Gertrud Kleinhempel

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Gertrud Kleinhempel (born December 25, 1875 in Leipzig , † February 29, 1948 in Althagen ) was a German artist and designer .

Life

Gertrud Kleinhempel was born in Leipzig as the youngest child and only daughter of the married couple Friedrich Herrmann and Amalie Auguste. The father worked as a customs assistant. Gertrud Kleinhempel was trained as an embroiderer and drawing teacher in Dresden . She attended the drawing school of the women's trade association in Dresden and passed the examination as a drawing teacher in 1894. From 1895 she studied at the women's academy of the drawing school of the Munich Artists' Association under Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte , where she worked as a commercial draftsman and illustrator until around 1898 .

From 1898 she worked in Dresden as a furniture, jewelry and textile designer, a. a. for the Dresden workshops for craftsmanship by Karl Schmidt-Hellerau , for the United workshops for art and craft in Munich and for the workshops for German household items by Theophil Müller in Dresden-Striesen . These houses aimed at a comprehensive reform of the arts and crafts and saw themselves in the tradition of handicrafts, as a reaction to the fast-moving mass production that had arisen since the middle of the 19th century, which stylistically made use of the richness of forms of past eras. Around 1900 arts and crafts companies emerged in Dresden, which, in contrast to other rather elitist workshops or artists' associations, were engaged in the production of simple and inexpensive furniture for a large group of customers and thus achieved considerable exhibition and sales success. In the workshops for German household goods in particular , Gertrud Kleinhempel and Margarete Junge designed almost everything that was produced: living room, dining room, master's room, bedroom and complete home furnishings.

In addition to designing furniture, she carried out orders for metalwork (jewelry, parts of the Dresden council silver) and designed glasses , toys , tiles, porcelain , lamps and textiles . Bookplates and posters .

From 1900 to 1907 she ran a private school for arts and crafts in Dresden-Striesen with her siblings Fritz and Erich Kleinhempel . Gertrud Kleinhempel was also the aunt of the designer and draftsman Werner Kleinhempel (* 1899).

From 1907 to 1938 she was the head of the textile class at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts . She had been a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) since it was founded in 1907 and was one of the first women in this position in Prussia to receive the title of professor in 1921 . On April 1, 1938, she retired and moved to Althagen , now a district of Ahrenshoop . The exceptional artist lived here in seclusion in a Büdner house from the 18th century until her death in 1948. The former residential building is currently threatened with demolition.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1899/1900: Dresden, popular exhibition for home and stove . Together with Erich Kleinhempel: Design for a "home furnishings for the less well-off middle class", awarded the Saxon State Medal.
  • 1901: Dresden, International Art Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1902: Turin, Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna , design of one of four rooms in the Dresden workshops
  • 1903/1904: Exhibition of the Dresden workshops for craftsmanship
  • 1905: Berlin, Wertheim exhibition
  • 1906: Dresden, Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1910: World Exhibition in Brussels
  • 1914: Cologne, Werkbund exhibition, design of the boardroom of the Cologne women's club in the "woman's house"

literature

  • Kleinhempel, Gertrud . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 460 .
  • Gerhard Renda (Ed.): Gertrud Kleinhempel, artist between Art Nouveau and Modernism: 1875–1948. [On the occasion of the exhibition "Gertud Kleinhempel, 1875–1948, artist between Art Nouveau and Modernism" in the Historical Museum of the City of Bielefeld from September 6 to November 22, 1998], Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 3-89534-237-8 .
  • Ch. Kaiser: Art of the simplest means. The historical museum of the city of Bielefeld shows works by Gertrud Kleinhempel. In: Dresdner Latest News from October 21, 1998.
  • Urs Latus: Kleinhempel, Gertrud . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum (Hrsg.): Art Nouveau in Dresden. Departure into the modern age . Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 433 .
  • Andreas Beaugrand (Ed.): Werkkunst. Art and design in Bielefeld 1907–2007. Gieselmann, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-923830-62-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948). Professor and Designer. Internet portal Westphalian History, accessed on December 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Adina Rieckmann: Ahrenshoop erases important traces of an exceptional artist . Dresden Latest News, November 12, 2019, p. 10 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleinhempel, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1948
Place of death Althagen