Annemarie Graupner-Baumgartner

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Annemarie Graupner-Baumgartner

Annemarie Graupner-Baumgartner (born May 15, 1920 in Bern , † July 16, 2004 in Munich ) was a Swiss textile artist .

Life

Annemarie Baumgartner was born on May 15, 1920 in Bern as the child of the chemist Ewald Baumgartner and his wife Anna Marie Baumgartner, b. Stauffer was born in Büren an der Aare . She received artistic impulses from her grandfather Christian Baumgartner (* 1855 in Jegenstorf ; † 1942 in Bern ), a representative of the Swiss landscape vedute tradition.

After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva , she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Hermann Kaspar and Julius Hess from 1940–1943 . Around 1950 she was working on designs for porcelain paintings . From 1950, in addition to small-format pictures, the first textile formats and tapestries were created using application technology. In 1953 she married her former student colleague from Munich, the painter and draftsman Ernst Graupner (1917–1989). In 1954 their son Stefan was born. Annemarie Graupner died on July 16, 2004 in Munich.

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The Swiss Annemarie Graupner-Baumgartner embarked on the career path of an artist, which was unusual for the time. Her father supported her in her plans, but he was very concerned about her decision to move from safe Switzerland to Nazi-ruled Germany in 1940 and continue her studies there at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. She therefore returned to Bern before the end of the war . Ernst Graupner visited her several times in Bern immediately after the end of the war before she decided to follow him to Munich.

While she was still working on designs for porcelain paintings in Bern, after moving to Germany she researched the technical and thematic possibilities of the material fabric in small images. Her artistic success in Germany turned out to be extremely difficult at first. In contrast to the 'liberal arts', their now large-format tapestries were classified as ' applied arts '. As a result, Annemarie Graupner - also as a woman - remained closed to many exhibition locations. Only after several attempts did she manage to take part in the annual Great Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich with large tapestries . Collectors from home and abroad became aware of it and this application technique, which was unusual at the time. She developed commissioned work for the respective location in close consultation with interested parties, discussed formats and topics in detail and invited the collectors to her studio to discuss the intermediate stages.

"Sirens", 1971, cloth on burlap, 180 × 200 cm

While the size of the first tapestries or tapestries still corresponded to the formats of painted pictures, they were increasingly fascinated by topics that required larger areas in order to unfold. She also experimented with fabrics that she had previously colored or otherwise processed herself, ultimately allowing her to choose compositional formats that defined spaces that filled up to the diptych wall. The fact that her formal language was able to develop so independently in addition to borrowing from Cubism was due to her curiosity for the work of mostly female colleagues who also worked with fabric, but also to the examination of international trends in the art of her time. The international biennials for Tapestry in Lausanne (1962-1995) were doing an important impetus for their work. She was a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft ( NMKG ) and the GEDOK (Association of the Communities of Artists and Art Sponsors)

Exhibitions

literature

  • Catalog Annemarie Graupner: tapestries, Ernst Graupner: drawings, pictures. Municipal Gallery Rosenheim, 1986.
  • Catalog Annemarie, Ernst, Hans, Quirin Graupner. Art Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden, Munich 2002; Municipal Gallery Harderbastei, Ingolstadt 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annemarie Graupner: tapestries, Ernst Graupner: drawings, pictures: Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, May 3 to June 8, 1986 . 1986 ( google.de [accessed on October 21, 2019]).
  2. Ludger Busch: Annemarie Graupner: Tapestries, Ernst Graupner: Drawings, Pictures: Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, May 3 to June 8, 1986. Kulturamt Rosenheim, 1986, accessed on October 19, 2019 .