Helene Sansoni-Balla
Helene Sansoni-Balla (born January 27, 1892 in Berlin , † December 20, 1982 in Lohhof , Upper Bavaria ) was a German painter.
Life
Helene Sansoni, née Balla, was born to East Prussian parents in Berlin. At the age of seven she came to Karlsruhe . There she graduated from high school and studied painting at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts from 1909 to 1913 , then sculpture and ceramics . She completed her training in 1913 with the drawing teacher exam. During the First and Second World Wars , she gave drawing lessons at high schools. After the war ended in 1918, she opened a ceramics workshop in her parents' house in Wiesloch. In Wiesloch she also met her future husband Artur Sansoni . After marrying Artur Sansoni in 1924, they first lived in Munich . After Artur Sansoni had received a position as director of the newly founded granite sculpture school in Wunsiedel in 1925 , they moved there. Helene Sansoni-Balla, who worked as a professional painter during the entire time in Wunsiedler, moved to Lohhof in 1973/74, where she died in 1982 at the age of 90.
Helene Sansoni-Balla was the mother of the chemist Bruno Sansoni and the grandmother of the plastic artist Andreas Sansoni .
plant
As a painter of the Fichtelgebirge landscape, Helene Sansoni-Balla developed a style that, like her husband, was shaped by the peculiarities of the Fichtelgebirge. While for Artur Sansoni it was the hardness and structure of the granite stone, for her it was the opposites that the Fichtelgebirge exudes. Her pictures reflect on the one hand bitter, melancholic and sparse, on the other hand brightly beautiful. In terms of craftsmanship, their style is shaped by various circumstances. In the early 1920s she saw the emergence of modernity in Munich . The impressions gained had an effect on the representation of the Fichtelgebirge landscape. Her works in this regard are characterized by abstraction , but without exceeding the boundaries set by nature.
Exhibitions
The Fichtelgebirgsmuseum in Wunsiedel is presenting some oil portraits of Wunsiedler personalities by Helene Sansoni-Balla as part of its exhibition on contemporary art.
literature
- Daniel Oelbauer: artist family Sansoni, in: Frankenland 57 (2005), pp. 361–365.
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| SURNAME | Sansoni-Balla, Helene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balla, Helene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1982 |
| Place of death | Lohhof , Upper Bavaria |