Kate Schaller-Harlin

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Käte Schaller-Härlin (around 1930)

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

Works

Evangelical Church in Stuttgart- Gaisburg

There are about 2000 pictures of her. Among those portrayed were:

A self-portrait of the artist from 1923 is today with the Hugo Borst collection in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographies about Käte Schaller-Härlin. Retrieved July 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Oil painting in the entrance area of ​​the Gaisburger Church in Stuttgart.
personal data
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