Grethe Juergens
Grethe Jürgens (born February 15, 1899 in Holzhausen near Osnabrück , † May 8, 1981 in Hanover ) was a German painter and representative of the New Objectivity .
Life
Jürgens was the daughter of the teacher Georg Gerhard Jürgens (* 1868) and his wife Ludvina Anna Jürgens, b. Eckert (* 1874). The Catholic family moved from Holzhausen to Wilhelmshaven in 1900 , where the father taught at a denominational school. Her two brothers Johannes (* 1902) and Heinrich (* 1904) were born in Wilhelmshaven.
After graduating from the Königin-Luise-Gymnasium, Jürgens began studying architecture at the Technical University in Berlin in 1918 . It was only in 1909 that women had the right to matriculate ( women's studies ) at the Charlottenburger TH. As a result of the November Revolution in 1918, the university was closed and the student returned to Wilhelmshaven because of the political situation. In 1919, Jürgens enrolled in graphics at the crafts and arts school in Hanover , where she was a student of Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld until 1922 . In this class the artist made friends with Gerta Overbeck , Ernst Thoms , Friedrich Busack and Erich Wegner . In 1925 Hans Mertens and Karl Rüter joined this group, whose artists are considered representatives of the New Objectivity in terms of art history .
Because of the difficult economic conditions that had arisen in Germany due to inflation , Jürgens had to break off her studies in 1922 and start working as an advertising artist at Hackethal Draht- und Kabelwerke AG. She terminated her employment contract in 1928 to take on a job at the business magazine Der Manufakturist , which she lost again after six months. The precarious situation forced Jürgens to rent a former dog kennel on Feldstrasse ( Calenberger Neustadt ). In 1929 she moved to Liststadt at 288 Podbielskistraße , where she lived and had a studio until her death.
From 1931 to 1932, Jürgens took over the editing of the newly founded magazine Der Wachsbogen . A total of twelve issues appeared in the stencil- printed magazine aimed at representatives of the New Objectivity. Those involved included Gerta Overbeck, Erich Wegner, Ernst Thoms and the writer Gustav Schenk , with whom Jürgens was friends and engaged, and of whom she made a portrait in 1931.
Her brother Johannes Jürgens managed the estate of Jürgens. In 1984 he handed over his late work to the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. Another heiress was his niece Heide Jürgens-Hitz, daughter of his brother Heinrich Jürgens.
Grethe Jürgens was buried in the Lahe city cemetery in Hanover.
In 2005 Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin dedicated an exhibition to her.
membership
- Since 1929: Association of the Communities of Artists and Art Sponsors V. ( GEDOK ).
Honors
- 1979: Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit .
- A street in Hanover has been named after Grethe Jürgens since 1982, opposite her apartment from Podbielskistraße to the north
Selected graphic works
- Sick girl, 1926
- Dressmaker's dummy, 1927
- Hairdressing dolls, 1927
- Karl Eggert, 1927
- Self-Portrait, 1928
- Employment office, 1929
- Portrait of Gerta Overbeck, 1929
- Portrait of the painter Erich Wegner, 1929
- Unemployed, 1929
- Lovers, 1930
- Flower girl, 1931
- Portrait of Schenk, 1931
- Lady with a Hat (Self-Portrait), 1932
- Cloth merchant, 1932
- Wood collector, 1934
- Resting harvest workers, 1937
- Book design
- GJ: The studio. The John Jahr home library, Berlin 1943
- Karl Georg von Stackelberg : Past me. From the man in the pointed hat; of hours, people and streets. Watercolors by Grethe Juergens. The home library, Berlin 1942
- Gustav Schenk: The wonderful life. Draft cover, text drawings GJ- Die Heimbücherei John Jahr , Berlin 1942/1943
- The passionate game. Chess letters to a friend. Sponholtz, Hanover 1936. With 8 multi-colored plates by GJ (again Verlag Schünemann, Bremen 1940)
- Wenceslas Natural History Cabinet or Wenceslas father and Wenceslas son's discoveries relating to objects of nature. Based on old documents and memories of Wenzel's sayings [sic!], Pictures by Grethe Jürgens have been put together again . Sponholtz, Hanover 1947
- The Vermouth Island. A poem from the small life of a Hallig. Wessobrunner Verlag, Berlin 1940. With 20 colored offset plates based on originals by GJ
- Aronn or the tropical fire. With 12 drawings, including 4 color plates by GJ- Adolf Sponholtz
- Fruit and seed. Sponholtz 1947. Cover by GJ
- Hans Wolfgang Behm: Wedding of the flowers. The love life of the plants in the nature of the landscape. Adolf Sponholtz , Hanover 1950. With two four-color plates by GJ
- Herbert Grünhagen: The twelve gentlemen. With drawings by GJ- Karl Rauch , Dessau 1941
Literature (selection)
- Harald Seiler : Grethe Juergens . Series: Lower Saxony Contemporary Artists, 14, Musterschmidt , Göttingen 1976
- Hildegard Reinhardt: Grethe Juergens and Gerta Overbeck. Pictures from the twenties . Bonner Kunstverein 1982.
- Ludwig Zerull (red., Layout), Günter Barz, Michael Herling (photos): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity , accompanying document to the (traveling) exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hanover , the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hanover , Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, self-published, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991, p. 14f.
- Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits . Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 186-199
- Heike Scholz: At the edge of the field of vision. Grethe Jürgens - an artist of the twenties in Hanover . Dissertation at the Philipps-Universität Marburg 1999. ( PDF ; 15 MB)
- Marsha Meskimmon: Grethe Jürgens, Gerta Overbeck and the “women's culture” in the Weimar Republic. In: Christian Fuhrmeister (ed.): The strongest expression of our days. New objectivity in Hanover . December 9, 2001 - March 10, 2002. Exhibition catalog Museum, Hildesheim u. a. 2001, pp. 53-56.
- Hugo Thielen : Art. Juergens, Grethe , in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 190f .; again in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2009, p. 330f.
- Henrike Schulte: Grethe Jürgens - a self-portrait from 1922 . In: Uwe Fleckner (Ed.): The true face of our time - images of people in the New Objectivity. Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Kiel 2004, pp. 114–116, ISBN 3-937208-07-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Grethe Jürgens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Renate Rochner u. Luise F. Pusch: biography , with additional literature
- g26ch: Biography ( Memento from October 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Annette Volland: Grethe Jürgens: artist in Hanover at ndr.de on September 29, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scholz (1999), p. 18.
- ↑ Scholz (1999), pp. 20f.
- ↑ Scholz (1999), p. 23.
- ↑ Scholz (1999), p. 33 and FN 101.
- ↑ Heike Scholz: “At the edge of the field of vision. Grethe Jürgens - an artist of the twenties in Hanover. “ Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the department of German and Art Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg , Cologne, 1999
- ↑ Scholz (1999), p. 111.
- ↑ Scholz (1999), p. 70 FN 202 and P. 202 FN 623.
- ↑ Jürgens presents her studio in text and color pictures, Sütterlin-Schrift
- ↑ Contents: January / Hartung February / Hornung March / Lenzing April / Easter moon May / Weidemond June / Brachet July / Heuet August / Harvest September / Scheiding October / Gilbhard November / fogging December / July moon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Juergens, Grethe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1981 |
| Place of death | Hanover |