Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse

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Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse , b. Kruse (born March 14, 1889 in Berlin ; † December 17, 1977 ; also Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse ) was a German painter .

life and work

She was the third child from the first marriage of the sculptor Max Kruse (1854–1942) with Anna Pavel. The marriage resulted in three more children: Eva (* 1884), Peter (* 1887) and Benjamin (* 1891). Max Kruse married Käthe Simon for the second time . Annemarie Kruse was thus the stepdaughter of Käthe Kruse (1883–1968) and half-sister of the children's book author Max Kruse (1921–2015).

Annemarie Kruse received her first painting lessons from her uncle Oskar Kruse . After training at the arts and crafts school in Dresden, where Anna Kruse had moved after the divorce, Annemarie Kruse went to Paris with her mother in 1908 to study art at various private painting academies. Her first formative teacher in Paris was Ida Gerhardi , a German painter who had lived and worked in Paris for many years and taught at the Académie Colarossi as “professeur libre”. When Gerhardi moved back to Germany completely due to an illness, she arranged the contact to the newly founded Academy of Henri Matisse , which was run by his painting students and was located in the Palais Biron. Annemarie Kruse was the youngest student there and made friends with many of the German Matisse students, such as Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann . She was also friends with the German painter and sculptor Sophie Wolff (1845–1944) in Paris and roamed the Paris museums with her.

In her pension in the Montparnasse quarter she met the Russian painter and sculptor Igor von Jakimow (1885–1962). Together they attended the evening act in the Colarossi Academy and von Jakimow became increasingly important as a teacher for Annemarie Kruse. After two and a half years of engagement, during which Yakimov had to return to his father's estate in Russia, the couple married in 1912. The marriage had three children: Igor (1914–1944), Erasmus (1918–1944), who also became a painter wanted, but how his brother died as a soldier in World War II, and their daughter Marina (1922–1997).

The couple spent the first years of their marriage first in Russia on the Polotjobnoje estate and then in Mariabrunn (now part of Röhrmoos ) near Dachau , where they rented the former hunting lodge (the Schlössle ) of Count La Rosée through the mediation of Friedrich Freksa . From here Igor von Jakimow in particular kept in touch with the Dachau artists' colony .

During the First World War (1914-1918) Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse managed the estate in Russia, while her husband had to serve in the Russian army. During the long winters, numerous paintings were created that showed the small estate, the workers' houses and life in the next small town. After having to flee as a result of the October Revolution , the young family settled in Berlin in 1918 and in Mariabrunn during the summer months. In 1919 Kruse-von Jakimow published her memories of the time in Russia in the book Der Gutshof Jakimow . After her divorce from Jakimow in 1923, she worked as a drawing teacher at the Odenwald School in Oberhambach, where her children could also go to school. In addition, she had various commissioned works and exhibitions in Berlin and Frankfurt / Main and went on longer painting trips to the south. At the Odenwald School she met the teacher and Hölderlin researcher Werner Kirchner (1885–1961), whom she married in 1933. At first the couple lived in Bad Homburg , where Kirchner had a job as a teacher. In 1937 the daughter Julia Marianne was born. In 1946 they moved to Marburg, where Kirchner was a teacher at the Philippinum grammar school until his retirement in 1957.

In addition to painting, Kirchner-Kruse continued to devote himself to literature: in 1947 she translated Leo Tolstoy's Der Tischmesser into German and, after a long search for a publisher, published her son Erasmus' diary entries in 1957. In 1959 she wrote down her memories of her teacher Ida Gerhard, which remained unpublished.

As a visual artist, she was a member of GEDOK , with which she exhibited regularly, and was involved in the Marburg artists' circle . In 1959, on the occasion of her 70th birthday, and in 1964, on her 75th birthday, she had large solo exhibitions in the new exhibition rooms of the Marburg artist group Am Markt 16 in Marburg Upper Town. After the death of her husband, who suddenly died on Ischia in 1961 , she moved back to Bad Homburg in 1964, where her daughter Marina lived. She died on December 17, 1977 and is buried with her husband in the Waldfriedhof in Bad Homburg.

Works

The works of Annemarie Kirchner-Kruses are now mainly in family ownership and other private property, which means that they are hidden from the public. According to the inventory list by Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse, the Museum of Art and Cultural History Marburg has a portrait of the painter Wilhelm Oesterle from 1921 (inv. No. 2445). The artist's estate is in the German Art Archive . In 2015/2016 the exhibition Die Kruses - an ingenious artist family and their circle of friends was shown in the museum "Schlösschen im Hofgarten" in Wertheim and in the Käthe Kruse doll museum in Donauwörth , in which numerous paintings by Annemarie Kruse were also represented.

Fonts

  • Annemarie Kruse-von Jakimow: The Jakimow manor. Experiences of a German woman in Soviet Russia , with a foreword by Gabriele Reuter, Berlin 1919, data set in DNB .
  • Annemarie Kruse-von Jakimow: Between two storms. Memories from Russia , in: Westermannsmonthshefte , 74th volume, September 1929 to February 1930.
  • Erasmus von Jakimow: Danger and Look. Diary pages of a young painter from the Second World War . With a life picture by Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse (ed.), Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1957, dataset in the DNB
  • Memories (self-published), written in 1971 for family and friends.

literature

  • Thieme-Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present .
  • Exhibition catalog Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse , Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten, November 27 to December 18, 1966.
  • Exhibition catalog four female painters: Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse, Marie Luise Quade, Ilse Buchczik, Gisela Schwarz-Kleegraf , Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten, November 25th - December 16th 1973
  • Martina Padberg: A painting "with the roots in nature" - Annemaire Kruse-von Jakimow , in: The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse, exhibition catalog Kunst-Museum Ahlen 2005, pp. 119–127; therein: Annemarie Kruse-von Jakimow: Memories of the Académie Matisse (excerpts from Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse, Memories, 1971). With comments by Martina Padberg, pp. 158–160.
  • Kathrin Umbach: The female loving heart. Annemarie Kruse, her teacher Ida Grhardi and the Académie Matisse , in: Ida Gerhardi. German women artists in Paris around 1900. Exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid 2012, pp. 167–185 (article), p. 246 (short biography).
  • Irene Ewinkel (ed.): Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse, in: Irene Ewinkel (ed.): The other life. Review of Marburg artists , Marburg 2015, pp. 168–182.
  • Max Kruse: The sunken time. Pictures of a childhood in the Käthe-Kruse-Haus , 2000, p. 210.
  • Max Kruse: The protected time , 2000, p. 174.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information is based on: Irene Ewinkel (ed.): Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse, in: Irene Ewinkel (ed.): The other life; Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse: memories.
  2. ↑ cf. Annemarie Kirchner-Kruse: Memories, p. 59 f.
  3. ^ Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner, Klaus Kiermeier: Dachauer painter. The artist place Dachau from 1801-1946 , publishing house Bayerland, 1981, ISBN 3-922394-02-7 , page 42 excerpt
  4. ↑ Some illustrations in Between Two Storms. Memories from Russia
personal data
SURNAME Jakimow-Kruse, Annemarie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner-Kruse, Annemarie; Kruse, Annemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1977