Irma Lippert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irma Lippert (called Moucki ) (born July 16, 1906 in Gelsenkirchen , † unknown) was a German reporter and painter .

Life

Irma Lippert was the daughter of the factory director Charles Christiansen from Flensburg and his Danish wife Ida (née Lange). Her sister was Magdila Hebroni-Christiansen (born January 4, 1898 in Flensburg, † June 17, 1968 in Paris ), a painter, married to the sculptor Joseph Hebroni (1888–1963).

She grew up first in Essen and from 1920 in Hamburg . In 1937 she learned the new Duxchrom color photo process at the Johannes Herzog & Co. company in Hemelingen . Because her Jewish fiancé Fred Oliven was arrested in 1937, who later managed to emigrate to America, she left Germany for political reasons and first tried to establish herself as a photographer in Copenhagen . At the instigation of Jewish friends, she went to Italy in 1938 , where she pioneered color photography ; she initially worked in Turin for the Gazetta del Popolo , the largest newspaper in Italy. Since 1939 she was based in Milan and worked as a photographer for Fiat , the Milan trade fair, for Turismo Italiano in Libya and then for four years for the fashion magazines La Donna and Tempo , Stile , Grazia and Annabella as well as for various Swiss magazines . She also delivered reports on film , theater , art and Italian life for Berliner Illustrierte and for magazines in Hamburg, Munich and Cologne . In 1944 she was arrested by the German military police on the basis of a denunciation; However, she did not obey the order to be deployed at the front, but hid in the country with the painter Massimo Campigli, who was a friend of her . All of their equipment, laboratory and photo archive were lost as a result of the war.

Irma Christiansen married the Swiss actor Howard Vernon Lippert in 1947 . In 1952 she left Milan and lived alternately in Paris in her brother-in-law's studio apartment and in Flensburg. Since the 1940s she has been providing financial support to her sister, who lives under difficult circumstances in Paris, and her husband, the Jewish sculptor Josef Hebroni, who was persecuted during the Nazi era. Since the 1950s she was also active as a naive painter and as such was represented under the name Lippert at several important exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1964 she exhibited together with her sister in the Städtisches Museum Flensburg.

After her sister's death, Irma Lippert gave more than 40 other works by her brother-in-law Joseph to the State Museum in Schleswig and the Flensburg Museum Mountain in the 1980s and 1990s . Irma Lippert was friends with Florence Henri , Tulja Jenssen , Annot Jacobi and the photographer Wilhelm Maywald , among others .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 86 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal Lexicon Bauhaus / Bauhaus Biographies - Research Center Bauhaus Community. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Herzog & Co. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Vernon, Howard. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ sbo: Rendsburg Joseph Hebroni - an almost forgotten sculptor | shz.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lippert, Irma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christiansen, Irma; Moucki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century