Lou Albert-Lasard
Lou Albert-Lasard , also written Lou Albert-Lazard or Loulou Albert-Lazard ; in the magazine Jugend also called Lulu Lazard (born November 10, 1885 in Metz , German Reich , † July 21, 1969 in Paris ) was a Franco-German modern painter .
life and work
Lou Lasard in 1885 in the then belonging to Germany Lorraine Metz as a child of a Jewish born banker family. From 1908 to 1914 she studied fine arts, first in Munich , where she lived with her sister, the painter Ilse Heller-Lazard , and then in Paris . In 1909, against her parents' wishes, she married the Augsburg chemist and inventor Eugen Albert (1856–1929), who was 26 years her senior.
The daughter Ingo de Croux-Albert (1911–1997) comes from this marriage. The marriage only existed on paper when Lou Albert-Lasard began a love affair with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) in 1914 , with whom she lived until 1916 in Vienna and Munich. She moved in an artistic environment in which she was known, among others, with Romain Rolland , Stefan Zweig , Paul Klee and Oskar Kokoschka .
After a two-year stay in Switzerland , she joined the avant-garde artists' association Novembergruppe in Berlin . Her works from that time consisted mainly of drawn and etched portraits of her friends. In 1928 she settled in Paris and became part of the artist community in the Montparnasse district . There, like many other artists, she painted pictures from the Bal Bullier dance hall , where members of different classes, such as the bohemians and the demimond, frequented. She had friendships with Henri Matisse , Alberto Giacometti and Robert Delaunay .
Lou Albert-Lasard traveled with her daughter to North Africa , India , Tibet and other countries. Drawings and watercolors she brought back from these trips were exhibited in 1939.
When Germany began the campaign in the west , Lou Albert-Lasard and her daughter were interned by the French in Gurs camp in May 1940 . Her fellow inmate there, Hanna Schramm , gives a little insight into Albert-Lasard's everyday life in the camp, which she used to capture portraits of her fellow prisoners and scenes from camp life in drawings and watercolors:
“We knew that there were quite a number of visual artists in the camp. In the summer of 1940 we had seen Lou Albert-Lazard, one of Rilke's numerous friends, dressed in flowing white robes, a huge calabrian made of straw on a red forelock, wandering around in the neighboring lot with a sketch pad under his arm, looking for models. The women were irritated at first, but then they got used to the 'crazy painter' when she used them as nude models, crouching in a corner of the washhouse. The result was countless sheets of paper with very attractive sketches that were quickly thrown out. At the end of the summer Lou Albert-Lazard was freed and left the camp. "
In August 1940 - the Wehrmacht had meanwhile defeated France - Lou Albert-Lasard and her daughter were released and returned to Paris.
In the 1950s Lou Albert-Lasard went on trips with her daughter, mostly in a caravan, on which she processed her impressions in watercolors and lithographs .
Lou Albert-Lasard died in Paris in July 1969. Her grave is on the Cimetière du Montparnasse , Division 27.
In November 2013 it became known that since 2003 the Berlin art teacher and gallery owner Detlef Gosselck , who ostensibly managed Albert-Lasard's estate, had sold around one hundred allegedly self-made forgeries of watercolors, gouaches and hand-colored lithographs.
Works
Solo exhibitions
- 1925 Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin (with Emil van Hauth)
- 1983 Lou Albert-Lasard 1885-1969 , Berlinische Galerie . Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin
- 1998 Galerie Lux, Berlin
- 2001 Galerie Lux, Berlin
- Zeit-Galerie in the Brendel Antiquariat, Berlin
- 2002 Works on paper , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin
Group exhibitions
- 1990 Berliner KUNSTstücke , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
- 2002 female painters - art by women around 1900 , Galerie am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
- 2013 Women Artists in Dialog , The Hidden Museum, Berlin
Works in public and private collections
- Berlinische Galerie. State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin
- Several works from her time in Gurs are now part of the art collection in the Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (House of Ghetto Fighters) in Kibbutz Lochamej HaGeta'ot in Israel .
- The Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg houses a total of 2004 works (199 paintings, 690 drawings and 1115 other graphic works) by the artist (as of 2016).
literature
- Lou Albert-Lazard: paintings, watercolors, graphics. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1983.
- Lou Albert-Lasard: Paths with Rilke. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1952.
- Gabriele Mittag: There are only damned people in Gurs. Literature, culture and everyday life in an internment camp in the south of France, 1940-1941. Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 1996.
- Gabriele Mittag (ed.): Gurs - German emigrants in French exile. Argon Verlag, Berlin 1990.
- Miriam Novitch: Spiritual Resistance - 120 Drawings from Concentration Camps and Ghettos, 1940-1945. The Commune of Milan, Milan 1979.
- Hanna Schramm , Barbara Vormeier: Vivre à Gurs: Un camp de concentration Français. Maspero, Paris 1979.
- Nicole Schneegans: Une image de Lou . Collection Page Blanche, Gallimard 1996. (biography Lou Albert-Lasard)
Web links
- Literature by and about Lou Albert-Lasard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lou Albert-Lasard. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
Individual evidence
- ^ Das Kunstblatt , IX. Year 1925, p. 156.
- ↑ Horst Kliemann: Albert, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 136 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Rainer Stamm: We want to surpass the futurists . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , features section, March 8, 2016.
- ↑ Hanna Schramm: Menschen in Gurs , p. 124. On page 128, one of the nudes mentioned by Lou Albert-Lasard is printed. The term Îlot used in the quote , which means islet in French , is a delimited area of the camp that was divided into several Îlots.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Lou Albert-Lasard
- ↑ Andreas Gandzior: The teacher and the fakes. According to the confession of a forger: Detlef G. kills himself . In: Die Welt Kompakt , November 21, 2013, p. 16.
- ↑ After the art forgers from Schöneberg were exposed, more and more buyers came forward . In: Der Tagesspiegel .
- ↑ Review in: Das Kunstblatt, IX. Year 1925, p. 156.
- ↑ Exhibition from August 22 , 2013 to October 6, 2013 : Artists in Dialogue - Paintings, Photographs and Sculptures ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lou Albert-Lasard in the museum's database, accessed June 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albert-Lasard, Lou |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Albert-Lazard, Loulou; Albert-Lazard Lou; Lazard Lulu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French modern painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Metz , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1969 |
| Place of death | Paris |