Elisabeth of Baczko

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Elisabeth von Baczko (* 1868 in Mainz ; † after 1937; full name: Elisabeth Felicitas Emma Therese von Baczko ) was a German interior and furniture designer as well as women's rights activist .

biography

Elisabeth von Baczko was born in Mainz. She comes from the Austro-Hungarian noble family von Baczko. The photographer Felicitas von Baczko (1877–1957) was her sister. After 1894 she was a student of the architect and art theorist Paul Schultze-Naumburg . In 1905 she moved to Bremen . From 1909 to 1913 she lived and worked with her sister and Anna Goetze (painter and exhibition organizer, 1920 founder of the Graphisches Kabinett in Bremen) in a shared apartment. In 1933 she moved with her sister to Berlin, until 1937 the sisters were listed in the address books with the address Nassauische Strasse 16 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

As an interior and furniture designer, she participated in various exhibitions a. a. 1905/1906 in the Gewerbemuseum and at the Leuwer Art Salon in Bremen, 1906 at the 3rd German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden , 1907 in the Kunsthalle in Worpswede , 1909 with Heinrich Vogeler and her sister Felicitas in the Gewerbemuseum Bremen, 1910 at the Brussels World Exhibition , 1913 in the Kunsthalle Bremen and in 1925 at the Werkbund Days.

She designed children's furniture as well as garden and pipe furniture, designed the interior of a children's home on Mainstrasse in Bremer Neustadt (1906), planned women's and music rooms, created the interior for the Red Cross hospital and received numerous other orders. She had been a member of the United Workshops for Art in Crafts since 1910 and designed reform furniture for the association.

From 1917 she was on the board of the Bremen women's club , from 1918 in the women's association for the promotion of German visual arts , local group Bremen 1, founded in 1916 , and from 1928 a member of GEDOK , the association of communities of artists and art patrons .

Literature, sources

  • Inge Jacob: Baczko, Elisabeth Felicitas Emma Therese von. In: Bremer Frauenmuseum (Hrsg.): Women story (s). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
  • Nils Aschenbeck : Reform architecture. The constitution of the aesthetics of modernity. Basel 2016.

Web links

  • Biography at the Bremen Women's Museum, last accessed on July 14, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ They are listed with different surnames in the address books. While the street and house number part leads them with Baczko , they are recorded in the name part with the surname Baczkiewicz .
    Baczkiewicz, Elisabeth . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 1, p. 65. “Miss. Wilmersdf, Nassauische Str. 16 T “(Part 1 = residents by name).
    Baczkiewicz, Felicitas . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 1, p. 65. “Photogr. Wilmersdf, Nassauische Str. 16 T ”.
    v. Baczko, E. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 4, p. 1312. “Miss. Wilmersdorf, Nassauische Str. 16 T “(part 4 = population according to streets and house numbers).
    v. Baczko, F. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 4, p. 1312. "Photographer, Wilmersdorf, Nassauische Str. 16 T".
    Baczko, from. In: Berliner Telefonbuch, 1936, p. 39. “Nassauische Str. 16, H7 Wilmersdorf 7575”.
  2. ^ Karl Schaefer : New work by E. von Baczko. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt , New Series, 20, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1909, pp. 201–204. ( Digitized version of Heidelberg University )
  3. ^ Albert Mundt : Elisabeth von Baczko. In: Die Kunst, monthly magazine for free and applied arts. 15th year, Volume 26, Bruckmann, Munich 1912, pp. 337–341. ( Digitalisat archive.org )
personal data
SURNAME Baczko, Elisabeth von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baczko, Elisabeth Felicitas Emma Therese von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German interior and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH after 1937
Place of death Bremen