Annette Caspar

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Mosaic , 1961, Theodor-Fahr-Strasse 47, Hamburg-Langenhorn
Glass and ceramic mosaic, 1960, Kiwittsmoor underground station , Hamburg-Langenhorn
Information sign in Kiwittsmoor underground station

Annette Caspar , also Pauline (Polly) Annelies Maria Caspar , later Mac Lean , Mc-Lean-Casper or Caspar-Mc. Lean , then Bracegirdle (born January 23, 1916 in Berlin ; † October 23, 2008 in Gislingham , Suffolk ), was a German - British painter , graphic artist , wall designer and ceramicist .

Life

Annette Caspar was born in Berlin on January 23, 1916. In 1918 she moved to Hamburg with her family . From 1933 to 1934 she studied there at the Hansische Hochschule für Bildende Künste under Hugo Meier-Thur . After a study trip to Switzerland, she worked for nine months as a graphic designer in the advertising department of Montblanc in Hamburg.

From 1935 to 1938 she studied at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin. After a semester of commercial graphics , she switched to fine art with Adolf Strübe . During the holidays she did studies on the Baltic island of Hiddensee . From 1938 to 1940 she designed covers for the magazine Elegante Welt . From 1940 to 1942 she continued her studies with Adolf Strübe. From 1942 onwards she created drawings of plant pests for a chemical factory. This was followed by "war important" work. On March 26, 1945, three weeks before the start of the last battle for Berlin , she fled from Berlin to Lake Constance .

She married the painter and sculptor Harry Mac Lean , who was also a student of Strübe, and lived in Heidelberg until 1950 . In Heidelberg's Heiliggeistkirche she restored early Gothic frescoes with him . In 1948 and 1949 she was a member of the Baden Artists Association . In 1950 she separated from her husband and then returned to Hamburg with her three-year-old son. From 1953 it was recorded in the Hamburg address book as A. Mac Lean at Sierichstraße 156 in Hamburg-Winterhude , where members of the Caspar family lived since 1932. Later, until 1961, she was recorded as Annette Mc-Lean-Casper in the Hamburg address book at the same address. From 1950 to 1968 she was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg and GEDOK . In Hamburg she received a total of 34 orders for art in architecture . She had a lifelong friendship with the Hamburg painter Theo Wilhelm (1912–2005).

In 1961 she traveled to Greece for the first time . In 1965 she met the former Lieutenant Commander of the Royal Australian Navy Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle (born December 22, 1911 in Newcastle , Australia). From 1965 she lived on the Greek island of Paros . In 1968 she moved to England and lived in Hampshire for three years . There she married on September 20, 1969 in the registration office of Gosport Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle, who previously divorced his first wife on August 5, 1969 in Winchester . In 1971 she moved with him into a house in Lodge Cottage in Gislingham, Suffolk, to which a studio was later added. From 1975 she had her own pottery . On April 30, 1975, the UK Home Office registered her oath of allegiance following the issuance of her naturalization certificate by the UK Foreign Office.

Her husband died on March 14, 1993 at her home in Gislingham and was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Gislingham. In 1995 she gave up ceramic work, but continued to create drawings and watercolors . She also died on October 23, 2008 in her home in Gislingham and was buried on November 3 in St. Mary's Cemetery in Gislingham.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1964: Exhibition by GEDOK , Hamburg
  • 1964: Exhibition by GEDOK, Landessparkasse, Hanover
  • From 1975: Eye Arts Guild annual exhibition , Eye , Suffolk

Works (selection)

Dimensions: width × height

literature

  • Annette Caspar. In: Christian Otto Frenzel: Art in architecture in Hamburg 1947–1958. On behalf of and in cooperation with the Hamburg building authority. Axel Springer publishing house in Hamburg. Hammerich & Lesser, Hamburg 1959, pp. 22, 23, 130.
  • Maike Bruhns : Art in Crisis. Volume 2: Artist Lexicon Hamburg 1933–1945. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 , p. 288.
  • Maike Bruhns: Caspar-Mc. Lean, Annelis (Annette, now Polly Bracegirdle). In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 76.
  • Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg : Works of art in public space , Hamburg, August 14, 2018, pp. 12, 16, 25, 28, 29, 33 ( PDF file ).

Web links

Commons : Annette Caspar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of the 2nd husband Commander Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle on navy.gov.au (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Maike Bruhns : Caspar-Mc. Lean, Annelis (Annette, now Polly Bracegirdle). In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, p. 76
  3. ^ A. Mac Lean in the Hamburg address book from 1953
  4. ^ Elisabeth Caspar in the Hamburg address book from 1953
  5. ^ Hamburg address book from 1933
  6. ^ Mc-Lean-Caspar, Annette in the Hamburg address book from 1961
  7. ↑ Polly Bracegirdle's Story at legacy.com.au (English). According to the text, which appears to be from Polly Bracgirdle and which appears to have been written in the last year of her life, she also married Bracegirdle in 1965. The New Rump (see: literature ) says: “1965–1970 with her second husband, Cdr. Bracegirdle, on Paros. "
  8. ↑ Bracegirdle, Warwick Seymour on Virtual War Memorial Australia
  9. ↑ Bracegirdle, Pauline Annelies Maria. In: Naturalization - List of aliens to whom certificates of naturalization have been granted. In: The London Gazette , June 26, 1975 (English)
  10. Jump up ↑ Deaths: Bracegirdle, Warwik Seymour. In: The Canberra Times , March 17, 1993, p. 25
  11. ↑ announcement of the funeral on announcements.telegraph.co.uk (English)
  12. ↑ Self-portrait on kunstauktionen-duesseldorf.de
  13. ↑ Auction catalog at issuu
  14. ↑ Rediscovered mosaics in the entrance area of ​​Armgartstrasse (with a picture of a staircase), April 26, 2016, on haw-hamburg.de
  15. ↑ Illustration of the other side of the stairs (Figure 5) on kulturkarte.de
  16. ↑ Figure 6 on kulturkarte.de (mosaics in the Neuer Rump (see: literature ) not recorded)
  17. ↑ Figure 2 on kulturkarte.de
  18. ↑ School with a future. In: Niendorfer Wochenblatt , September 26, 2018
  19. ^ Directory of schools from 1933 to 1945. In: Uwe Schmidt : Hamburg Schools in the "Third Reich" , Volume 2, Rainer Hering (Ed.), P. 784 (PDF-p. 14)
  20. ↑ Glass mosaic elementary school Potsdamer Straße on rahlstedt.art of the KulturWerk Rahlstedt (photos under the two photos of their ceramic mosaics from 1960 or 1961)
  21. ^ The U1 line of the Hamburger Hochbahn: Kiwittsmoor on frederiks.de
  22. ↑ Mosaic in Kiwittsmoor station , in front of the partial cover, on bildarchiv-hamburg.com
  23. ↑ 2 ceramic mosaics at the Potsdamer Straße primary school on rahlstedt.art of the KulturWerk Rahlstedt (mosaics in the Neuer Rump (see: literature ) not recorded)
  24. ↑ No. 45.1 ( Memento from July 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on longhorn-archiv.de in the Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mc-Lean-Casper, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, wall designer and ceramicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2008
Place of death Gislingham