Lotte Pritzel
Lotte Pritzel (born January 30, 1887 in Breslau ; † February 17, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German doll artist, costume designer and draftsman .
Life
Lotte Pritzel was a daughter of the Berlin director family Karl and Elise Pritzel. In 1905 she went to Munich to study at the Wilhelm von Debschitz art school . She belonged to the Munich bohemian family and was part of the artistic circles that Simplicissimus gathered. In 1921 she married the physician Gerhard Pagel and had a daughter Irmeline. A year later, the couple went to Berlin , where Lotte worked as a costume designer and set designer and Gerhard again as a doctor.
Carl Zuckmayer reports in As if it's a piece of mine about a stay with Lotte Pritzel and her husband, Dr. Gerhard Pagel:
- "I found a place with Lotte Pritzel, Mirl's best friend, whose ingenious doll creatures were written about long feature sections and essays : delicate wax and fabric structures of refined elegance, which always had a childish, depraved trait attached, like some of the characters from Beardsley - far from obscene and therefore all the more attractive, even for solid buyers. [...] For nights on end, when I sat over my manuscripts in their studio, at the sewing table under delightful scraps of silk and batiste, [...] I heard the two of them from the next room - in that over-lightened intoxication that the white powder for makes the addict irresistible - talking, arguing and mumbling together. "
Not very many of Lotte Pritzel's dolls , which were sold as far as the USA , have survived . Four advertising figures that she made around 1912 on behalf of Hermann Bahlsen are among the works of Pritzel that have not been lost. They were shown in the context of the exhibition “The Puppet Artist and Costume Designer Lotte Pritzel” in Berlin in 2002/2003.
Her artist dolls and possibly her lithograph cycle “Dance - Movements and Costumes” from 1919 inspired dancers like Anita Berber and Niddy Impekoven ; as a costume designer, she appeared mainly in the 1920s. In 1925, for example, she outfitted the actors in Klabund's Kreidekreis and in Heinrich von Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn .
Also Rainer Maria Rilke's text "On dolls Lotte Pritzel" in 1921 published with illustrations by the artist, is one of the traditional products for creating Lotte Pritzels. Max von Boehn judged: "Lotte Pritzel 's dolls have more of the essence of our time than a whole glass palace full of modern pictures."
In 1923 UFA made a documentary entitled Die Pritzelpuppe .
Fonts
- The doll book , Erich Reiss, Berlin 1921.
- Puppen , with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hyperionverlag, Munich (1921).
literature
- Georg Hirschfeld: New dolls from Lotte Pritzel - Munich . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 31, October 1912 - March 1913, pp. 254–260 ( digitized version ).
- Editha Mork et al. Wolfgang Till (Ed.): Lotte Pritzel, 1887-1952. Dolls of vice, horror and ecstasy. Exhibition catalog, Puppet Theater Museum in the Munich City Museum, Munich 1987.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lotte Pritzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page about Lotte Pritzel at the German Dance Archive Cologne .
- Oh, they have a soul made of white cotton wool, the Holden!
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pritzel, Lotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doll artist, costume designer and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1952 |
| Place of death | Berlin |