, she joined it and was part of it until it was dissolved in 1933. In 1932, she joined the KPD as part of the “contingent of 100,000” . A year later, when her then Berlin friend Pinsmowa (not documented), a Jewish sports reporter, was wanted by the Gestapo , she left Germany and emigrated with him to Czechoslovakia in Prague. There she was supported by an aid organization of the KPD. Since 1937 she was integrated into the organizational structure of the Oskar Kokoschka Bund (OKB) and worked there as a cashier. Her future husband Theo Balden was one of the chairmen.
She worked artistically in Prague for the textile industry and drew for newspapers. In 1938 she helped anti-fascist Englishmen ( British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , later the Czech Refugee Trust Fund ) to get visas for the members of the OKB and to enable them to further emigrate. When the Wehrmacht marched into Prague on March 15, 1939, they were able to escape to Poland with the help of the Communist Party, from where they fled through Sweden to England. On June 5, 1939, she married the sculptor Theo Balden in Hampstead , England. After her husband returned from ten-month internment in Canada in 1940 , they moved to Derby and founded an international club. In 1947 she returned to Berlin and exhibited tapestry applications in the Franz Gallery. In 1951 she met the Dresden painter and graphic artist Willy Wolff and moved to Dresden in 1952, the year of her divorce. After their son Pan was born in 1953, she married Willy Wolff in 1956.
Annemarie Balden-Wolff died in Dresden in 1970. Her grave and that of her second husband are in the Loschwitz cemetery .
Exhibitions
- Art exhibition Kühl since 1924, Dresden
- Leonhardi Museum From the work of our women 1964
- Galerie Franz. Dresden: 1967, Art of Time
- Gallery of the Berlin graphic press
Works (selection)
- Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities : NUMBER: P / BON-0183, Period: around 1965, Technique: Collage (39.2 × 22.8 cm)
Represented by
- Artists Rights Society (for America)
- VG picture art
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balden-Wolff, Annemarie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romahn, Annemarie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artisan, painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rüstringen , now Wilhelmshaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1970 |
| Place of death | Dresden |