Annemarie Suckow von Heydendorff
Annemarie Suckow von Heydendorff (born March 21, 1912 in Mediasch as Annemarie Conrad von Heydendorff, Transylvania ; † April 21, 2007 in Bonn ) was a German sculptor .
Life
As the daughter of the entrepreneur Karl Conrad von Heydendorff , who moved to Bucharest , Annemarie v. Heydendorff attended the humanistic high schools in Mediasch, Hermannstadt and Bucharest and took courses at the Hermannstadt School of Commerce. Since they originally commercial artist wanted to be, she attended the Berlin Reimann School . A teacher discovered her talent for sculptural design there . So she returned to Bucharest to study with Oscar Han at the Bucharest Art Academy . In 1935 she passed her exams as an academic sculptor with distinction. A little later with the lawyer Dr. Hermann Suckow married, she went with him to his East Prussian homeland. Three daughters were born in Allenstein .
Annemarie Suckow created numerous portraits and small sculptures made of clay or bronze . Your design of the fairytale fountain at the fish market in Allenstein was awarded first prize. When her husband was fighting at the front, she and the three daughters of Pillau fled to West Germany via Swinoujscie , Greifswald and Finkhaushallig Koog in the Hannibal company . In Neumünster in 1947 she reunited with her husband, who had been released from prison in England .
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In 1948 the family moved to the Rhineland . Hermann Suckow founded a law firm , and his wife soon received orders for sculptural work. She created busts of personalities from the young Federal Republic of Germany , including Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt , Wilhelm Daniels , Ottomar Schreiber , Carl Reiser , Hans Dahs , Gerhard Neumann and Elsa Reger (Max Reger's widow). In 1966 she created a memorial in Vossenack for the soldiers of the 116th Panzer Division who were killed in the battle in the Hürtgenwald .
Her works have been exhibited in Germany and in France, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Transylvania. The Ministry for Labor, Integration and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie and the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Delmenhorst bought large sculptures from her depicting flight and displacement.
Blinded during an eye operation, she had to give up sculpture. One month after her 95th birthday, she died in Bonn.
Honors
- Culture Prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft (1973)
- Culture Prize of the Transylvanian Saxony (1976)
Individual evidence
Web links
- East German biography (with picture)
- Dusseldorf workshop talks of the NRW Artists 'Guild at the writers' table in the House of the German East (today the Gerhart-Hauptmann-House Foundation)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Suckow von Heydendorff, Annemarie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Medias , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 2007 |
| Place of death | Bonn |