Helene Funke

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Helene Funke (* 3. September 1869 in Chemnitz , † 31 July 1957 in Vienna ) was a painter and graphic artist of modernity .

life and work

As the daughter of an industrial family, she studied painting at the women's academy in Munich from 1899 against the will of the family . From 1905 to 1913 she stayed in Paris and the south of France . In 1913 she moved to Vienna, where she participated in numerous exhibitions and lived in this city until her death.

In 1918 she became a member of the Viennese artist group “Movement” or “Free Movement” (from 1919). She was also a member of the Wiener Frauenkunst group . In 1928 she received the Austrian State Prize for the picture Tobias and the Angel . "Your pictures often show groups of women or pairs of women and represent a differentiated approach to the topic of femininity." (Secret Life, 2005)

From 1904 to 1938 exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig ( BUGRA 1914) and Hamburg are documented; she was also a member of the German Association of Artists . In France she maintained close contact with the Fauves and exhibited several times at the Paris Salon des Indépendants . In Vienna she was involved in exhibitions at the Vienna Secession , the Hagenbund , the Künstlerhaus and the Vienna Art Show . In the last few years before death, this almost forgotten woman was "rediscovered" in art .

Oskar Laske was the only artist to immortalize her in his monumental painting “The Ship of Fools” (on display in the Belvedere , Vienna). In 1957 Helene Funke died impoverished in her Vienna apartment.

A first rediscovery of Helene Funke began in 1998 in the Viennese art dealer Hieke. The first catalog on Funke's oeuvre was also created to accompany this retrospective. From May 3rd to September 11th 2007 there was an extensive retrospective at Lentos , Linz. In 2018, the first retrospective in Germany took place in her hometown of Chemnitz in the Chemnitz art collections . Her work was also extensively presented at the “City of Women” exhibition in the Belvedere Vienna in 2019 .

Helene Funke's work is increasingly coming back into the public eye thanks to its museum recognition. Her services to early Expressionism find their way into the art-historical canon. At the beginning of 2016, works by her were in the collective exhibition Empathy and Abstraction. The modern age of women in Germany can be seen in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld .

literature

  • Julie M. Johnson: The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 , West Lafayette, Indiana, 2012 ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6 .
  • Peter Funke: The painter Helene Funke 1869–1957. Life and Work , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2011 ISBN 978-3-205-78620-7 .
  • Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller , Elisabeth Fischer (eds.): Helene Funke: 1869–1957, exhibition catalog, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz , May 4 to September 11, 2007, Nuremberg 2007 ISBN 978-3-939738-36-7 .
  • Sigrid Bucher: The painter Helene Funke, Vienna 2007 ISBN 978-3-9502043-2-2 .
  • Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Artists in Austria 1897–1938. Painting - sculpture - architecture, Vienna 1994 ISBN 3-85452-122-7 .
  • Funke, Helene in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fourth volume (EJ) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 179)
  • Catalog of the exhibition Kunsthandel Hieke. Helene Funke. Vienna-Paris. 1869-1957. Vienna 1998.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Austrian Expressionism. Paintings and graphics 1905–1925 , catalog Musée d'Ixelles June 18– September 13, 1998 and Klagenfurt City Gallery October 16, 1998– January 10, 1999
  2. ↑ from the booklet accompanying the Paula Deppe exhibition at the Passauer Oberhausmuseum, 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file, approx. 12 MB, accessed on May 2, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberhausmuseum.de
  3. ↑ Hamburger Kunstverein: KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG - EXHIBITIONS ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, accessed on May 2, 2016)
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Funke, Helene ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 2, 2016)
  5. ↑ dorotheum.com: Helene Funke. Provenance for “By the Sea in France”, 1908/1910 ( Memento from January 3, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) (DOC file), accessed on May 2, 2016
  6. ↑ Helene Funke , on hieke-art.com/, accessed on August 19, 2019
  7. ^ Lentos Art Museum Linz - Helene Funke (1869–1957). Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Empathy and abstraction. The modern age of women in Germany. Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Oct. 2015 - Feb. 2016, accessed on April 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Spark, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1957
Place of death Vienna