Lily Hildebrandt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lily Hildebrandt (born Lily Uhlmann October 16, 1887 in Fürth ; died September 9, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter , graphic artist , artisan and glass painter .

life and work

Lily Uhlmann came from an upper-class Jewish family; she first studied at the private painting school Adolf Mayer in Berlin . After getting to know Ida Kerkovius , she became a student of Adolf Hölzel in Dachau . In 1908 she married the art historian Hans Hildebrandt . In 1913 she moved to Stuttgart and became a master student of Adolf Hölzel at the local academy. In 1914 the son Rainer Hildebrandt was born in Stuttgart. In the same year she was represented with a work in the so-called Expressionist Hall, which Hölzel had organized under his own responsibility as part of the art exhibition organized by the Association of Art Friends in the States on the Rhine in Stuttgart.

The first reverse glass paintings were created in 1918 . From 1935 she also made numerous stained glass windows, but in the same year her work was declared degenerate . After she had created other wall and glass paintings in private, she broke off her artistic activity around 1943.

After the First World War she also worked as a journalist, but was banned from working in 1933. Hildebrandt cultivated friendships with fellow painters Willi Baumeister , Hanna Höch , Ida Kerkovius and Oskar Schlemmer as well as with the architect Walter Gropius , whose lover she was in the early 1920s. After 1919, her Stuttgart apartment on Gerokstrasse became an international meeting place for the avant-garde .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1913: Jury-free art show , Berlin
  • 1914: Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart
  • 1917: Nassau Art Association, Wiesbaden
  • 1920: Üecht-Gruppe Stuttgart , 2nd autumn show of new art
  • 1927: Gurlitt Gallery, Berlin
  • 1928: Stuttgart Secession , 5th exhibition
  • 1929: Group 1929 Stuttgart , 1st autumn show
  • 1931: Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart
  • 1932: Stuttgart Secession , 6th exhibition
  • 1936: Modern Gallery, London
  • 1938: Basel
  • 1946: New German Art , Constance
  • 1961: Hölzel and his circle , Stuttgart
  • 1962: The woman as an artist , Heilbronn
  • 1988: Lily Hildebrandt, 1887–1974 , Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Dätzingen Castle
  • 1997: Lily Hildebrandt, 1887–1974 , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin
  • 2014: happiness in art. (Group exhibition), Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Collections

Hildebrandt's work can be found in the Stuttgart City Gallery ( Kunstmuseum Stuttgart ), the Stuttgart State Gallery and the Böblingen City Gallery .

literature

  • Hölzel and his circle. Stuttgart's contribution to 20th century painting. Inaugural exhibition of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in the rebuilt art building on Schlossplatz, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Stuttgart Secession. 1923–32, 1947. Catalog. 2 volumes. Böblingen Municipal Gallery and Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Grafenau-Dätzingen 1987.
  • Das Verborgene Museum eV (Ed.): Lily Hildebrandt 1887–1974, paintings, reverse glass pictures, drawings, photographs. , Traum-und-Raum-Verlag Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3929346052 .
  • Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg. 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Lily Hildebrandt. Catalog 72. Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau 1988. ISBN 3-89298-031-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog Art Exhibition Stuttgart 1914 , Kgl. Art building, Schloßplatz, May to October, ed. from the Association of Friends of Art in the States on the Rhine, Stuttgart 1914, p. 48, cat. 416 (“Children's picture”, oil painting); a second oil painting with the title "Cyclamen", which is included in the catalog under cat. 166 registered, hung elsewhere in the exhibition.
  2. ↑ Communication on the exhibition , www.kunstaspekte.de, accessed on February 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Lily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlmann, Lily (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, artisan and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1974
Place of death Stuttgart