Magda Kröner
Magda Kröner , nee Magda Helmke , (born January 24, 1854 in Rendsburg , † October 31, 1935 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter of naturalism .
Life
Magda was born as the first daughter of Paul Bernhard Helmcke, lawyer and notary in Rendsburg / Holstein , and spent her youth in northern Germany . Her greatest passion was painting, but women were only able to get an academic education in private training centers. Attracted by the Düsseldorf School of Painting , Magda Helmke went to Düsseldorf in 1879 and was accepted as a private student in the studio of the landscape painter Christian Kröner , who henceforth supported her. After four years of painting lessons, she married her teacher in 1883.
Magda Kröner had initially devoted herself to landscape painting , but now she concentrated more and more on still lifes with compositions of flowers and fruits. She found inspiration for her paintings on numerous study trips. Together with her husband, who was also a hunter among other things, she traveled to the Teutoburg Forest , the Harz Mountains , Holstein Switzerland and Borkum . In the house of the Körners, located on Malkastenpark at Pempelforter Straße 62, a center of Düsseldorf culture was formed. The studios of the painter couple were also located here.
Magda Kröner was a member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists , of which she later became an honorary member, of the General German Art Cooperative and of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for mutual support and help . After the turn of the century, Magda Kröner reached the zenith of her public recognition. In 1901 Kaiser Wilhelm II acquired the paintings "Stiller Winkel" and "Roter Mohn", and in 1903 the Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen acquired the "Marientag". On her 75th birthday in 1929, the Düsseldorf art gallery honored Magda Kröner with a special exhibition.
Of the two sons she had with Christian Kröner, Erwin Kröner also became a painter.
The painter Magda Kröner died in 1935 at the age of 81 and was buried in the family grave in the north cemetery.
plant
“In the 19th century, still lifes were the only subject of painting that was predominantly treated by women. In the last third of the Düsseldorf School of Painting in particular, a number of women artists appear at the same time whose works, like Helen Searle and Emilie Preyer , are still in the romantic tradition or, like Magda Kröner, already belong to a new naturalism. […] It is not the emphatically arranged still life in the tradition of Dutch painting that dominates her compositions, but rather the natural, seemingly accidental arrangement of meadow flowers in simple vessels. With strong brushstrokes, she models still life and background into a modern spatial unit, which instead of the drawing now sets the distribution of the colors on the picture surface. ”( Hans Paffrath : Galerie der Künstler)
Exhibitions
As early as 1881 Magda Helmcke was represented with two pictures of Holstein landscapes at the Düsseldorf art exhibition of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in the art gallery. Further exhibitions of her works followed. For example, in 1884 with a still life at the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin of the Royal Academy of the Arts or in the Munich Glass Palace . She has regularly attended the Düsseldorf spring exhibitions since the 1890s, mostly together with her husband. At the London Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1895 she received a bronze medal for fruits and flowers and in 1899, also in London, a silver medal for the picture Among Flowers .
Work (selection)
- Holstein landscapes. 1881.
- Poppies. 1893.
- Spring flowers. 1894.
- Clematis. 1895.
- Still life with flowers and strawberries. 1895.
- Still life with fruits and flowers. 1895.
- Vase of poppies. 1896.
- Dark poppy seeds and apples. 1897.
- Flowers and fruits. 1897.
- Cinnerariums. 1897.
- Under flowers. 1898.
- Quiet angle. 1901.
- Red poppy. 1901.
- Blooming vetch. 1901.
- Mary day. 1903.
- Still life with cherries and strawberries in a wicker basket. 1904.
- Forest Peace (Our Lady among Flowers). 1904.
- Poppies in a clay jug. 1907.
- Still life with an old copper pot. 1909.
- Still life with flowers. 1917.
- Mountain landscape with a young goatherd. 1922.
- Still life with flowers. 1929.
literature
- Ariane Neuhaus-Koch, Marlo Werner, Mechthilde Vahsen, Petra Hedderich: Towards oblivion. Women in the intellectual history of Düsseldorf. Ahasvera Verlag, Neuss 1989, ISBN 3-927720-01-1 , pp. 41-43.
Web links
- Ariane Neuhaus-Koch: Magda Kröner (1854–1935). in Women's Culture Archive, Institute for German Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kröner, Magda. ( Memento from March 29, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) on the homepage of Galerie Paffrath
- ^ Erwin Kröner (1889–1963), Düsseldorf figure and landscape painter. Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. , Willy Spatz , Adolf Münzer and Eduard von Gebhardt . Study trips to southern Germany, the Mediterranean, Africa and the Caucasus. Son of the animal painter Christian Kröner.
- ↑ Gallery of artists: Magda Kröner ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 29, 2016.
- ↑ Gallery of artists: Magda Kröner , illustration of three works ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 29, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kröner, Magda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helmke, Magda (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1935 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |