Louise Modersohn-Breling
Louise Modersohn-Breling , called Lolo (born March 3, 1883 in Munich , † September 17, 1950 in Hindelang / Allgäu ), was a German singer and painter.
Life
Louise Modersohn-Breling was the second oldest of six daughters of the Fischerhude painter Heinrich Breling (1849–1914) and his wife Amelie, b. Mayer (1856-1931). One of her sisters was the painter Olga Bontjes van Beek , b. Breling. Louise Breling grew up in Munich-Schleissheim until her family moved to Hanover in 1892 and finally to Fischerhude. First she trained as an opera and oratorio singer and from 1904 appeared in Hagen, Hanover and Berlin.
In 1909 she married the painter Otto Modersohn (1865–1943) in Fischerhude , whose second wife Paula Modersohn-Becker had died in 1907, and gave up her singing career. From the marriage of Louise Modersohn-Breling and Otto Modersohn, the sons Ulrich (1913–1943) and Christian (1916–2009) emerged.
After a one-year stay in Worpswede and a study trip to Franconia, the family lived in Fischerhude again from 1917. At this time, Louise Modersohn-Breling turned to painting and began portraying family members and friends. She dealt with German expressionists such as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , for whom she advocated in an open letter in 1920 after his criticized exhibition in the Bremen Kunsthalle, and developed her own painting style in expressive realism. When she was accused of signing her works like Paula Modersohn-Becker in order to benefit from their posthumous success, she took legal action against it.
The Moderson couple went on several study trips. So in 1922 they drove to Wertheim with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and Alexandra Povòrina , where Louise Modersohn-Breling took some street pictures. In the following year they traveled to Iphofen and Sulzfeld, then to Würzburg and again to Wertheim. In 1925 they made a trip to Holland and to the New World manor owned by the painter Gertraud Rostosky . In the following years they traveled frequently to the Allgäu and in 1930 finally bought a farmhouse on the Gailenberg . Louise Modersohn-Breling stayed here all year round and painted pictures of the mountains and their inhabitants.
Louise Modersohn-Breling died in 1950 of complications from a stroke . The Otto Modersohn Museum in Fischerhude holds her estate and some of her works, as well as two of the three portraits that Otto Modersohn painted of her between 1913 and 1918. More of her works are exhibited in the Modersohn cabinet of the Grafschaftsmuseum Wertheim.
literature
- Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The painting women. Intrepid artists around 1900 . Munich: Elisabeth Sandmann, 2009, p. 32f.
- Rainer Noeres: Modersohn-Breling, Louise (Lolo). In: Heike Schlichting (Ed.): CVs between the Elbe and Weser. A biographical lexicon , Vol. III, Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2018, ISBN 978-3-931879-73-0 , pp. 215-218.
Web links
- Louise Modersohn-Breling on the website of the Otto Modersohn Museum
- Louise Modersohn-Breling ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- An artist family with a love for the Oberallgäu. In: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt , November 29, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Modersohn-Breling, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breling, Louise (maiden name); Modersohn, Louise; Breling, Lolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 1950 |
| Place of death | Hindelang / Allgäu |