Jenny Fikentscher

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Jenny Fikentscher , b. Nottebohm (born June 1, 1869 in Kattowitz ; † April 26, 1959 in Gernsbach ) was a German artist and graphic artist of Art Nouveau .

Life

After the family had settled in Karlsruhe, Jenny Nottebohm enrolled at the painters' school in Karlsruhe in the winter semester of 1888/89 . In 1889 she moved with her widowed mother Elisabeth Nottebohm to Augustenburg Castle in Grötzingen and took private lessons from the painter Alwine Schroedter . In the same year Friedrich Kallmorgen built a summer house in Grötzingen together with his wife Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen and thus laid the foundation stone for the creation of the Grötzinger painter colony . In 1899 she joined the Karlsruhe Artists 'Association , which set up a lithography workshop for its members under the name Fine Art Artists' Association Karlsruhe .

In 1891 she married the animal painter Otto Fikentscher , who had recently bought the Augustenburg. Little by little, other artists moved into the former margravial castle: their stepbrother Gustav Kampmann , the fairy tale painter Franz Hein and the landscape painter Karl Biese with their families. Jenny gave birth to five children, among them a daughter, who became known as Dorothee Fischer (1894–1981) as a composer of songs. The children grew up in an unconventional and bohemian artist household . Jenny took care of the large garden herself and developed into an excellent gardener. In 1900 she joined the Wandervogel movement .

Even in old age she sold fruit and vegetables from her garden at the Karlsruhe weekly market and was a well-known person in the city because of her unconventional lifestyle.

plant

Her earliest works are leaves with calligraphically designed, ornamentally decorated poems. For the plant ornaments, she used native plants that she found in her environment, such as cherry blossoms, Christmas roses and wild vines. From 1897 she switched to lithographs . She found her plant motifs in the immediate vicinity. "Our tower window", "Window in Augustenburg Castle in Grötzingen with wild wine", "Blossoming cherry tree", "Mallow" and "The fire lilies" are the names of the most famous leaves. On vacation trips, etc. a. Hiddensee , mainly landscape pictures were created.

On behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, she designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , etc. a. the series "forest deciduous trees" for the scrapbook no. 3 from 1899.

literature

  • Fikentscher, Jenny b. Nottebohm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 551 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Brigitte Baumstark: Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Jenny Fikentscher. In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.), Baden Württembergische Portraits: Female figures from five centuries. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1999. ISBN 3-421-05271-9 .
  • Hans Knab: The Grötzinger painter colony and its successors : short biographies; (1000 years of Grötzingen, 100 years of Badisches Malerdorf; exhibition from May 17-26, 1991). Karlsruhe-Grötzingen: local administration, 1991.
  • The Grötzinger painter colony : the first generation 1890-1920; Karl Biese, Jenny Fikentscher, Otto Fikentscher, Franz Hein, Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Friedrich Kallmorgen, Gustav Kampmann; Catalog for the exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe from November 28, 1975 to February 1, 1976. Karlsruhe, 1975.
  • around 1900, Jenny Fikentscher and Gustav Kampmann ; Catalog for the exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe from October 24 to November 18, 2012.
  • Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner : Otto and Jenny Fikentscher. In: The graphic arts. Volume XXVIII pp. 95–101, Society for Reproductive Art [Ed.], Vienna 1905 (digital copy at Heidelberg University ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
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personal data
SURNAME Fikentscher, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nottebohm, Jenny (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1959
Place of death Gernsbach