Franziska Schlopsnies

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Franziska Schlopsnies (1942)

Franziska Schlopsnies , b. Spangenthal (born December 1, 1884 in Frankfurt am Main ; died December 30, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German fashion, poster and advertising graphic artist . In the 1920s she illustrated various articles in magazines in the Art Deco style and designed numerous covers for the weekly magazine Jugend , the Simplicissimus , the Meggendorfer-Blätter and the Illustrirte Zeitung, among others .

Life

Franziska Schlopsnies while drawing

Franziska Spangenthal was born in Frankfurt am Main, the eldest of three daughters of the Jewish businessman Robert Spangenthal and his wife Henriette Klein. The father was the owner of a wholesale chemical products and machine oils. Shortly after the death of her father, she met the painter, puppet maker and caricaturist Albert Schlopsnies . The son of a Protestant landowner from East Prussia studied at the Munich Art Academy with Gabriel von Hackl from 1903 . On September 15, 1910, Franziska Spangenthal married the painter Albert Schlopsnies in Frankfurt, who was employed as a freelancer for the Steiff company. He designed catalogs for Steiff and designed numerous dolls and stuffed animals. In 1913 the Schlopsnies moved to Munich and settled in the Schwabing district. Their daughter Irmgard Erika was born in May 1915.

Piety : Title page of the Fliegende Blätter from May 18, 1928

After the First World War , Franziska Schlopsnies began designing posters for fashion shows, department stores and exhibitions. She made one of her first surviving designs in 1920 for the Tietz department store . After her divorce from Albert Schlopsnies on December 18, 1922, she often signed her designs with the name Slopsnies . From the mid-1920s she preferred to draw figurines and costumes . Alongside Doris Buscher, Liliane and Margarete von Suttner, she was considered one of the most important representatives of fashion graphics. Her elegant fashion drawings and caricatures in Art Deco style were regularly published in magazines such as the youth, the Simplicissimus, the Elegante Welt , the Illustrirten Zeitung, Sport im Bild or in Velhagen & Klasings monthly magazines. She designed numerous front pages for the satirical magazines Fliegende Blätter and Meggendorfer-Blätter in the second half of the 1920s.

After the National Socialists came to power , no more published drawings of her are known. To ensure her and her daughter's livelihood, she rented some of the rooms in her apartment to students. Her two sisters and her mother managed to emigrate , while Franziska Schlopsnies was initially spared the deportations because she was the mother of a daughter who was considered a “ first degree Jewish hybrid ” in the sense of National Socialist racial theory . There are contradicting information about the time of their deportation. She was deported to an unknown destination in 1943 or January 1944. Franziska Schlopsnies died on December 30, 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her daughter Erika survived World War II and emigrated to the United States in 1946 .

Franziska Schlopsnies' graphics and prints fetch prices of up to several thousand euros at international auctions .

Works (selection)

Suitable - title page of the Meggendorfer-Blätter dated December 2, 1926
  • Advertisement for a fashion show at Tietz, 1920
  • Advertisements for Patron Schönherr , Theatinerstraße; Munich 1923
  • Advertising poster for the exhibition Der gedeckte Tisch , Munich 1926
  • Advertising poster for the company Andreas Kaut ( Kaut-Bullinger )
  • Advertising poster for the company Gebr. E & J Marx , Munich
  • The fashionable line , 1923 (youth issue 22)
  • On the Riviera , 1926 (youth issue 36)
  • Suitable , 1926 (Meggendorfer-Blätter No. 1875)
  • Frank - Elegant Couple in Conversation about the Value of Man's Time , 1927 (Meggendorfer-Blätter No. 1895)
  • The Spaniard , 1926 (Velhagen & Klasings monthly booklet 41, issue 6), 1928 (Illustrierte Zeitung No. 4347–4359)
  • The Divorced , 1927 (Meggendorfer-Blätter No. 1890)
  • In front of the mirror , 1927 (Sport in the picture 1927 No. 2)
  • Kühl , 1927 (Flying Leaves No. 4278)
  • Piety , 1928 (Flying Leaves No. 4320)
  • The prudish wife , 1928 (Flying Leaves No. 4328)
  • Paradox , 1928 (Flying Leaves No. 4335)
  • Couple walking their dogs , 1928 (Fliegende Blätter. Nr. 4368)
  • Carnival of the elegant world: at the Ball Pare in the Deutsches Theater in Munich , 1928 (Illustrierte Zeitung No. 4323)
  • Argument , 1929 (Flying Leaves No. 4367)
  • The day begins , 1929 (Fliegende Blätter No. 4375)
  • I just wanted a kiss, Thea , 1929 (Fliegende Blätter No. 4379)
  • But meta - - you torment yourself and me with these whims , 1931 (Fliegende Blätter No. 4493)
  • These sailors are too bold for me , 1932 (Fliegende Blätter No. 4528)
  • Great Effects , 1932 (Flying Leaves No. 4551)

  • Frank, 1927

  • On the terrace of San Sebastian, 1927

  • The prudish wife, 1928

  • One can never go with you, cousin ..., 1929

  • But Meta .., 1931

  • These sailors are too bold for me, 1932

Web links

Commons : Franziska Schlopsnies  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d bio Gedenkbuch Munich Jews, 1933-1945: M-Z . In: Stadtarchiv München (Ed.): Biographical memorial book of Munich Jews, 1933–1945 . tape 2 . Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 , pp. 433 .
  2. ^ Georg Friedrich Krug: Address book for Frankfurt am Main 1890 . Waldschmidt and Mahlau, Frankfurt am Main 1890, p. 601 .
  3. ^ Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Biographical memorial book of the Munich Jews. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Christoph Stölzl: The Twenties in Munich . In: Münchner Stadtmuseum (Ed.): Writings of the Münchner Stadtmuseum . tape 8 . Munich 1979, p. 217 .
  6. ↑ Simplicissimus · the historical satirical magazine · Person list. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Isabella Belting: The 20s: Fashion, graphics, applied arts from the collections of the Munich City Museum . Ed .: Münchner Stadtmuseum. Munich 2005, p. 137 .
  8. ↑ Isabella Belting: The 20s: Fashion, graphics, applied arts from the collections of the Munich City Museum . Ed .: Münchner Stadtmuseum. Munich 2005, p. 128 .
  9. ↑ Franziska Slopsnies: 8 watercolors on paper "The Spaniard" . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . tape 41 , no. 6 . Bielefeld & Leipzig 1927, p. 673 .
  10. ^ Yad Vashem: Memorial sheet for Franziska Schlopsnies. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial Book - Victims of Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933–1945. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Schlopsnies F. | Franziska Schlopsnies | Watercolors and other works op paper te koop aangeboden | Elegant couple, aquarel en gouache op paper 27.5 x 21.9 cm, gesigneerd ro en gedateerd '26 7166197 Coll.I cv. Retrieved June 9, 2018 (nl-NL).
personal data
SURNAME Schlopsnies, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spangenthal, Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion, poster and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp