Elisabeth Bunge-Wargau

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Elisabeth Bunge-Wargau in her studio in Emmering

Elisabeth (Lisl) Bunge-Wargau (born May 12, 1926 in Fürstenfeldbruck , † December 22, 2005 in Emmering near Fürstenfeldbruck) was a German painter and enamel artist.

Life

Elisabeth Wargau grew up with her three siblings in the Fürstenfeldbruck café "Rodelbahn". The Wargau family is said to have originally immigrated from Hungary. Between 1947 and 1951 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with the draftsman, landscape, figure and animal painter Fritz Skell and above all with the painter and glass painter Josef Oberberger . In the "toboggan run" she met the Emmeringen artist Charles Bungeknow. In 1952 the couple married and had two children, Daniel and Rena Bunge, who was also a goldsmith. The couple initially lived at Mitterfeldweg 14, but then bought their own house (today Hauptstraße 25), founded a workshop and registered a trade as a 'metal and art workshop' in 1953. Both ran the company together as' C. u. E. Bunge-Wargau '. In the population register of Fürstenfeldbruck in 1955, Charles is listed as a sculptor and Elisabeth as a painter.

With the workshop they were particularly active in the field of enamel art and created clocks, crucifixes, tabernacles and jewelry in enamel. Their artistically designed door handles and fittings with enamel coating still decorate public buildings, especially in Munich (town hall, etc.). Both were active in the peace movement of the 1960s. Liesl wrote letters about a “women's campaign for disarmament and peace”. Charles' sudden death at Christmas 1964 hit Lisl hard both personally and professionally, as she had previously only been active as an artist. In 1966 she gave up the company and turned to painting again. When Lisl Bunge fell ill with Alzheimer's, she was looked after by her daughter Rena, who had also died in 2005, until her death. Both were buried in the new cemetery in Emmering in the grave of the Bunge family.

Lisl Bunge: "Face"

Artistic creation

Towards the end of the 1970s, orders for enamel work fell sharply due to the trend and she continued to work as a freelance artist. Among other things, she was a member of the Fürstenfeldbruck Artists' Association. Elisabeth was represented with her works in numerous group exhibitions in the Munich area, for example also in the 'Haus der Kunst', in addition with solo exhibitions, for example 1966–1970 in the 'Kleine Galerie' of Christoph Dürr, 1989 in the Bürgerhaus der Stadt Emmering, 1995 in the 'Hart Galerie' in Germering, in 1996 in the 'Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10' in the Fürstenfeld monastery, in between in her own artist's studio at Hauptstrasse 25 in Emmering. In 1999 she received the Fürstenfeldbruck District Art Prize. The human face was the dominant theme in the last phase of her long life as an artist. On the occasion of an exhibition in the Emmeringer Bürgerhaus in 1989, the viewer judged: “Elisabeth Bunge's painting is gloomy: battered, lonely creatures bend under a brown or gray world. Irregular webs like thorns spread over faces and bodies on cracked, curled paper ”. After her death, a one-day commemorative exhibition took place in the Bürgerhaus Emmering (2005) and a larger retrospective in the 'Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10' in the Fürstenfeld Monastery (2007) and in 2017 a large exhibition in the Kunsthaus Fürstenfeldbruck with the entire works of the Bunge family under the title "Bunge, an artist family from the district". In addition, her biography appears in Elisabeth Lang's calendar “Women in the Fürstenfeldbruck district. 12 portraits ”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Fürstenfeldbrucker Tagblatt January 17, 2006 and Fürstenfeldbrucker SZ January 31, 2006. For Skell see Thieme / Becker: General Lexicon, Vol. 30, pp. 397-398, for Oberberger see Vollmer: General Lexicon, Vol. 6, p 312.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Lang: The artist family Bunge: enchanting enamel crystals for the Fürstenfeldbruck district. In: textwerkstatt-ffb.de. December 14, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Fürstenfeldbrucker Latest News 23/24 March 1989, p. III.
  4. ^ Elisabeth Lang: Women in the Fürstenfeldbruck district. Twelve portraits. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bunge-Wargau, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bunge-Wargau, Lisl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and enamel artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenfeldbruck
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2005
Place of death Emmering near Fürstenfeldbruck