Elfriede Thum

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Grave of the Lauckner family and Elfriede's in-laws in Berlin-Grunewald

Lydia Elfriede Luzie Thum (born December 15, 1886 in Berlin ; † May 6, 1952 ; artist name: Erich Thum ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Elfriede Thum spent her childhood on Dorotheenstrasse in Berlin. In 1905/06 she studied at the University of Lausanne . Here she met Rolf Lauckner , Hermann Sudermann's stepson . She then went to Dresden and trained further in painting with Charles Johann Palmié . One of her artistic role models was Giovanni Segantini . In 1909 Elfriede Thum stayed in Nidden and met Max Pechstein there. In 1910/11 Elfriede Thum acquired a plot of land in Tzschetschnow near Frankfurt (Oder) and had a villa built there. At the end of 1913 she married Rolf Lauckner and the family moved into this villa. Based on Sudermann's novel “Der Katzensteg” they called the area around their house the “Katzengrund”.

During the First World War , Elfriede Lauckner signed her works with “Erich Thum”. At the beginning of the 1920s, Elfriede Lauckner presented his first works a. a. at Ferdinand Möller , Hans Goltz and the Kunsthaus Schaller in Stuttgart. During the National Socialist era , her works were defamed as " degenerate ", and from 1937 onwards she was banned from exhibiting. Elfriede Lauckner then followed her husband to his various residences and worked temporarily as a set designer.

The villa near Frankfurt (Oder) was badly damaged in the last weeks of the Second World War and later demolished. Elfriede Lauckner spent the last years of life with her husband in Berlin-Grunewald , Bettinastraße 3.

From November 18, 1988 to February 11, 1989, the Lippeck Gallery in Berlin-Hermsdorf showed more than 70 paintings, watercolored costume designs, lithographs, etchings and photos of Elfriede Thum's no longer preserved stained glass. The works received from the Herrmann Sudermann Foundation had been restored by the gallery owner Reinhard Lippeck. From January to April 2005, the Barthelmess & Wischnewski gallery in Berlin organized a solo exhibition on Elfriede Thum. In March 2014, the Frankfurt (Oder) City Archives opened a special exhibition on Elfriede Thum.

Quotes

" Elfriede Lauckner was a ... delightfully charming and somewhat secretive woman ... She was just as tall as Lauckner, dressed excellently, but despite the fashion, always wore long dresses, which led to her long, narrow face with large, deep dark eyes, The black parting, which was pulled down a long way, fit perfectly. Her voice was both soft and dark; her laughter was muffled, almost a bit stylized, just as there was something slightly stylized about her whole appearance, her speaking, her movements. Something English from the Browning days was about her ... she herself .. never spoke of herself, neither of her origins nor of her family and her circumstances . "

“ Friedel… was probably the most unique female I have met, and I am - already through my theatrical job - not without knowledge in this maze. - It was not her completely self-sacrificing care for me, which the egoistically thinking man takes for granted, that gave her her peculiarity, but also the modesty with which she put her own great artistry on the back burner. - Above all, however, the blessing that she gave in all directions - whether it was a flower or an animal or a child or a desperate adult - she was always selflessly helpful with advice and action. And that is why many, many people and children in the village districts weep for them that we have passed through. "

literature

  • Paul Fechter : People on my way. Encounters yesterday and today . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1955, chap. IV: Rolf Lauckner and Erich Thum

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Martin Göldner: Elfriede Thum - forgotten painter. In: gueldendorf.de. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sabine Fechter: Childhood paradise Katzengrund . In: Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V. (Ed.): The Ostpreußenblatt . 18th year, No. 42 , October 21, 1967, ISSN  0947-9597 , p. 6 ( preussische-allgemeine.de [PDF; 12.3 MB ]).
  3. ↑ SiS: A filler of compelling images. The Berlin gallery Lippeck shows works by Erich Thum . In: The Ostpreußenblatt . 39th year, no. 47 . Hamburg November 18, 1988, p. 9 ( preussische-allgemeine.de [PDF; 17.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ kel: picture of Elfriede Thum is expected in May 2014 in Frankfurt. In: Der Oderlandspiegel. April 3, 2014, accessed April 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Paul Fechter: People on my ways , p. 185
  6. ^ Letter from Rolf Lauckner to Kurt Mueller, the son of Elfriede's sister Helene, dated December 23, 1952
personal data
SURNAME Thum, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauckner, Elfriede; Erich Thum (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1952
Place of death Berlin