Helene von Beckerath

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Still life with asparagus (19th century)

Helene von Beckerath (born February 19, 1872 in Krefeld , † January 19, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and sculptor.

Life

The "Iron George" created by Helene von Beckerath (1915)

Helene von Beckerath was the daughter of the Krefeld silk goods manufacturer Eduard von Beckerath (1838–1918) and his wife Alwine, née Hartmann (1847–1934), and was related to the painters Moritz and Willy von Beckerath . After studying painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Theodor Rocholl , she went to Paris and switched to sculpture without completely giving up painting. In Paris she was a student of Jean-Antoine Injalbert and worked for him on three colossal figures for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. In 1903/04 she was represented in an exhibition in Düsseldorf with a portrait of a woman, which attracted attention because it was "strong manly" Expression differed from the sweetish flower still lifes of many colleagues. The exhibition of two paintings in 1904 in the salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris made her famous beyond Germany. She received a gold medal at an exhibition in Amsterdam in 1912. After several stays in Russia between 1911 and 1913, she had to give up her place of residence in Paris at the beginning of the First World War . She returned to Krefeld, where she mainly worked as a sculptor. Here she was commissioned in 1915 with the production of the "Iron George" , a representation of St. Georg as a dragon slayer, executed in oak wood, which served as a so-called nail figure , in which one was allowed to drive a nail in for a donation for the widows and orphans of the family fathers who died in the First World War. The nail figure originally stood in Krefeld on the east wall, opposite the “Krefelder Hof” hotel (until around the end of the First World War); Since 1930 it has been on display in the so-called hall of honor of the Burg Linn Museum, Krefeld. In 1921 Helene von Beckerath moved to Frankfurt am Main, where she lived and worked until her death in 1946. The Städel Museum in Frankfurt owns some of her work.

literature

  • Anton Hirsch: The visual artists of the modern age . Stuttgart 1905, p. 163: Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts: by Helene von Beckerath a much admired portrait and a painting: Old women in asylum .
  • Dressler's art manual 1930.
  • Beckerath, Helene von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Helene von Beckerath . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , S. Beckerath, Helene von.
  • Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
  • Karl Rembert: Helene von Beckerath and her work. In: The home. 24, 1953, pp. 59-64.
  • Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , pp. 153–154.

Works (selection)

  • St. George with the dragon, 1915 (Museum Burg Linn)
  • Portrait bust of Hugo Koch, 1918 (Krefeld Art Museum)
  • Portrait bust of Elly Ney (1930s)
  • Bust of the entrepreneur and art collector Rudolf Oetker (1874–1930), bronze; established in 1933.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.heidermanns.net/gen-pers.php?ID=62415
  2. ^ According to the Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, Vol. 1, Appendix, she studied privately with Theodor Rocholl
  3. ↑ S [chäfer]: The painting of the present (Ddf.) , In: Die Rheinlande, 7th volume, October 1903 – March 1904, p. 323
  4. ↑ see literature: Anton Hirsch
  5. ↑ Ernst Doffiné: The "Iron George" . In: Die Heimat 39, 1968, pp. 180f.
  6. ↑ https://www.krefelder-rennclub.de/rennclub/geschichte.html
personal data
SURNAME Beckerath, Helene von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1946
Place of death Frankfurt am Main