Ernestina Orlandini

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Ernestina Orlandini (also Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg and Ernestina Orlandini Mack , née Mack , * 1869 in Hanau , † 1965 in Florence ) was a German-Italian painter and co-founder of the Berlin Secession . She was the first wife of the architect , art theorist , painter , publicist and later NSDAP politician Paul Schultze-Naumburg . The painter was best known by her later name Ernestina Orlandini , under which she is also listed in today's auction catalogs.

Life

The artist was born Ernestine Mack in Hanau, Hesse , in 1869 ; her father was Friedrick Mack.

Training and time in Germany

Ernestine Mack received his first artistic training in Karlsruhe . She continued her training in Munich , where the portrait painter and Munich painter prince Franz von Lenbach is said to have had a great influence on her artistic career. Participated in exhibitions in Munich with portraits and still lifes since 1892 , she exhibited a portrait of a woman at the spring exhibition of the Munich Secession in 1894 . Two years earlier, the Munich Secession had split off from the Munich Artists' Cooperative to defend itself against the paternalism of the state art business and its conservative exhibition policy, as well as its traditional conception of art, which was strongly influenced by Lenbach. On the portrait of a woman , Fritz von Ostini wrote under the pseudonym F. Fabricius in The Art of Our Time 1894:

"We come across a female portrait of Ernestine Mack-Schultze, certainly not poor in painterly qualities, but not quite as subtle as some of the work of the talented artist seen here earlier."

- F. Fabricius: The spring exhibition of the Munich Secession. 1894.

In 1893, Ernestine Mack married Paul Schultze-Naumburg , who at that time still belonged to the artistic avant-garde and modernity , before he increasingly turned to National Socialist ideology in the mid-1920s . In January 1894, Ernestine and Paul Schultze-Naumburg opened a joint painting and drawing school at Theresienstrasse 75 in Munich . In 1897 the artist couple moved to Berlin and also ran  a private painting school here - at Potsdamer Strasse 52 - since November 1897. Both joined the Berlin Secession , founded on May 2, 1898 ; Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg was one of the founding members of the association, which was the first large artists' association to allow women as members. Also in 1898 she was represented at an exhibition of the Berlin Artists' Association. The marriage was divorced in 1900; in 1901 Paul Schultze-Naumburg remarried.

Time in Italy

After separating from Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Ernestine moved to Italy. In 1901 she exhibited at the fourth Esposizione internazionale d'arte della Città di Venezia . She married Alfredo Orlandini (1877–1943) probably in 1902 or 1903; She now ran the Berlin Secession catalogs as Ernestina Orlandini , who lived in Florence, Via Ricasoli 63, later Via Pergola 39. In 1906 she left the Berlin Secession. The following exhibition participations can be proven from the following period:

  • 1907, 1909, 1910: Società delle Belle Arti, Florence; awarded a gold medal in 1910.
  • 1907: Venice .
  • 1910: The Art of Women , Vienna Secession ; represented with life-size portraits of women.
  • 1911: Barcelona ; awarded a medal.
  • 1911: Montecatini Terme .
  • 1920, 1924, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1942: Florence.

In addition to her painting, she is said to have worked for a time in the Turin Museum of Modern Art ( Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea (GAM Torino) ). Ernestina Orlandini probably died in Florence in 1965.

Works

Little is known about the scope and whereabouts of the works of the largely forgotten artist - it was not until 2012 that the art historian and professor Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen emphasized the identity of Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg and Ernestina Orlandini. In 1898 it was included in the biographical encyclopedia Das Geistige Deutschland at the end of the 19th century. Century recorded; her work was described as follows:

“Most of her works are portraits of children and women; among the male portraits are those of Paul Heyse , Ferdinand Keller , Ludwig Dill and others, as well as numerous still lifes. "

- The spiritual Germany at the end of the XIX. Century. 1898.

So far (as of 2013) only four of her works have appeared at art auctions , all of them with an unknown date of origin:

  • Natura morta con frutta ( still life with fruits ), oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, signed E.Orlandini . The picture was auctioned at Christie's in Rome in June 2001 for EUR 3,430, with an unknown whereabouts ( lot  725).
  • Floral Oil ( Roses are shown in a vase ), before 1939, 35 x 27  in , signed lower left. Offered in October 2004 at auction 236 at Dargate Auction Galleries, lot 1762.
  • Landscape ( Landscape ), oil on canvas, 55.9 x 68.6 cm, signed lower right. The picture was auctioned at DuMouchelles in Detroit / Michigan in 2007 with an unknown whereabouts. According to Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, the picture shows a light, pastose painted landscape that was probably created in Tuscany.
  • Still life with white camellias and oranges , oil on canvas, 116 x 74 cm, signed lower right with Ernestina Schultze, geb. Mack . Offered in 2011 at the spring auction of the Quentin auction house, Berlin.

The existence of a self-portrait of the painter is also certain :

  • Self-portrait of the painter Ernestina Orlandini Mack , 1931/1940, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, signed lower right with E. Orlandini . The artist donated the picture to the Florentine Galleria degli Uffizi in 1941 and is there under the inventory no. 9244 led.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg / Ernestina Orlandini . In: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Jörg Paczkowski (eds): Käthe Kollwitz and her colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898–1913) . Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1374-6 , pp. 83-85.
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Käthe Kollwitz and her 106 colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898 / 99–1913) . In: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Jörg Paczkowski (eds): Käthe Kollwitz and her colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898–1913) . Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1374-6 , pp. 10–33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg / Ernestina Orlandini . […], P. 84. Various art trade websites provide information under the name Ernestina Orlandini Mack ( Example ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) as year of birth 1887. That cannot be true, since she took part in exhibitions as early as 1892 and married in 1893. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artfacts.net
  2. ↑ Very probably wrongly, the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon online (AKL) gives the year 1867 as the date of birth and Frankfurt am Main as the location and the date of death January 24, 1958 (see: Orlandini, Ernestine in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank , de Gruyter, ISSN  1865-0511 ; license required, accessed January 19, 2013). However, it should be noted that this information from the AKL is only of a provisional nature, as the article on Orlandini has not yet been scientifically edited and written (currently, 2013, only the volumes JK are in progress).
  3. ^ Nikolaus Bernau: Exhibition. The fairy tale horror . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg / Ernestina Orlandini . [...], p. 84.
  5. ^ F. Fabricius ( Fritz von Ostini ): The spring exhibition of the Munich Secession. In: The Art of Our Time. A chronicle of modern art life. II. Half volume. Verlag Franz Hanfstaengl, Mühlthalers Royal Court, Book and Art Print, Munich 1894, p. 14.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg / Ernestina Orlandini . [...], p. 85.
  7. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Käthe Kollwitz and her 106 colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898 / 99–1913) . [...], p. 13f, 30.
  8. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Käthe Kollwitz and her 106 colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898 / 99–1913) . [...], p. 20.
  9. ^ Christian Welzbacher:  Schultze-Naumburg, Paul Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 709-711 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Käthe Kollwitz and her 106 colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898 / 99–1913) . [...], p. 31, note 10.
  11. ↑ Artfact. Ernestina Orlandini, Floral Oil. Dargate Auction Galleries Antiques, Collectables, 2004 USA, lot 1762
  12. ↑ The spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. C. G. Röder , Leipzig / Berlin 1898, p. 636. Quoted from: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Ernestine Schultze-Naumburg / Ernestina Orlandini . [...], p. 85.
  13. ↑ Christie's. Ernestina Orlandini (XIX-XX Secolo). Natura morta con frutta. Lot 725 / Sale 2394. June 4, 2001, Rome.
  14. ↑ Dargate Auction Galleries. Auction Catalog for October 2nd & 3rd sale (A236). ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dargate.com
  15. ↑ Artfact. Ernestina Orlandini. Landscape . DuMouchelles, Antiques, Collectables, 2007 USA, lot 5.
  16. ↑ Artfact. Ernestina Orlandini. Auction house Quentin GmbH. Spring Auction 2011, Germany, lot 77.
  17. ^ Image index of art and architecture: Self-portrait of the painter Ernestina Orlandini Mack.
personal data
SURNAME Orlandini, Ernestina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultze-Naumburg, Ernestine; Ernestine Mack; Ernestina Orlandini Mack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Florence