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Ilse Fehling 1928

Ilse Fehling (born April 25, 1896 in Danzig-Langfuhr , German Reich ; died February 25, 1982 in Munich ) was a German sculptor, set designer and costume designer.

Life

Ilse Fehling was the daughter of the professional officer Hermann Theodor Fehling and thus granddaughter of Hermann Wilhelm Fehling , and she was a distant niece of the director Jürgen Fehling . She attended the girls' school in Verden and, after the parents ' divorce, the girls' school of Amélie Roquette in Lübeck .

From 1918 she attended the Reimann School in Berlin to train as a costume designer. In 1919/20 she also studied sculpture with Walther Schmarje at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin . From 1920 she studied at the Bauhaus Weimar and attended the preliminary course under Georg Muche and Johannes Itten and then the sculpture class with Oskar Schlemmer , the theater class of Lothar Schreyer , the painting class of Paul Klee and Gertrud Grunow's theory of harmonization . In 1922 Carl Georg Heise bought her self-portrait mask with poodle for the Lübeck Kunsthalle .

She developed a round stage construction for the puppet theater , which was patented in 1922. She didn't graduate.

In 1923 she married the auditor Henry S. Witting and moved to Berlin. In 1928 daughter Gaby was born and in 1929 the marriage was divorced. Fehling now worked as a freelance sculptor with her own studio. In 1923 she had her first commission for a stage design in the theater on Kurfürstendamm , in 1924 she was the set designer for the theater group "Actors' Theater". She designed ceramics for the Velten-Vordamm stoneware factory . In 1926 she designed the costumes for her first film Liebe , and made a portrait bust of the leading actress Elisabeth Bergner . In 1927 she had her first solo exhibition in the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin.

In 1931 she received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts and stayed in the Villa Massimo until 1932 , shortly before power was handed over to the National Socialists in Germany . It was not possible to verify in 2013 whether her sculptural work was banned as Degenerate Art by the National Socialists . During the time of National Socialism , Fehling continued to work as a costume and set designer for film and theater, so she worked for the Munich Kammerspiele from 1941 to 1943 and for the Thalia Theater in Hamburg from 1943/44 . In 1940 she became chief outfitter at Tobis-Europa . Her studio in Berlin was bombed out and she moved into her second residence in Rottach-Egern .

From 1952 she lived in Munich , where she again had her own studio. She again had orders to set up German feature films, her filmography lists a total of 25 films, and from 1956 to 1962 she worked for theaters in Cologne and Munich, in total she took part in 40 productions. In 1963 she had a solo exhibition with Wolfgang Gurlitt in Munich .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Bernd Dürr; Daniela Schroll: Ilse Fehling bauhaus stage act sculpture 1922–1967 . Exhibition catalog. Munich: Galerie Bernd Dürr, 1990
  • Ilse Fehling, Munich: sculptures, drawings . Munich: Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, 1963

literature

  • W. Winnicke: Fehling-Witting, Ilse . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 486.
  • Bettina Behr: Stage Designers: A Gender Perspective on the History and Practice of Stage Art . Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013
  • Ulrike Müller: Bauhaus women: masters in art, craft and design . With the collaboration of Ingrid Radewaldt and Sandra Kemker. Munich: Sandmann, 2009, pp. 86–91
  • Anke Vetter: Between experiment and convention: Ilse Fehling, works for the stage from 1922 to 1944 . Humboldt University of Berlin, Master's thesis, 2004
  • Anja Cherdron: "Prometheus was not her ancestor": Berlin sculptors from the Weimar Republic . Marburg: Jonas-Verlag, 2000, p. 199
  • Wolfgang Wangler (Ed.): Bauhaus - 2nd generation , Cologne: Verlag der Zeitschrift Symbol, 1980
  • Use Fehling . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 34-35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Petzet: Theater: the Münchner Kammerspiele; 1911-1972 . Munich: K. Desch, 1973, p. 393. Quoted in Bettina Behr: Bühnenbildnerinnen , 2013, p. 106
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bettina Behr: Stage designers: A gender perspective on the history and practice of stage design . Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013, pp. 104-107
  3. ↑ The Villa Massimo scholarship holders from 1913 to 2014 ( memento of the original from November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de


personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehling-Witting, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, set designer and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig-Langfuhr
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1982
Place of death Munich