Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir
Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir (born March 8, 1887 in Ptuj ; † December 5, 1944 there ) was a German- Slovenian sculptor , painter and graphic artist . Works by the artist can be found in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg and in the Oldenburg City Museum .
Life
She was the daughter of the painter Alois Kasimir and sister of the graphic artist Luigi Kasimir .
After graduating from middle school, she became a student at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in 1904 , where she received lessons from the sculptor Franz Metzner, among other things. In 1905 she got to know the painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka , from whom she took lessons in 1908. At the age of nineteen (1906) Elsa Kasimir became engaged to the scientist Edgar Paulsen. In February 1908 she was able to present her own works at two exhibitions. At an exhibition by the 'Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna', she handled the first recorded sale of one of her works. In the same year, 1908, she took part in the "anniversary exhibition of the Styrian Association of Fine Artists ", where she showed impressions after a trip to Italy. She was also able to exhibit successfully in the following two years: Her works were presented at the "XXXIII. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists Secession Vienna" and the "XXXVI. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Visual Artists Secession Vienna" next year. In the meantime she had completed her studies at the arts and crafts school.
In the summer of 1910 Elsa Kasimir met the painter Jan Oeltjen and became engaged to him at the end of the year and broke off the engagement to Paulsen. In April 1911 Elsa married Kasimir Jan Oeltjen in Jaderberg. From now on it was called Oeltjen-Kasimir. In November she exhibited with the Hagenbund at the "second exhibition of the Association of Austrian Women Artists".
The daughter Ruth was born in Graz in 1912 († 1987), followed by a move to Himmelstrasse 57 in Vienna. In 1913 Jan Oeltjen fell seriously ill with typhus and Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir took care of her husband's three-month care in addition to motherhood. In December 1914 Oeltjen-Kasimir suffered a miscarriage. During a stay in Berlin in 1916, she met the German sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck - most likely with her teacher Metzner. Both Metzner and Lehmbruck make busts of the artist. However, the existence of the bust (s) Metzner can not be proven to this day. Lehmbruck created the 'Portrait bust of Frau Oeltjen', which he apparently only made after the meeting on the basis of drawings that Oeltjen-Kasimir had modeled for him. The bust is now in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. Lehmbruck and Kasimir exchanged etchings - after another meeting on May 17th. In May 1916 Oeltjen-Kasimir also made a portrait drawing of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, which is in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg . From 1919 to 1930 Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir lived with Jan Oeltjen in Jaderberg .
In the late 1920s she received orders for clinker brick sculptures in Oldenburg , including for the Volksmädchenschule Osternburg.
Facade decorations at Bremen-Neustadt train station
Between 1930 and 1931 Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir created approx. 160 clinker brick sculptures for the entrance building of the Neustädter Bahnhof in Bremen, which opened on July 1, 1931.
The 80 sculptures used show people from the railway staff, u. a. also railway president Mutzenbecher and the building councilor Langewand. Typical professions are also shown, such as dispatcher, shunter, train driver and controller. There are also depictions of rail travelers. The clinker sculptures adorned the six pillars under the canopy of the main entrance. They were formed from Bockhorn meadow clay and fired in the Lauw brickworks in Bockhorn.
After the station was destroyed on October 6, 1944, some surviving sculptures are in the Oldenburg City Museum, the Oldenburg State Museum and with private collectors, in the Jan Oeltjen artist house and at the Varel station.
Last years
Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir died on December 5, 1944 after pneumonia.
literature
- Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir (1887–1944): Catalog raisonné. The plastic work. Künstlerhaus Jan Oeltjen eV (ed.), Jaderberg 2015
- The second departure into the modern age. Expressionism - Bauhaus - New Objectivity. Walter Müller-Wulckow and the State Museum Oldenburg 1921–1937. Ed. V. Rainer Stamm, Kerber, Bielefeld 2011, p. 89 u. 222 (ill.)
- "Traces of an encounter". Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir. Ed. V. Künstlerhaus Jan Oeltjen eV, Jaderberg 1998
- Gerhard Wietek : 200 years of painting in the Oldenburger Land. Oldenburg 1986, p. 267
- Vollmer, General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century, 6th vol., P. 132
Web links
- Literature by and about Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir in the catalog of the German National Library
- Life and work of Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir on jan-oeltjen.de
- Oeltjen-Kasimir, Elsa on Orteer-des-dka.gnm.de
- The painter Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir on digiporta.net
- The painter Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir on digiporta.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oeltjen-Kasimir, Elsa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kasimir, Elsa; Kasimir, Elsa Oeltjen-; Oeltjen, Elsa Kasimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Slovenian sculptor, painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ptuj |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1944 |
| Place of death | Ptuj |