Use von Heyden-Linden

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Ilse von Heyden-Linden (born April 5, 1883 in Philippshof in Western Pomerania ; † September 3, 1949 in Demmin ) was a German impressionist painter .

life and work

Ilse von Heyden-Linden came from the noble family von Heyden-Linden from the house of Gehmkow . At the age of eleven, she began to draw landscapes and scenes from rural life. With the permission of her parents, she was allowed to move to her aunt in Berlin at the age of 15 , where she attended the women's academy of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . In Berlin she turned to impressionism.

In 1908 she exhibited her works for the first time. It had its first success in 1911 at the Berlin art exhibition with the motif "Gehmkower Diele". In the same year she went to France and stayed in Paris until 1912.

In 1913 she was trained as a nurse by the Order of St. John in Szczecin . During the First World War she worked in hospitals in Demmin and Belgium . After the war she continued to work as a Johanniter nurse. In the 1920s she became a member of the Pomeranian Artists Association. During this time she was able to exhibit her works regularly, which was most common in Szczecin.

In 1929 she moved to Demmin to the house of her brother Dietrich von Heyden-Linden , where at times she devoted herself more to painting. In the 1930s she worked as a first aid and home nursing trainer. In 1931 she went to Naumburg am Queis for two years , where she was housemaid of a Protestant seminary. From September 1939 to October 1942 she was head nurse in the Lubmin reserve hospital near Greifswald . During the Second World War , it was no longer possible for her to continue working as an artist. No exhibition participations are known from this time.

After her death in 1949, her work was largely forgotten for about thirty years, as the cultural officials in the GDR were suspicious of their noble origins. Neither had she received any recognition from her family as an artist. In a family chronicle, the text on her artistic activity was limited to the sentence: "Ilse had painted." Only on the occasion of her 99th birthday was an exhibition in Demmin in 1982 with pictures from her estate that had remained in her brother's house, which met with a great response . Further exhibitions took place in 1984 in the city council's ballroom and in 1992 in the Demmin district home museum .

In the 1990s, the Pomeranian Foundation in Kiel acquired part of their works. The most extensive exhibition to date was opened in Kiel in 1996, shown in the Greifswald Municipal Museum in 1997 and then shown in Berlin. Her pictures are now in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald and are privately owned. Some of her works were most recently in a permanent exhibition in the now closed Demmin Regional Museum.

literature

• Marina Sauer: The Secret of the Blue Bars. The painter Ilse von Heyden-Linden (1883–1949). Körner, Kiel 1996, ISBN 3-929237-25-3 .
• Karl Schlösser : Demmin - the other chronicle. Local history footnotes. Demmin 2000, pp. 98-102.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ilse von Heyden-Linden in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Ilse von Heyden-Linden in the state bibliography MV
• Ilse von Heyden-Linden at the cultural portal of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania