Grit Kallin-Fischer
Grit Kallin-Fischer , born as Margrit Vries, (* 1897 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 17, 1973 in Newtown, Pennsylvania ) was a German photographer, graphic designer and sculptor .
Life
Grit Kallin-Fischer grew up in Frankfurt am Main and attended boarding school in Belgium at the age of 13. There she began her artistic training as a painter, during which she mainly painted landscapes and flower still lifes . Later she took painting lessons with Karl Doerbecker in Marburg. From 1915 to 1917 she studied painting with Lovis Corinth at the Leipzig Art Academy. After the First World War , Kallin-Fischer went to Berlin. There she joined artistic circles and got to know the musician Marik Kallin, a Russian emigrant. The couple married in 1920 and moved to London. In 1926 the couple separated and Grit Kallin-Fischer returned to Germany. In 1927 she enrolled as a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau . She took the basic apprenticeship with Josef Albers and painting classes with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky . She briefly studied in the metal workshop at the Bauhaus under the direction of László Moholy-Nagy . She had a productive phase at the Bauhaus stage under Oskar Schlemmer . She also learned photography at the Bauhaus. Their photos stand out from the other photographs taken at the Bauhaus by their brilliance, their own formal language and artistic quality.
In 1928 or 1929 she left the Bauhaus and went to Berlin with her later second husband, the American Bauhaus member Edward Fischer. In 1930 she took photos for the magazine "Nutzgrafik". Her pictures were shown in New York City in 1931 at an exhibition on commercial European photography. Grit Kallin-Fischer and Edward Fischer married in 1934 after divorcing her first husband Marik Kallin in 1933. In 1934 the couple moved to New York City.
In 1937, Grit Kallin-Fischer moved with her husband into a house in Newton that Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer had designed for them. After the Second World War , she no longer took photos, but devoted herself to sculpture. In 1947, Kallin-Fischer traveled to Europe, where she worked with the Swiss sculptor Hermann Hubacher in Zurich and the Italian sculptor Marino Marini in Milan. After her return to the USA, she also dealt with graphic design.
literature
- Grit Kallin-Fischer . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 106-107.
Web links
- Grit Kallin-Fischer. 1926–1928 Bauhaus students at bauhaus100.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kallin-Fischer, Grit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vries, Margrit (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer, graphic designer and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1973 |
| Place of death | Newtown, Pennsylvania |