Immeke Mitscherlich

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Immeke Mitscherlich (born April 29, 1899 in Schmiedenau near Margonin , Kolmar district , Posen province , as Emma "Immeke" Catarina Caroline Schwollmann ; † 1985 ) was a German textile artist .

Life

Immeke Schwollmann grew up - like her older sister, who later became the writer Ilse Molzahn - on an estate near Margonin. Her father was the evangelical landowner Otto Schwollmann, born in Soest in 1862 , her mother was Gretchen, a Rossell born in Kirchrode near Hanover in 1870 . For economic reasons, the family had to give up the property again. The father then ran a winter school in Kempen , Kempen district in Poznan .

From 1917 Immeke Schwollmann attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , which was incorporated into the State Bauhaus Weimar after the November Revolution in 1919 . Her sister Ilse, who met her future husband, the artist Johannes Molzahn, was also enrolled at this school . As a young student, Schwollmann first chose pottery in the ceramics workshop at the Bauhaus under Gerhard Marcks , which was housed in a branch in Dornburg . However, she soon switched to the weaving class, which was headed by Georg Muche . She was also a student in Walther Klemm's graphics class . Theodor Steinkühler , a fellow Bauhaus student, portrayed her at that time. For lack of money, she had to give up her studies after a few months. In 1920 she lived again with her parents, who had moved to Soest. For a while she worked in the welfare office of the city ​​of Hanover . In 1926 she continued her artistic training at the Bauhaus Dessau - under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky , but above all under Georg Mucha and Gunta Stölzl as their weavers - which she completed in 1928, after four semesters.

She started her own business with two looms and mainly made tapestries . She received a prize for a work on the design of the Magdeburg city hall . In 1929 she married the self-taught artist Alexander Mitscherlich, the owner of an agency for advertising and product design. The couple initially lived in Berlin and from 1932 in Krefeld , where Alexander Mitscherlich had accepted a position as assistant to the artist Johannes Itten at the higher technical school for textile surface art , which he directed . After a long illness, Alexander Mitscherlich died in 1940. Immeke Mitscherlich now took a job as a pattern designer in the textile industry , first at the Krefeld company Marwa , a subsidiary of the United Seidenweberei Aktiengesellschaft (VerSeidAG) , then at the textile company Müller in Oerlinghausen near Bielefeld . which she sent to Oskar Moll to “study painting” , an artist ostracized at the time as “ degenerate ”.

Former plenary hall of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament with a serial depiction of the state coat of arms on the tapestry by Immeke Mitscherlich (photo 1965)

In 1950, after winning first prize in a competition, Mitscherlich received her most important order, the production of a wall hanging for the front wall behind the presidium in the new plenary hall of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament in the state house in Düsseldorf that was converted by the architect Hans Schwippert . The state administration honored her for this tapestry, her most extensive and best-known work, which depicts the state coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia in 18-fold serial stylization, with the sum of 17,500 DM. Another important commission of this time was designs for the design of the Cologne radio station .

In the fall of 1952 Mitscherlich was appointed to teach fashion class III at the Textile Engineering School in Krefeld , where she taught fashion design and fashion advertising until her retirement in 1965 and contributed to the development of the technical college's later design courses.

She spent the last years of her life in a retirement home in the Rhein-Lahn district .

literature

  • Art in the Landtag - Immeke Mitscherlich, 85 years old: Tapestry canvas with horse, rose and Rhine . In: State Parliament internal . Edition of March 27, 1984, p. 20 ( PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Bauhaus Weimar : Students at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts and at the State Bauhaus Weimar . Archival number: 155, inventory number: 6-33-9010, dating: 1895, 1898, 1909–1922
  2. ↑ tab Signature 15155, Schwollmann 602 in the portal e-kartoteka.net , accessed on 25 February 2019
  3. ^ Molzahn, Ilse (nee Schwollmann) . In: Harald Schäfer: Contributions to a biographical lexicon of Germans from the area of ​​the province of Posen: Writers - a biographical-bibliographical directory . P. 238 f. ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Pleschener Kreisblatt , edition of March 24, 1917: List of juries for the jury period beginning April 16, 1917 in Ostrowo
  5. ↑ Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig (ed.): The Bauhaus weaves. The textile workshop at the Bauhaus. A project of the Bauhaus collections in Weimar, Dessau, Berlin . G + H Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 167, 170, 272
  6. ↑ Theodor Steinkühler and the young Bauhaus , website in the theodor1921.jimdo.com portal , accessed on February 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mitscherlich, Immeke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwollmann, Emma Catarina Caroline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiedenau near Margonin , Kolmar District , Posen Province ,
DATE OF DEATH 1985