Helene Haasbauer-Wallrath

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Helene Haasbauer-spermaceti (* 8. December 1885 in Basel , † 14. May 1968 ibid) was a Swiss painter and commercial artist .

life and work

The artist, who was born as Helene Wallrath, took courses at the general trade school in Basel and from 1903–1907 attended the Karlsruhe School of Painting . In 1907 the Wallrath family moved to Vienna . There Helene took lessons from Ferdinand Schmutzer and attended courses in writing with Rudolf Larisch . Helene married Wallrath in 1916. Her husband fell in World War I in 1917 . A month after his death, she gave birth to a daughter. In 1919 she returned to Basel. The single mother took lithography and woodcut courses at the vocational school . At the same time, she began taking children's courses in her own studio.

Helene Haasbauer-Wallrath worked as a portrait painter and created a series of posters , murals and lettering for various public clients of the city of Basel. 1934–1936 she also held teaching positions at the trade school in Basel. Above all, the posters she created attracted international attention. As early as 1925, a poster at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern was awarded the silver medal. Your poster for the exhibition “The practical kitchen” in the Gewerbemuseum Basel from 1930 can be found in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art .

literature

  • Renate Treydel: Haasbauer, Helene . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 44.
  • A century in world format. Swiss posters from 1900 to the present (exhibition catalog) . Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88609-454-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Messerschmidt: Helene Wallrath-Haasbauer. In: Malweiber Lörrach. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Die Praktische Küche (The Practical Kitchen) (Poster for an exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum Basel). In: MoMA: Art and artists. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Haasbauer-Wallrath, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallrath-Haasbauer, Helene; Wallrath, Helene; Haasbauer-Wallrath, Helene Agnes Hermine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1968
Place of death Basel