Lore Feldberg-Boar

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Lore Feldberg-Eber (* May 4, 1895 in Hamburg ; † September 27, 1966 in London ) was one of the most important painters in Hamburg before the Second World War .

Life

education

At 19 she began her artistic training at the School of Painting by Gerda Koppel (1875-1941) in Hamburg. Her teachers were Franz Nölken and Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann as well as Paul Kayser . Both Nölken and Ahlers-Hestermann had spent some time in Paris and brought inspiration from the modern French art scene with them. The art of Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir gave the artist decisive impulses for her own painting. In 1917 she moved to Munich to study with Karl Caspar and Hans Hofmann at the School for Free and Applied Arts . Then she went to Berlin for another two years to the artist Dora Hitz , who ran a women's painting school.

Create

From 1919/20 Lore Feldberg worked as a freelance painter in Hamburg. In 1919, the year the Hamburg Secession was founded, she joined the artists' association. Your former teacher Ahlers-Hestermann was one of the founding members of the Secession. She also joined two other professional organizations, the German Association of Artists and the Hamburg Art Association . In 1926 she became a member of the Altona Artists' Association and, in the late 1920s , of the GEDOK (Association of German and Austrian Artists) founded by Ida Dehmel .

In 1921 the artist married the Hamburg merchant Moritz Eber. For a large number of female artists of the time, marriage was the end of their professional careers, but not for Lore Feldberg-Eber. She gained recognition in the Hamburg art scene and beyond with her landscapes, still lifes and portraits, whose connection to late impressionism is clearly recognizable. Contemporary critics praised the concentration and perfection of one's own painting style apart from current trends or "-isms". This is how Feldberg-Eber managed to develop his own form of expression within Post-Impressionism. This resulted in harmonious compositions composed of simple motifs. The brushstroke varied in different strengths. While it dominated the foreground in a broad and clearly visible manner in some works, it was used more cautiously in other pictures.

Lore Feldberg-Eber sent numerous exhibitions in Hamburg and Berlin. She exhibited regularly with the Hamburg Secession. Moritz Eber promoted her professional activity. So he had the artist build her own studio house by the Hamburg architect Karl Schneider . After 1933, this was to become the meeting place for the artist colleagues of the then dissolved Hamburg Secession. Ahlers-Hestermann, Paul Kayser , Alma del Banco , Willem Grimm , Kurt Löwengard , Erich Hartmann and Ivo Hauptmann met here for life drawing.

Feldberg burial site , Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery (Ilandkoppel)

In 1938 the family, persecuted in Germany because of their Jewish descent, managed to emigrate to England . Feldberg-Eber had to leave her entire artistic work behind in Germany. The family lost all of their property. Feldberg-Eber gave German lessons in England in order to contribute to the maintenance. Her husband was interned for three years.

Feldberg-Eber only resumed her artistic activity after the end of the Second World War . She came into contact with other refugee Hamburg artists - with Erich Kahn , Maria Wolff and the former secessionists Paul Henle as well as Hilde Hamann and Paul Hamann . However, she no longer joined any artists' organization and hardly took any other steps to gain the fame in England that she had enjoyed in Hamburg before the war.

She died in London on September 27, 1966. In Hamburg, at the Jewish cemetery Ilandkoppel, the family grave wall "Feldberg", A 10-725, was born to Eleonore Eber. Feldberg remembers.

Works in public collections

literature

  • Maike Bruhns: Feldberg boar, lore. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 5, Göttingen 2010, p. 114 f.
  • Maike Bruhns: Art in Crisis . Volume 2. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 , pp. 121-124
  • Friederike Weimar: The Hamburg Secession 1919–1933. History and dictionary of artists . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2003, ISBN 3-88132-258-2 , pp. 84–85

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personal data
SURNAME Feldberg boar, lore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1966
Place of death London