Clara Möller-Coburg

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Clara Lisette Möller-Coburg , nee Möller, married Ehmcke, (born April 10, 1869 in Coburg , † September 30, 1918 in Munich ) was a German craftswoman and graphic artist who added the name of her city of birth to her stage name.

Live and act

Möller-Coburg was the daughter of the senior teacher Johannes Möller and his wife Susann (e) a Margareta Möller. In the 1890s she studied at the so-called women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association and then worked for the renowned Steglitzer Werkstatt Berlin :

Her pictorial form, which comes from the world of folklore and toys, clearly stands out from other works in the Steglitz workshop and is unmistakable in its peculiarity .

From 1904 to 1905 Clara Möller was a teacher for textile work at the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg. In 1905 she married the graphic artist Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , co-founder of the Steglitzer Werkstatt Berlin . The marriage resulted in two children, a son and daughter Susanne Ehmcke .

Advertising stamp around 1908

Clara Möller-Coburg designed bookplates , advertising posters, product packaging, business cards, end papers, drafts for artistic reform clothing, weaving and embroidery work, children's toys, etc.

The artist died in 1918 at the age of 49 of complications from the Spanish flu and was buried in the cemetery in Widdersberg . Her granddaughter Sabine Bloch writes that her grandmother's work is "still largely unexplored".

Works

  • Work examples , in: Decorative Art 1905 / H. 2, p. 49 ff
  • Work examples , in: Decorative Art 1905 / H. 7, p. 294 ff
  • Urs Latus: Tricks. Wooden toy design before 1914 , p. 141
  • Dear old nursery , with an afterword by Susanne Ehmcke, Munich: Annette Betz 1969.

literature

  • Jean Loubier : The Steglitzer Werkstatt , in: German Art and Decoration , Darmstadt 1930/04, p. 63 ff.
  • Examples of contemporary printed matter based on designs by Clara Möller-Coburg and FH Emcke, Düsseldorf, Prof. FW Kleuken, Darmstadt and Max Hartwig , Hanover 1908.
  • Hans Adolf Halbey: The picture book in Germany in the 20th century , in: Clemens Baumgärtner (Ed.): Aspects of the painted world , Weinheim / Berlin 1968, pp. 11–31.
  • Jutta Assel: Susanne Ehmcke. Children's books from five decades. Exhibition catalog of the International Youth Library Munich 1981.
  • Sabine Bloch: biography. Susanne Ehmcke , in: Maria Linsmann (Ed.): Reim und Bild. The author and illustrator Susanne Ehmcke , Troisdorf 2010, pp. 9–12.
  • Saur General Artist Lexicon. Volume 32 Ebersbach-Eimbke, Munich / Leipzig, pp. 431-432.
  • Sabine Bloch: Pictures and rhymes - Susanne Ehmcke as author and illustrator , in: Maria Linsmann (Ed.): Reim und Bild. The author and illustrator Susanne Ehmcke , Troisdorf 2010, pp. 13–20.
  • Gerda Breuer , Julia Meer (Ed.): Women in Graphic Design. Jovis / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , p. 437.
  • Klára Němečková: Clara Möller-Coburg , in: Tulga Beyerle , Klára Němečková (Eds.): Against Invisibility: Designers from the Deutsche Werkstätte Hellerau, 1898-1938 . Munich: Hirmer, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7774-3218-2 , pp. 206f.
  • Carsten Roth: Ehmcke, Clara . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 431 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halbey 1968, p. 30
  2. ^ Family grave in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Bloch 2010, p. 9
  4. ↑ Clara Möller only left sketches for this picture book that were redrawn by her daughter and supplemented with titles and an illustration (peas, beans, lentils). Susanne Ehmcke also added texts
personal data
SURNAME Möller-Coburg, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möller, Clara Lisette (maiden name); Ehmcke, Clara Lisette (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftswoman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1918
Place of death Munich