Annie Mincieux

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Annie Mincieux (* 1857 in Berlin ; † 1937 in Bern ) was the pseudonym of the journalist and illustrator Anna Kuczynski .

Life

Anna Kuczyński was the daughter of the Berlin banker Louis Kuczynski. In the 1890s she changed her name to Annie Sommerfeld , but insisted on becoming known as Annie (also Anita) Mincieux.

Mincieux first appeared as a pianist and accompanied the opera singer Reder, among others. She studied painting with Karl Gussow in Berlin and with Eugène Carrière and Charles Lucien Léandre in Paris.

She worked as a journalist in Paris for ten years and married the Geneva art dealer Charles A. Mincieux in 1904. She portrayed various personalities of her time a. a. Gustav Mahler , Anton Bruckner , Ferruccio Busoni , Cosima Wagner , Siegfried Wagner or Gottfried Strasser . She was in friendly contact with Gustav Mahler and published her incomplete correspondence with Mahler in the Basler Nachrichten in 1923 .

Annie Mincieux changed her place of residence frequently and lived in different cities. In Bern she wrote from 1910 a. a. Annie Mincieux's column for Swiss newspapers . Since her husband died around 1930 and left her with his art dealership, she got u. a. came into possession of a preliminary drawing by Federico Barocci , which after her death came to Frits Lugt via the auction house Nicolas Rauch in Geneva .

literature

  • Mincieux, Annie, b. Kuczynski . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 396 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mincieux, Annie, b. Kuczynski. In: Swiss Contemporaries Lexicon. 2nd edition. Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern 1932.
  2. ^ Mahler Foundation - Annie Sommerfeld-Mincieux (1857-1937). Retrieved March 8, 2020 (UK English).
  3. ↑ Portraits drawn by Annie Mincieux , in: Berner Woche 23, 1933, p. 153.
  4. ↑ Mahler's letters to Mincieux are cited in several secondary publications on Mahler, e.g. B. in Silja Haller: Word-tone-design in Gustav Mahler's symphony . University Press Potsdam, 2012
  5. ↑ See also Marius Flothuis : Annie Mincieux . In: Gustav Mahler. Unknown letters . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna / Hamburg 1983, ISBN 978-3-55203-502-7
  6. ↑ Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art . Hudson Hills 2000, p. 45 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Mincieux, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuczynski, Anna (real name); Sommerfeld, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1937
Place of death Bern