Ella Robber

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Ella Räuber (born March 15, 1874 in Elbing ; † October 17, 1963 in Biedenkopf ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

life and work

Ella Räuber was the eldest daughter of Theodor Räuber, the owner of the long-established wine shop PH Müller on the Alter Markt in Elbing / West Prussia. She had three younger siblings. Räuber graduated from secondary school and trained as a seamstress. After completing her training, she went to the arts and crafts school in Berlin. She later moved to the Munich Women's Academy , where she was enrolled between 1901 and 1904/05. In the semesters 1905/06 and 1906/07 she taught geometry there herself. Her teachers included Max Feldbauer in head and life drawing and Leo Putz in composition and watercolor. From 1905 to 1919 Räuber was a full member of the Munich female artists' association , which had founded the women's academy and operated as an alternative to the Munich art academy , which was closed to women . In the summers before the First World War, she joined a group of artists and former students who had come together around Leo Putz and carried out open-air painting at Hartmannsberg Castle in Chiemgau. Together with Leo Putz, on behalf of the Munich Association for Applied Arts in 1910, at the Paris Autumn Salon in the Grand Palais , she furnished a representation room with two flower pictures as overhangs.

Impressed by the Japanese colored woodcut that was shown in the Munich Glass Palace in 1910 , Ella Räuber attended courses with Emil Orlik to learn this printing technique. Her multicolored wood and linocuts made by hand printing made her famous. For the magazine Jugend. Munich illustrated weekly journal for art and life , she illustrated several poems between 1907 and 1914 with floral motifs. In the annual exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace, Ella Räuber was represented as a member of various artist organizations with her woodcuts and linocuts as well as watercolors in the years 1923-26 and 1929-1931, the year the Glass Palace burned down. In addition to traveling to Italy and France, she lived and worked in Barcelona for a long time in the early 1930s. That she also created color lithographs is shown by her participation in the International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving 7th Annual of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1939, where she was represented with the color lithograph “Streets in Alt-München I”.

Towards the end of the Second World War, Ella Räuber came to Marburg to avoid the bombing raids on Munich. Her brother Friedrich Räuber (1875–1945) lived here with his family. He was a doctor of law and a library counselor at the university library. While she was able to bring numerous portfolios with her to Marburg, a bomb destroyed her apartment in Munich in 1945 and with it over 100 printing plates that she had left there. Ella Räuber stayed in Marburg and joined the Marburg Artists' Circle after it was founded in 1953, with whom she realized numerous joint exhibitions in Marburg. Towards the end of her life she moved to a nursing home in Biedenkopf, where she died in 1963. Ella Räuber was buried in the main cemetery in Marburg on Ockerhäuser Allee. Her grave site has since been closed.

relationship

Ella Räuber's uncle was Wilhelm Räuber , portrait and historical genre painter in Munich (1849–1926).

Works

Most of Ella Räber's works are privately owned.

Mention of works by Ella Räuber in the years 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931 in the catalogs of the art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace 1869–1931.

  • Rote Bereren, undated, color linocut, illus. In: Weg zu Gabriele Münter and Käthe Kollwitz. Woodcuts by artists of Art Nouveau and Expressionism, catalog Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, Museum Schloss Moyland, undated, ISBN 978-3-86568-981-8 , p. 43.
  • Illustrations by Ella Räuber in the magazine Jugend, Munich illustrated weekly journal for art and life : 1907, issue 28; 1909, No. 50; 1910, No. 9; 1914, issue 10.
  • Illustration of a flower picture that served as a doorway in the Paris autumn salon in Die Kunst. Monthly booklet for free and applied arts , 24th volume of applied arts of "decorative art", 14th year, Munich, May 1911, p. 345.
  • Botanical garden, watercolor, around 1931, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus.
  • Primroses, color linocut, Galerie Joseph Fach GmbH - Oberursel im Taunus.
  • Foehn day at the Staffelsee (GR Inv.no.439), Alt Marburg district, 1944 (GR Inv.no.653), Am Kalbstor in Marburg (GR Inv.no.1002), summer festival in Barcelona (GR Inv.no.1081 ), Krebsgasse in Marburg, 1944 (GR Inv.nr. 1473) according to the inventory list in the graphics collection of the Museum for Art and Cultural History Marburg.

literature

  • Irene Ewinkel: Ella Räuber (1874–1963), in: Irene Ewinkel, The other life. Review of Marburg artists (Marburg city writings for history and culture, vol. 105), Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-942487-06-1 , pp. 145–157.
  • Willy Oskar Dressler: Dressler's Art Handbook, Vol. 2, Fine Arts: The Book of Living German Artists, Antiquity Researchers, Art Scholars and Art Writers, Berlin 1920–29, p. 291.
  • Fritz Pudor: Elbinger painting is 1740, Elbinger Hefte. A cultural series, issue 28/29, Essen undated, p. 83.
  • Berlinische Galerie (ed.): Profession without tradition. 125 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists. Chronicle of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867–1992, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-89181-410-9 , p. 443.
  • Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (ed.): Käthe, Paula and all the rest . A reference work , Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-89181-411-6 , p. 133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information on Ella Räuber from Irene Ewinkel: Ella Räuber (1874–1963), in: Irene Ewinkel, Das Other Leben Rückblick auf Marburger Künstlerinnen (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur, Vol. 105), Marburg 2015, pp. 145– 157; Fritz Pudor: Elbinger painting is 1740, Elbinger Hefte. A cultural series, issue 28/29, Essen undated, p. 83; Biographical information written by Ella Räuber, Marburger Kunstverein archive; Oberhessische Presse , obituary for Ella Räuber, October 22, 1963 (Rainer Zimmermann).
  2. ↑ Yvette Deseyve: The Artists Club Munich eV and its Ladies Academy. A study on the educational situation of women artists in the late 19th and 20th centuries, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-8316-0479-1 , p. 179
  3. ↑ Biographical information written by Ella Räuber, Marburger Kunstverein archive.
  4. ↑ Interior decoration. Mein Heim, mein Stolz, No. 22, 1911, p. 85.
  5. ↑ Article on an exhibition in Barcelona in the newspaper “La Veu de Catalunya”, October 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Robber, Ella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1963
Place of death Biedenkopf