Emma Bormann

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Emma Bormann (born June 29, 1887 in Döbling near Vienna ; † December 28, 1974 in Riverside (USA) ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. She lived in East Asia and the United States for almost thirty years.

Life

Emma Bormann was the daughter of the German ancient historian Eugen Bormann . She studied at the University of Vienna from 1912 to 1917 , took part in the IV. Vienna university trip to Sicily and Tunisia in 1913, where she saw the artist Oskar Laske at work, and received her doctorate in 1917. phil. with the main subjects German and archeology. At the same time, from 1912 to 1916, she attended the Vienna Graphic Training and Research Institute under Ludwig Michalek . In 1917/18 she attended a semester in graphic techniques at the Munich School of Applied Arts . After that, in 1918, Bormann initially became a teacher at the private training workshops for graphic techniques in Munich. Her first woodcut was made in 1918, and the woodcut became her favorite means of expression. “The woodcut… is obviously the technical process that best suits her intentions, but her work also has no lack of etchings and lithographs,” wrote the art historian Arpad Weixlgärtner in 1922. In 1920 she exhibited for the first time in the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. From 1920 to 1923 she was again for further training at the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna, now with Alfred Cossmann . From 1926 to 1939 she worked as a lecturer for drawing at the University of Vienna.

From 1920 she made numerous trips to Europe, in 1936 to the USA. After her forced leave of absence in 1939, she went to China, where she lived in Hong Kong , Shanghai , Beihai and Beijing until 1950 . Then she returned to Europe via Japan, Hawaii and the USA, which she visited until 1953. From 1953 Bormann lived in Tokyo , from where she made trips within Japan and to Asia. From 1957 she lived alternately with her two daughters in Tokyo and Riverside (California, USA). In 1973 she visited Vienna for the last time. She died in Riverside December 1974.

Bormann produced oil paintings, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts. Popular themes included cityscapes from above and bustling theaters, concert halls, and opera halls. The artist's many journeys are reflected in cityscapes and landscapes from Austria, Germany, France, England, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Turkey, China, Japan and the USA. Apart from Vienna, her prints are mainly in art collections in English-speaking countries, e. B. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum .

Emma Bormann had been with the physician Dr. Eugen Milch († 1958) married.

Solo exhibitions

Numerous solo exhibitions from 1921

  • in Europe (Berlin, Groningen (Netherlands), Vienna (Austria), Stockholm (Sweden))
  • in the USA (Chicago, Decatur, Riverside, San Francisco)
  • in Asia (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo)
  • in Australia (Carrick)

In addition, Emma Bormann was involved in numerous group exhibitions.

Publications

  • The ski book. A written course on skiing for perfect runners and those who never want to become one . Vienna: Society for Reproductive Art, 1922.
  • Catalog of prints made up to 1930, 1930.
  • The much-loved skis. New songs to old melodies adorned with paper cutouts. Self-published, 1937.

Art portfolios

  • Beethoven. Vienna 1792–1827. (13 woodcuts), 1927.
  • Beijing (10 woodcuts), 1944.
  • Imperial Court Dancers (7 serigraphs), 1955.

literature

  • Shuichi Abe (Ed.): Emma Bormann. Abe Corporation, 1991, ISBN 4-900090-50-6 .
  • Andreas Johns: The art of Emma Bormann. Ariadne Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-57241-198-2 .
  • Andreas Johns, Christopher Reynolds: Beethoven's Houses in Vienna: An Album of Woodblock Prints by Emma Bormann , in: The Beethoven Journal , 2015. 30 (1): pp. 30–36.
  • Arpad Weixlgärtner: Graphic works by Emma Bormann , in: Die Graphischen Künste , 1922. 45 (2-3): pp. 64–71.
  • Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven: An artist on the move. To the woodblock prints Dr. Emma Bormanns. in: Der getreue Eckart Volume 10, Issue 11 (August 1933): pp. 773–778.
  • Gerd Kaminski: The brush leaves its mark: the legacy of Emma Bormann . ÖGCF, 2006, ISBN 3-9500567-7-7 .
  • Ursula Müksch: Clementine Alberdingk and Emma Bormann, girlfriends for an artist's life. Two Klosterneuburg painters and graphic artists, members of the Association of Local Artists Klosterneuburg, a brief outline of the history of the association and their biographies and ex-libris . in: Austrian Yearbook for Bookplates and Commercial Graphics, 2011–2012. 67: pp. 60-92.
  • Milan Ivanišević: Slikarica Emma Bormann u Splitu . [ The painter Emma Bormann in Split ], in: Kulturna Baština, 2006 . 33: pp. 37-74
  • Riccar Art Museum (Ed.): Ōsutoria no joryū hangaka. Ema Boman Ten . Exhibition of the Wood-Block Prints by Emma Bormann . Riccar Art Museum, 1981.
  • G. Sax-Darnous: Exposition Bormann-Milch , in: Revue Nationale Chinoise 50/160 (May 1943): pp. 125–126.
  • Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen and Museum Schloss Moyland (ed.): Paths to Gabriele Münter and Käthe Kollwitz: Woodcuts by artists of Art Nouveau and Expressionism . Michael Imhof Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86568-981-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Johns: The Art of Emma Bormann . Ariadne Press, Riverside 2016, ISBN 978-1-57241-198-2 , pp. 2-4 .
  2. ^ Arpad Weixlgärtner: Graphic works by Emma Bormann . In: Society for duplicating art (ed.): The graphic arts . tape 45 , no. 2-3 . Vienna 1922, p. 67 .
personal data
SURNAME Bormann, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milk, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobling
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1974
Place of death Riverside (California)