Anta Rupflin

Anta Rupflin (born January 27, 1895 in Pasing as Antonia Treu, † 1987 in Augsburg ) was a German painter.

Life

After she was born in Pasing near Munich, she grew up in Augsburg. She attended the Maria Ward School in Augsburg. She began studying at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich. In 1915 she started working as a nurse in a hospital. On May 22, 1916, she married Rudolf Lammel. In 1917 their daughter Ruth was born. The son Wolf followed in 1919. In 1922 she divorced Rudolf Lammel and married Karl Rupflin, an art professor at the municipal art school in Augsburg. She was artistically active until 1984.

Create

During her first years at the arts and crafts school in Munich, the young artist learned from Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, among others . She also took private lessons from Hugo Ernst Schnegg (1919 and 1921) and Willi Geiger (1922–1923).

After briefly studying photography with Franz Kroher (1923), the artist got the extraordinary opportunity to take a course with Amédée Ozenfant in Paris. In addition to Ozentfant, it is the Polish artist Mela Muter , who lives in Paris , who strongly influenced Anta Rupflin and with whom a close friendship developed over many years.

The years 1925 to 1931, during which she often traveled to Paris to work for and with Mela Muter for a few months, were very formative years for her artistically. Mela's portraits, still lifes and landscapes influenced by Fauvism and Cubism of the 1920s had a relevant influence on Anta's painting. However, her teacher and friend not only developed her artistic skills further; the friendship also opened gates for her in the then very exclusive art scene in Paris. Among other things, she met greats like Édouard Vuillard - whom she claims to have portrayed - and Rainer Maria Rilke .

In the years after Paris, many trips followed, including to Collioure , Arles , Tunis and Positano , sometimes with her husband, but also together with Mela Muter. In 1954 she was to take a trip to Ischia, an island to which she would return again and again later and whose landscape, cities and people can often be found in her works. During the 1970s, the painter was drawn to Ibiza again and again . During the time she spent in Ibiza, her color palette and her style of painting became more and more expressive. Anta Rupflin still created numerous landscapes, still lifes and compositions well into old age, although with increasing age she seemed to move away from purely representational painting more and more, in order to dedicate herself to abstraction in many of her later works.

Unlike her artist colleagues at the time, Anta Rupflin only had one public exhibition during her lifetime, namely at the Schöninger Gallery in Munich.

Works

• A red tulip in a blue glass. Around 1925. Watercolor over pencil on watercolor paper. Approx. 18.5 × 14 cm (sheet size approx. 35.5 × 25.5 cm). With estate stamp on verso.
• Young woman with propped arm. Around 1928. Oil on canvas. Approx. 62.5 × 50 cm.
• Blossoms. Around 1980. Watercolor and gouache on wove paper. Approx. 47 × 34 cm. Double monogrammed lower right and lower left.
• Fruit trees. Oil on cardboard. Approx. 42.5 × 42.5 cm. With the estate stamp on verso of the box.

Web links

• official website
• Works by a forgotten painter - Main-Post January 27, 2003, on mainpost.de

literature

• Margaretha Krämer: Rupflin, Anta. In: Horst Ludwig (ed.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst Volume 6: Münchner Maler des 19./20. Century. Munich 1994, pp. 251-254.
• Rainer Zimmermann : Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-7774-6420-6 , pp. 437-438.
• Ingrid von der Dollen: Painters in the 20th Century. Visual art of the "lost generation". Munich 2000, p. 351.
• Margaretha Krämer (Ed.): Anta Rupflin. A forgotten painter. (Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Holbeinhaus in Augsburg 1992) Augsburg 1992.
• Margaretha Krämer (ed.): Longing for poetry. (Catalog of the exhibitions of the same name in the Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg 1996 and in the gallery of the Landeszentralbank in Munich 1996) Augsburg 1996.
• Margaretha Krämer (Ed.): In the southern light. (Catalog of the exhibitions of the same name in the Folklore Museum in Oberschönefeld 2001 and in the City Museum in Lindau 2001) Augsburg 2001.