Flora Klee-Palyi

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Flora Klee-Palyi (born October 13, 1893 in Budapest , † April 14, 1961 in Wuppertal ) was a German-Hungarian wood cutter , illustrator , translator and editor of French poetry.

Life

Flora Klee-Palyi, who also used the pseudonym Marie Philippe, was born in 1893. She studied art with a focus on graphics in Lausanne , Geneva , Munich , Rome , Florence and Paris . She then worked in Paris for some time and published several anthologies of French poetry, including texts by Gérard de Nerval , Guillaume Apollinaire , Charles Baudelaire , René Char and Paul Verlaine . In return, she translated works by Emil Barth and Ernst Meister into French and published bilingual lyrical editions.

In 1927 she moved with her husband, the internist and pharmacologist Philipp Klee (1884–1978), to Wuppertal, where she was arrested in October 1944 because of her Jewish origins. In February 1945 she was deported to Theresienstadt, from where she returned to Wuppertal with serious health problems to begin her artistic activity.

In the 1950s, Klee-Palyi designed books for the Walltor publishing house in Giessen . Among other things, she created linocuts in 1956 for the poem “Die Drei Hasen” by Christian Morgenstern . In the same year she received the Von-der-Heydt Culture Prize from the city of Wuppertal. She died on April 14, 1961 in Wuppertal. Her grave and that of her husband are in the old Protestant cemetery on Kirchhofstrasse in Wuppertal-Sonnborn.

Illustrations by Walltor-Verlag (selection)

Signature of Flora Klee-Palyi with dedication
Grave of Flora Klee-Palyi (2017)

Walltor-Verlag Gießen existed from 1951 to 2002. The registered businessman was Klaus Brückel. Flora Klee-Palyi worked for the publishing house in the 1950s. In collaboration with Gideon Schüler , who worked as an editor for the publishing house, books were created in small editions, often not exceeding 100 copies. The typography was designed by Horst Heiderhoff .

  • Bestiary. Seven poems based on Guillaume Apollinaire 's "Bestiaire ou Cortège d´ Orphée" by Karl Krolow . Linocuts Fora Klee-Palyi. Printed and set in the graphic workshops of the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel . Giessen 1956, edition not known.
  • Werner Warsinsky , Lunatique . Linocuts and book design Fora Klee-Palyi, Gießen 1958, edition: 100 copies.
  • Christian Morgenstern , three hares. A grotesque ballad . Linocuts by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printed and set in the graphic workshops of the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel. Without year, edition not known.
  • Marcel Béalu , La Légende des Siècles . Linocuts by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printed and set in the graphic workshops of the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel. Casting, no year, edition not known.
  • Urs Martin Strub , Neptune . Font Fora Klee-Palyi. Casting, no year, edition not known.
  • Lothar Klünner , Gläserne Ufer . Book design and etchings by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printed and set in the graphic workshops of the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel. Without a year. Edition not known.
  • Fritz Usinger , The Morning Star . Linocuts by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printed and set in the graphic workshops of the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel. Without a year. Edition not known.
  • Yanette Delétang-Tardif, Almanac . Printing: Robert Atteln, Wüfrath. Giessen 1959, edition: 100 copies.
  • Emil Barth , Sea Magic . Linocuts by Flora Klee-Palyi, Giessen 1959, edition not known.
  • Alain Bosquet, Cosmiques . Printing: Robert Atteln, Wüfrath. Giessen, 1959, edition: 60 copies.
  • Novalis , fragments . Font and linocuts by Fora Klee-Palyi. Giessen 1959, edition not known.
  • Marcel Béalu, Paysages Réels . Linocuts Fora Klee-Palyi. Printing: Robert Atteln, Wüfrath. Giessen 1959, edition: 100 copies.
  • Apollinaire / Krolow, bestiary . Linocuts and typography by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printing: Graphische Kunstanstalt Wilhelm Herr, Giessen. Giessen 1959, edition not known.
  • Ernst Meister , light labyrinth . Font by Fora Klee-Palyi. Giessen 1959th edition not known.
  • René Char , 33 fragments . Font and linocuts by Fora Klee-Palyi. Giessen 1960, edition not known.
  • Fritz Usinger, thoughts . Linocuts and typography by Fora Klee-Palyi. Printing: Graphische Kunstanstalt Wilhelm Herr, Giessen. Giessen 1960, edition not known.

Literature (selection)

  • Uwe Eckardt, Flora Klee-Payli (1892–1962). Materials on the life and work of an almost forgotten artist . In: Yearbook of the Ernst Meister Society 2 (1992/1993), pp. 87–97 (with work bibliography).
  • Kurt Niederau , Late memories of an extraordinary woman. For the 100th birthday of Flora Klee-Palyi . In: Geschichte im Wuppertal 2, 1993, pp. 70–73.

Web links

Commons : Flora Klee-Palyi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Harbusch: Opposite translations: Paul Celan's transmissions of French symbolists , Wallstein Verlag, 2002, p. 123
  2. ↑ See: The Von-der-Heydt-Kulturpreis on the website of the city of Wuppertal
  3. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal graves. Historical walk through all of the city's cemeteries . Thales Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88908-482-8 .
  4. ↑ See: Entry Commercial Register, HRA 212
personal data
SURNAME Klee-Palyi, Flora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippe, Marie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian wood cutter, illustrator, translator and editor of French poetry
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1961
Place of death Wuppertal