Lidy von Lüttwitz

Lidy Luise Elisabeth Ottilie Lucy Mary von Lüttwitz (born February 19, 1902 in Berlin ; † October 20, 1996 in Altenhohenau near Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Lidy von Lüttwitz, who grew up in Poznan , studied painting in Berlin from 1920 to 1924. Her mentors included Willy Jaeckel and Leo von König . Subsequently, from 1924, she completed a sculpture degree with Alexander Oppler at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1926, Lidy von Lüttwitz moved to Paris and began studying sculpture and painting at the State University of Fine Arts ( École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris ) , where the painter Henri Matisse had also studied. Her teachers in France included the sculptor François Léon Sicard and the cubist painter André Lhote . From 1928 to 1932 she attended the stone workshop academy in Berlin. She then opened her own studio, but during the National Socialist era, due to the lack of artistic freedom, she had no opportunity to exhibit her work.

After 1945 her works were shown in exhibitions at the Gerd Rosen Gallery in Berlin, the Leverkusen City Museum, Morsbroich Castle , the Günther Franke Gallery in Munich, the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich and the City Gallery in Rosenheim. In 1952 she received the Berlin Art Prize for Sculpture, like her artist friend Louise Stomps a year earlier , with whom she also had a studio community in the early 1930s.

In 1959 Lidy moved from Lüttwitz to Munich and in 1970 to Altenhohenau near Wasserburg am Inn, where she died on October 20, 1996.

Artistic career

Sculpture Memorial of Violence (1955), memorial stone at Rathauspark

Her sculptures consist of a wide variety of materials, such as wood, sandstone, marble, bronze, lead and dolomite.

The almost deaf artist rarely gave her children , as she also called her creations, specific names, but left the interpretation to the viewer. This also makes the inner dialogue clear in her works due to her limited hearing ability.

In Berlin-Wittenau ( Reinickendorf district ), northwest of the Rathauspark, you can find her 4.5 meter high sculpture Memorial of Violence . You can see a stylized figure tied on a wheel. The wheel is vaguely reminiscent of a swastika . This sculpture is located on a trapezoidal base made of red sandstone. The memorial is intended to commemorate all victims of National Socialism.

After moving to Altenhohenau, she worked on her large sculptures on scaffolding even at the age of 90. In November 2009, her sculpture Lebensformen on the sculpture trail in Obing (Upper Bavaria) was badly damaged by vandalism. The work, carved from a piece of Elbe sandstone , was on loan from the Wasserburg architect Rudi Kammerl.

Honors

1952 art award winner of the city of Berlin .

The commission for the memorial in Berlin-Reinickendorf came in 1954, after the Berlin Art Prize was awarded in 1952, and was a special honor for von Lüttwitz, who during this time had no opportunity to exhibit her works.

Works (selection)

Development IV (1989), Munich - Neuperlach

• Gravestone , 1930/31, shell limestone, height 88 cm
• Green stone , 1942, dolomite, height 38 cm
• The woman , 1943, oak wood, height 155 cm
• Plastic in lead , 1947, lead, height 24 cm
• Primitive , 1947, oak wood, height 90 cm
• Gespalten II , 1952, bronze, height 18 cm
• Memorial of Violence , 1955, location: Rathauspark Berlin-Wittenau (illustration)
• Creature , 1956, marble, height 110 cm
• Split IV , 1958, bronze, height 36 cm
• The Expulsion , 1973, painted beech, height 150 cm
• Refugees , 1979, painted wood, height 200 cm
• Stele , 1985, sandstone, height 153 cm
• Development IV , 1989, location: Munich-Neuperlach (picture)

Exhibitions (selection)

• July / August 1948: Galerie Gerd Rosen , Berlin, participation in the summer exhibition of the Artists' Circle of Galerie Gerd Rosen
• June 19 to July 27, 1986: Existing - Alive - Present. Monika Baumgartl, Renate Bertlmann, Shigeko Kubota, Lidy von Lüttwitz, Nancy Spero , Museum Villa Stuck, Munich,
• July 10 to August 2, 1992: Lidy von Lüttwitz, sculptures , gallery in the town hall, Munich | Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich
• August 15 to October 11, 1992: Lidy von Lüttwitz, sculptures , Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

literature

• Barbara Gross: Lidy von Lüttwitz, sculptures . Catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie im Rathaus, Munich, the Barbara-Gross-Galerie, Munich, July 10 to August 2, 1992 and Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, August 15 to October 11, 1992. Barbara-Gross-Galerie, Munich 1992.

Web links

Commons : Lidy von Lüttwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lidy Baroness von Lüttwitz. Works. Zeitgalerie Krefeld (www.kunstprivat.de), July 11, 2007, accessed on December 13, 2012 . 
• Lidy von Lüttwitz (1902-1996). Works in Berlin. Sculpture in Berlin (www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de), accessed on December 12, 2012 . 
• [1] Works owned by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Modern Art Collection in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Lidy von Lüttwitz. (No longer available online.) Zeitgalerie Krefeld (www.kunstprivat.de), July 11, 2007, archived from the original on May 20, 2005 ; Retrieved December 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lidy von Lüttwitz. In the exhibition. (No longer available online.) Mehlis (www.mehlis.eu), archived from the original on May 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ ^{A b} art market: Lidy von Lüttwitz. Kniender Knabe, 1938. www.kunstmarkt.com, accessed on December 12, 2012 . 
4. ↑ "Memorial of Violence" at the Rathauspark. Kulturführer Berlin (www.kulturfuehrer-berlin.de), accessed on December 11, 2012 . 
5. ↑ On the pedestal it says in capital letters: EVERY WORLDVIEW BASED ON VIOLENCE WHEELS PEOPLE ON ITS SYMBOLS
6. ↑ Loss far beyond the material. OVB Online, November 11, 2009, accessed on December 21, 2012 : "The damage is estimated at at least 10,000 euros, but goes far beyond the financial." 
7. ^ Berlin from A to Z: Lidy Luise Elisabeth Ottilie Lucy Mary von Lüttwitz. Edition Luisenstadt (www.luise-berlin.de), July 10, 2009, accessed on December 12, 2012 .