Dorothea Charol

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Dorothea Charol (* 21st February 1889 in Odessa , Russian Empire ; † 16th March 1963 in London , United Kingdom ) was a German sculptor of Art Deco .

Life

Charol studied in Dresden at the Richter Art School with Arthur Lange , in Brussels at the University, in Munich in Studio Schwägerle and in Italy . She worked in Berlin , among other places .

From 1916 she found artistic recognition in the Munich Secession and in other exhibitions such as the December exhibition of the New Museum (Berlin) in 1916. She made portrait busts as well as life-size nudes and figures and worked as a designer for figural porcelain. In the 1920s, Charol created models as a freelancer for numerous porcelain factories, including the Aelteste Volkstedter Porcelain Manufactory and the Unterweißbacher Porcelain Art Workshops . She designed exotic dancers based on the stories in A Thousand and One Nights for the Rosenthal porcelain factory . Some of her bronze and ivory works were handcrafted by the Berlin company Rosenthal & Maeder (from 1929 after the takeover of Preiss & Kassler ).

Charol and her husband, the painter Adolf Köglsperger , belonged to the artists' association The Abstracts .

Works (selection)

Charol made some faceless abstract statuettes of athletes such as the hockey player , the golfer , the marathon runner or the speed skater . Other works are titled:

  • Anita
  • Janine
  • Snail rider
  • Bajazzo with mask
  • Pierrot (various)
  • Pierrette (various)
  • spring
  • autumn
  • Ice skater
  • Sitting faun with pan flute entertains an amphibian
  • Josephine Baker (Banana Dance)
  • Yvonne (revue dancer)
  • Lotus flower
  • fright
  • Chinese dancer
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Spanish dance ( Martha Graham and Ted Shawn)
  • Dancer (various)

reception

The magazine Beaux Arts du Monde described Charol as "top class porcelain modeler". After Malcolm Haslam some of their works show in the style of Art Deco , the "filthy, obscene" ( English smutty ) side of the Berlin of the 1920s; Karl Eric Toepfer goes so far as to call her dancer figures “unnaturally erotic” ( perversely erotic ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alexander Koch : Dorothea Charol. In: German art and decoration. Illustrated monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic women's work, Volume 41. Verlag Koch, Stuttgart 1918. P. 237.
  2. ↑ December exhibition. December 1, 1916 to December 31, 1916. In: Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden.
  3. ↑ a b Reinhard Jansen: Commedia dell'arte. Festival of the comedians. Ceramic treasures from museums around the world. Antique Collectors Club Limited, 2001. p. 305.
  4. ↑ Dorothea Charol. ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Oldest Volkstedter porcelain factory . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellanmanufaktur-volkstedt.com
  5. ^ Judith Miller : Miller's Field Guide: Art Deco. Hachette UK, 2014. ISBN 1-78472-014-3 . P. 95.
  6. ^ Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 65.
  7. ↑ a b Malcolm Haslam: Art deco. Collector's style guide. Ballantine Books, 1988. ISBN 0-34534-742-0 , p. 254.
  8. ^ Judith Miller: Miller's Field Guide: Art Deco. Hachette UK, 2014. ISBN 1-78472-014-3 . P. 133.
  9. ↑ Handwritten minutes of a general meeting of the artists' association “The Abstracts”. In: German Historical Museum
  10. ↑ Beaux-arts du monde . Volume 78, issues 13-14. Federal Association of the German Art and Antiques Trade, Professional Group of the Austrian Antiques Trade, International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art, Vereniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland. Kunst und Technik Verlags-GmbH., 2008. ISBN 3-77572-246-7 , p. 151.
  11. ^ Karl Eric Toepfer: Empire of Ecstasy. Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. University of California Press, 1997 ISBN 0-52091-827-4 , p. 367.
personal data
SURNAME Charol, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köglsperger, Dorothea (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1963
Place of death London , UK