Eva Thomkins

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Eva Thomkins around 1995 in a self-made outfit

Eva Thomkins (* March 13, 1922 as Eva Schnell in Christianstadt am Bober , today a district of Nowogród Bobrzański , Poland ; † July 14, 2006 in Cologne ) was a German artist and university professor. She was the wife of the Swiss artist André Thomkins from Lucerne .

Career

From 1940 Eva Schnell studied at the University of Art Education (today Berlin University of the Arts ) painting with Willy Jaeckel , drawing and modeling with Willi Maillard and still life and portrait painting with Walter Hauschild . At the same time she took the subjects German and theater studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and passed the two state exams in 1942/43. She moved to Dresden to graduate as a craft teacher. Under the influence of the wood sculptor Reinhold Langner , she made woodcuts and wood reliefs.

Shortly before the end of the war , she fled to Rheydt near Mönchengladbach , made contact with those interested in art and gave private painting lessons. She organized exhibitions in Rheydt Castle (now the Rheydt Castle Museum). Between 1949 and 1951 she finished her legal traineeship and passed the pedagogical exams for the higher teaching post.

In August 1950 Eva Schnell visited one of her Rheydt drawing students in Paris, where she met the 20-year-old art student André Thomkins, who was attending courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . Both returned to their hometowns, and the following correspondence between Rheydt and Lucerne is documented in a book. André followed Eva to Rheydt. The wedding took place there on January 19, 1952 and six months later their first son Oliver was born, followed by four more children. Nicolas Thomkins , born in 1953, became a well-known industrial designer.

Act

Eva Schnell (around 1950)

From 1954 to 1971 Thomkins was an art teacher at the Viktoria-Schule , a girls' high school in Essen . During this time, a 3 × 7 m tapestry was created - together with her students - which is now installed in the auditorium of the grammar school. In 1967 Thomkins developed woodcuts with 80 birthday motifs for her art students, which were published in an edition of the Der Spiegel gallery by Hein Stünke in Cologne.

From 1970 Thomkins taught fashion history and tapestry , silk weaving and ornamentation at the Essen Pedagogical College (later the University of Essen ) and became head of the textile design department. In 1981 she took on a teaching position at the University of Cologne , and in 1984 she retired. In 1988 the Center Culturel Suisse, Paris, published Andre Thomkins' portfolio for Eva. Pour Eva. For Eva . In addition to biographical texts, it contained 28 previously unpublished drawings that André Thomkins gave his wife Eva as a birthday present on March 13, 1957.

In 1994 Thomkins was curator and participant in the exhibition The Thomkins - a family of artists. Andre, Eva, Oliver, Anselm, Nicolas, Jenison, Natalie in the Berlin house on Lützowplatz . In 1998 Eva Thomkins published a large-format picture calendar Colors of Light at Dumont Verlag .

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Colors of light , DuMont, Cologne, 1998 ISBN 978-3-7701-3980-4 (picture calendar)
  • Eva Thomkins (ed.): The Thomkins - a family of artists . House on Lützowplatz, Berlin, 1994.
  • Andre and Eva Thomkins: From the correspondence between Andre and Eva Thomkins from 1950/51 . In: André Thomkins: humanly possible. Pen drawings 1947–1977 , DuMont, Cologne, 1988
  • Eva Thomkins (Ed.): Textile Design . 2 volumes. Catalog of the exhibitions at the University of Essen and the Ruhrland Museum Essen, 1975/1980
  • Eva Thomkins (ed.) And students from the Viktoria School in Essen: Happy Birthday , Galerie Der Spiegel , 1967, Cologne

literature

  • Carsten Sternberg, Helga Meister: Eva Thomkins - Pictures , Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 2001 ISBN 978-3-89904-007-4
  • Daniel Jeannet (text), Andre Thomkins (picture): Portfolio for Eva. Pour Eva. For Eva , Center Culturel Suisse, Paris and Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 1998 ISBN 978-3-929078-67-1
  • Ursula Perucchi-Petri: Andre Thomkins in conversation with Ursula Perucchi , Kunsthaus Zürich , 1986, pp. 19 ff., 63 ff. (Biography)
  • Serge Stauffer : 100 questions for Andre Thomkins , in: labyrinthspiel. Andre Thomkins - retrospective . Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1989
  • Helga Meister: Eva Thomkins - Old and New Pictures , DuMont, Cologne, 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the correspondence between Andre and Eva Thomkins from 1950/51 . In: André Thomkins: humanly possible . Pen drawings 1947–1977, DuMont 1988, ISBN 3-7701-2351-4
  2. ↑ Orpheus and Eurydice tapestry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.viktoria-gymnasium.de  
personal data
SURNAME Thomkins, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quick, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, textile artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Christianstadt am Bober
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2006
Place of death Cologne