Clare Neuhaus

Clare Neuhaus in Fürstenfeldbruck

Cläre Neuhaus , born as Klara Ernestine Katharina Neuhaus (born January 7, 1878 in Hanover , † October 26, 1950 in Olten ) was a German painter .

Career

Klara Ernestine Katharina Neuhaus was born in Hanover as the third child from the second marriage of Franz Edmund Joseph Maria Neuhaus (1835–1899) to Gertrud Hubertine Bay (1843–1912). Neuhaus was married to Andreas Nissen, retired state judge, since December 1923. D. in Kiel, with whom she apparently had friendly contact even before the First World War . From July 1925 the marriage was separated.

Neuhaus moved to Munich at the turn of the century to train as a painter. She made drawings, woodcuts and oil paintings. Around 1906/08 she stayed in Landsberg am Lech .

Between 1903 and 1910 she received training at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association. V. , where z. B. Robert Engels , Caroline Kempter , Franz Marc worked in the teaching body. Then she found recognition and succeeded. She was able to take part in major exhibitions together with Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt and received good reviews. After graduating from the women's academy, she became a member of the Munich Artists' Association , which required "artistic proof of professional and independent work" for admission. For this purpose, each applicant had to submit work that was assessed by a jury. In 1920 the women's academy was closed. After that, Neuhaus was always a member of artist associations.

Before the First World War she had to do with the gallery "Neue Kunst" on Odeonsplatz in Munich ( Hans Goltz ), which u. a. in Germany had the representation for " Der Blaue Reiter " with Kandinsky, Emil Zoir and Egon Schiele. After the First World War she worked for the "Hamburger Werkstätten (Carl Krüger)", "Art Salon Franzensbad (Margith Pollach)". Between 1925 and 1940 there was no information about exhibitions or galleries. Her name did not appear again until 1942 on the occasion of the “Great German Art Exhibition” in Munich. But according to her letters she always worked.

During the First World War she was a Red Cross helper in East Prussia and created drawings. It came to Memel.

During the First World War she lived with Meta Kirchner in Munich, Adalbertstraße 100 / III until 1919, then until 1938 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Münchnerstraße 31 (until her death in 1923 together with Meta Kirchner, then with the pensioner Charlotte "Lilly" Adelmühler) . She had inherited the house from Meta Kirchner. After the house was sold in 1938, she moved back to Munich into an apartment at Koeniginstrasse 103/4 until 1950. In Munich she looked after “Lilly” until her death in 1941.

At the end of the Second World War she took refuge in the house of her sister-in-law Martha Bernstein (Neuhaus-) in Diessen, who was temporarily living in Switzerland , then she was quartered in Gaschning for a short time. After the Second World War, she lived repeatedly in Switzerland in Däniken, Trimbach and Gretzenbach with her nephews.

She spent almost the entire last year of her life in Gretzenbach, suffering from severe cancer. She died on October 20, 1950 in the Olten Cantonal Hospital and was buried in the family grave of her brother Constantin in the Hörnli cemetery in Basel.

She was always artistically active, she made woodcuts until the 1920s, after which she mainly painted. The woodcuts were popular at the time, the cockatoo is said to have hung on the Reichsbahn as a car decoration.

Meta Kirchner (1871–1923) was the most important reference person. Meta Kirchner also learned to be an artist, was single, very wealthy as the only surviving child - she could easily afford a three-year trip to Asia before the First World War - but lost practically everything due to the war and inflation. She appointed Clare Neuhaus as sole heir.

Memberships

• Women's Academy of the Munich Artists' Association, 1903–1910
• Artists' Association Munich e. V. 1910-1920
• “Free Munich Artists”, 1914–? (Half of the members were women.)
• Professional Association of Bavarian Artists, from 1920
• " Artists' Association Fürstenfeldbruck ", from 1924 (founding member, together with Selma des Coudres , among others )
• Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich, 1945–1950

Exhibitions

• 1910: Art exhibition "modern masters" as part of the large trade and industrial exhibition on the Lübberbruch in Herford. Clare Neuhaus among around 50 artists, including Max Liebermann , Lovis Corinth , Max Slevogt , Otto Modersohn .
• 1914: Exhibition of the "Free Munich Artists" in the Schackothek on Briennerstrasse in Munich (color woodcuts, also represented by Caroline Kempter ). Review in "German Art and Decoration", 1914, Volume 1, pages 411–414
• 1915: "Graphic traveling exhibition of the Association of Northwest German Artists", Cläre Neuhaus u. a. with woodcut "Alte Gasse". On display from September 15 to October 15, 1915 in the Obernier Museum in Bonn
• 1916: Exhibition of the “Free Munich Artists” in the rooms of the Kunstverein on Galeriestrasse. Cläre Neuhaus "with simple pencil sketches of the terrible war damage caused by the Russian invasion of East Prussia"
• 1942: Great German art exhibition in Munich

Museums

• Municipal Art Museum, Spendhaus Reutlingen
• Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen

literature

• “Birken am Bach”, fig. P. VII on the text “Our pictures and notes” pp. 207–208 in Der Kunstwart and Kulturwart , first May issue 1914, issue 15 (“The 'Kunstwart' was then a spiritual power in Germany” - Theodor Heuss).
• Yvette Deseyve: The Munich Artists' Association and its Ladies Academy. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2005, p.?.

Web links

• Clare Neuhaus-Nissen. In: kunst-und-kultur.de. Retrieved December 26, 2018 .