Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann

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"Swimmer", bronze, 1969
Grave of Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann and her husband Gabriele Mucchi

Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann (also Genni Mucchi ; born December 1, 1895 in Spandau , † July 2, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann studied between 1917 and 1923 at the Levin Funke School in Berlin with August Kraus and Lovis Corinth and at the Art School in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Hans Perathoner . From 1922 to 1931 she was married to Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen , from whom she divorced. She returned to Berlin in 1926 after working on an exhibition in the Vatican.

After further trips to southern Europe, she worked in Paris between 1931 and 1933, where she met Gabriele Mucchi and married in 1933. From 1934 she lived with her husband in Milan . In Italy she worked in a circle of artists and intellectuals under the stage name Genni . In 1938, the previously loose group of artists called themselves " Corrente ". In 1937 she received a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris . Between 1943 and 1945 Mucchi-Wiegmann was a recognized freedom fighter in the Italian resistance against fascism , but she continued to create sculptures with mostly political themes.

In 1950 she joined the artist group " Realismo ". In 1955 she became a lecturer in metal driving at the Scuola Umanitaria in Milan. Since Gabriele Mucchi held a teaching position at the Art Academy in Berlin-Weißensee from 1956 and at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald from 1961 to 1963 , the couple lived in Milan and East Berlin . In 1962 and 1970, her works were shown in solo exhibitions in the National Gallery of the GDR in Berlin .

In addition to nudes, Mucchi-Wiegmann designed busts of Arnold Zweig and Paul Dessau as well as anti-fascist memorials, e.g. B. in Bologna .

Mucchi-Wiegmann and Mucchi are buried together in the row of artist graves in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

Exhibitions

  • 1921: Exhibition with Berthold Müller and Aloys Wach in the Kunstsalon Fischer, Bielefeld.
  • 1926: Solo exhibition at the Fischer Art Salon, Bielefeld
  • 1927–1930: Exhibitions in the Academy of Arts, in the Berlin Secession, together with Berthold Müller in the museums in Bielefeld, Kassel, Cologne, Utrecht, etc.
  • 1927: Participation in the international exhibition “Painting and Sculpture”, New York
  • 1929: Glotz Gallery in Munich
  • 1932: Galerie Bonaparte, Paris
  • 1934: Venice Biennale
  • 1937: Gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris
  • 1938: Galleria Genova, Genoa
  • 1940: Exhibition in the group "Corrente"
  • 1949: Galleria Borgonuovo, Milan
  • 1951: Galleria Bergamini, Milan
  • 1962: National Gallery , Berlin (GDR)
  • 1966: Club of cultural workers in Berlin
  • 1967: Museum of the City of Greifswald
  • 1968: with Lothar Lang in the cabinet, Berlin (GDR)
  • 1970: Large memorial exhibition in the National Gallery, Berlin (GDR)
  • 1979: Works in the “Scultori di Corrente” exhibition in Milan
  • 1980: Works in the exhibition “L'altre meta dell'avanguardia” and solo exhibition at the “Corrente” Foundation, Milan
  • 1983: Exhibition of the complete works together in a Käthe Kollwitz exhibition “Essistere come Donna”, Milan
  • 1984–1992: Various group exhibitions in Italy and East and West Germany
  • 1987: "Galerie Sophienstraße 8", Berlin (GDR)
  • 1988: Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg, together with Gabriele Mucchi ; “Human - figure - space. Works by German sculptors of the 20th century ", National Gallery, Berlin (GDR)
  • 1989: Group exhibition "Akzente - Images of People from Four Decades of Berlin Art", Kleine Galerie Pankow, Berlin
  • 1992: Galerie der Berliner Grafikpresse, Berlin, together with Gabriele Mucchi; "Scultura italiana del primo novecento", Mesola; Anniversary exhibition “125 Years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists”, Berlin; Eva Poll Gallery , Berlin
  • 1994: Group exhibition "Intermezzo" in the Eva Poll gallery, Berlin
  • 1996: Group exhibition “Portraits and Self-Portraits” in the Eva Poll Gallery, Berlin
  • 2005: “Five female sculptors - Sintenis , Steter, Moll , Reeder, Mucchi-Wiegmann”, Georg Kolbe Museum
  • 2008: "in memoriam", Inselgalerie, Berlin
  • 2011: “Fundstücke”, Gallery Poll , Berlin; Art Karlsruhe ; Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm Municipal Collections ; "William Sauer and Berlinre Cubism", Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin; "Realism as a Method - Six Berlin Sculptors", Gallery Poll, Berlin
  • 2013: "Art space downtown - sculpture collection of the Bernau forest settlement", Bernau
  • 2015: "Le ciel est triste et beau", Genni / Jenny Wiegmann-Mucchi and Gabriele Mucchi, Gallery Poll, Berlin

literature

  • Anja Cherdron: “Prometheus was not her ancestor”: Berlin sculptors from the Weimar Republic. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2000, p. 205.

Web links

Commons : Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Art space downtown - sculpture collection of the forest settlement Bernau" . Retrieved December 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mucchi-Wiegmann, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiegmann, Jenny; Mucchi, Genni; Wiegmann-Mucchi, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1969
Place of death Berlin