Emmy Klinker

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Emmy Klinker , even Emmi (* 1891 in Eupen , † 1969 in Munich ) was a painter of Expressionism . In 1919 she exhibited together with Albert Bloch, Kurt Schwitters and others in the “Sturm” gallery in Berlin . After she was almost forgotten for a long time, the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum first showed some of her paintings in an exhibition about the "storm" in 2012 . In 2015, the Frankfurt Schirn placed her in a row with Sonja Delaunay , Gabriele Münter and Marianne von Werefkin in the exhibition “Sturm-Frauen” .

Life

Emmy Klinker grew up in Barmen and received her first artistic training at the age of 16 from the Karlsruhe landscape painter Paul von Ravenstein . In 1911, at the age of 20, she left Karlsruhe and moved to Berlin to continue her training with Lovis Corinth and Martin Brandenburg . In 1914 she traveled to Paris to study , after having met Alexej von Jawlensky in her parents' house . Moved to Munich, she became a student of Albert Bloch from 1916 . Together with him she exhibited in 1918 in the Berlin “Sturm” exhibition. This was followed by exhibitions with the November group in Berlin and with the Young Rhineland group in Düsseldorf. Emmy Klinker had contacts with the artist group “Die Wupper” and exhibited several times at the Barmer Kunstverein. Emmy Klinker was friends with Gabriele Münter for many decades .

In 1938 one of her pictures was shown in Hamburg at the local exhibition on degenerate art . She was by the Nazis threatened a ban on working in the same year, which was however made. In 1944/45 she was in Dachau concentration camp for five months because she had hidden Jewish friends in her apartment.

In 1956 she was honored with the City of Munich Art Prize.

Emmy Klinker died in Munich in 1969 as a result of a car accident on the way to her exhibition in the “Pavillon Alter Botanischer Garten” in Munich.

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The spectrum of the painterly work of Emmy Klinker ranges from portraits to interior scenes and figure pictures to landscapes. In her late work, the painter dealt with the themes of war and oppression and moved the human suffering associated with it into the focus of many works.

Exhibitions (selection)

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  1. ↑ Article in the world: The modern age began in Wuppertal / queried on May 7, 2012, 4:03 pm
  2. ^ Kunsthalle Schirn, Sturm-Frauen Digitorial, accessed on October 28, 2015
  3. ↑ Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein (ed.): Sturm-Frauen: Artists of the Avant-garde in Berlin 1910-1932 . Wienand, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-277-4 .
  4. ^ "Emmy Klinker (1891–1969)", catalog for the exhibition in Kallmünz 1999, ed. Peter and Dr. Michael Wunder, p. 7
  5. ↑ Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis, Wuppertal, 2000
  6. ^ "Emmy Klinker (1891–1969)", catalog for the exhibition in Kallmünz 1999, ed. Peter and Michael Wunder, p. 4
  7. ↑ Von der Heydt-Michael Wunder, p. 4
  8. ^ Catalog of the Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal for the exhibition, "Sturm - Zentrum der Avantgarde", Wuppertal 2012, p. 340
  9. ↑ Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis, Wuppertal, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Clinker, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clinker, Emmi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Munich