Elena Liessner-Blomberg

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Elena Liessner-Blomberg (born January 31, 1897 in Moscow ; † January 1, 1978 in East Berlin ) was a Russian-Austrian painter , graphic artist and textile artist .

life and work

Elena Liessner-Blomberg was born on January 31, 1897 as the daughter of the Riga accountant Arthur Liessner and his Russian wife Natalja. Due to her father's Austrian origins, she had Austrian citizenship. After her father's early death in 1901, Elena spent a lot of time in her mother's tailoring and corset-making studio, who counted numerous actresses and dancers among her customers.

After finishing high school in 1914, Elena Liessner received drawing lessons from her uncle Ernst Liessner, who had previously lived in exile in Paris and was a master student of Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin . After working as a draftsman at NARKOMPROS for a year , she worked there in 1919 as a secretary for the visual arts department .

In 1920 she began studying painting at the State Free Artistic Workshops (Swomas), which were later renamed WChUTEMAS . There she was taught by Antoine Pevsner and Lyubow Sergejewna Popowa , among others . Like many fellow students, she adored Mayakovsky's poems , whom she had met personally several times at the WChUTEMAS.

In 1921 she followed her friend Eduard Schiemann and moved to Berlin . She had previously taken over his studio in Moscow and continued his drawing lessons for children of railway workers. In the same year her design was selected for the stage curtain of the Berlin cabaret Der Blaue Vogel . In 1924 she married the interior designer Albrecht Blomberg; also in 1924 the daughter Katja and in 1925 the son Michael was born.

In the period from 1933 to 1945 Elena Liessner-Blomberg largely withdrew as an artist and no longer exhibited. She worked as an assistant to her husband, who took on assignments as an interior designer at home and abroad.

To escape the air raids on Berlin, the family moved to Feldafing in 1943 . In 1951 the family moved to the GDR , where they maintained a close friendship with artists such as Dinah Nelken , Ernst Busch and Herbert Sandberg . Initially based in Pirna , the family moved to Kleinmachnow in 1954 , where her husband Albrecht Blomberg died in 1962.

In 1969, living very secluded in Kleinmachnow, the work of Elena Liessner-Blomberg was rediscovered. Dinah Nelken presented her in the magazine Das Magazin and Herbert Sandberg organized an exhibition for her in Berlin. In the same year, the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett acquired numerous early works by the artist as the basis of an extensive collection.

Works

Exhibitions

In addition, works by Elena Liessner-Blomberg were represented in numerous group exhibitions, for example at the spring exhibition of the Berlin Secession in 1932 and in 1979 as part of the exhibition “Companions - Contemporary Fine Art from Three Decades” in the Berlin Altes Museum .

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personal data
SURNAME Liessner-Blomberg, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter, graphic artist and textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1978
Place of death East Berlin