Emma de Sigaldi

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Emma de Sigaldi (born Emma Lackner ; born December 22, 1910 in Karlsruhe , † October 23, 2010 in Monaco ) was a German-Monegasque ballet dancer and sculptor .

Life

La Pieure from 1981, Jardins Saint-Martin, Monaco
Sculpture Transformations from the year of Expo 2000 on Eilenriede , Hohenzollernstrasse, Hanover

Emma Lackner, who was born in Karlsruhe at the time of the German Empire , received well-founded classical training in dance from Olga Mertens-Leger , Eugenie Eduardowa and Tatjana Gsovsky as a young girl . Subsequently, she was instructed in expressive dance by Mary Wigman .

At the age of 15, Lackner was hired by the Munich ballet master Heinrich Kröller . From the 1920s on, she performed as a senior dancer at the Munich State Theater , worked at the City Theater in Königsberg and in the 1930s as a prima ballerina at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe .

In 1954 she met the Monegasque count from the de Sigaldi family in Baden-Baden and took on her husband's name at the time of the wedding. Since then she has lived in the Monegasque principality. There she turned to art as an autodidact . With her figurative as well as abstract representations she was mainly based on masters of classical modernism .

De Sigaldi's bronze sculpture Possession , made in 1995, was given to her hometown by the artist. The sculpture was unveiled in 1998 by the mayor of Karlsruhe, Gerhard Seiler, at its location near the concert hall . On the occasion of her 90th birthday in 2010, the city of Karlsruhe organized an exhibition with works by the artist in the foyer of the Badisches Staatstheater. Emma de Sigaldi received the last of her numerous honors in 2007 in St. Petersburg .

De Sigaldi died almost two months before her hundredth birthday in Monaco. In an obituary for her grandmother, her granddaughter, the editor-in-chief of businessmanconfidential.com , described the artist, who apparently incessantly imposed shapes on marble blocks, as a “[...] woman who saw the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century lived through with a personal artistic vision. Thus, along with others, she paved the way for women who demanded equality in the misogynistic world of sculpture. "

Works (selection)

  • 1980: The Mediterranean , abstract work made of white marble, owned by the Badisches Staatstheater
  • 1995: Possession , bronze sculpture, approx. 100 × 60 × 60 cm, Beiertheimer Allee 4, Südweststadt in Karlsruhe
  • 2000: Transformations , sculpture on Hohenzollernstrasse on the edge of Eilenriede in Hanover
  • Le Plongeur , Monaco
  • Les Relayeuses , Seoul

literature

  • [R. & U. Klinghofer]: Sculptures 1960–2000 / Emma de Sigaldi. Illustrated book with texts partly in German, English, French and Italian. [KCM-Media], [Zell] [2001], ISBN 978-3-89829-170-5 and ISBN 3-89829-170-7
  • Karl Albiker: Walter Becker, Otto Laible, Emma de Sigaldi , secondary titles W. Becker, O. Laible, E. de Sigaldi. Exhibition catalog (= publication series of the Museums-Gesellschaft Ettlingen eV , vol. 6). Museum Society, Ettlingen 1976.

Archival material

Archives by and about Emma de Sigaldi can be found, for example

  • under the title Emma Lackner, 1910–2010, dancer, sculptor in the German Dance Archive Cologne , Estate and Collections Department ; 2 archive boxes with the keywords "Photo, Vorlass, Programmheft, poster, autograph, advertising material, costume, mask, Lackner, Emma (* 1910), Bavarian State Ballet, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Germany", archive signature 121

Web links

Commons : Emma de Sigaldi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, the German National Library records in its information on the data set on the artist in the version of January 18, 2020, the years of birth 1911 and 1918 given in other sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f o. V .: Possession on the page m.karlsruhe.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 18, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Calypso de Sigaldi (editor-in-chief): RIP EMMA DE SIGALDI • Homage to the artist (excerpt). In: Schweisstechnik Soudure. Official organ of the Swiss Association for Welding Technology , Volume 107, Issue 1 from February 19, 2018, p. 39; Digitized as a PDF document from svs.ch
  3. ↑ a b c Claudia Pohl (text), Ursula Merkel (red. Staff), Wolfgang Gantert (photos) et al .: Art in urban space - sculpture guide for Karlsruhe. Tours of art in public space in Karlsruhe (= Lindemann's library , volume 22M incorrectly referred to as volume 21 of the series). Edited by the cultural office of the city of Karlsruhe. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 978-3-88190-399-8 and ISBN 3-88190-399-2 , p. 154; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Eilenriede , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 101ff .; here: p. 103
  5. ↑ Information on the page deutsches-tanzarchiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Sigaldi, Emma de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lackner, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ballet dancer and Monegasque sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2010
Place of death Monaco