Clara Blumenfeld

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Clara Blumenfeld (born June 15, 1889 in Hamburg , † September 19, 1978 in Wyk auf Föhr ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Clara Blumenfeld was the daughter of the wealthy Jewish shipowner Bernhard Blumenfeld and his wife Helene, daughter of the Hamburg merchant Nicolaus Joseph Karpeles. She still had three siblings:

  • Martha Blumenfeld (born April 20, 1878; † September 23, 1940 in Brandenburg , murdered as part of Operation T4 );
  • Ernst Blumenfeld (born September 15, 1880; † 1927), shipowner; his son was the businessman and politician Erik Blumenfeld ;
  • Otto Blumenfeld , businessman.

After a serious illness at a young age, she remained more or less deaf throughout her life and had to learn at an early age to read the language of her family and friends from the lips.

Albert Ballin from HAPAG , the writer Gerhart Hauptmann and the painters Alexandra Povòrina , Max Slevogt , Lovis Corinth , Max Liebermann and Ivo Hauptmann , who later also taught them painting, frequented the family home . She was trained by Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , who, like other Hamburg secessionists , was one of her friends and was married to Alexandra Povòrina.

She traveled to Paris in 1908 and 1927 , to Egypt in 1911 and to Rome in 1929 . After her return she went on study trips to America and Zealand .

After the Nazi race laws were imposed and the repression became stronger , she fled to England with her brother in 1938 . They lived in Eastbourne and from 1942 in the county of Cornwall ; there she restricted her painting because she took a strong stake in the fate of her brother, who was interned at times despite his status as a Nazi persecutor .

In 1950 she returned to Hamburg-Othmarschen and lived there until around 1960. With the money for the reparation , she rented a house on Wyk auf Föhr.

Because of her deafness, which made her dependent, and because of the circumstances of her parents, she was never forced to paint professionally. She was never represented at an exhibition.

In addition to oil paintings , watercolors and ink drawings that were created under the influence of Max Liebermann and the secessionists, she illustrated family and other social events; Illustrations of her have appeared in various literary works.

Her works are in private ownership in Hamburg.

Works (selection)

  • Johann Karl August Musäus : The nymph of the fountain. Drawings by Clara Blumenfeld. Bruno Cassirer , Berlin 1913.
  • Laura Fitinghoff: Seven little homeless people: A children's story from Sweden. With full colored paintings by Clara Blumenfeld. Original translation by Harriet Blumenfeld. Gundert, Stuttgart 1934.
  • Edith Oppens: The Mandrill. Hamburg's twenties. With illustrations by Clara Blumenfeld. Erik Blumenfeld's seaport publisher, 1969.

literature

  • In: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 66 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolpersteine ​​in Hamburg - Martha Blumenfeld. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Women's biographies. Hamburg.de, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Wiedenmann: Crossing Borders: Women, Art and Exile . Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3147-4 , p. 89 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Blumenfeld, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumenfeld, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1978
Place of death Wyk on Föhr