Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn

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Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn (born November 7, 1898 in Flensburg , † May 7, 1991 in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne ) was a German painter and graphic artist of the New Objectivity .

Life

Elsa Haensgen was born into a wealthy family. Her parents were the shipyard director Oskar Haensgen and Emmi Haensgen, née Peters, and so she was able to enjoy an upscale school education. Typically for a senior daughter of her time, she first attended a girls' lyceum and then a vocational school for domestic economics .

After the end of the First World War , she began to study art from 1917 to 1918 under the professor of sculpture Heinz Weddig at the applied arts college in Flensburg . From 1919 to 1922 she studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule am Lerchenfeld, which later became part of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , with Professors Julius Wohlers , Arthur Illies and Johann Michael Bossard . She belonged to the first class of women who were admitted to the art college as art students.

In 1922 she married the painter and later art teacher Fritz A. Dingkuhn and from 1923 worked as a freelance painter in Hamburg. The couple lived an emancipated marriage. In addition to the married name, she continued her maiden name in a double name. The husband supported his wife's ambitions and put his artistic career behind his wife's. She was able to take part in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Hamburg Secession , and expand her success. For example, B. Gustav Pauli , director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the artist's work.

The son Jochen was born in 1926 and the daughter Wiebke in 1932. The children - and the confrontation with motherhood and female existence at this time - became the focus and main subject of her pictures and drawings from then on. How the couple felt about the politics and ideology of the National Socialists remains unclear. Both related non-political subjects in their pictures - it is not known whether they decided to adopt this artistic “non-positioning” in order not to endanger their lives like other artists.

In 1933 Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn joined the Hamburg Art Association , the same year in which Jewish artists such as Alma del Banco were excluded. Her patron Gustav Pauli was also dismissed from the Kunsthalle Bremen this year for political reasons.

In 1935 the family moved into an apartment in the garden city settlement of Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne, where they were to keep the center of their lives until their deaths. The house was one of the few that survived the destruction of the district during Operation Gomorrah , and it later turned out to be very lucky that the couple had decided to store the majority of their pictures in the attic.

From 1936 to 1939 Haensgen-Dingkuhn stayed regularly in East Prussia and Angling for study purposes, many pictures with landscape and coastal themes were taken. After the outbreak of the war, Fritz Dingkuhn was sent to Lower Bavaria as part of the children's area and so the family moved to Vilsbiburg from 1940 to 1941 , where Fritz A. Dingkuhn taught art education at the school that had been relocated there. Numerous pictures that were taken in Bavaria were lost after a bomb attack in 1943 or had to be sold for daily groceries.

Shortly after the end of the war, Fritz A. Dingkuhn was transferred back to Hamburg to the primary and secondary school in Hamburg-Sasel, so that the family could return to their homeland.

From 1948 she traveled a lot and visited France , Mallorca , Denmark and the Netherlands , among others . In 1959, after a long illness, the little granddaughter, the child of daughter Wiebke, died in 1964 in childbed with the second child.

The couple never fully recovered from these strokes of fate. The son, who has meanwhile also become an art teacher like his father, was working for development aid in Ethiopia at the time . The couple visited him from 1963 to 1965 to distract themselves. The impressions of the exotic surroundings both processed in new works.

In 1979 her husband Fritz died of a minor stroke at the age of 85. In 1981 a retrospective of the works of Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn took place in what was then the Kunsthaus Hamburg . In 1991 the artist died in the long-term apartment at the age of 92. Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn was buried in the forest cemetery in Hamburg-Volksdorf .

Award

literature

  • Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn . In: The child in our world - a competition of the Werner Otto Foundation for the visual artists of Hamburg. Werner Otto Foundation (Ed.), Hamburg 1979, pp. 11, 14, 43.
  • Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn. Works from the years 1920–1980. Exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg 9 July - 20 September 1981. Nienstedt, Hamburg 1991.
  • Manja Seelen : The image of women in the works of German artists of the new objectivity. LIT, 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2531-0 , ISBN 978-3-8258-2531-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To date, no positions or publications on the topic have been published. At most, a brief statement by son Jochen as part of an exhibition on her 100th birthday throws a brief spotlight on the inner workings of the painter during this time. Unfortunately, this remains more than just vague. Online , accessed February 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ [1] , accessed on February 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ [2] , accessed on February 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Obituary for Dr. Jochen Dingkuhn of the Meiendorf High School , quoted from Google Docs , accessed on February 11, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gymei.de
  5. ↑ cemetery details in biography Elsa Haensgen thing Kuhn at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Elsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1991
Place of death Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne