Christine Schwarz-Thiersch

Christine Schwarz-Thiersch (born December 25, 1908 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 25, 1992 in Walkringen ) was a painter and author.

Life

Christine "Tini" Thiersch with brother Karl, around 1923

Christine Schwarz-Thiersch was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1908 as the third of seven children into a well-off family originally from Munich, who had already produced several painters and artistically talented architects, including the well-known painter Ludwig Thiersch (1825–1909 ). The father, Hermann Thiersch (1874–1939) was professor of classical archeology at the University of Freiburg from 1905 and from 1918 at the University of Göttingen.

She gained recognition for her children's picture books, which she wrote and illustrated artistically, and from 1925 to 1928 was accepted for art classes in Berlin and Munich. In 1928 she met Hans Kaspar Schwarz , who was also studying at the academy, at a carnival ball organized by her brother Heinz and Thomas Mann's children .

On the recommendation of Paul Klee , she joined Johannes Itten as a master class student in 1931/1932 at the Bauhaus-related “Modern Art School Berlin”. After marrying the artist Hans Kaspar Schwarz, the couple started a family with five children and Hans Kaspar Schwarz's son from his first marriage. The engagement with art remained a daily need for Christine Schwarz-Thiersch even as a mother.

After the death of her husband, the 58-year-old Christine Schwarz-Thiersch trained as an art therapist and worked as an educator in children's homes for eight years. In 1991 she founded the Hans Kaspar Schwarz Foundation and saw the success of a first retrospective of her husband's works in the Adliswil “Sunne Hall”. Christine Schwarz-Thiersch died in Walkringen BE in 1992.

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After sunset, Christine Schwarz-Thiersch, watercolor

Christine Thiersch, called Tini, wrote and drew her first picture book when she was 16, Karlchen and I go for a walk at night . When her youngest brother Karl, known as Karlchen, saw the light of day, her mother was ill and Tini, who was fourteen at the time, stepped in. She included herself and her brother Karlchen in this story and went on a journey through the night with him - with the educational sense of taking away the little boy's fear of the dark. The picture book will be gently adapted to today's language habits in 2013 and reissued by Christine Schwarz-Thiersch's descendants.

The artist was interested in the essence of colors and their expressiveness. Throughout her life she was on the trail of the laws of color effects. The nature around the studio house on the slope of the Albis near Adliswil was her place of study. This is where the mostly small-format pictures were created in pastel chalk and watercolor . In it she recorded the daily and annual processes and their different color and light effects in a detailed and varied manner. In doing so, she followed the ideas of Goethe's phenomenology and Rudolf Steiner's "Wochensprüchen". After her death, the descendants integrated their mother's works into the Hans Kaspar Schwarz Foundation.

literature

• Steffan Biffiger: Hans Kaspar Schwarz, 1891–1966; Christine Schwarz-Thiersch, 1908–1992: Two lives for art. Benteli, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7165-1526-6 .

• Christine Schwarz-Thiersch: "The Onion Fish" - picture book, first published in 1926, self-published as a work for the Munich School of Applied Arts. New edition in progress.

• Christine Schwarz-Thiersch: "Karlchen and I go for a walk through the night" - picture book, first published around 1924. The budding painter wrote and painted this book as a 16-year-old girl for the educational purpose of making her little brother Karl the fear of Night to take. Wortfeger Media, ISBN 978-3-906095-09-7

Web links

• Christine Schwarz-Thiersch on the website of the Hans Kaspar Schwarz Foundation
• Schwarz-Thiersch, Christine. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

1. ^ Google Books
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