Grete Csaki copony

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Grave site , Königin-Luise-Straße 55, in Berlin-Dahlem

Grete Csaki-Copony (born October 12, 1893 in Zernyest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † December 4, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German painter, illustrator and poet of classical modernism .

Life

Grete Copony was the daughter of the paper manufacturer and member of the Budapest parliament, Traugott Copony. From 1909 she attended various art schools in Germany, for example with Moritz Heymann in Munich and the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Artists , and for a few months the Budapest Art Academy . In 1917 she married the German scholar Richard Csaki (1886–1943), the head of the cultural office in Sibiu , with whom she had the daughter Brigitte Möckel (* 1918) and the son Joachim (* 1920). In 1934 they moved from Sibiu to Stuttgart because Richard Csaki had been appointed head of the German Foreign Institute by the Austrian National Socialist Hans Steinacher after the National Socialist seizure of power . In 1935 she still had exhibitions in the Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin as well as in Bremen and Hamburg, but at an exhibition in Stuttgart she was asked to remove some of the works because they were considered " degenerate " and "Bolshevik" . Thereupon she exhibited no more works until the end of the war.

Richard Csaki died in 1943. She moved from Stuttgart to Wankheim near Tübingen . From 1954 she also stayed regularly in Greece and had a studio in Aegina . From 1962 she lived with her daughter in Berlin and had a solo exhibition there in 1984 in the house on Lützowplatz .

literature

  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 2, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1995.
  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Grete Csaki-Copony. Between Transylvania and metropolitan culture . Hora-Verl., Hermannstadt 2008.
  • Ernst Ritter: The German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart: 1917–1945. An example of German Volkstumsarbeit between the world wars . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-02361-5 .
  • Gheorghe Vida: Csáky-Copony, Grete . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 22, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22762-0 , p. 517.

Web links

Commons : Grete Csaki-Copony  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The father-in-law Michael Csaki was director of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu . Characterization Richard Csakis in Ritter, pp. 58–61. Csaki was killed in an Air Force plane crash on December 31, 1943 in Perugia.
personal data
SURNAME Csaki copony, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Copony, Grete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and poet of classical modernism
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Zernyest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1990
Place of death Berlin