Florine Stettheimer

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Florine Stettheimer in her garden at Bryant Park (around 1917–1920)

Florine Stettheimer (born August 29, 1871 in Rochester (New York) , † May 11, 1944 in New York ) was an American painter, designer, poet and salonnière . She was a colorful figure on the New York art scene in the 1920s and 1930s.

life and work

Stettheimer was born as the daughter of a wealthy German-Jewish family. Her father, the banker Joseph Stettheimer, left the family before the children grew up. She was the fourth of five children: Walter, Stella, Carrie, Florine and Ettie. Florine spent much of her childhood and adolescence traveling, studying art in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland. She studied at the Art Students League of New York for three years .

Only shortly after the outbreak of World War I did she finally move to the USA. She lived with the siblings Ettie and Carrie and their mother Rosetta (died 1935) in a shared apartment. Florine and her sisters started a salon in their New York apartment. Her guests were important protagonists of society and the avant-garde. In addition to Marcel Duchamp , the painter Georgia O'Keeffe , the composer Edgar Varèse , the photographers Edward Steichen , Baron Adolphe de Meyer and the art critic Henry McBride (1867–1962) were on site.

Heat , around 1919, Brooklyn Museum , New York
The Cathedrals of Broadway , 1929, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

Exactly this life of luxury and modernity is the subject of her pictures: Florine Stettheimer painted pictures of parties, beauty contests, beach fun, garden life . But also self-portraits and group portraits, her family is depicted again and again. She painted the luxury department store Bendel's, where she dressed elegantly to extravagant, and the New York panoramas known as Cathedrals . In 1932 a critic wrote of one of the paintings: “It is cinematographic, historical, fantastic, realistic, mocking, loving, calligraphic, encyclopedic, proustic and even ominous. In fact, it has everything and everything in the right proportion. "

In October 1916 the only commercial exhibition of her pictures took place in a New York gallery during her lifetime; no picture was sold. She turned down further commercial exhibitions and furnished her studio and living room with her pictures. Renowned gallery owners like Alfred Stieglitz tried in vain to persuade her. Stettheimer was a member of the American Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers and participated annually in the exhibitions of the Society of Independent Artists . In 1934 she designed sets and costumes for the avant-garde opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson .

Stettheimer had developed her very own style, she painted naive, impasto hidden objects . Andy Warhol was enthusiastic about her work - especially her flower arrangements - and described her as a forerunner of Pop Art .

Florine Stettheimer died in New York in 1944. Her sister Ettie Stettheimer published a volume of poetry by the artist under the title Crystal Flowers posthumously in 1949 as a private print. It was republished in 2010. Among others who have Columbia University , the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Beinecke Library has plants or archive footage of the artist.

Posthumous exhibitions

literature

  • Mühling, Matthias; Stettheimer; Althaus, Karin (Ed.): Florine Stettheimer . Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Florine Stettheimer, September 27, 2014 to January 4, 2015, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau / Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich. Hirmer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2299-2 .
  • Claus Stephani: The luminous world of images of Florine Stettheimer . For the artist's first review in Europe. In: David. Jewish culture magazine (Vienna), issue 104, 4/2015.
  • Ursula Voss: The Dolls of New York: the salon of the Stettheimer family . Parthas, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86964-077-8
  • Barbara J. Bloemink: The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer. Yale University Press, New Haven 1995
  • Stephen Brown, Georgiana Uhlyarik (Ed.): Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry . Exhibition catalog, Yale University Press, New Haven 2017, ISBN 978-0-300-22198-5

Web links

Commons : Florine Stettheimer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Schulze: Florine Stettheimer: painted with champagne , spiegel.de, September 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Quoted after the web link jwa.org
  3. ↑ Catrin Lorch: Those who have friends can do without eternity ; in Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 29, 2014
  4. ↑ Barbara Reitter-Welter: Between Kitsch and Art , Die Welt , October 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto ed. By Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Toronto: BookThug, 2010. See Holland Cotter: For Art Lovers: Volumes Meant to Awe and Inspire , New York Times , November 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Florine Stettheimer at Columbia , library.columbia.edu
  7. ^ Exhibition Florine Stettheimer in the Lenbachhaus
personal data
SURNAME Stettheimer, Florine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, designer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1944
Place of death New York City