Daisy Campi

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Self portrait

Daisy Campi (born February 3, 1893 in Port Said , Egypt ; † September 20, 1979 in Eichbichl near Rosenheim) was a German modern painter .

Life

Daisy Campi was born as the daughter of the French diplomat Louis Héritte de la Tour and his wife Constance Baronesse Swaine. Her grandfather Ernest Héritte had married Louise Héritte-Viardot in 1863 , the eldest daughter of the director of the Paris Théâtre-Italy , Louis Claude Viardot (1800-1883), and the celebrated Spanish singer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910). Ernest Héritte worked as consul general and later as chargé d'affaires of the French Republic in Cape Town . His son, Daisy's father, became a French diplomat . She spent her childhood in London , Shanghai and Paris . After her parents divorced and her mother remarried, she was adopted by Luigi de Campi a Montesanto and was now called Daisy Héritte de Campi a Montesanto.

In 1914 she began training at the painting school in Lausanne and continued with studying painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva . After the death of her stepfather, she moved to Munich , where the artist enrolled at Moritz Heymann's painting school and then began studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Angelo Jank . Daisy Campi already spoke five languages ​​and was well educated.

From 1926 she made her first trips to France with Hermann Euler , whom she had met at the Heymann painting school, and the Norwegian painter Georg Schjelderup. Two years later she married Hermann Euler and went on a four-month honeymoon before moving into a studio in Munich. From 1927, as a member of the New Munich Secession , she also took part in the exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace , where her work received great attention.

In 1930 their only son Alexander was born, and in 1934 the Eichbichl couple bought a farm on the Rinssee near Rosenheim . After the arduous war years, extensive travel began, especially to Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain and France. Hermann Euler died in 1970, and his wife, Daisy Campi, nine years later.

Mallow

plant

At Daisy Campi, the focus is on some outstanding still lifes, above all on the travel pictures. Both in the very early period, the Capri pictures from 1929, as well as in the later creations of Ravello and Crete , a remarkable painterly freedom is expressed.

The Capri landscapes show a rhythmic network of architecture and landscape. Surprising mountain forms are composed into the picture surface with an almost lyrical naivety, depth of space is created solely through overlapping and scaling down. The resulting image lacks any clichés and becomes all the more a carrier of the specifically atmospheric. Campi's coloring is characterized by noble sophistication, especially her use of colored gray, consisting of complementary colors or black and white with a minimal admixture of a primary or secondary color , is proverbial, easy to understand in her still lifes.

In the landscapes, the brushwork is particularly impressive: an oil paint with different turpentine , wet-on-wet painting and extremely moving brushwork result in a powerful, dynamic picture structure. This development became apparent in the 1960s and continues in very spontaneous travel magazines (Ravello and Crete). One of their peculiarities is the use of oil paint on paper. Daisy Campi is one of the most outstanding artistic personalities of the 20th century in southern Germany.

gallery

  • White House in Brittany

  • Bay in the south

  • Bathers

  • capri

  • capri

  • Red tulips

  • Lilies with tulips

  • Still life with egg shells

  • Still life with an iris and a fruit basket

  • Hyacinth with jugs

  • Lemons in a blue bowl

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • André Meller: Daisy Hériette de Campi . In: Revue du Vrai et du Beau; Arts et Lettres
  • Konrad Weiß: With the jury free . For the spring exhibition in the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten
  • Hans Heyn: The Eulers, pictures from an ideal world in the Rosenheim gallery
  • Iris Trübswetter: You challenge the comparison
  • Hans Heyn: South German painting
  • Hendrik Heuser: The art of color, pictures by Daisy Campi Euler at Furtner
  • Reinhard Müller Mehlis: love of compact form
  • Hans Heyn: The Eulers - an artist couple
  • Ruth Negendanck : Chiemsee artist landscape
  • Birgit Löffler: Hermann Euler and Daisy Campi - off the Chiemsee . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-074-6 .

Web links

Commons : Daisy Campi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Löffler: Hermann Euler and Daisy Campi - Away from the Chiemsee . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-074-6 , p. 92.

Modernist painter

personal data
SURNAME Campi, Daisy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Said , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1979
Place of death Eichbichl near Rosenheim