Frieda Blell
Frieda Blell (born September 4, 1874 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † March 5, 1951 in Gauting , Bavaria ) was a German landscape painter.
Frieda Blell came from a long-established cloth merchant family in her hometown. Her father Carl Blell worked internationally as a wholesale merchant and was a member of the Reichstag and the Prussian state parliament . Since her father did not believe in his daughter's artistic interests, she stood on her own two feet and studied art in Munich from 1900 . Here she soon met the expressionist painter Leo Putz , whom she repeatedly modeled, and whom she married in 1913. In 1915 their son Helmut was born. She worked, though mostly in the shadow of her husband, in Munich and from 1923 in Gauting. The artist couple often spent the summer between 1909 and 1914 in Hartmannsberg am Chiemsee together with Julius Hess , Lotte von Marcard and Edward Cucuel . A large number of open-air nudes and boat pictures were taken there. From 1929 to 1933 the family lived in South America, where her husband held a professorship in Rio de Janeiro from 1931 . Since her husband publicly showed resistance to National Socialism and his work was classified as " degenerate art ", the family was forced to move to Meran ( South Tyrol , Italy).
Blell painted numerous landscapes and flowers, for example Nettle in Bloom (1913) and Orchids (1918), among others for the Munich magazine Die Jugend .
literature
- Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands , Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1979, ISBN 3-475-52290-X .
- Lexicon of Munich painters in the 19th and 20th centuries Century , Volume V.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blell, Frieda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1951 |
| Place of death | Gauting |