Ida Bienert

Ida Bienert , née Suckert (born November 29, 1870 in Langenbielau , Province of Silesia , † August 18, 1965 in Munich ) was a Dresden art collector and patron .

Life

Ida Suckert married Erwin Bienert (1859–1931), the son of the successful Dresden mill entrepreneur Gottlieb Traugott Bienert , in 1888 , and had three children: Friedrich (Fritz) , Ise and Maria.

Ida Bienert was an unusually emancipated woman for her time , although she was financially dependent on her tolerant and generous husband. In 1906 in Dresden- Plauen she set up the first public library in Saxony , the " Free Public Library Dresden-Plauen ", in the house at Kielmannseggstrasse 11 (today: Agnes-Smedley-Strasse), using her own resources to hire the later famous librarian Walter Hofmann a.

The family villa, built in 1888 at Würzburger Straße 46 , developed into an intellectual and cultural center of Dresden in the 1920s. The artistic avant-garde of Dresden frequented Ida Bienert's salon . So she belonged to the circle around the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 . Artists who stayed in Dresden as guests found hospitality there.

Ida Bienert supported many young artists through targeted purchases and built up an important collection. The guests at Bienert included Paul Klee , Walter Gropius , Otto Dix , Conrad Felixmüller , Lasar Segall , Oskar Kokoschka , Emil Nolde and Mary Wigman . The dance teacher Gret Palucca was also a frequent guest at Bienerts and in 1924 married their son Friedrich, who also lived as an art patron in Dresden and Hellerau . He managed his father's mill in Dresden-Plauen. Her daughter, the painter Ise Bienert , was a Worpswede pupil and student at the Bauhaus .

The Bienert family regularly visited the island of Sylt in summer and encouraged many artists to come there, so that the island temporarily became a cultural center for painters, dance, film and theater people.

In 1926 Ida Bienert commissioned Piet Mondrian to redesign her ladies' room in the Bienertvilla. Mondrian's design from 1926 has been preserved and has been shown as a replica in the exhibition mentioned below. However, the design was never carried out.

Ida Bienert's collection had been relocated as a precaution during the Second World War and thus survived the war almost unscathed. The villa was damaged by bombs but could be restored.

Ida Bienert moved to Munich in 1945 before the end of the war; with the help of friends, almost all of the collection was also brought to Munich from the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 . In order to earn a living, Ida Bienert was forced to gradually sell the collection. Many of the paintings ended up in private hands or in major collections around the world.

Exhibition in Dresden

In the " Lipsiusbau " exhibition building on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden, an important exhibition of modern masterpieces from Dresden's private collections was shown from September 2006 to January 2007, which also contained part of the former Bienert collection, as far as lenders allowed it.

Pictures from the former collection of Ida Bienert were used for this exhibition a. a. borrowed from the following galleries:

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
• Toledo Museum of Art
• Kunsthaus Zurich
• National Gallery of Australia
• Pinakothek der Moderne Munich
• Museum Folkwang Essen
• Museum Ludwig Cologne
• Sprengel Museum Hannover.

literature

• Will Grohmann: The Ida Bienert Collection, Dresden . Verlag Müller & Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1933.
• Heike Biedermann, Ulrich Bischoff , Mathias Wagner: From Monet to Mondrian. Exhibition catalog Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Dresden 2006. ISBN 3-422-06631-4
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: artist island Sylt. Boyens, Heide 2005. ISBN 3-8042-1171-2

Web links

• Color design for Ida Bienert's Mondrian room , Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Ida Bienert's Mondrian room in the exhibition Future Spaces . Kandinsky, Mondrian, Lissitzky and the abstract-constructive avant-garde in Dresden 1919 to 1932 . From March 2 to June 2, 2019 in the Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden