Else Mögelin

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Else Mögelin (born April 20, 1887 in Berlin , † December 31, 1982 in Kiel ) was a German painter and weaver . From 1927 to 1945 she worked as the head of the textile class at the Stettin School of Applied Arts . Her image weaving can be found in churches, museums and other public buildings.

life and work

Mögelin came from a Dutch weaver family, her great-grandfather and maternal grandfather were textile manufacturers. After the early death of her father, who was a professor at a secondary school in Berlin, she had to finance part of her education herself. She first attended a higher girls' school in Berlin, from 1902 the Berlin Art School. In 1906 she passed her exams as a drawing teacher, also in 1906 her exams as a gymnastics teacher. In 1906 and 1907 she attended the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts. There she was a student of Alfred Mohrbutter .

From 1906 to 1912 Mögelin was a teacher of drawing and art history. She then worked as a window dresser at FV Grünfeld until 1915. Afterwards she gave lessons in drawing, art history and painting again at some private institutes. At the same time she worked as a painter. In 1919 she began general training at the Bauhaus in Weimar. She worked under the guidance of Walter Gropius and attended Paul Klee's painting class . In the following year she continued her training in the Bauhaus pottery in Dornburg , where she worked with Gerhard Marcks . From 1921 to 1923 she worked in the weaving mill of the Bauhaus Weimar.

On her artistic path, Mögelin decided to go into weaving. In 1923 she left the Bauhaus and went to the Gildenhall craftsmen's settlement on Ruppiner See, where she initially had her own workshop. From 1926 she worked with Otto Patkul Schirren in a joint workshop. Schirren invented carpet fabrics and made their "leno curtains" profitable. He became her friend and advisor. The Gildenhall artists' colony struggled with financial problems and workshops had to file for bankruptcy, including Otto Schirren and Else Mögelin.

In 1927 she was appointed by Gregor Rosenbauer to Stettin as head of the textile class at the Stettin School of Applied Arts . Here she was able to develop her artistic and educational talent and worked beyond Stettin to other parts of Pomerania . She made a contribution to the preservation of damask weaving in Friedrichshuld in the Rummelsburg district by designing new patterns and introducing young weavers to their work. She supplied color scales and samples for knotted carpets by Pomeranian fishermen around Greifswald (see Pomeranian fishermen's carpets ). Many of her most beautiful tapestries were created in the 1930s. In 1945, when Szczecin came to Poland after the Second World War, she lost her position and many of her works.

Bugenhage carpet in the Pommernkapelle in Kiel

From 1945 a time in Hamburg followed, at her side her companion weaving master Jane Ganzert. Until her retirement in 1952, she headed the textile class at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . The picture weavings created by Else Mögelin can be found in churches, museums, other public buildings and in private ownership. From 1959 to 1961, in collaboration with her master student Brigitte Schirren, the 3.20 × 5 m Bugenhage carpet for the Pommernkapelle in the Nikolai Church in Kiel was created.

Else Mögelin was awarded the silver medal in 1930 and the bronze medal in Milan in 1951. In 1967 she received the Pomeranian Culture Prize .

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literature

  • Walter Riezler : About the landscape watercolors by Else Mögelin. In: The Form. Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit , 3 (1928), pp. 106-109 ( digitized version ).
  • Eva Brües: For the hundredth - visual fabric, drafts, watercolors by Else Mögelin. Rheydt Castle City Museum , Mönchengladbach 1987, ISBN 3-925256-28-8 .
  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop. Translation from the American. Ed. Stemmle, Schaffhausen 1993, pp. 203 f.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 344–346.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mögelin Else. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 252.
  2. ↑ Mögelin, Else . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 608 .
personal data
SURNAME Mögelin, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1982
Place of death Kiel