Annemarie Moddrow-Buck

Annemarie Moddrow-Buck (born June 21, 1916 in Stuttgart ; † January 12, 2012 there ) was a German painter .

Life

In 1938/39 Annemarie Buck began her artistic training at the Werkkunstschule Albrecht Leo Merz in Stuttgart. In 1939/40 she switched to the Buchner-Widmann drawing and painting school in Munich.

From 1940 she studied at the Württemberg Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in Hans Spiegel's drawing class and Anton Kolig's painting class . She becomes student spokeswoman and publicly protests against the defamation of the works of teachers, students and other artists as degenerate art by the National Socialists. Despite threats from state authorities, she stuck to her position, set up an exhibition with works by Ida Kerkovius, who was valued by her and who previously taught in Stuttgart, and was therefore expelled from the academy in 1943 - like Anton Kolig.

In 1943 she married and kept the name Walther-Buck after her divorce. After 1945 she resumed her artistic work and received several prizes, including a. an award at the Art Prize of the Young in 1951. In 1952, she resumed her studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . She studied there until 1954 with a focus on "free design" with Erich Fuchs , a student of Willi Baumeister , and with Herta-Maria Witzemann in the newly founded subject area "interior design and furniture construction".

From 1956 Annemarie Walther-Buck designed samples and templates for fabrics and linoleum etc. a. for the textile printing company Pausa in Mössingen and the Deutsche Linoleum-Werke in Bietigheim. Together with Herta-Maria Witzemann she is involved in the design of the linoleum artist's pattern Inlaid 57 .

In 1959 she married the engineer Werner Moddrow and now signs her works with Annemarie Moddrow-Buck. From 1960 she works as a freelance artist.

Artistic work

The focus of Annemarie Moddrow-Buck's artistic work is initially drawing files and portraits. With a few exceptions, however, this work was lost during the war. Until the beginning of the 1950s still lifes and landscapes followed in the tradition of a color-intensive late expressionism, which also shaped the painting of her academy teacher Anton Kolig and which she shared in a studio and long-term friendship with the Stuttgart painter Herta Rössle , 1956 to 1972 chairwoman of the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg, connects.

By the end of the 1950s, numerous designs for fabric samples, carpets and linoleum coverings, etc. a. for the companies Textildruckerei Pausa, Mössingen and DLW, Bietigheim.

With her decision for fine art, Annemarie Moddrow-Buck turned to landscape painting in the early 1960s. In her increasingly color-intensive and increasingly flat-abstract landscape compositions, she processes echoes of the color theory of Ida Kerkovius, which she combines with an architectural composition inspired by Erich Fuchs.

Numerous study trips take her to southern Europe and Scandinavia. Light and atmospheric landscape sketches, drawings and watercolors are created, which then flow into the carefully built oil paintings in the studio.

In 1970 she discovered the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm as a unique atmospheric landscape that impressed her very much and that accompanied her entire work as a motif and source of inspiration. The watercolors and oil paintings from the 1970s clearly show rock formations, embankments, vegetation and, above all, the houses with high chimneys typical of Bornholm, albeit in an abstract visual language. In her more recent works she continues to take back the indications of the concrete and concentrates on the vastness of the landscape sanded down by wind and waves, on gently rolling hills and above all on the changing light moods: from a sun-drenched serenity to the cool light of the north.

Annemarie Moddrow-Buck describes her working method in an autobiographical sketch: “In my work I develop my own legal, colored, formal and compositional design principles. In this way, what is seen and experienced are converted into images in form and color; ie the variety of structure and colors is organized in a formal unity and reduced to the essentials. Everything that is figurative is deliberately avoided in order to express the basic structure of the landscape itself. "

Especially in the now preferred technique of pastel with its transparent and very nuanced application of paint and with its light and velvety color surface, she finds the appropriate technique for her sensitive, poetic landscapes. Annemarie Moddrow-Buck left behind a coherent complete oeuvre. Barbara Lipps-Kant wrote about her work in 2005: Full of seriousness, density and power, she invokes nature as a source of inspiration in her work. In her rich late work she finds a lyrical equivalent for the landscape. In remote metaphors, she lets the world emerge anew.

Works by Annemarie Moddrow-Bucks have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1952. Her works are in public and private collections.

She was a member of GEDOK , the Association of Visual Artists Baden-Württemberg , the Association of Visual Artists of Württemberg and the Württemberg Art Association .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1952 Stuttgart Killesberg, Fine Hands, 1st art exhibition in Baden-Württemberg
• 1966 Stuttgart, art building, union of female artists of Württemberg
• 1970 Reutlingen, donation house
• 1970 Ulm, artists' guild
• 1973 Cuxhaven, Gallery Gretenkort
• 1977 Baden-Baden, art gallery, art funding from the state of Baden-Württemberg
• 1982 Sindelfingen, town hall
• 1982 Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Schaller
• 1986 Stuttgart Bad-Cannstatt, 50 years of Kunsthöfle
• 1990 Kirchheim / Teck, Kornhaus
• 1996 Meersburg, Galerie Kreeb
• 2005 Stuttgart, Association of Female Artists of Württemberg
• 2011 Stuttgart, Gallery Dorn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annemarie Moddrow-Buck: Notes on my work. Unpublished manuscript. Stuttgart 2005
2. ↑ Barbara Lipps-Kant. In: Annemarie Moddrow-Buck: Review . Tübingen 2005, p. 11

literature

• Annemarie Moddrow-Buck: Review . With an introductory text by Barbara Lipps-Kant. With a detailed list of exhibitions and bibliography. 36 pages with color illustrations. Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-924123-56-X .

Web links

• Annemarie Modrow-Buck ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at the Association of Visual Artists of Württemberg