Gela Forster

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Gela Forster (born Angelika Schmitz on August 6, 1893 in Berlin ; died in the USA in 1957 ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Angelika Schmitz was the second daughter of the singer Lucia Wanda Genelli and the architect Bruno Schmitz . As Gela Forster she became a sculptor, worked in Berlin and Dresden and exhibited her sculptures in 1919 in the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 . Herwarth Walden valued her seemingly primitivist figures and included one in the 100th Sturm exhibition in Berlin in September 1921 . In 1922 she married the sculptor Alexander Archipenko . In 1923 they emigrated to America, initially to New York City. Archipenko married Frances Gray in 1960.

Your sculptures from the Berlin and Dresden times were lost. Forster's sculptural work in the USA cannot be proven.

literature

  • Gerlint Söder: Forster, Gela . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 42, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22782-5 , p. 449.
  • Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein (Hrsg.): Sturm-Frauen: Artists of the avant-garde in Berlin 1910-1932 . Cologne: Wienand, 015, ISBN 978-3-86832-277-4 , p. 346f.
  • Alfred Günther : Before pictures by Gela Forster , in: Heinar Schilling : Expressionism. - People. - 1919. Special issue Gela Forster . 2nd year issue III (37). Dresden, Dresdner Verlag from 1917, May 1919. Printed in: Peter Ludewig (Hrsg.): Schrei in die Welt: Expressionismus in Dresden . Zurich: Arche, 1990 ISBN 3-7160-2106-7 , pp. 68f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frances Archipenko Gray: My life with Alexander Archipenk . Munich: Hirmer, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7774-2248-0
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Gela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Archipenko, Gela; Schmitz, Angelika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death United States