Helene Meyer-Moringen

Helene Elisabeth Alwine Meyer-Moringen (born September 2, 1898 in Moringen , † October 8, 1965 in Beberbeck ) was a German painter . She was best known for her pictures of horses and landscapes.

Life

Helene Meyer was born on September 2, 1898 in Moringen as the daughter of the pharmacist Theodor Meyer and his wife Margarethe born. Arnold born. She left her parents' home at a young age and lived in northern Germany. During this time she changed her name to Helen Meyer-Moringen. She first studied at the academy in Berlin and was a student of the horse painter Georg Koch . She worked as a painter for the Celle State Stud and painted horses at Söder Castle near Hildesheim and at the Vornholz Castle stud . After the Second World War she lived in the former Royal Main Stud Beberbeck in Reinhardswald. She spent the last few years in Beberbeck, where she lived poorly in the officials' house. Again and again she painted landscapes and places from the Beberbeck , Sababurg and Reinhardswald region and horses. Meyer-Moringen died in 1965 and is buried in the Beberbeck cemetery.

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Meyer-Moringen painted her mostly small-format Impressionist landscapes and pictures of animals, especially horses, in oil on canvas and drew with pastel chalk on different surfaces. Her painted postcards were very popular with horse lovers and sold well. Most of her pictures are in private collections. Some of Meyer-Moringen's works are represented in the Hofgeismar City Museum .

Drawings and paintings (selection)

• Lippizaner stallions [sic]. Charcoal drawing, heightened with white. 27.5 × 44.5 cm
• Standing mastiff from the right . Oil on Ln, 47 × 55 cm
• Hamburg-Flottbeck , around 1930, pastel and charcoal on paper, 32.5 × 48 cm
• Team of horses . Pastel chalk on gray-green paper, 25 × 43.5 cm
• Four-in-hand with a carriage in the Herrenhausen Gardens. Oil on Ln, 40 × 50 cm
• State horse show Hannover 1950 . Oil on Ln, 55 × 75 cm
• Sleigh ride with a lantern through an archway of a castle . Oil on Ln, 50 × 60 cm

Signature and monogram

• H. Meyer-Moringen
• HMM

Honors

Helen-Meyer-Moringen-Strasse in Hofgeismar is named after her.

literature

• Willy Oskar Dressler : Fine arts. The book of the living artists, archeologists, art scholars and art writers ( Dressler's art manual ; 2). Wasmuth, Berlin 1930.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contributions to art history . Schmitt & Günther, Leipzig 1941 (4 vols., Reprint of the Dresden edition 1891/1901).
• Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. With the painters' colonies Willingen and Kleinsassen . Edition Jenior, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-934377-96-3 .
• Helene Meyer-Moringen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 383 .

Individual evidence

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