Emmy Meyer

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Emmy Meyer (born February 7, 1866 in Hanover , † June 30, 1940 in Worpswede ) was a German painter.

Life

The daughter of a textile merchant from Hanover completed an apprenticeship at the painting school of the Association for Women Artists in Berlin from 1894 to 1898 , where she first met Paula Becker, who was ten years her junior . Her landscape teachers were Ludwig Dettmann , Max Uth and Philipp Franck . In 1899 she followed Paula Becker to Worpswede. While she chose Fritz Mackensen as her teacher, Emmy Meyer went to Otto Modersohn . After the sudden death of Modersohn's wife, Emmy Meyer was deeply disappointed and hurt when Otto Modersohn entered into a new relationship not with her but with Paula Becker (letters and diaries in the Otto Modersohn archive in Fischerhude). Nevertheless, Emmy settled in Worpswede and built what is now known as the "Pink House". Among other things, she earned her living by renting out one floor of her house for board and lodging. The temporary roommates included the artists Margarethe von Reinken , Lisel Oppel , Clara Rilke-Westhoff and, for a short time, Rainer Maria Rilke . Around 1910, Maria Reimer, a long-term tenant, moved in.

In front of nature and in the studio, Emmy Meyer painted motifs that belonged to the classic canon of the Worpswede artists' colony . In order to expand her artistic spectrum, she traveled to Hiddensee, Sylt (1908–1910) and the Engadine. In 1919 she ran successfully for the Worpswede municipal council, in 1925 she was one of the founding members of the "Economic Association". With increasing age she got into economic hardship.

Works

  • Birch in front of a billowing cornfield near Worpswede. Oil painting, 1912
  • Spring in Worpswede. Oil painting, 1921
  • Cornfield. Oil painting, undated
  • Hiddensee. Oil on hardboard, undated
  • Rocks and sea in Hiddensee. Oil on cardboard / canvas, undated
  • The shepherd and his flock in a thunderstorm. Oil on hardboard, undated
  • House on Dünenweg. Oil on hardboard, undated
  • Peat barge on the Hamme. Oil on cardboard, undated
  • Dike foreland. Watercolor, undated
  • Chapel to the 7 roses. Etching, undated

See also

literature

  • Not “Auchmalerin”, but artist, Emma, ​​called Emmy Meyer (1866 - 1940). In: Hannelore Cyrus : Between tradition and modernity. Artists and fine arts in Bremen until the middle of the 20th century . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-89757-262-1 , pp. 130-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gudrun Scabell: Gottfried Benn was also a guest in the pink house. weser-kurier.de, February 12, 2011, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hannelore Cyrus: Between tradition and modernity. Artists and the fine arts in Bremen until the middle of the 20th century , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2005, p. 131ff.
  3. ↑ Hannelore Cyrus: Between tradition and modernity. Artists and the fine arts in Bremen until the middle of the 20th century , Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 2005, p. 133
  4. ^ Emmy Meyer at artnet
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1940
Place of death Worpswede