Louise Stomps

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Louise Stomps in her studio in the Kumpfmühle (1987)
Hug , bronze, height 24 cm, 1966

Louise Sophie Stomps (born October 5, 1900 in Berlin , † April 22, 1988 near Wasserburg am Inn ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist . After initially orienting themselves towards the art of classical modernism , her works slowly and continuously broke away from their figurative origins. Even her later, mostly abstract and non-representational works allow this figurative origin, in which the human body is the focus, to shine through.

Life

Louise Stomps has been modeling and drawing since she was 18. The actual beginning of her artistic career did not take place until 10 years later, after their marriage in 1920, the birth of their daughters Inge (1921 - 2003) and Annemarie (1922 - 2013) and the divorce of their marriage in 1927. It began in 1928 with the visit of the evening class of Professor Johannes Roettger at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts ). Shortly afterwards, as an exception, she was given permission to attend the college class all day. At the same time she also attended the sculpture class of the Association of Berlin Artists under Milly Steger . Nevertheless Louise Stomps is an artist who is mostly self-taught has trained.

Not only the hindrance of her artistic work, but above all her resolute rejection of National Socialism led her to emigrate from 1933 to 1945 after a few exhibitions before they came to power . Separated from the work of other artists, she continued to work in secret and under the most difficult material conditions.

After the years of war and National Socialist rule, Louise Stomps resumed her exhibition activities in Berlin in 1945. In particular, she exhibited in the Gerd Rosen gallery as part of the gallery's circle of artists , which included the painters Willi Baumeister , Jeanne Mammen and the sculptors Gustav Seitz , Renée Sintenis , Karl Hartung and Hans Uhlmann . In 1950 she co-founded the professional association of visual artists of Berlin with membership number 3. In 1951 she received the art prize of the city of Berlin . She lives and works until the end of the 1950s in the basement of her house in Berlin-Zehlendorf, in the west of Berlin.

The grave of Louise Stomps and her brother VOStomps in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin
Louise Stomps on her motorcycle with a sidecar in 1987
Sculpture with tree in the barn mill garden

Louise Stomps spent her second creative period after her time in Berlin since 1960 in the Kumpfmühle, an old watermill near Rechtmehring in Upper Bavaria , not far from Wasserburg am Inn . She had restored this watermill herself and equipped it with a studio that was also suitable for very tall sculptures. The desire for seclusion in a rural setting was not the only reason for the new orientation. Due to the political division and isolation, Berlin was increasingly cut off from the development of contemporary art. Well-known galleries had to close or had migrated to West Germany. This situation in the mid-1950s was shown very well in the exhibition Portrait Berlin (2015) at the Kunsthaus Dahlem , which also featured two marble sculptures by Stomps.

In Bavaria, Louise Stomps was able to ride her motorcycle to her heart's content - quite unlike in the increasingly isolated Berlin. She was often in Italy, at the same time her dream country because of the rich heritage of historical art treasures. On one of these trips she reached Paestum , 100 km south of Naples. Even in old age, she still rode a heavy motorcycle, with which she had a fatal accident on April 22, 1988. She was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin (field 12-204 / 206), next to her brother, the publisher and writer Victor Otto Stomps , alias: VauO or VO , (1897-1970), founder of the publishers Rabenpresse , Eremitenpresse and des Verlag Neue Rabenpresse . She created the grave sculpture Mother Earth herself for her parents, who were also buried there. This final resting place of Louise Stomps became the honor grave of the State of Berlin in 1990 .

plant

The first sculptures were created in 1927/28, mainly works in wood and plaster, and from 1933 on, more numerous works in stone. During these years she also created the first portrait sculptures of some authors of the Rabenpresse , for example Walther G. Oschilewski and Alfred Richard Meyer . In later years further portraits (plaster / bronze), u. a. by Theodor Werner and Hanna Bekker vom Rath .

From 1933 to the beginning of the 1950s numerous works were made in plaster of paris, of which, however, only a few bronze casts were made at that time - especially for economic reasons. In 1943, Stomps lost her apartment and studio in a bomb attack. Almost all of her works were destroyed in the process or did not survive the numerous changes of studio during the war and after the war. Only a few buried them to protect them from bombing attacks and thus saved them.

After moving to Bavaria in 1960, Louise Stomps increasingly turned to wood. Certainly they had easier access to good raw material there, and they undoubtedly stimulated regional traditions as well. Above all, working with wood opened up her very own possibilities of following nature, as she did not accept growth and grain as a limitation, but as a stimulus. Even less affected by external influences than before, she worked on her very independent development until her death at the age of 87.

Sculpture on the forecourt of Sparkasse Wasserburg: origin , granite, 1975, height 155 cm
Bronze sculptures Sculpture Path Wasserburg: Pilgrim (1966), Lonely (1962), Gilgamesh , height 320 cm (1980) - from left to right

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1947: Louise Sophie Stomps. Sculptures , Gerd Rosen Gallery , Berlin
  • 1958: Louise Stomp's Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1960–1961: Louise Stomps. Sculpture , Diogenes Gallery, Berlin
  • 1964: Louise Stomps, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1966: Louise Stomps. Wooden sculptures 62-66 , Kreuzberg Town Hall, Berlin
  • 1968: Louise Stomps. Wood sculptures , Günther Franke Gallery , Munich
  • 1970: Louise Stomps. Sculptures and drawings , Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1975: Louise Stomps. Sculptures , Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1979: Louise Stomps. Sculptures 1928–1979 , Galerie der Künstler , Munich
  • 1980: Louise Stomps , Städtische Galerie Rosenheim
  • 1990: Louise Stomps 1900–1988. Memorial exhibition , gallery in the Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn
  • 1994: Louise Stomps. Drawings from earlier years , Galerie Wegmann, Grafing near Munich

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1945: Sculpture and sculptural drawings , Gerd Rosen Gallery , Berlin
  • 1947: 2nd annual exhibition of the Gerd Rosen artist group, Gerd Rosen Gallery, Berlin
  • 1971: The Twenties (II). German art from 1924-1933 , Galerie Nierendorf , Berlin
  • 1980: The kiss - lovers in graphics and sculpture of the 20th century , Altes Museum , Berlin
  • 2000–2001: Three female sculptors. Emy Roeder, Louise Stomps, Wanda Pratschke , Hofheim am Taunus City Museum
  • 2013: Women artists in dialogue - paintings, photographs, sculptures (with sculptures and drawings) , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin
  • 2015–2017: Portrait Berlin. Artistic positions of post-war modernism in Berlin 1945 - 1955 , Kunsthaus Dahlem , Berlin
  • 2015–2016: The black years. Stories from a Collection 1933 - 1945 , Neue Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof , organized by the Nationalgalerie (Berlin) ,
  • 2017: Artists in dialogue - three cups and a Japanese doll (with drawings) , Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin
  • 2018: the first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism , Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
  • 2018–2019: Sculptors in Germany , Vogelmann Art Gallery , Heilbronn; Gerhard Marcks House , Bremen
  • 2019 – February 2020: The female statement. Artists in the 20th Century , Salongalerie “Die Möwe”, Berlin

Honors

  • 1951: Berlin Art Prize
  • 1953: Recognition in the international competition for the Memorial of the Unknown Political Prisoner , London

Working in public spaces / in museums

Norne (1985), Salingarten, Rosenheim
  • Rosenheim, bronze cast (1985) of the wooden sculpture Norne in the city's garden
  • Wasserburg am Inn, three bronze sculptures, Sculpture Path on the Inn
  • Wasserburg am Inn, granite sculpture on the forecourt of the Kreissparkasse (see picture)
  • Sculpture path in Obing (Upper Bavaria) with a sculpture made of gray granite
  • Nationalgalerie Berlin: The couple. 1938, oak wood, 120.5 × 25 × 21 cm
  • Works owned by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Modern Art Collection in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
  • The Berlin Gallery in 2009 received a donation of the heirs, which six sculptures, 99 graphic works and documentary bequest comprises
  • On November 27, 2019, the heirs presented the city of Wasserburg with a donation of 16 sculptures, mostly of larger format. These works are accessible to the public in the Wasserburg library.

Literature (selection)

  • Louise Stomps: Sculpture Sketches. Eremiten-Presse publishing house, Stierstadt im Taunus 1957
  • Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors. Munich art scene 1955–1982. EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 , pp. 526-531, with reviews of two Stomps exhibitions by Will Grohmann (1966) and Rainer Beck (1979)
  • Edition Galerie Wegmann (Ed.): Louise Stomps. Drawings from earlier years. Grafing near Munich 1994
  • Julia Wallner : Form and abstraction - "That is nature" , in: The first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism , Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 2018, pp. 141–149
  • Marc Gundel, Arie Hartog, Frank Schmidt (eds.): Sculptors in Germany. Wienand, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-86832-520-1 , catalog text no. 55 with illustration on the following page

Web links

Commons : Louise Stomps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Krause: Gerd Rosen Gallery . Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89479-070-9
  2. ^ Dorothea Schöne: Portrait Berlin: Artistic Positions of Berlin Post-War Modernism 1945–1955. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816615-0-7
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 679
  4. ^ Pinakothek Munich [1] along with three other works by Louise Stomps
  5. ↑ Marian Stein-Steinfeld [2] Short biography with a picture of the portrait sculpture Hanna Bekker vom Rath
  6. ↑ Hans Kiessling: Encounters with sculptors. Munich art scene 1955–1982. EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 1982, ISBN 3-88096-183-2 , p. 526 ff.
  7. ↑ Michael Freitag, Berthold Kogut (Ed.): Louise Stomps 1900–1988. Catalog for the exhibition of the working group 68 (Wasserburg)
  8. ^ Exhibition catalog (curation and editing: Marian Stein-Steinfeld), Hofheim 2000, ISBN 3-933735-20-3
  9. ^ A b Julia Wallner: Form and abstraction - "That is nature". In: Julia Wallner, Günther Ladwig (ed.): The first generation. Sculptors of Berlin Modernism , Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819776-0-8
  10. ↑ Marc Gundel, Arie Hartog, Frank Schmidt (eds.): Sculptors in Germany. Wienand, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-86832-520-1
  11. ↑ Salon Gallery "The Seagull" [3] with 9 sculptures and 9 graphics by Louise Stomps
  12. ↑ 1953 there was an exhibition in Berlin (January: Haus am Waldsee , exhibition of the German and Swiss models for the London competition ) and two exhibitions in London (March: exhibition of the award winners | December: New Burlington Gallery, German Sculptors ) Louise Stomps was involved
  13. ^ Rosenheim Gallery: Salingarten. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  14. ^ City of Wasserburg am Inn | Sculpture Path | . Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Obing am See sculpture project. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Dieter Scholz, Maria Obenaus (ed.): The black years - stories of a collection 1933-1945. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95732-150-3 , pp. 219-221
  17. ↑ Collection | Louise Stomps. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Collection Online | Berlinische Galerie | Your museum for modern and contemporary art in Berlin. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  19. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Artful gifts. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
  20. ^ Renate Drax: The donation is ceremoniously signed. November 29, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  21. ^ Library Wasserburg | Latest news | . Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stomps, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stomps, Louise Sophie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1988
Place of death near Wasserburg am Inn