Cornelia Paczka-Wagner

Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (1892)
portrait by Max Klinger

Self-Portrait (1920s)

Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (born August 9, 1864 in Göttingen , † after 1930) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Cornelia Wagner was the daughter of the economist Adolph Wagner . She was trained in Berlin with Karl Stauffer-Bern , at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Johann Caspar Herterich and at a private academy in Paris.

In 1888 she moved to Rome to continue her artistic education there. In 1890 she married the Hungarian painter Franz Paczka (Ferenc Paczka, 1856–1925). She had been in close contact with Max Klinger since 1891 at the latest and was often a model for him. In 1894 she went to Madrid with her husband , and from 1895 they worked in Berlin. Paczka-Wagner was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists (VdBK) from 1896 to 1930 .

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

• 1904: Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Berlin together with her husband
• 1910: Biennale di Venezia , Venice
• 1926: Great Berlin Art Exhibition , Berlin, with the work Großer Frauenbrunnen

Works

• Music of the lucky ones , graphic, before 1899
• Girls dance , graphic, before 1899
• Femme au bouquet , oil on canvas, 89 × 74 cm, 1906
• Femme brodant , oil on canvas, 58 × 45 cm, between 1900 and 1939
• Will to work! , Self-portrait, pen and ink on paper, 29.8 × 43.9 cm, 1916, in the library and art collection of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867
• June morning , oil on canvas, 92 × 76 cm
• Children playing on a summer meadow , oil on panel, 38 × 48 cm, 1932
• Mother with two children , oil on cardboard, 75 × 91 cm, 1933

literature

• Paczka, Cornelia . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 128 .
• Rosemary Betterton: Women artists, modernity and suffrage cultures in Britain and Germany 1890–1920. In: Katy Deepwell (Ed.): Women Artists and Modernism. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1998, ISBN 0-7190-5081-2 , pp. 18-35, especially p. 26.
• Renate Hartleb : Max Klinger and Cornelia Paczka-Wagner. A Roman relationship. In: Hans-Werner Schmidt , Jeannette Stoschek (eds.): Max Klinger “the great artist and the great wrestler…” Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-07143-8 , pp. 34–51.
• Käthe, Paula and all the rest . A reference work (female artist lexicon). Edited by the Association of Berlin Women Artists in collaboration with the Berlinische Galerie . Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 .
• Gisela Breitling (Red.): The hidden museum. Part 1: Documentation of the art of women in Berlin public collections. Exhibition of the New Society for Fine Arts. Hentrich, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-926175-38-0 .

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Paczka-Wagner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Cornelia Paczka-Wagner on artnet.com
• Self-portrait on the website of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cornelia Paczka-Wagner on rkd.nl (Dutch)
2. ↑ Berlin and the Berliners. P. 100 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck, Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women. Dietz, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-8012-0276-3 , p. 189 f.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Anja Cherdron: "Prometheus was not her ancestor". Berlin sculptors of the Weimar Republic. Jonas, Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-89445-261-2 , p. 202.
5. ^ Annette Dorgerloh : Married artist couples in the Berlin Secession. In: Women Art Science. Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. No. 25. Jonas, Marburg 1998, ISSN  0935-6967 , pp. 48-56 (PDF; 834 kB).
6. ^ Anne-Katrin Sors (ed.): The English manner. Mezzotint as a medium for graphic reproduction and innovation. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86395-162-7 , p. 290, footnote 448 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
7. ^ Marsha Morton: Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism. Ashgate, Farnham 2014, ISBN 978-1-4094-6758-8 , p. 367, section 1888-1893 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
8. ↑ From exhibitions and collections - Berlin . In: The art. Monthly magazine for fine and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904, p. 194 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - with quite negative criticism).
9. ↑ Cornelia Paczka-Wagner on artfacts.net
10. ^ ^{A b} Adolf Rosenberg : Berlin art life in winter. In: Berliner Architekturwelt . Issue 12, 1899, pp. 383–400, here p. 400 (PDF; 27.8 MB).
11. ↑ Femme brodant on fr.artquid.com.
12. ↑ Will to work! ( Memento from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on vdbk1867.de.