Dörte Helm

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Dorothea "Dörte" Helm , also Dörte Helm-Heise (born December 3, 1898 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; died February 24, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter and graphic artist .

Life

Dörte Helm was a daughter of the classical philologist Rudolf Helm (1872–1966) and his Jewish wife Alice Caroline, b. Bauer (1873-1947). After completing her training at the Municipal School for Girls in Berlin-Steglitz family in 1910 followed the father to Rostock which there since 1907 a professor at the University held. Dörte Helm attended the lyceum here until 1913 and then the arts and crafts school for two years. This was followed by three years at the Kassel Art Academy from 1915 to 1918 , a. a. in the modeling class of Carl Hans Bernewitz and as a pupil of Ernst Odefey , she also gave drawing lessons in a daughter's home.

Helm studied in 1918/1919 at the University of Fine Arts in Weimar in the graphics class with Walther Klemm . In 1919 he moved to the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar as an apprentice in the wall painting and textile workshop. Her teachers were Johannes Itten , Lyonel Feininger , Oskar Schlemmer , Georg Muche and the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius . In 1922 she passed the journeyman's examination as a decorative painter at the Weimar Chamber of Crafts. As early as 1921, she was involved in Gropius' Haus Sommerfeld project, she manufactured an application curtain and advised on the interior design. In 1922/1923 she worked in the weaving workshop and in 1923 took part in the exhibition commission for the Bauhaus exhibition, where she was represented with a wall hanging and a screen.

She stayed as a journeyman at the Bauhaus until 1924 and then returned to Rostock. Here she became a member of the Rostock Artists' Association and the Economic Association of Visual Artists . Long stays in Ahrenshoop followed , where she made the acquaintance of the publisher Peter E. Erichson . She traveled to Austria and Switzerland (1928). From 1925 to 1931 she regularly took part in the exhibitions of the Rostock Artists' Association ; She had her first exhibition in Rostock in 1920. In 1927, Barlach friend Friedrich Schult organized an exhibition in the Güstrower Museum. In 1927/1928 she was commissioned by the architect Walter Butzek to design the interior of the Warnemünder Kurhaus . The murals she made there were destroyed after 1933.

Memorial stone for Dörte Helm at the Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1930 she married the journalist Heinrich Heise (1899–1944) and moved to Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel in 1932, since her husband was editor of the Hamburg program magazine Funkwacht from 1933 onwards. From 1933 onwards she was banned from practicing as a “half-Jewish woman” under the Reich Chamber of Culture law , and she could now only work as a writer (sometimes under a pseudonym ). In February 1941 she succumbed to an infectious disease . The funeral speech was held by the journalist Hugo Sieker and published the text as an obituary in the Hamburger Anzeiger from 1./2. March 1941.

Dörte Helm is commemorated on a memorial stone in the form of a seat cube in the “memory spiral” in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

reception

One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, the six-part television series Die Neue Zeit was created in 2019 under the direction of Lars Kraume , in which Anna Maria Mühe played Dörte Helm, interspersed with many fictional elements . This series also tells of an intimate relationship that Walter Gropius and Dörte Helm would have had in Weimar. Her daughter Cornelia Heise said in an interview that this relationship has not been proven.

gallery

Works (selection)

Dörte Helm's oeuvre includes drawings, woodcuts , paintings, tapestries and woodwork.

  • Drafts of an official stamp (signet) of the State Bauhaus (given a 3rd prize in an invitation to tender)
  • Postcard 14 for the Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. Museum of Modern Art and Harvard Art Museums
  • Stained glass window in Peter E. Erichson's summer house in Ahrenshoop, Schifferberg 10 (built by Friedrich Wachenhusen in 1897 ) 1926/1927
  • Portrait of GD in front of a northern landscape. Ahrenshoop Art Museum
  • Farmhouses by the water. 1925, Ahrenshoop Art Museum
  • Portrait LR (Line Ristow). 1927, pastel (Line Ristow was Peter E. Erichson's partner)
  • Self-portrait. 1931
  • Yellow daffodils.
  • Fishing nets.
  • De Poppenspäler ut Kiel.
  • The flying room.
  • The sliding room.
  • In the fairy tale kingdom. (1921, children's book with verses from her father)
  • King Drosselbart. Fairy tale game. (Performed in 1931 at the Rostock City Theater, with own stage designs)

literature

  • Helm, Dörte . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 414 .
  • Helm-Heise, Dörte . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 41 .
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 76.
  • Peter Palme: Dörte Helm: an unfinished between stylistic art, Bauhaus and New Objectivity. MCM-Art, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809969-8-3 .
  • Stephan Sehlke: Educators - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 , p. 157.
  • Ruth Negendanck : The Bauhaus on Fischland and Darß: Peter Keler , Dörte (Dorothea) Helm. In: Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2011, ISBN 978-3-88132-294-2 , pp. 176-183.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4063 .
  • Petra Klara Gamke-Breitschopf: Helm-Heise, Dörte . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 378 f.

Web links

Commons : Dörte Helm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A photo (around 1926) with Dörte Helm, Peter E. Erichson and his partner Line Ristow can be found on the website of the Ahrenshoop Art Museum
  2. ↑ Peter Palme: Dörte Helm: an unfinished between stylistic art, Bauhaus and New Objectivity. MCM-Art, Berlin 2007, p. 63.
  3. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Bauhaus series “Die Neue Zeit” - When grandma’s life becomes a TV event. Spiegel-Online , September 5, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Lenore Lötsch: Dörte Helm, the bypassed artist. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , April 8, 2019, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Illustration of the Thuringia State Archive - Weimar State Archive , State Bauhaus Weimar, No. 78: Invitation to tender, drafts, selection and use of the official stamp (signet) of the State Bauhaus. P. 21.
  6. ↑ Figure MoMA , New York
  7. ↑ Figure Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
  8. ↑ Figure Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop
  9. ↑ Figure Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop
  10. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4063 . (Listed from 1931)
personal data
SURNAME Helm, Dörte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helm, Dorothea (maiden name); Helm-Heise, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1941
Place of death Hamburg