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Ilse Häfner-Mode (born December 24, 1902 in Kempen , Province of Posen , † March 15, 1973 in Düsseldorf ) was a German artist of the Jewish faith.

Life

Ilse Häfner-Mode lived in Berlin from 1904 to 1943 . There she studied at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art with the graphic artist Erich Wolfsfeld . She studied with Wolfsfeld together with the painter Herbert Häfner , whom she married in 1927. A year later, on December 24, 1928, their son Thomas was born.

Ilse Häfner-Mode created figure-rich compositions and portraits in oil, as watercolor drawings or using the embroidery technique (needle painting). In 1933, the National Socialists banned her from exhibiting and the Berlin Artists' Association excluded her from its ranks. In 1942 she moved to live with her brother-in-law in rural Leopoldshöhe near Detmold . There she was denounced by the villagers , arrested on September 19, 1944 by the Minden Gestapo and taken to the Elben women's camp near Kassel . In this forced labor camp of the Organization Todt about 200 German women with one Jewish parent were so-called " Mischlinge first degree " and " married to Jewish " from " privileged mixed marriages in East Westphalia, housed" the particular henchmen services in the construction of tunnels underground for a planned Manufacturing plant for aircraft engines in the local Hardtkopf .

In the camp, too, Ilse Häfner-Mode worked artistically with ink and pencil as far as possible. The camp was liberated by American troops on March 31, 1945. Ilse Häfner-Mode first recovered with friends in Switzerland and then returned to Germany. There she initially lived again in Leopoldshöhe, but moved to Düsseldorf in 1955, where she worked again as an artist and exhibited her paintings several times. B. in the city ​​history museum (1969) and in the art gallery (1972).

In terms of art history, Ilse Häfner-Mode belongs to the lost generation and expressive realism .

Ilse Häfner-Mode died in 1973 in Düsseldorf.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 , pp. 381-382.

literature

  • Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (ed.): Käthe, Paula and the whole rest - artist lexicon. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , p. 61.
  • Düsseldorf artists during the Nazi era. Exhibition catalog. Düsseldorf 2005.
  • Ilse Häfner-Mode 1902-1973: Catalog raisonné. Enger, Willich 1995, ISBN 3-922765-34-3 . (published on the occasion of the exhibition "Die Künstler Herbert Häfner, Ilse Häfner-Mode, Thomas Häfner" 1995 at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf)
  • Ilse Häfner fashion. Images in life and love. Jewish Museum in Rendsburg February 24 to May 26, 2013. Ed. Christian Walda . Schleswig: Foundation Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Schloss Gottorf, 2013, 197 p .; 21 × 30 cm; ISBN 978-3-9815806-0-0 , € 15.
  • Richard Albrecht : Review of this exhibition catalog

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personal data
SURNAME Häfner-Mode, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen , Poznan
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1973
Place of death Dusseldorf