Clara Vogedes
Clara Vogedes , née Homscheidt (* 1892 in Krefeld , † 1983 in Heilbronn ), was a German painter .
Life
Clara Vogedes came from a middle-class family in Krefeld. After finishing school, she completed a language course in Rolle on Lake Geneva , which she completed with a French interpreting diploma. After visiting an exhibition by Paula Modersohn-Becker in 1910, she wanted to become a painter. She then took lessons in watercolor painting with Henri Duvoisin in Geneva and then in oil painting with Henry van de Velde in Krefeld. At first she painted a few oil paintings, later only rarely.
In 1917 she married the journalist, writer and local poet Alois Vogedes . They had four daughters together.
Act
Her husband's bourgeois republican sentiment resulted in constant changes of profession and location. Alois worked as an editor for various newspapers, often as a journalist, etc. a. in Hanover, Trier, Neunkirchen and Paderborn . Clara always moved in literary, artistic circles, for example in Hanover in the group around Kurt Schwitters , the central figure of "Hanover Dadaism ", and in Paderborn in the group of poets around Alois Vogedes , as heir to Peter Hille . In 1926 her husband received an offer from Trier , where Clara Vogedes joined the Trier painters' circle. In 1935 she had her first solo exhibition in Trier.
In Neunkirchen she painted scenes from the world of work: men at blast furnaces , in rolling mills and wire drawing shops .
In the portrait of her husband (1929) and her self-portrait “The Painter” (1933) she showed herself to be a master of the watercolor technique, “which demands a lot of concentration and skill, because once the paint has been applied, corrections are hardly possible.”
Shortly before the end of the war, the family moved to Paderborn , where the destroyed city and the cathedral were the main motifs.
"The watercolors of this time [...] you can see the masterful mastery of the technique: the most delicate color gradients, opalescent transitions from tone to tone, drastically contrasted hues, dark accents, brittle, dry brush marks that make the relief of the paper visible, then again the transparent layering of the colors in a sparing palette, the erasure of the colors that almost reminds one of chalk drawings. The works are created quickly and spontaneously, and always directly in front of the motif, they are 'works out of the backpack', as Clara Vogedes calls them.
In winter she devoted herself to batik , which she enriched with her knowledge of color gradients in watercolor painting. She often chose religious themes and created many nativity scenes for Christmas exhibitions in the surrounding cities.
Flower still lifes in dull, pale colors at the beginning of the 1950s seem to herald the death of her husband in 1956. Deeply hit by this, she stopped painting. She brought her youngest daughter to Lünen and set up her own studio . Clara Vogedes then became active again, and a new creative period began for her at the age of 65.
She took regular summer courses. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she enrolled at the "International Summer Academy for Fine Arts" (ISOAK) in Salzburg , founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka . a. in the classes of Emilio Vedova in abstract painting, of Zao Wou-Ki and of Jože Ciuha in nude and portrait painting. After doing some abstract compositions, she returned to her own style.
In 1969 and 1970 she spent the summer months in the "Atelier artistique international" in Séguret , where the painter Arthur Langlet gathered artists from many countries and from all genres such as painters, draftsmen, graphic artists, photographers and sculptors. "Watercolor series in front of the landscape, sunsets, thunderstorm studies, light and mood of the Camargue were created. Clara Vogedes' watercolors seem to vibrate: light, air and the atmosphere play into them, and therefore set a strong lyrical accent. It is not about exact reproduction, but about the dimension of experience when lingering z. B. in the landscape, painting as a 'communication of existence' ”.
And she traveled again and again: to Greece ( Rhodes , Crete : a longer stay in an artist colony there thanks to a grant), to Andalusia , France (especially to Paris , Brittany , Provence and Camargue ), to Prague , the Czech Republic , England , Norway , Denmark and, at the age of 85, to Egypt . She brought back many drawings and landscape watercolors from all her travels, "which sometimes only appear abstractly like color and light studies."
In 1977 she suffered a first stroke , after a second in 1979 she went to Heilbronn to be near her eldest daughter, a doctor, where she died in 1983.
Posthumously
On the occasion of its 100th birthday in 1992, the city of Lünen dedicated a large retrospective to their work. About the exhibition day: “Rainy day in Lünen. A city is wrapped in gray-brown colors. Silhouettes blur in front of the beholder's eye, appear washed out and dreary. The November mood so aptly portrayed by Clara Vogedes, immortalized many years ago as a watercolor, hardly differs from the cloudy gray tones of yesterday. "
influence
Young artists are also interested in Clara Vogedes' work. In 2005 there was an exhibition “Pictures out of the backpack - pictures without sketches”, an exhibition by the Lünen studio group in Heinz Cymontkowski's studio, who contrasted Clara Vogedes' pictures with his own works from 2000 onwards.
Two of her granddaughters, Kristine Oßwald (1961–2017), draftsman and video artist, and Cornelia Oßwald-Hoffmann (art historian and freelance curator for contemporary art), have followed in her footsteps.
Picture gallery (selection)
- Clara Vogedes - private collection
Roses in a Vase (1969)
Fisherman's House on the Nahe (1937)
Marian column in Trier (1962)
Lünen in the Rain (1960)
Notre-Dame after Easter Mass (1976)
Seine-Kai (1976)
Mont Ventoux (1969)
Plane trees (1970)
Exhibitions
- 1932 Trier casino hall
- 1935–1939 Koblenz / Trier
- 1941 Saarbrücken State Museum
- 1942 Neunkirchen (Saar) hall construction
- 1946 Münster State Museum
- 1948 Bielefeld Gallery "William" with Otto Pankok
- 1949 Landau in the Palatinate "Art in the Southwest"
- 1954 Bielefeld WBK
- 1956 Bielefeld Gallery "The Little Bridge"
- 1959 Bielefeld "Documentation of Artists in North Rhine-Westphalia"
- 1964 Bremen Gallery "Schnoor"
- 1967 Bielefeld New Museum
- 1970 Dortmund Rheinisch-Westfälische Auslandsgesellschaft "Pictures of Provence"
- 1971 Lüdinghausen Castle Vischering "Rosenbilder"
- 1971 Heilbronn City Museum "Heilbronn in watercolor"
- 1971 Selm group exhibition in the Friedenskirche on the topic "We live from peace" together with works by Ernst Barlach , Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Dix .
- 1972 Lüdinghausen "German Landscapes"
- 1972 Nordkirchen Castle "Greek Impressions"
- 1972–1976 solo and group exhibitions in Lemgo, Trier, Selm, Krefeld, Höxter (Corvey Monastery), Lünen, Lüdinghausen
- 1976 Dortmund Siemens AG Casino "Paris - watercolors, charcoal drawings, lithographs"
- 1976 Arnsberg Sauerland Museum "Cities and Landscapes"
- 1977 Salzburg Trakelhaus "Pictures from Salzburg 1965–1975"
- 1978 Lünen Heinz Hilpert Theater
- 1984 Lünen Sparkasse "Watercolors from Paderborn"
- 1985 Paderborn media center for the Archdiocese of PB "Pictures from Paderborn"
- 1988 Buc (France, Yvelines) Center culturel des Arcades
- 1992 Nieheim St. Nikolaus residential pen "Aquarelle"
- 1992 Lünen City Gallery of the Cultural Office "Retrospective Clara Vogedes 1892–1992"
- 1993–2010 Further solo and group exhibitions in cities of North Rhine-Westphalia on religious topics (crib motifs in watercolor, batiks, lithographs) in Lünen, Bergkamen, Telgte
- 2008 Lünen "Pictures from the Backpack"
- 2010 Worpswede / Teufelsmoor “Ulice id est Moer” art and culture days
Honors
On April 29, 1999, a street in Lünen was named in her honor.
Web links
bibliography
- Ulrika Evers, German female artists of the 20th century, painting - sculpture - tapestry , Ludwig-Schultheis-Verlag, Hamburg, 1983, pp. 355 and 356, ISBN 3-920855-01-9
- Paderborn artist lexicon. Lexicon Paderborn artists of the 19th and 20th centuries in the visual arts. Association for history at the University of GH-Paderborn, SH-Verlag, 1996, p. 273, ISBN 3-89498-008-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulrika Evers, page 355
- ↑ a b c d e f g Ulrika Evers, page 356
- ↑ Magdalene Quiring-Lategahn, Ruhr-Nachrichten, October 26, 1992
- ↑ Beate Sikora, Ruhr-Nachrichten, April 25, 1992
- ^ "Pictures from the backpack - pictures without sketches" Exhibition by the Lünen studio group. "Pictures out of the backpack - pictures without sketches" - exhibition of the Lünen studio group
- ↑ Lüner personalities as reflected in the street names
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogedes, Clara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1983 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |