Else Müller-Kaempff

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Else Müller-Kaempff (born June 28, 1869 in Berlin ; † February 27, 1940 there ; born as Marie Elisabeth Schwager ) was a German painter .

Life

The Protestant Else Schwager was the daughter of the Berlin master carpenter and later council master carpenter Johann Friedrich Schwager and his wife Marie, nee. Dorr. Her brother Fritz Schwager (1866–1903) studied architecture. At the monthly competition of the Berlin Architects' Association in November 1898, his design for a double tombstone was particularly honored.

As little details are known about Else Schwager's school days as about her youth and possible training. In 1905 she married the eight years older lithographer , art and landscape painter Paul Müller-Kaempff . By this time they had known each other for several years, especially since Müller-Kaempff was teaching his future wife. According to tradition, Else Schwager brought a dowry of 5,000 marks into the marriage. Paul Müller-Kaempff was the first artist to move his residence to Ahrenshoop in 1892 , thus establishing the artist colony of the same name . In 1894 he had the Villa St. Lucas built there, in which he maintained a summer painting school until it was leased in 1908. As early as 1904, Else Schwager and Paul Müller-Kaempff were among the founding members of the "Oldenburg Artist Association", which Paul Müller-Kaempff also took over as chairman in 1907 and held until 1911. In 1907 the "Association of Northwest German Artists" was founded, also with the participation of Else and Paul Müller-Kaempff. While Else was already suffering from asthma in 1908 and was hardly able to support her husband, he returned to Berlin in 1914, where he moved into an apartment in the center at Kurfürstenstrasse 123. Else Müller-Kaempff left Ahrenshoop in 1918 and moved to her own apartment in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Prinzregentenstrasse 95, under her name Relationship breaks off after there. It was not until 1931 that the couple officially moved together again in Berlin, when Paul moved to Else in Wilmersdorf. It is not clear whether they lived separately. In 1934 they move into a new apartment across the street at Motzstrasse 93. While Paul Müller-Kaempff does not know of any old work from these Berlin years, although he owned a studio, it is reported about Else that she was also in the last years of her life still painted flower still lifes in the "old masterly manner". Else Müller-Kaempff was an avid supporter of the Christian Science doctrine, which forbade her to receive medical treatment. The cause of her death is unknown; she may have had cancer.

Else Müller-Kaempff was buried on her husband's grave in a part of the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf that is now overgrown . In September 2017, Else and Paul Müller-Kaempff's urns were reburied in the Schifferfriedhof in Ahrenshoop and the associated gravestone was repositioned there.

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Else Müller-Kaempff's oeuvre is closely related to that of her teacher and later husband Paul Müller-Kaempff. It is largely unknown in its scope. However, it mainly includes still life flowers and interior representations. Some of her work, like that of her husband, is in the arts and crafts sector.

“In contrast to her husband, Else was hardly interested in the Ahrenshoop landscape as a subject . Numerous interior paintings, flowers and other still lifes from her have been preserved. In addition, she was engaged in handicrafts and wood carving. "

- Konrad Mahlfeld


Exhibitions

  • 1905: Northwest German Art Exhibition, Oldenburg

literature

  • Wolf Karge: Paul Müller-Kaempff. 1861 Oldenburg - Ahrenshoop - Berlin 1941. with a contribution by Friedrich Schulz , Edition Fischerhuder Kunstbuch, Fischerhude 2006, ISBN 3-88132-268-X .
  • Konrad Mahlfeld: Paul Müller-Kaempff. (= Painter and work. No. 3) Hasenverlag, Halle / Saale 2010, ISBN 978-3-939468-54-7 , p. 6.
  • Konrad Mahlfeld: Else Müller-Kaempff, Paul Müller-Kaempff. Work catalog, Volume I, Fischerhude 2017, ISBN 978-3-96045-107-5
  • Konrad Mahlfeld: The Schifferfriedhof Ahrenshoop. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2018, ISBN 978-3-96045-091-7 , pp. 40–41.
  • Konrad Mahlfeld: Paul Müller-Kaempff . Work catalog, Volume II, Fischerhude 2019, ISBN 978-3-96045-108-2

Web links

Commons : Elsbeth Müller-Kaempff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Wolf Karge: Paul Müller-Kaempff. 1861 Oldenburg - Ahrenshoop - Berlin 1941.
  2. ↑ Monthly competition November 1898. Double tombstone. Retrieved on April 30, 2013 at architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.de .
  3. ↑ According to another source 1897: [1]
  4. ↑ Paul Müller-Kaempff is now resting in Ahrenshoop , Timo Richter / Ostsee-Zeitung , September 30, 2017
  5. ^ Re- embedding: Müller-Kaempff back in Ahrenshoop , video contribution of NDR television , which u. a. shows the lifting of the urns in Stahnsdorf. Broadcast in Nordmagazin on October 1st, 2017.
  6. ↑ Daniela Lange: In the footsteps of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony. On the interaction between culture and tourism. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, p. 49.
  7. ↑ Konrad Mahlfeld: Paul Müller-Kaempff.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Kaempff, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Kaempff, Elsbeth; Brother-in-law, Marie Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1940
Place of death Berlin