Helene Nonné-Schmidt

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Helene Nonné-Schmidt (born as Helene Frieda Nonne, November 8, 1891 in Buckau (Magdeburg) ; died April 7, 1976 in Darmstadt ) was a German textile artist at the Bauhaus .

Life

Helene Nonne was born on November 8, 1891 as the daughter of the engineer Franz Nonne and his wife Leokadya Koterwas in the Magdeburg district of Buckau. She attended the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and from 1913 to 1916 the Royal Art School in Berlin and took an exam as a drawing teacher . She worked as a caregiver with children during the First World War . After the end of the war she continued her studies and in 1919 took an exam to become a handicraft teacher . She then worked as a craft and drawing teacher at the Viktoria-Lyceum in Berlin and at the women's school in Magdeburg. She visited the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923 and decided to continue studying there. Due to her educational background, the Bauhaus preliminary course was waived for her, and she started directly in the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus in 1924 .

In 1925 she married the master student Joost Schmidt (1893–1948), a typographer and painter who taught at the Bauhaus and was head of the plastic workshop, the advertising department and the printing company. In the same year both moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau , where Schmidt started as a young master. Nonné-Schmidt studied with Paul Klee , dealt with questions of art theory and received the Bauhaus diploma in 1930 with Klee and Gunta Stölzl . She worked as an art teacher until 1933. They lived until 1933 in the castle Kühnauer avenue in one of the Masters' and then moved to Berlin, where Joost Schmidt taught at the Reimann School.

In the time of National Socialism , Joost Schmidt was banned from working after being denounced. During this time, Nonné-Schmidt made a few odd jobs. Her studio was destroyed in the bombing war. After the liberation, Joost Schmidt organized a Bauhaus exhibition in West Berlin; he died in 1948 while preparing another exhibition in Nuremberg .

In 1949 Nonné-Schmidt worked for a short time for the Illustrierte Heute in Munich and then moved to Wangen in the Allgäu . In 1953, Max brought Bill Nonné , as everyone called her , to the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm , where she held the basic courses with the former Bauhaus students Josef Albers , Walter Peterhans and Johannes Itten in the early years. Her students included the artist Mary Bauermeister and the designers Immo Krumrey and Martin Krampen. She ended her teaching activity in Ulm in 1956. In 1961 she moved to Darmstadt to the first headquarters of the Bauhaus Archive , where she prepared her book about Joost Schmidt, which was not published until 1984 posthumously.

Helene Nonné-Schmidt was 84 years old. She died on April 7, 1976 in Darmstadt.

Fonts (selection)

  • The area of ​​women in the Bauhaus . 1926. In: Hans Maria Wingler : The Bauhaus 1919–1933. Weimar, Dessau, Berlin and the successor in Chicago since 1937 . Cologne, 1962, 3rd edition 1975, p. 126.
  • Joost Schmidt: Teaching and work at the Bauhaus 1919-32 . With contributions by Heinz Loew and Helene Nonne-Schmidt. Düsseldorf: Edition Marzona, 1984.
  • Paul Klee: Educational Sketchbook . New edition with an afterword by Helene Schmidt-Nonne. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2003 ISBN 3-7861-1458-7 .

literature

  • Sigrid Wortmann Weltge: Bauhaus textiles: art and artists in the weaving workshop . Schaffhausen: Ed. Stemmle, 1993 ISBN 3-905514-09-5 , p. 205
  • Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 185–193
  • Martin Krampen , Günther Hörmann : The Ulm School of Design / The School of Design. Beginnings of a Project of Radical Modernism . Berlin: Ernst and Son, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magdeburg-Buckau, main register of births, entry no. 1062, scan of the original document viewed online at ancestry.de on May 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Helene Schmidt-Nonne with Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, 5th edition, DuMont, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 185-193.
  3. ↑ Interview with Inge Aicher-Scholl , in: Martin Krampen, Günther Hörmann: Die Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm , 2003, p. 34
  4. ↑ Martin Krampen, Günther Hörmann: The Ulm School of Design , 2003, p. 64, p. 94, p. 200; Photo p. 99
personal data
SURNAME Nonné-Schmidt, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nun, Helene Frieda (maiden name); Nun-Schmidt, Helene; Nun; Schmidt-Nonné, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1976
Place of death Darmstadt