Anni Glissmann

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Anni Hildegard (Anja) Glissmann , née Jacoby, (born August 29, 1900 in Breslau , † September 15, 1959 in Villingen ) was a German craftswoman and ceramist.

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Anni Glissmann was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Eugen Israel, called Jacoby, and a woman called Jenny, b. Introsinsky. She studied ornamental art, pottery and painting at the Wroclaw School of Applied Arts and life drawing at the local art academy. In 1920 she moved to Hamburg and heard from Johann Michael Bossard and Paul Helms . In 1924 she married the sculptor Hans Glissmann . The couple had their residence with a workshop in Groß Borstel .

Glissmann developed into a successful graphic artist and ceramist. As part of numerous commissions from her husband, she created many elements for buildings, including lamps, tiles, tiles and decorative figures. She also created advertising graphics, posters, advertisements for various companies, costumes for the Mensendieck School and the Schillertheater . In addition to this, she taught portrait painting to individual students or groups.

Due to her high-quality decorative and aesthetic work, Glissmann had many private customers for whom she designed dinner, coffee and tea sets. As a Jew, she was not allowed to continue her profession after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and received no further commissions. In 1938 she worked as an advertisement draftsman for the Hamburg fashion house Robinsohn, where the photographs, drawings and designs stored there were destroyed during the Reichspogromnacht .

In 1939 Glissmann emigrated to Holland. She then lived in Edinburgh and in 1940 in London , where her husband later followed her. There she worked as a spring worker, glass painter and sewed lampshades. Together with her husband, she could not get past the subsistence level and could not join the Anglo-Saxon art scene.

In 2017 the Hamburg Senate named a path in Groß Borstel after Anni Glissmann.

literature

  • Susanne Geese: Glissmann, Anni . in: General artist dictionary: the visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 56, KG Saur Verlag, Munich, Leipzig 2007. Page 175.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New names in Groß Borstel and Stellingen . Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 8, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Glissmann, Anni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glissmann, Anni Hildegard; Glissmann, Anja; Jacoby, Anni (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftswoman and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1959
Place of death Villingen