Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt

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Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt (born October 9, 1887 in Lübeck , † January 31, 1984 in Braunschweig ; born Anna Dräger ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt was the daughter of the industrialist Johann Heinrich Dräger , the founder of Drägerwerk AG in Lübeck. She attended the Lyceum Ernestinenschule in Lübeck. She received her first training as an artist between 1904 and 1906 from Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg , the director of the cathedral museum. He ran an art school in Lübeck. In 1906 she accompanied her father on his business trips abroad. She got to know Vienna, Prague and London. In 1907 she went to Berlin, where she trained at the women's academy of the Association of Berlin Women Artists from the painter, graphic artist and writer Hans Baluschek and from Fritz Rhein , who later joined the Free Secession around Max Liebermann . The following year she traveled to the UK.

In 1909 she married the architect and building officer Carl Mühlenpfordt . The couple had four children. After her marriage, until 1922 she devoted herself primarily to family and social obligations. Her son Justus Mühlenpfordt (1911–2000) became a nuclear physicist and later lived in Leipzig and Berlin. He was a national prize winner of the GDR and from 1970 headed the research department of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Two daughters were also artists. In 1914 her husband Carl Mühlenpfordt was appointed to the Technical University of Braunschweig ; she followed him with the children to Braunschweig in 1917 because of the beginning of the First World War .

In 1922 she resumed her work as an artist and continued training from Fritz Rhein, as well as from Kurt Wehlte , who taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1933 she participated with great success in a group exhibition in the Ferdinand Möller gallery in Berlin; she also showed her work in Bremen, Hamburg and Munich. In 1933 her husband, who was nationally conservative, was dismissed for political reasons; Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt was no longer allowed to exhibit. Nevertheless, in 1940 she took part in an exhibition by the Association of Berlin Women Artists. Carl Mühlenpfordt died in 1944. After the family house in Braunschweig and Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt's studio were destroyed towards the end of the Second World War , she spent the time in the country until the end of the war, but returned to Braunschweig in 1945 and began rebuilding.

In 1953 the Braunschweig Municipal Museum dedicated a work exhibition to Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt. By 1980 she created an extensive late work that was shown in a number of exhibitions, including in Karlsruhe and Bonn. Numerous trips took her to European countries such as Greece, Italy and France; she also traveled to the Middle East, such as Israel and Egypt.

In 1963 Anna Dräger was awarded the Hans Thoma Medal. In 1984, shortly before her death on January 31, 1984, the Association of Visual Artists honored her with an exhibition in Braunschweig. Another exhibition followed in 1985 at the Braunschweig Municipal Museum, which had already been shown in the Museum of Art and Cultural History in her native Lübeck at the end of 1984 .

Your work is only partially accessible. Previous works were destroyed by the effects of the war, other works that she gave away are in private hands. Her dance of death is in Lübeck's Behnhaus . The painting was created in the 1940s.

Exhibitions

  • Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt - Paintings and brush drawings , Braunschweig Municipal Museum, April 19 to May 25, 1953
  • Franz Radziwill and Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt , Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, August 26 to September 23, 1956
  • Braunschweig Municipal Museum, April 15 to May 15, 1966
  • Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt - drawings and woodcuts , Bonner Kunstverein , July 5 to July 30, 1972
  • Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt in memory. Paintings, drawings, prints 1908 to 1980 , Museum for Art and Cultural History Lübeck October 14 to November 18, 1984; Braunschweig Municipal Museum, December 1, 1984 to January 13, 1985
  • Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt (1887-1984). Color woodcuts and printing blocks , Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, January 1998
  • Mühlenpfordt - Neue Zeitkunst and Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt - selected works. Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus , Lübeck, January 16 to March 15, 2020

literature

  • Wulf Schadendorf (Red.): Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt - paintings, drawings, prints 1908-1980 . Museum for Art and Cultural History Lübeck, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Ed.), Lübeck, Braunschweig 1984 ISBN 3-9800517-5-7
  • Christine Lipp: Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt, painter in: Women in Lübeck History . Women's Office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.), Lübeck 2005, pages 46 and 47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Justus Mühlenpfordt ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Mühlenpfordt. New contemporary art . See invitation. Both in: museum-behnhaus-draegerhaus.de . Retrieved March 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Dräger-Mühlenpfordt, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dräger, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1984
Place of death Braunschweig