Jeanne Mammen

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Berlin memorial plaque in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Kurfürstendamm 29)

Jeanne Mammen (born November 21, 1890 in Berlin ; † April 22, 1976 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and translator of the modern age . Her works were created in the context of New Objectivity and Symbolism , Cubism and Abstract Painting .

life and work

Jeanne Mammen was born in Berlin as the daughter of a businessman. She grew up in Paris and first attended the Lycée Molière there . From 1906 she studied painting at the Académie Julian , from 1908 to 1910 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and in 1911 at the Scuola Libera Academica ( Villa Medici ) in Rome. During this time, she created her symbolist early work with watercolors, which refer to literary models such as Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony and were only discovered shortly before her death. In 1913/14 she painted female figures from the Parisian entertainment venue Bal Bullier .

In 1915, after fleeing internment with her family, the artist arrived in Berlin completely penniless. After starting out as a fashion illustrator, she became known for her illustrations for Simplicissimus , the Ulk , the Bachelor and as a collaborator for the art and literary magazine Jugend . After participating in a collective exhibition in 1932/33 in the renowned Gurlitt gallery in Berlin , she had further exhibitions in the Gerd Rosen gallery (1946, 1947) and in the Franz gallery in Berlin in 1948. The motif of her pictures were always types from the street, who she depicted in every conceivable situation. In doing so, she displayed a caricature style that prompted Kurt Tucholsky to praise her: "You are pretty much the only delicacy in the delicatessen shop that your bosses open for us weekly or monthly."

The new hat by Jeanne Mammen (around 1925) from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Link to the picture

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Grave site, Stubenrauchstrasse 43–45, in Berlin-Friedenau

Her numerous hand drawings received the greatest attention. The first solo exhibition in the Gurlitt Gallery in 1930 garnered applause from the Berlin art scene. Her most beautiful creations include her lithographs, including the cycle “Les Chansons de Bilitis”, a homage to lesbian love based on poems by Pierre Louÿs . But when the National Socialists came to power , their career quickly ended; Mammen withdrew into inner emigration . During the war she continued experimenting without a hitch, and her work after 1945 became increasingly abstract. In addition, she began to combine collage techniques with her drawings in the 1960s. Mammen also worked as a translator. In 1967, for example, her repackaging of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations appeared in the Insel-Bücherei . During this work she was in contact with the French poet and resistance fighter René Char , with whom she became friends through the mediation of her translator colleagues Johannes Hübner and Lothar Klünner .

She is one of those women in art who has been temporarily forgotten. It was not until 1971 that the public discovered it again: exhibitions at Brockstedt in Hamburg and Valentien in Stuttgart were dedicated to it. Her works experienced a kind of renaissance in the 1990s, when museums and galleries devoted numerous exhibitions to her. Since then, it has been widely received in feminist circles.

Jeanne Mammen's grave is in the columbarium , urn room 45, no. 97 at the Schöneberg III cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau . The grave has been dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave since November 2018 .

Her older sister Marie Luise Mammen (1888–1956) was also a painter and draftsman and initially shared the studio with her in Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection)

museum

  • Jeanne Mammen Foundation e. V. with a still preserved studio, Kurfürstendamm 29, 10719 Berlin
  • The estate and works of Jeanne Mammen in the Berlinische Galerie
  • Jeanne-Mammen-Saal in the gatehouse of the Max-Delbrück-Centrum campus , Berlin-Buch

source

  • Werner Kittel art archive in the central archive of the State Museums in Berlin; since 2010 in the art and museum library of the city of Cologne (KMB)

literature

  • Jeanne Mammen 1890–1976. Edited by the Jeanne Mammen Society in conjunction with the Berlinische Galerie (= fine arts in Berlin, volume 5). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1978.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt : "The golden twenties" - Jeanne Mammen 1890 to 1976. In: artis , H. 2, 32nd year, Konstanz 1980.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Jeanne Mammen and the "artificial silk girls". In: Die Kunst , H. 9, Munich 1982.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Jeanne Mammen (1890–1976) - Society scenes and portrait studies of the twenties. In: Low German Contributions to Art History , Vol. 21. Berlin 1982.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: "The songs of Bilitis". In: Jeanne Mammen. Heads and scenes. Berlin 1920 to 1933. Emden, Leverkusen, Hanover, Saarbrücken, Gelsenkirchen 1991/1992 (foreign cat.).
  • Annelie Lütgens: "Just being a pair of eyes ..." Jeanne Mammen - an artist in her time. Berlin 1991.
  • Gerd Presler, gloss and misery of the 20s. The painting of the New Objectivity, dumont tb 285, Cologne 1992, pp. 4, 15, 39, 180f. ISBN 3-7701-2825-7
  • Jeanne Mammen 1890–1976. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Edited by Jörn Merkert. Catalog raisonné by Marga Döpping and Lothar Klünner. Contributions by Klara Drenker-Nagels, Carolin Förster, Lothar Klünner, Annelie Lütgens, Jörn Merkert, Freya Mülhaupt, Hildegard Reinhardt and Eva Züchner. Cologne 1997.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Jeanne Mammen. Early symbolistic work 1908–1914. In: Les Tribulations de l'Artiste. Berlin 2002. ( digitized version )
  • Jeanne Mammen. Paris - Bruxelles - Berlin. Edited by the Friends of the Jeanne Mammen Foundation e. V., Berlin, Berlin 2016.
  • Thomas Köhler and Annelie Lütgens (eds.): Jeanne Mammen. The Observer: Retrospective 1910–1975. Hirmer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-77742908-3 . (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, October 6, 2017– January 15, 2018.)
  • Michael Glasmeier, Annelie Lütgens (ed.): Jeanne Mammen. Rimbaud transmissions. Illuminations and Fragments. Textem Verlag Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86485-186-5 .

Web links

Commons : Jeanne Mammen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Stamm: We want to surpass the futurists . FAZ feature section, March 8, 2016
  2. ↑ s. 'Jörn Merkert (Ed.) Jeanne Mammen 1890-1976. Monograph and catalog raisonné, Wienand Verlag Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-87909-469-1 , p. 434. 310.
  3. ^ Arthur Rimbaud: Illuminations. French and German. Translated from the French by Jeanne Mammen. In: Insel-Bücherei . No. 894 . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  4. ^ Johann Thun: "Tu as bien fait de partir" Jeanne Mammen, Rene Char and Arthur Rimbaud . In: Friends of the Jeanne Mammen Foundation e. V., Berlin (ed.): Jeanne Mammen Paris - Bruxelles - Berlin . 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07375-3 , pp. 158-178 .
  5. ↑ Verena Dollenmaier (Ed.): Glamor! The girl becomes a fine lady: Representations of women in the late Weimar Republic , Leipzig: Seemann Henschel, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86502-178-6 , p. 119. # Gravestone, July 5, 1956  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tehran (?) # Also under the name ML Folcardy@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tpc.kirche.ir  
  6. ^ Catalog (109 pages) with contributions by Margarethe Jochimsen , Dorothea von Stetten , Hildegard Reinhard, Eberhard Roters and Lothar Klünner.
  7. ↑ Jeanne Mammen - Just be a pair of eyes.
  8. ↑ Jeanne Mammen. June 28th to November 1st, 2015.
  9. ↑ Berlin - City of Women . Jeanne Mammen , March 17 to August 28, 2016
  10. ↑ Exhibition website. Accessed October 14, 2017.
  11. ^ Lacony of the big city. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from October 15, 2017, page 46.
  12. ↑ Susanne Maier: With turpentine in the wine glass. In: Die Zeit , October 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Moms, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1976
Place of death Berlin