Lydia Driesch-Foucar
Lydia Driesch-Foucar , née Foucar, (born February 18, 1895 in Friedrichsdorf , † 1980 ibid.) Was a German artist.
Life
Lydia Driesch-Foucar finished her training at the Munich School of Applied Arts in 1919 and then designed models for the Hutschenreuther porcelain factory in Selb . In 1920 she followed the then art student Johannes Driesch , whom she had met in Munich, to the State Bauhaus in Weimar . Both were in the ceramic workshop in Dornburg . They married in 1921 and in the same year the couple had a child, followed by three more. That's why Driesch-Foucar finished her studies and worked in the kitchen of the ceramic workshop. While Johannes Driesch left the Bauhaus in 1922 and worked in various places, she mostly lived in her parents' house in Friedrichsdorf. After the early death of her husband in 1930, she was destitute with her four children. She earned her family livelihood through wage labor by making hand-sewn leather animals. Other artistic attempts were unsuccessful, such as developing a game and writing children's books. In 1932 she received an order from her former Bauhaus fellow student Wilhelm Wagenfeld to design a brochure for milk bottles, which was printed but remained without follow-up orders. Eventually she opened a chocolate and cigarette shop in Friedrichsdorf. Through the custom of sending cakes at Christmas time, which she and her former master Gerhard Marcks had maintained since the Bauhaus period, she came across the production of gingerbread . The shape and decoration made the honey cakes an edible art. In 1934 she was represented as an exhibitor at the Leipzig Spring Fair under the name Workshop for artistic shaped honey cakes . This meant that their gingerbread was indirectly recognized as a decorative arts. Due to the unexpected success, she professionalized her business and in 1937 she gave a license to a department store in Copenhagen. During the Second World War it ceased operations in 1943 and resumed it as a Christmas hobby after the war. She made her living from her grocery store until the end of her life.
literature
- Lydia Driesch-Foucar . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 28-33.
Web links
- Lydia Driesch-Foucar near the city of Friedrichsdorf
- Magdalena Droste: Survival with shaped pastries at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar on September 26, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Driesch-Foucar, Lydia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foucar, Lydia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrichsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |
| Place of death | Friedrichsdorf |