Constanze Schwedeler

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Constanze Schwedeler's house around 1949–1962 in Munich-Schwabing

Rachel Constanze Schwedeler (also Constance and Konstanze) (born May 29, 1876 in Hamburg-Othmarschen ; † February 3, 1962 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist of impressionism , expressionism and abstract painting .

Life

Constanze Schwedeler was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen as the daughter of the businessman Eduard Schwedeler and Octavia Margaretha Constanze Schwedeler, nee. Otten born. She was therefore the granddaughter of the composer and conductor and then chairman of the Hamburg music association Georg Dietrich Otten .

After finishing school, she was trained as a violinist, but studied painting in Paris before the First World War . The fruitful and still continuing conflict between Impressionism and Expressionism that took place there was her decisive artistic experience and France remained her artistic adopted home. She took part in her first exhibitions with Impressionist landscape paintings in the Salon d'Automne , the Salon des Indépendants and on the Champ de Mars . During this first period in Paris, summer stays in Brittany and Normandy also fell. After the outbreak of the First World War, she had to leave Paris and went to Munich.

In 1923 Constanze Schwedeler became friends with Gabriele Münter and spent six weeks with her in May and June in Münter's house in Murnau and Elmau . She encouraged Münter to work more on landscape studies in front of nature. Her two pictures, Spring Landscape and Spring in the Mountains , were probably created at this time , which were taken on the IX. Exhibition of the Munich New Secession were shown. In April 1924 Münter lived with her in Munich and in May they were together again in Murnau. During this time, Münter's picture of Murnau in May was created . In November 1924 and May 1925 she lived again with Schwedeler in Munich. Probably during the first time in Paris or after 1915 in Munich, she was also in contact with the painter and teacher Hans Hofmann , who “first introduced her to the problems of modern painting”.

In 1926 CS returned to Paris and was heavily influenced by André Lhote , a painter, sculptor, art critic and theorist who ran his own academy there. During this time, nude compositions and flower pieces were created. The art dealer and gallery owner Wilhelm Uhde , who was also living in Paris at the time, was one of her sponsors. There she also met Gabriele Münter again, who also spent 1929/30 in Paris and temporarily lived with her again. During this second period in Paris he stayed in Toulon, Antibes and Nice. Constanze Schwedeler was possibly temporarily in Munich, because in the winter of 1934/35, Münter, who was in need of money, is said to have lived there again with her and moved into "the bathroom". In 1939, CS returned to Munich for good.

After the Second World War , CS was unfortunately unable to return to France and turned more to abstract painting. In 1958, at the age of 82, she was a founding member of the artists' association "The Independent" in Munich together with Heinrich Baudisch , Gerhard Baumgärtl , Rolf Cavael , Ludwig Dörfler , Christof Drexel , Johannes Dumanski , Friedrich August Gross , Manfred Henninger , Hans Jürgen Kallmann , Hugo Kiessling , Ernst Kropp , Heribert Losert , Alfred Luyken , Ernst Oberle , Alexander Rath , Walther Raum , Hannes Rosenow , Ludwig Scharl , Emil Scheibe , Anton Stankowski and Rudolf Weissauer .

Constanze Schwedeler died on February 3, 1962 in Munich. The urn with its ashes was transferred to the Hamburg-Nienstedten cemetery and buried in the grave of the von Freyhold family. The tomb was closed in 2001.

Exhibitions

This list of exhibitions may not be complete:

Works

Works with a known whereabouts:

  • Dead trees (origin?) Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
  • Mountain landscape (before 1952, oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm), Kunsthalle Hamburg (HK-3516)
  • Still life (before 1952, oil on cardboard, 50 × 60 cm), Kunsthalle Hamburg (HK-3517)

A selection of the literature or reproductions taken from the Internet, whereabouts unknown:

  • Bust Quayside With Moored Shipping (1910, oil on panel , 24 × 33 cm)
  • Seated (origin?, Charcoal drawing)
  • Spring Landscape (1923)
  • Spring in the Mountains (1923)
  • Nude composition (1926, oil painting)
  • Calla flowers (1926)
  • Still life with a shell (before 1949)
  • Reading boy (before 1949)
  • Still life with a fruit bowl (before 1949)
  • Red jug, shells, feathers (before 1954)
  • Still life with vases (1955, oil on canvas)
  • Composition (1958)

literature

  • Galerie Karin Hielscher (Ed.): Exhibition Exhibition October 1949: Constance Schwedeler, Rolf Trumpp, Doris Sewell Jackson. , Exhibition catalog, 1949.
  • Märkisches Museum Witten-Ruhr (eds.): Constanze Schwedeler and Paul E. Fontaine, May 30 - June 20, 1954. , exhibition catalog, 1954.
  • Wolfgang Petzet: Of art and artists. In: Art and the beautiful home . 56th year (1957/58), Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1958, pp. 296-299.
  • Wolfgang Petzet: Constance Schwedeler - An old painter thinks of Paris. In: Art and the beautiful home . 56th year (1957/58), Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1958, pp. 441-443.
  • The Independent - artist group in Munich - founding exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich January 17, 1958 to February 2, 1958. , Baudisch Heinrich, Biese Gerth, Cavael Rolf, exhibition catalog, Munich 1958, SWB-ID: 339023570.
  • Constance Schwedeler . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 240 .
  • Constance Schwedeler . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 410 .
  • News of Constanze Schwedeler's death. In: Art and the beautiful home. 60th year (1961/62), supplement to issue 6, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1962, p. 2.
  • Annegret Hoberg, Helmut Friedel (eds.): Gabriele Münter: 1877–1962: retrospective (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, from July 29th - November 1st, 1992 and in the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from 29 November 1992 to February 10, 1993). , Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7913-1216-2 .
  • Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th / 20th centuries Century: Landschreiber-Zintl. Volume 6. , Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7654-1806-4 .
  • Gisela Kleine: Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, biography of a couple. , Insel Verlag Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-458-33311-8 .
  • Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen (eds.), Barbara Hörwag, Meike Hoffmann (texts): Gabriele Münter - A painter of the Blue Rider: paintings, drawings, prints. Published for the exhibition from July 3 to September 19, 1999, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0844-8 .
  • Gudrun Schury: Ich Weltkind - Gabriele Münter - The biography. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03394-1 .

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  1. ↑ Birth certificate dated May 30, 1876, Hamburg State Archives.
  2. ↑ a b c Petzet: "Constance Schwedeler - An old painter thinks of Paris". In: "Art and the beautiful home", 56th year, 1958, pp. 441–443.
  3. ↑ a b c d Märkisches Museum Witten: Constanze Schwedeler and Paul E. Fontaine, May 30 - June 20, 1954, exhibition catalog 1954.
  4. ^ Munich New Secession, IX. Exhibition, Glaspalast Munich, exhibition catalog, 1923.
  5. ^ Municipal gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen: Gabriele Münter - A painter of the Blue Rider. 1999, p. 39.
  6. ^ A b Hoberg, Friedel: Gabriele Münter 1877–1962 retrospective. 1992.
  7. ^ Galerie Hielscher: "Exhibition Exhibition October 1949, Constance Schwedeler, Rolf Trumpp, Doris Sewell Jackson", exhibition catalog, 1949.
  8. ↑ Kleine: "Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, Biography of a Couple", 1994, p. 610.
  9. ↑ Katharina Speil: "The life and work of the Silesian painter Albert Ferenz (1907–1994)", diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2011, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Schwedeler, Constanze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constance, Constance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1962
Place of death Munich