Carla Brill

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Carla Brill (born December 27, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 31, 1994 there ) was a German sculptor , painter and draftsman .

Life

From 1924 to 1928 Carla Brill completed a degree at the then Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt am Main, which was later merged with the Städelschule . There she was a student of Johann Vincenz Cissarz and was accepted into Max Beckmann 's new master class in 1927 . After studying painting, Brill turned to sculpture and in 1928 switched to the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art in Berlin . Her teachers there were Karl Hofer and Hans Meid , Edwin Scharff in 1932/33 and Wilhelm Gerstel from 1939 to 1941 .

In the 1930s, Brill largely abstained from public artistic activity. After Wilhelm Gerstel accepted her as a master class student in 1939, she received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy in 1942 , which enabled her to stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1942/43 . Then she returned to Berlin. In 1945 she moved to Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia as a freelance artist and seven years later to Frankfurt again, where she also worked as a costume designer for the theater. After her retirement she only devoted herself to painting and drawing.

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Brill's work includes bronzes, sculptures and also some reliefs; for the most part, paintings and drawings in graphite, chalk, pencil and ink have survived. An essential subject of her drawings and painting was the portrait and the nude , which she often created from a large number of colors and in surreal lighting conditions. Carla Brill's late work is mainly characterized by drawings, here too the nudes predominate.

Exhibitions

  • 1980–81 Carmelite Monastery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1981 Exhibition by Frankfurter Versicherungs-AG together with Galerie Meyer Ellinger, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1982 Gallery of the Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984 Gallery of the Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822; Exhibition of the “Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft e. V. “, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1989 Galerie Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1991 Gallery at the Fachfeld in the Heinrich-Kraft-Schule, Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Dieter Hoffmann (Ed.): Max Beckmanns Frankfurt students 1925–1933. Catalog of the exhibition in the communal gallery in the refectory of the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt am Main , November 22, 1980–2. January 1981, ed. from the Department of Culture and Leisure of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Office for Science and Art, Frankfurt / M. 1981.
  • Hilmar Hoffmann, Kurt Lotz (Hrsg.): The visual artists in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt / M. 1982.
  • Inge Eichler: Women at the easel. Frankfurt / M. 1994.
  • Dankmar Trier: Brill, Carla . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , p. 231.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Hoffmann (Ed.): Max Beckmanns Frankfurter Schüler 1925–1933. Catalog of the exhibition in the communal gallery in the refectory of the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt am Main , November 22nd - January 2nd 1981, ed. from the Department of Culture and Leisure of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Office for Science and Art, 1981: no page number, in alphabetical order of the artists represented.
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Carla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1994
Place of death Frankfurt am Main