Kate Schaller-Harlin
Käte Schaller-Härlin , b. Härlin , (born October 19, 1877 in Mangalore , Karnataka , India ; † May 9, 1973 in Stuttgart-Rotenberg ; full name: Katharina Maria Schaller-Härlin ) was a German painter for portraits , still lifes and monumental church paintings .
Life
Härlin grew up as the daughter of the Protestant pastor and India missionary Emmerich Härlin and his wife Anna Härlin nee. Nast in Gruibingen and Bodelshausen . The ceramicist Dorkas Reinacher-Härlin was her younger sister.
In 1911, Härlin married the Stuttgart art historian and art dealer Hans Otto Schaller (killed off Ypres in 1917 ) and had their daughter Sibylle with him, born in 1913.
She studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and with Rudolf Yelin the Elder. Ä. , who gave lessons in life drawing for the Württemberg painters' association . She then moved to the women's academy in Munich, where the opportunity arose to publish her first illustrations in the magazines Jugend and Meggendorfer Blätter . Study trips led to Italy and France at the beginning of the 20th century.
She was best known as a portrait painter; Thanks to a large network, she was able to make a living from this and raise her daughter Sibylle. She portrayed many well-known personalities such as Theodor Heuss and Elisabeth Mann .
In cooperation with the church architect Martin Elsaesser , wall and glass paintings were created for various Protestant churches in Württemberg. Works of this kind can be found, for example, in the Protestant parish church in Stuttgart-Gaisburg (1913), in the Protestant Martinskirche in Oberesslingen (1918), in the Protestant St. Blasius Church in Holzelfingen (1909), in the Evangelical Luther Church in Baden- Baden Lichtental (1919) or in the Eberhardskirche in Tübingen (1911).
In 1944, her Stuttgart house and studio were destroyed and she and her housekeeper Anna Zaiss moved to Eschach, where further portraits were made. In 1950 she moved to the Villa Schaller am Rothenberg in Stuttgart (built by Martin Elsaesser), where she lived until her death. Käte Schaller-Härlin sat at the easel well into old age, and in the 1970s she mainly painted still lifes.
Her grave is in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart .
Her work includes illustrations, sacred wall and glass painting, portraits and still lifes, as well as landscape painting. Giotto's studies in Florence shaped her monumental style of painting, which at the beginning of her work was linked to Art Nouveau painting and gradually evolved through her encounters with the work of Henri Matisse , Maurice Denis and Paul Cézanne to modern art movements - always contemporary and never non-representational - approximates. Her key position as a woman in sacred wall and window design should be particularly emphasized.
Honors
- 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
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- Frescoes of the twelve apostles in the church in Holzelfingen
- Murals in the chancel of the Gaisburg Church in Stuttgart
- Pictures in the church of Lichtental near Baden-Baden
- Stained glass window of the Martinskirche in Oberesslingen (1918)
- Stained glass window of the Evangelical City Church in Oberndorf am Neckar
- Glass window of the castle chapel in Tettnang
- Stained glass window of the Dionysius Church in Bodelshausen , donated in 1930 by the Gehring family from Bodelshausen
There are about 2000 pictures of her. Among those portrayed were:
- Theodor Heuss
- Elly Heuss-Knapp
- Johannes von Hieber
- Hugo Borst , the great Stuttgart art collector
- Erich Schairer from the Stuttgarter Zeitung
- Otto Jüngling, surgeon
- Walter Rehberg , pianist
- Martin Elsaesser , architect
A self-portrait of the artist from 1923 is today with the Hugo Borst collection in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .
literature
- Schaller-Harlin, Kate . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 577 .
- Schaller-Harlin, Kate . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 396 .
- Hermann brother: Untertürkheim and Rotenberg. The heart of the Swabian region. A home book. Bürgererverein Untertürkheim eV, Stuttgart 1983.
- Schaller-Harlin, Kate . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 758 ( books.google.de ).
- Carla Heussler: Between avant-garde and tradition. The Stuttgart painter Käte Schaller-Härlin. In: Swabian homeland. Year 2011, issue 4, pp. 461–469.
Web links
- Biography of the painter Käte Schaller-Härlin on wirtemberg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographies about Käte Schaller-Härlin. Retrieved July 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Carla Heussler: A life at the easel. Käte Schaller-Härlin on her 140th birthday. On the occasion of the exhibition, A Life at the Easel. Kate Schaller-Harlin 140th Birthday 'at the Kunstmuseum Hohenkarpfen in Hausen from 23 July to 12 November 2017 (= Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation . No. 27 ). Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-7630-2792-7 .
- ↑ Oil painting in the entrance area of the Gaisburger Church in Stuttgart.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schaller-Harlin, Kate |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Härlin, Katharina Maria (full name); Schaller-Härlin, Katharina Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1877 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mangalore , India |
DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1973 |
Place of death | Stuttgart -Rotenberg |