Dodo (artist)

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Dodo (Dörte Clara Wolff), 1928

Dodo , born as Dörte Clara Wolff (born February 10, 1907 in Berlin , † December 22, 1998 in London ), was a German painter and illustrator of New Objectivity and Art Deco .

biography

Dörte Wolff grew up as the second daughter in a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin . From 1923 to 1926 she trained at the Reimann School in Berlin-Schöneberg , a renowned private arts and crafts school. Her teachers included Moriz Melzer and Georg Tappert , who each taught portrait drawing, life drawing and composition. She also took courses in fashion and costume design with Rolf Niczky , Kenan and Erna Schmidt-Caroll . She signed her work with DODO or DoDo during her training . At first she worked as a freelance fashion designer; Among other things, she designed Vogue patterns for Fritz Gugenheim's wholesale company and silk weaving mill Michels & Cie. For the world premiere of the revue Es ist in der Luft by Mischa Spoliansky and Marcellus Schiffer in May 1928 (director: Robert Forster-Larrinaga ; set design: Walter Trier and Emil Pirchan ) Dodo designed the figurines , including in particular the stage costumes for Marlene Dietrich and Margo Lion .

From September 1927 to November 1929 she was one of the illustrators of the Ulk , the illustrated weekly newspaper for humor and satire , which appeared since 1872 as a supplement to the liberal Berliner Tageblatt and the Berliner Volks-Zeitung published by Rudolf Mosse . There she published more than 60 studies of society, most of which were executed as gouaches , including eight cover pictures and eleven large-format double center pages. Her illustrations appeared at the same time as those by Jeanne Mammen , who had also previously been a Reimann student; several works by both artists were published next to each other.

In 1929 she married the Jewish lawyer and notary Hans Bürgner (1882–1974); the two had two children, Anja and Thomas Ulrich. Through her husband's circle of friends - Hans Bürgner's sister Hedwig Abraham (1878–1969) was the widow of the psychoanalyst Karl Abraham - Dodo was familiar with psychoanalysis . In 1933 she met and fell in love with the CG Jung student Gerhard Adler (1904–1988) through her friend Polly Tieck , whose newspaper articles Dodo occasionally illustrated . She followed him to Zurich , where she was analyzed for four months by Young's closest colleague Toni Wolff (1888–1953) in the Burghölzli Clinic and expressed her dreams in works that she herself described as “unconscious” images. In the early days of National Socialism, from 1934 onwards, Dodo only worked for Jewish publications in Berlin, namely for the Jüdische Rundschau , the CV-Zeitung , the Israelitische Familienblatt and the community paper of the Jewish Community , in which her children's drawings, Bible stories and theater scenes regularly appeared.

In 1936 she emigrated to London, and a little later Tami Oelfken brought her two children to her in London. She divorced Bürgner and married Gerhard Adler in the summer of 1936. In 1938 he divorced Adler and in 1945 he married a second time with Bürgner. After the general ban from practicing lawyers on September 27, 1938, Bürgner also emigrated to London, where he directly supported the transport of children . After the war he worked for the United Restitution Organization (URO) and supported the interests of the victims of National Socialist persecution both in London and by setting up the URO offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin . In exile , Dodo illustrated children's books under the name Dodo Adler, created commercial graphics, designed greeting cards for the publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons and worked for Paris House London ; in the post-war period she drew nudes, landscapes, still lifes and created a variety of tapestries based on her own designs.

Work viewing

Dodo's work had been forgotten after emigration and was only rediscovered in autumn 2009 by the collector and art dealer Renate Krümmer. In collaboration with Krümmer and the artist's descendants, Adelheid Rasche from the Art Library , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin curated the first monographic exhibition Dodo (1907–1998) - A Life in Pictures .

According to Norbert Wolf , Dodo reached its artistic peak between 1927 and 1930, and he characterized her art as "indicative of painting in Germany at that time". The main successes of her work lay in the illustrations for the Ulk , in which she devoted herself “in addition to the general portrayal of cosmopolitan elegance, especially the social situation and personality modeling of the perky, self-confident 'new woman' and their emancipated role behavior” . In her illustrations, motifs and working methods of the New Objectivity and Art Deco mix. In addition, she uses “means borrowed from caricature ” to “draw attention to the superficiality and the illustrative character of the glamor world.” Dodo is one of those self-confident women in art whose work was only rediscovered after many years in the 21st century. She created her masterpieces during the Roaring Twenties in the Weimar Republic .

Book illustrations

  • Max Samter : The temptation. A story . Text drawings by Dodo Bürgner. Vorrupp-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Frieda Mehler: Holiday fairy tales . Drawings by Dodo Burgner. Levy, Berlin 1935.
  • Gertrude M. Salinger: Keep-Fit Singing Games . Illustrated by Dodo Adler. Evans Brothers, London 1938.
  • Joan Haslip: Fairy Tales from the Balkans . Pictures by Dodo Adler. Collins, London & Glasgow 1943.
  • Gladys Malvern: The Dancing Star . Illustrated by Dodo Adler. Collins, London 1944.
  • Gertrude M. Salinger: Good Fun Singing Games . Illustrated by Dodo Adler. Ed. J. Burrow & Co., London 1947.

Exhibitions

The first retrospective of Dodo's work Dodo (1907–1998) - A Life in Pictures took place from March 1, 2012 to May 28, 2012 in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the Kulturforum . Dodo's works were shown in London from June 22, 2012 to September 9, 2012 in the exhibition The Inspiration of Decadence. Dodo Rediscovered: Berlin to London 1907–1998 shown in the Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art. The exhibition The New Woman? New Objectivity painters and graphic artists from April 25 to July 12, 2015 in the Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen devoted a separate chapter to Dodo. At the beginning of 2016 she was in the exhibition Empathy and Abstraction in the Bielefelder Kunsthalle . Representing the modern age of women in Germany . The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt showed on 27 October 2017 to 25 February 2018 series of Dodos works in her exhibition splendor and misery in the Weimar Republic . Dodo's gouache Logenlogik (1929) became the trademark of this exhibition. Dodo's works were also part of the Berlin exhibition from October 2018 to the end of January 2019 . 1912–1932 in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels . The upcoming exhibition The creative Galatea. Women see women in the “Talstrasse” art gallery in Halle (Saale) and the Into the Night exhibitions that are currently being prepared . Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art in the Barbican Art Gallery in London and subsequently in the Belvedere in Vienna will show works by Dodo.

literature

  • Renate Krümmer (Ed.): Dodo: Leben und Werk 1907–1998 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3274-1 . (English edition: Dodo: Life and Work 1907–1998 . ISBN 978-3-7757-3275-8 .)
  • Miriam-Esther Owesle: Dodo. Of artificial silk girls and seductive vamps , In: The New Woman? New Objectivity painters and graphic artists , published by the Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, publication for the 2015 exhibition, pp. 46–59. ISBN 978-3-927877-84-9 .
  • Dodo. In: Norbert Wolf : Art Deco. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 222–226. ISBN 978-3-7913-4763-9 .
  • Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser: The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design training up to its destruction by the Hitler regime. Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sandra Danielczyk: Diseusen in the Weimar Republic. Image constructions in cabaret using the example of Margo Lion and Blandine Ebinger. transcript Verlag, 2017, ISBN 3-83943-835-7 , pp. 211-215.
  2. ^ Orbituary: Thomas Burgner . In: The Guardian, July 19, 2001.
  3. ^ Orbituary: Gerhard Adler. The true Jungian apostle. In: The Guardian of January 14, 1989 (PDF; 325 kB).
  4. ↑ In the same year Adler married Hildegard Fanta, née From (m) Holz, who founded the Society of Analytical Psychology in 1945 with Adler as Hella Adler (1907–2009) .
  5. ↑ Simone Ladwig-Winters: Lawyer Without Law ”- The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933. be.bra verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-930863-41-9 , p. 109.
  6. ^ Dodo - Discovery of an Artist. In: kruemmer.com.
  7. ↑ a b c Dodo. In: Norbert Wolf: Art Deco. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7913-4763-9 , pp. 222–226.
  8. ↑ Swantje Karich: The draftsman Dodo in Berlin. We can finally see them. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 12, 2012, accessed on April 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dodo (1907–1998) - A life in pictures . In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , March - May 2012.
  10. ↑ Ben Uri Gallery: Current Exhibition: The Inspiration of Decadence. Dodo Rediscovered, Berlin to London 1907–1998. ( Memento from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ The New Woman? New Objectivity painters and graphic artists . In: Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen , April - July 2015, accessed on February 7, 2019.
  12. ↑ Empathy and abstraction. The modern age of women in Germany. In: Kunsthalle Bielefeld , October 2015 - February 2016, accessed on April 24, 2016.
  13. ^ Splendor and misery in the Weimar Republic. In: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , October 2017 - February 2018, accessed on March 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ SCHIRNMAG. In: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, accessed on March 3, 2018.
  15. ↑ Berlin. 1912-1932. In: Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique), Brussels, October 2018 - January 2019, accessed March 6, 2019.
  16. ↑ The creative Galatea. Women see women. In: Kunsthalle “Talstrasse” , Halle (Saale), July 2019 - October 2019, accessed on March 19, 2019.
  17. ↑ Into the Night. Cabarets & clubs in a modern way . In: Barbican Art Gallery , London, October 2019 - January 2020, accessed March 19, 2019.
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SURNAME Dodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Dörte Clara; DODO; Wolff, Dodo; Burgner, Dodo; Eagle, dodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1998
Place of death London