Luise Kornsand

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Luise (also Louise / Louisa) Kornsand, b. Lutzweiler (born July 20, 1864 in Wilferdingen, today Remchingen , Enzkreis, † March 4, 1962 in South Dennis , Massachusetts , USA ) was a German-American painter .

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Luise Kornsand was born as the youngest of five daughters of the quarry owner Johann Lutzweiler in the area around Karlsruhe. Luise Lutzweiler married the merchant Karl Kornsand when she was young. The son Emil Kornsand was born on February 12, 1894 as the only child of the Jewish-Protestant couple in Colmar , Alsace . Around 1900 the family moved to Karlsruhe , where Luise Kornsand was accepted at the Karlsruhe School of Painters in 1901 and studied there until 1905. Among other things, she attended the nude class of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte . She also received lessons from Julius Schold (1881–1962), a master student of Wilhelm Trübner . From 1913 onwards, her work was shown at the German Art Exhibition in Baden-Baden , the International Women's Art Exhibition in Turin and the major art exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin .

The son Emil became a musician and attended the Karlsruhe Conservatory from 1911 . From there he soon moved to Berlin , where he completed his studies, interrupted by the First World War , at the beginning of the 1920s and worked as a violinist in Berlin orchestras, since 1924 at the State Opera . After the death of her husband in 1922, Luise Kornfeld moved to live with her son in Berlin.

Emil Kornsand, who was considered a half-Jew according to the National Socialist race laws , was forced to retire at the end of 1937 and emigrated to the USA in 1938. In March 1939 his mother was able to follow him and from then on lived with her son, who had found a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra , and later on his country residence in Hyannis Port / Massachusetts. Although Luise Kornsand was able to have good working conditions through her son, she was - also for reasons of age - no longer able to develop again as an artist in the USA. The traumatic experiences in Nazi Germany had been too deep for her. Her oeuvre that has survived comprises a good 200 pictures and predominantly still life and portraits.

In 2018, the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe acquired 20 charcoal drawings and sketches.

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  • Emil Kornsand: Luise Kornsand and her life's work. Short biography, written by her son, September 1970 (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, files on Baden painting).

literature

  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (ed.): Art in Karlsruhe: 1900–1950. Exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein May 24 - July 19, 1981, Karlsruhe 1981, p. 155
  • Leo Mülfarth: Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. Karlsruhe 1987, p. 195
  • Gerlinde Brandenburger-Eisele: Painters in Karlsruhe 1715-1918. In: Karlsruher Women 1715–1945. A city story. Karlsruhe 1992, p. 264 (= publications of the Karlsruhe city archive, volume 15)
  • Gerlinde Brandenburger-Eisele: Of court painters. Karlsruhe artists in the 19th century. In: Sylvia Bieber (Ed.): Women on the move? - Artists in the German Southwest 1800–1945. Karlsruhe 1995, pp. 129-149, here pp. 141, 422.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Luise Kornsand. In: Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe.
  2. ↑ Article Emil Kornsand. In: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era.
personal data
SURNAME Kornsand, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kornsand, Louise; Grain sand, Louisa; Lutzweiler, Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilferdingen, today Remchingen , Enzkreis
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1962
Place of death South Dennis , Massachusetts , USA