Helene Pflugshaupt

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Helene Pflugshaupt , née Helene Huber (born July 17, 1894 in Bern , † November 12, 1991 in Thun ) was a Swiss painter of Expressionism and Modernism . Her work includes paintings and drawings.

Life

Helene Huber spent her childhood in Bern . From 1911 to 1914 she took lessons from Theodor Volmar at the Kunstmuseum Bern . There she learned to draw portraits and landscapes. Further training followed, for example in the painting school of Ernst Linck (1914) or in the private studio of Simon Hollósy , who taught at the Munich Art Academy . In Germany she saw the pictures of Paul Klee , Franz Marc and August Macke . Study trips took her to Rome and Florence. In 1926 she married Walter Pflugshaupt, who was a teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Basel. After her spouse's accidental death in 1928, she was deputy at the Steiner School.

From 1930 Pflugshaupt lived in Oberhofen am Thunersee, from 1936 in Faulensee and from 1959 until her death in 1991 in Thun. Her estate came to the Hans & Marlis Suter art collection and was honored there several times in exhibitions, including posthumously. In 1994 Hans Suter wrote a monograph on the painter together with Peter Killer. The Kunstmuseum Thun paid tribute to Helene Pflugshaupt in a separate exhibition in 1984.

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Helene Pflugshaupt is best known for her expressive portraits. They show everyday people, women, representations of mother and child or children. The painter was accepted into the Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors as early as 1914 . The early work was created at the time of Expressionism . As an artistic woman , she did not gain the fame of her male colleagues in Switzerland. But she painted human passion in her portraits like no other Swiss painter of her time. The influence of Edvard Munch can be seen in Dark Couple by the Sea (undated) . In Sunset (1930) the Stockhorn chain is shown as a spiritual image. The influence of the Anthroposophical Society, of which it has been a member since 1917, can be felt in this picture.

Exhibitions (late exhibitions only)

  • 1966: Aarequai Gallery in Thun
  • 1974: Group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Thun
  • 1979: Group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Thun
  • 1984: Kunstmuseum Thun: Helene Pflugshaupt, exhibition on her 90th birthday
  • 1994: Retrospective, Steffisburg Art Commission
  • 2004 and 2010: Hans & Marlis Suter art collection, Wichterheergut Oberhofen
  • 2014: "Höchhus" Steffisburg (with Regula Hadorn and Nell Graber)

Works in collections and in public spaces (selection)

literature

  • Peter Killer, Hans Suter: Helene Pflugshaupt. Stämpfli, 1994
  • Peter Killer, Irene Stoll-Kern: Hans & Marlis Suter art collection. Stämpfli, 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Killer, Hans Suter: Helene Pflugshaupt. Stämpfli, 1994.
  2. ↑ Peter Killer, Hans Suter: Helene Pflugshaupt. Stämpfli, 1994, p. 11.
  3. ↑ The two paintings are shown in: Peter Killer, Hans Suter: Helene Pflugshaupt. Stämpfli, 1994, p. 21 u. 25th

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personal data
SURNAME Pflugshaupt, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflugshaupt-Huber, Helena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1991
Place of death Tuna